Connecticut western news., 1892-01-21

and things| And when i'll times of | -?vsvet +he~'" "a s'o-r,a hard raso beck in c1,rr,.h pnT;- inst uu one else Ca,l , toT"D, ,.lE .ro1~ where Le. l.. apd i1t a minute sine has him a-crying, and the first thing we know she is fetching the hardened man up to the front to be prayed for. and says. Here is brother who wants to find the way into the king dom of God And if nobody seems ready to pray she kneeis down in the aisle beside him and says. Q Lord ' with q pathos and power and n triumph that seem instantly to eman cipate the hardened sinner. Oh, no. you must not call her thoughtless butterfly in our presence. You sec we would not stand it." The fact i. -thst the son and daughter of tha. family did not promise much at the start. but they are now an Echo, a glorious Echo, prolonged Echo of parental teaching and example
 PLANTING FOR TIME AND ETERNITY
 A Vermont mother, as her boy was u. said: Edward. have never seen the ocean. but l understand the great temptation is strong drink. Promise me you will never touch it" Many years after that. telling of this in a meeting. Edward said: Il gave that promise to mother and have been around the world and at Calcutta. the ports of the Mediterranean. San Francisco. Cape of Good Hope and north and south poles, and never saw glass of liquor in all those years that my mothers form did not ap, pear before me. and do not know how liquor tastes. never have tasted it and all because of the prom ise made to my mother"
 This was the result of that conver- sation at the gate of the Vermont farmhouse. The statuary of Thor waldsen was sent from Italy to Ger many. and the straw in which the statues had been packed was thrown upon the ground. The next spring beautiful Italian flowers sprlng up where this straw had been cast. for in it had been some of the seeds of Italian flowers. and whether con scious of 1t or not we are all the time planting for ourselves and planting for others roses or thorns. You thought it only straw. yet among it were anemoneS.
 But here k a slipshod home. The parents are a goddess pair. They let their children do as they please. No example fit to follow. No lessons of morality or religion. Sunday DO bet ter than any other day. The Bible no better than any other book. The house is sort of inn where the older and younger people of the household stop for awhile The theory acted on. though perhaps not announced is: The children will have to do as did and take their chances. Life is a lottery anyhow. and some draw prizes and some draw blanks and we will trust to luck"
 Skip twenty years and come back to the neighborhood where that fam fly used to live. You meet on the street or on the road an old inhabi tant of that neighborhood. and you say, Can y"I Y me anything about | the PetersonS w.iu used to live hereT" Yes, says the old inhabitant, Il re- member them very well. The father and mother have been dead for years" Well. how about the chil- dren2 What has become of them 2' The old inhabitant replies: They turned our badly. You know the old man was about half an intidel and the boys were all infidels. The old est son married. but got into drinking habits, and in a few years his wife was not able to live with him any longer and his children were taken by relatives, and he died of delirium tremens on Blackwell's island His other son forged the name of his eln- ployer and fed to Canada. One of the daughters of the old folks mar ried an inebriate with the idea of re- forming him, and you know how that always ends-in the ruin of both the experimenter and the one eX perimented with. The other daugh- ter disappeared mysteriously and has not been heard of. There was a young woman picked out of the East river and put in the morgue, and some thought it was her. but cannot say" ''Is it possible" you cry out. Yes. it k possible. The family. is complete wreck" My hearers that is just what might have been expected. All this is only the Echo. the dismal Echo. the awful Echo. the dreadful Echo of parental obliquity and unfaithfulness. The old folks heaped up mountain of wrong influences. and this is only what my text calls The sounding of the mountains.
 Indeed our entire behavior in this world will have a reSound. While opportunities fly ill a straight line and just touch Us once and are gone never to return, the wrongs we prac- tice upon others fly i'll circle and they come back to the place from which they started. Doctor Guillo- tine thought it smart to introduce the instrument of death, named after him: but did not like it so we'll when his own head was chopped off with the guillotine.
 MAKE YOUR RECORD FOR JUDGMENT | DAY.
 So, also, the judgment day will be an Echo of all our other days. The universe needs such day for there are so many things in the world that need to be fixed up and explained. If God had not appointed such Il day all fha nntinnS unI1ll l1.y out nOh lrnl