Connecticut western news., 1893-07-20


 take it little easier. Do your best, and
 then trust God for the rest. Do not fret.
 God manages all the affairs of your life,
 and he manages them for the best. Con-
 slider the hies-they always have robes.
 Behold the fowls of the air-they always
 have nests. Take long breath. Be-
 think betimes that God did not make
 you pack horse. Dig yourselves out
 from among the hogsheads and the
 shelves, and in the light of the holy Sab
 bath day resolve that you will give to
 the winds your fears, and your fretful-
 ness, and your distresses. You brought
 nothing into the world, and it is very
 certain you can carry nothing out. Hav- ing food and raiment, be herewith con-
 tent.
 The merchant came home from the
 store. There had been great disaster
 there. He opened the front door and
 said in the midst of his family circle: '1
 am ruined. Everything is gone. am
 all ruined" His wife said, T am left"
 and the little child threw up it's hands and
 said, Papa, I am here" The aged grand
 mother seated in the room said, "Then
 you have all the promises of God beside,
 John." And he burst into tears and
 said: 'God forgive me that I have been
 so ungrateful. I find I have 8 great
 many things left. God forgive me-" NEGLECT OF HOME LIFE.
 Again, I remark that many of our
 business men are tempted to neglect
 their home duties. How often it is that
 the store and the home seem to clash, but there ought not to be any collision.
 It is often the case that the father is the
 mere treasurer of the family, 8 sort of
 agent to see that they have dry goods and groceries. The work of family gov ernment he does not touch. Once or twice in year he calls the children up on Sabbath afternoon when he has half hour he does not exactly know what to do with, and in that half hour he dis ciplines the children and chides them and corrects their faults and gives them great deal of good advice, and then wonders all the rest of the year that his children do not do better when they have the wonderful advantage of that
 semiannual castigation.
 The family table, which ought to be
 the place for pleasant discussion and cheerfulness, often becomes the place of perilous expedition. If there be any blessing asked at all, it Is cut off at both ends, and with the hand on the carving knife. He counts on his fingers, making estimates in the interstices of the repast. The work done. the hat goes to the head, and he starts down the street, and before the family has risen from the table he has bound up another bundle of goods and says to the customer, Anything
 more can do for you today, sirY' A man has more responsibilities than those which are discharged by putting competent instructors over his children and giving them drawing master and I music teacher. The physical culture of the child will not be attended to unless the father looks to 1t. He must some
 times lose his dignity. He must unlim- Der his joints. He must sometimes lead them out to their sports and games. The parent who cannot forget the severe du- ties of life sometimes to fly the kite, and trundle the hoop, and chase the ball, and jump the rope with 1is children ought never to have been tempted out of crusty and unredeemable solitari- ness.
 If you want to keep your children away from places of sin, you can only do it by making your home attractive. You may preach sermons and advocate reforms and denounce wickedness, and yet your children will be captivated by the Rlittering saloon of sin unless you
 can make your home brighter place than any other place on earth to them. Oh, gather all charms into your house! If you can afford it, bring books and pictures and cheerful entertainments to the household. But, above all, teach those children, not by half an hour twice a year on the Sabbath day, but
 day after day, and every day teach them that religion is a great gladness that throws chains of gold about the neck; that it takes no spring from the foot, no bhtheness from the heart, no sparkle from the eye, no ring from the laughter, but that "her ways are ways of pleas
 antness, and all her paths are peace" sympathize with the work being done
 in many of our cities by which beautiful
 rooms are set apart by our Young Mems Christian associations, and I pray God to prosper them in all things. But, tell you, there is something back of that and before that. We need more happy, consecrated, cheerful Christian homes in America.
 THE RIGHT USES OF MONEY. .= Again, remark that great many of our business men are tempted to put the attainment of money above the value of
 the soul. It Is a grand thing to have plenty of money. The more you get of 1t the better. if it come honestly and go
 usefully. For the lack of it sickness dies without medicine, and hunger finds its coffin in the empty bread tray, and nakedness shivers for lack of clothes and fire. When l hear a man in canting tirade against money-a Christian man -as though it had no possible use on earth and he had no interest in it, come almost to think that the heaven that ! would be appropriate for him would be
 an everlasting poorhousel
 While, my friends, we do admit there | is such thing as a lawful use of money | "a profitable use of money-let us recognize also the fact that money can- not satisfy a mans soul; that it cannot | glitter in the dark valley; that it cannot ! pay our fare across the Jordan of death; that it cannot unlock the gate of heaven. There are men in all occupations who
 seem to act as though they thought pack of bonds and mortgages could be I traded off for title to heaven and as
 though gold would be lawful tender in that place where it is so common that
 they make pavements out of it. Salvation | by Christ is the only salvation. Treas
 ures In heaven are the only incorrupt- | ible treasures.
 | Have you ever ciphered out in the
 rule of loss and gain the sum, "What
 shall 1t profit man if he gain the whole l world and lose his soulY' However fine | your apparel, the winds of death will
 futter it like rags. Homespun and
 threadbare coat have sometimes been
 the shadow of coming robes made white
 in the blood of the Lamb. The pearl of | great price Is worth more than any gem