Connecticut western news., 1893-01-19

ing out that man is not capable or righteously governing man, will cry out for theocracy and say, "Let God come back and conduct the affairs of the world"
 Every step-monarchy, limited mon archy, publicanism, anarchy-only diff ferent steps between the first theocracy and the last theocracy, or segments of the great circle of the earth on which God sits. But do not become impatient because you cannot see the curve of events, and therefore conclude that Gods government is going to break down. His tory tells us that in the making of the pyramids it took 2,000 men two years to drag one great stone from the quarry and put it into the pyramids.
 Well, now, if men short lived can afford to work so slowly as that, cannot God in the building of the eternities afford to wait? What though God should take 10000 years to draw a circle? Shall we take our little watch, which we have to wind up every night lest it run down, and hold it up beside the clock of eter- nal ages? If, according to the Bible, a thousand years are in Gods sight as one day, then, according to that calculation. the 5000 years of the worlds existence have been only to God as from Monday to Saturday.
 GOOD RETURNS AFTER MANY DAYS.
 But it is often the case that the re- bound is quicker and the circle is sooner completed. You resolve that you will do what good you can. In one week you put word of counsel in the heart of a Sabbath school child. During that same week you give letter of introduc- tion to young man struggling in busi- ness. During the same week you make an exhortation in a prayer meeting. It is all gone; you will never hear of it. perhaps, you think.
 A few years after a man comes up to you and says. You don't know me, dc you?" You say, No, don't remember eyer to have seen you" Why" he says, T was in the Sabbath school class over which you were the teacher. One Sun- day you invited me to Christ. accepted the offer. You see that church with two towers yonder?' "Yes," you say. He says, "That is where preach;" or, Do you see that governors house? That is where I live" One day a man comes to you and says, Good morn ing" You look at him and say, Why, you have the advantage of me; 1 cannot place you" He says, Don't you remember thirty years ago giving letter of introduction to 8 young man, 8 letter of introduction to Moses H. Grinnell?' "Yes, yes, I do." He says: II am the man; that was my first step toward fortune, but I have re tired from business now and am giving my time to philanthropies and public in- terests. Come up and see me"
 Or man comes to you and says: '1 want to introduce myself to you. ] went into a prayer meeting in Atlanta some years ago; 1 sat back by the door; you arose to make an exhortation; that talk changed the course of my life, and if ever I get to heaven, under God l will owe my salvation to you" In only ten, twenty or thirty years the. circle swept out and swept back again to your own grateful heart.
 But sometimes it is 8 wider circle and does not return for great while. I saw bill of expenses for burning Latimer and Ridley The bill of expenses says: One load of fir fagots s.................. 3s. 4d. Carriage for four loads of wood. 2s. Item, post. Is. 4d. Item, two chains. Ss. 4d. Item, two staples es..........,.. Cd. Item, Tour laDOrers. ....................... a. oo
 That was cheap fire, considering all the circumstances, but it 6ndled 8 light that shone all around the world and aroused the martyr spirit, and out from that burning of Latimer and Ridley rolled the circle wider and wider, start ing other circles, convoluting, overrun- ming, circumscribing, overarching all heaven-a circle.
 CIRCLE OF EVIL SPEAKING.
 But what is true of the good is just as true of the bad You utter 8 islander against your neighbor. It has gone forth from your teeth; it will never come back, you think. You have done the man all the mischief you can. You re- joice to see him vince. You say, Didn't I give it to him!" That word has gone out, that slanderous word, on its poison ous and blasted way. You think it will never do you any harm. But l am watching that word, and I see it begin ming to curve, and it curves around, and it is aiming at your heart. You had bet ter dodge it. You cannot dodge it. It rolls into your bosom and after it rolls In word of an old book, which says, "With what measure ye mete, it shall be measured to you again"
 You maltreat an aged parent. You begrudged him the room in your house. You are impatient of his whimsicalities and garrulity. It makes you mad to hear him tell the same story twice. You give him food he cannot masticate. You wish he was away. You wonder if he is going to live forever. He will be gone very soon. His steps are shorter ano shorter. He is going to stop. But God has an account to settle with you on that subject. After awhile your eye will be dim, and your gait will halt, and the sound of the grinding will be low, and you will tell the same story twice, and your children will wonder if you are go ing to live forever and wonder if you will never be taken away.
 They called you father" once; now they call you the "old man, If you live few years longer they will call you the "old chap" What are those rougf words with which your children are ac costing you? They are the echo of tht very words you used in the ear of youl old father forty years ago. What is that which you are trying to chew, but find it unmasticable, and your jaws ache and you surrender the attempt2 Per haps it may be the gristle which yor | gave to your father for his breakfast forty years ago.
 A gentleman passing along the street saw son dragging his father into tho street by the hair of the head. The gen tleman, outraged at this brutal conduct