Connecticut western news., 1893-09-07

now and looks solemn and goes home talking about that blessed sermonl Chris tians on Sunday. Workings during the week. .en.- .r. a
 GOD SEES SMALL SINS.
 That man does not realize that God knows every dishonest dollar he has in his pocket, that God is looking right through the iron wall of his money safe, and that the day of judgment is coming, and that "as the partridge sitteth on eggs and hatcheth them not, so he that getteth riches and not by right shall leave them in the midst of his days, and at his end shall be fool" But how many there are who do not bring the religion of Christ into their everyday occupation. They think religion is fol Sundays.
 Suppose you were to go out to fight for your country in some great contest, would you go to do the battling at Troy or at Springfield? No, you would go there to get your swords and muskets. Then you would go out in the face of the enemy and contend for your country. Now, take the Sabbath day and the church to be only the armory where we are to get equipped for the great battle of life, and that battlefield is Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Fri. day and Saturday. Antioch and "St. Martins" and "Old Hundred" are not worth much if we do not sing all the week. A sermon is of little account it we cannot carry it behind the counter and behind the blow. The Sabbath day is of no value if it last only 24 hours.
 "Oh," says some one, ''if had great sphere, I would do that. If I could have lived in the time of Martin Luther, if could have been PauPs travelling com panion, if had some great and resound. ing work to do, then l should put into application all that you say" must admit that the romance and. knight CT rantry have gone out of life. There 1s but very little of it left in the world. The temples of Rouen have been changed into smithies. The classic mansion at Ashland has been cut up into walking sticks. The muses have retreated be. fore the ernigrant's ax and the trapper's gun, and Vermonter might go over the Alleghany and the Rocky mountains and see neither an Dread nor a Sylph.
 The groves where the gods used to dwell have been cut up for frewood, and the man who is looking for great spheres and great scenes for action will not find them. And yet there are Alps to scale, and there are Hellesponts to swim, and they are in common life. It is absurd for you to say that you would serve God if you had great sphere. fyou do not serve him on small scale, you would not on large scale. If you cannot stand the bite of 8 midge, how could you endure the breath of basilisk? @
 A TARIFF ON ANNoYANCES.
 Our national government does not thing it belittling to put tax on pins and tax on buckles and tax on shoes. The individual taxes do not amount to much, but in the aggregate to millions and millions of dollars. And I would have you, oh, Christian man, put high tariff on every annoyance and vexation that comes through your soul. This might not amount to much in single cases, but in the aggregate it would be 8 great revenue of spiritual strength and satisfaction.
 A bee can suck honey even out of 8 nettle, and if you have the grace of God in your heart you can get sweetness out of that which would otherwise irritate and annoy. A returned missionary told me that a company of adventurers row. ing up the Ganges were stung to death by flies that infest that region at certain seasons have seen the earth strewn with the ca casses of men slain by insect annoyances. The only way to get pre- pared for the great troubles of life is te conquer these small troubles.
 Suppose soldier should say, "This if only skirmish, and there are only g few enemies-I won't load my gun; wait until get into some great general en gagement." That man is coward and would be a coward in any sphere. If 6 man does not serve his country in 6 skirmish, he will not in Waterloo And if you are not faithful going out against the single handed misfortunes of this life you would not be faithful wher great disasters with their laundering ar tillery came rolling down over the soul.
 This brings me to another point. w ought to bring the religion of Jesus Christ into all our trials. If we have bereavement, if we lose our fortune, i some great trouble blast like the tenn pest, then we go to God for comfort, bu yesterday in the little annoyances O. your store or office or shop or factory o, banking house did you go to God fo. comfort? You did not.
 My friends, you need to take the re ligion of the Lord Jesus Christ into tn most ordinary trials of your life. Yo, have your misfortunes, you have you, andeties, you have your vexations "Oh," you say, "they don't shape m, character. Since lost my child, sine have lost my property, I have been very different man from what was. My brother, it is the little annoyance | of your life that are souring your dis position, clipping your moral characte and making you less and less of a man.
 You go into an artists studio. Yo see him making piece of sculpture You say, "Why don't you strike hard erp With his mallet and his chisel h goes click, click, click! and you ca hardly see from stroke to stroke tha there is any impression made upon tn stone, and yet the work is going or You say, "Why don'ty strike harderi "OhP' he replies, "that would shatte the statue. must make it in this way stroke by stroke" And he continues O by week and month until after awhil every man that enters the studio is fas cinated.
 We'll, I find God dealing with som man. He is shaping him for time an shaping him for eternity. I say, "' Lord, why not with one tremendous blo' of calamity shape that man for the nez worldw God says, "That's not the wa deal with this man; it is stroke afte stroke, annoyance after annoyance, il ritation after irritation, and after awhil he'will be done and a glad spectacle fe angels and men,"
 THE DAY OF SMALL THINGS.
 Not by one great stroke, but by te thOraand little strokes If misfortune al