Connecticut western news., 1892-01-07

l finds us with our furs on The win try blast cuts through our thin ap parel The hoof. the wheel. the fire arms. the assassin wait their chance to put upon Us their quietus. Iannounce it as an impossibility that three hun dred and sixty five days should pass and leave us all as we now are. In what direction to shoot the arrow l know not. and so shoot 1t at a ven. ture. This year thou shalt die"
 In view of this. advise that you have your temporal matters adjusted. Do not leave your worldly affairs at the mercy of administrators. Have your receipts properly pasted and your letters filed and your books balanced. If you have trust funds, V see that they are rightly deposited and accounted for. Let no widow or orphan scratch on your tombstone. This man wronged me of my in. heritance. Many a man has died leaving a competency whose prop. erty has through his own careless. ness, afterward been divided between the administrators, the surrogate, the lawyers and the sheriffs. l charge you, before many days have gone, as far as possible. have all your worldly matters made straight, for This year thou shalt die"
 POSSIBILITIES OF SABBATH WORK.
 advise also that you be busy in | Christian work How many Sab baths in the year2 Fifty two. If the text be true of you it does not say at what time you may go, and therefore it is unsafe to count on all of the fifty two Sundays. As you are as likely to go in the first half of the year as in the last half, l think We had better divide the fifty two into halves and calculate only twenty six Sabbaths. Come. Christian men. | Christian women. what can you do in twenty six Sabbathsf
 Divide the three hundred and sixty five days into two parts: what can you do in one-hundred and eighty two days2 What by the way of say ing your family. the church and the world2 You will not. thruugh all the ages of eternity in heaven, get over the dishonor and the outrage of going into glory, and having helped none up to the same place. It will be found that many Sabbath school teacher has taken into heaven her whole class; that Daniel Baker. the evangelist. took thousands into heaven; that Doddridge has taken in hundreds of thousands; that Paul took in hundred millions How many will you take in2
 If you get into heaven and find none there that you sent. and that there are none to come through your instrumentality. l beg of you to crawl under some seat in the back corner and never come out. lest the redeemed get their eyes on you and some one cry out That is the man who never lifted hand or voice for the redemption of his fellows! Look at him. all heaven" Better be busy. Better put the blow in deep Better say what you have to say quickly. Better cry the alarm Better fall on your knees Better lay hold with both hands What you now leave undone for Christ will forever be un done. This year thou shalt diel"
 In view of the probabilities men toned advise all tho men and wom en not ready for eternity to get ready If the text be true. you have no time to talk about noneSSentials, asking why God let sin come into the world. or whether the book of Jonah is in spired. or who Melchisedec was. or what about the eternal decrees If ! you are as near eternity as some of you seem to be. there is no time for anything but the question, What must do to be saved2" The drown ing man. when a plank is thrown him. stops not to ask what sawmill made it. or whether 1t is oak or cedar or who threw it. The moment it is thrown he clutches it
 If this year you are to die, there is no time for anything but immediate ly laying hold on God It is high time to get out of your sins. You say. Il have committed no great transgressions But are you not aware that your life h.s been sinfuli The snow comes down on the Alps flake by flake. and it Is so light that you may hold it on the tip of your finger without feeling any weight but the flakes gather; they compact, until some day d travellers foot starts tie slide, and it goes down in an avalanche. crushing to death the vii lagers
 So the sins of your youth and the sins of your manhood and the sins of your womanhood may have seemed only slight inaccuracies or trifiing divergences from tho right-so slight that they are hardly worth mention ing but they have been piling up and piling up. packing together and pack ing together. until they make a mountain of sin and one more step of your foot in the wrong direction may slide down upon you an ava lanche of ruin and condemnation.
 A man crossing desolate and lonely plateau. hungry wolf took after him He brought his gun to his shoulder and took aim, and the wolf howled with pain, and the cry woke up d pack of wolves and they came ravcning out of the forest from all sides and horribly devoured him. Thou art the man. Some one sin of your life summoning on all the rest, they surround thy soul and make the night of thy sin terrible with the assault of their bloody muzzles. Oh, the unpardOned clamoring, ravening all devouring sins of thy lifetime!
 A maniac was found pacing along the road with a torch in one hand and pail of water in the other. and some one asked him what he meant