Connecticut western news., 1893-07-20


 ings which make him know we'll that he will never get up again.
 In 1857 it waSestimated that for many years previous to that time annually there had been 30,O0O failures In the United States Many of those persons never recovered from the misfortune. But let me give a word of comfort in passing The sheriff may sell you out of many things, but there are some He cannot sell out your health. He can- not sell out your family. He cannot sell out your Bible. He cannot sell out your God. He cannot sell out your heaven. You have more than you have lost.
 Sons and daughters of God, children of an eternal and all loving Father, mourn not when your property goes. The world is yours, and life Is yours, and death is yours, and immortality is yours, and thrones of imperial grandeur are yours, and rivers of gladness are yours, and shining mansions are yours, and God is yours. The eternal God has sworn 1t. and every time you doubt it you charge the King of heaven and earth with perjury. Instead of complaining how hard you have it, go home, take up your Bible full of promises, get down on your knees before God and thank him for what you have instead of spending so much time in complaining about what you have not.
 AN AWFUL SHIPWRECK.
 Some of you remember the shipwreck oe Ia steamer had, think, about 500 passen- gers aboard. Suddenly the storm came, and the surges trampled the decks and swung into the matches, and there went up hundred voiced death shriek. The foam on the jaw of the wave; the pitch ing of the steamer as though it were leaping mQ1ptain; the dismal flare of the signal rockets; the long cough of the steam pipes; the hiss of the extinguished furnaces; the walking of God on the wave! The steamer went not down with out struggle.
 As the passengers stationed themselves in rows to bale out the vessel, hark to the thump of the buckets as men unused to toll, with blistered hands and strained muscle, tug for their lives. There is a sail seen against the sky. The flash ot the distress gun is sounded. Its voice is heard not, for it is choked in the louder booming of the sea. A few passengers escaped, but the steamer gave one great lurch and was gone! So there are some men who sail on prosperous1y in life. Alls well, alps well. But at last some financial disaster comes-a euroclydon. Down they go! the bottom of this com mercial sea strewn with shattered hulks
 But because your property goes dc not let your soul go. Though all else perish, save that, for I have to tell you of more stupendous shipwreck than that which have just mentioned. God launched this world 5000 years ago. It has been going on under freight of mountains and immortals, but one day it will stagger at the cry of fire. The timbers of rock will burn, the mountains flame like masts and the clouds like sails in the judgment hurricane. Then God shall take the passengers off the deck, and from the berths those who have long been asleep in Jesus, and he will set them far beyond the reach of storm and peril.
 But how many shall go downp That will never be known until it shall be an nounced one day in heaven-the ship wreck of a world! Oh, my dear hearers, whatever you lose, though your houses go, though your lands go, though all your earthly possessions perish, may God Almighty, through the blood of the everlasting covenant, save all your souls.