Connecticut western news., 1893-02-16

ica who ought to be discharged, because they were the victims of circumstances or have suffered enough
 There are in all professions and occu- pations men who are domineered over by others, and whose whole life is a struggle 1 with mOnstrous opposition, and circum- stances have their heel upon the throb- ping and broken hearts. For Gods sake, let them up! Away with the spirit of "Thumbs downp What the world wants is 1 ,000 men like Telemachus to leap out of the gallery into the arena, whether he be Roman Catholic monk, or Methodist steward, or Presbyterian elder, and go in between the contestants Blessed are the peacemakers, for they shall be called the children of Godw
 TRAIN THE CHILDREN RIGHT.
 One-half the world is down and the other half is up, and the half that is uI has its heel on the half that is down. If you, as a boss workman, or as a contract or, or as bishop, or as a state or na- tional official, or as a potent factor in social life, or in any way are expressing any one, know that the same devil that possessed the Roman Coliseum expresses you. The Diocletians are not all dead. The cellars leading into the arena of life's struggle are not all emptied of their tigers. The vivisection by young doctors of dogs and cats and birds most of the time adds nothing to human discovery, but is only continuation of Vespasian's Coliseum.
 The cruelties of the world generally be- gin in nurseries, and in home circles, and in day schools. The child that transfxes fly with a pin, or the low feeling that sets two dogs into combat, or that bullies weak or crippled playmate, or the in difference that starves 8 canary bird, needs only to be developed in order to make a first class Nero or full armed Apollyon. It would be good sentence to be written on the top line of child's book, and fit inscription to be em- broidered in the armchair of the sitting room, and an appropriate motto for judge and jury and district attorney and sheriff to look at in the courthouse, l 'Blessed are the merciful, for they shall obtain mercyw
 And so the ruins of that Coliseum preach te me. Indeed the most impress i've things on earth are ruins. The four greatest structures ever built are in ruins. The Parthenon in ruins, the tenn pie of Diana in ruins, the temple of Jerusalem in ruins, the Coliseum in 1 ruins. Indeed the earth itself will yet be pile of ruins, the mountains in ruins, the seas in ruins, the cities in ruins, the the henispheres in ruins. Yea, further than that, all up and down the heav- ! ems are worlds burned up, worlds wrecked, worlds extinct, worlds aban- doped. Worlds on worlds in ruins
 But am glad to say it is the same old heaven, and in all that world there is not one ruin and never will be ruin. Not one of the pearly gates will ever be- come unhinged Not one of the anne thystine towers will ever fall, Not one of the mansions will ever decay. Not one of the chariots will ever be un- wheeled. Not one of the thrones will ever rock down. Oh, make sure of heav- en, for it is an everlasting heaven. Through Christ the Lord get ready for residence in the eternal palaces.
 NIGHT IN THE COLISEUM.
 The last evening before leaving Rome for Brindisi and Athens and Egypt and Palestine I went alone to the Coliseum. There was not living soul in all the i'm mense area Even those accustomed to sell curios at the four entrances of the building had gone away. The place was SO overwhelmingly silent I could hear my own heart beat with the emotions aroused by the place and hour. paced the arena. I walked down into the dens where the hyenas were once kept. as- cended to the place where the emperor used to sit. climbed up on the galleries from which the mighty throngs of peo- pie had gazed in enchantment.
 To break the silence I shouted, and that seemed to awaken the echoes, echo upon echo. And those awakened echoes seemed to address me, saying: "Men die, but their work lives on. Gaudentius, the architect who planned this structure; the 60,000 enslaved Jews brought by Ti- tus from Jerusalem and who toiled on these walls, the gladiators who fought in this arena, the emperors and expresses who had place on yonder platform, the millions who during centuries sat and rose in these galleries, have passed away, but enough of the Coliseum stands to tell the story of cruelty and pomp and power-500 years of bloodshed."
 Then, as I stood there, there came to me another burst of echoes, which seemed throbbing with the prayers and songs and groans of Christians who had ex- pired in that arena, and they seemed to say, "How much it cost to serve God in ages past, and how thankful modern centuries ought to be that the persecu tion which reddened the sands of this amphitheater have been abolished"
 And then I questioned the echoes, say ing, Where is Emperor Titus, who sat herew The answer came, "Gone to judgment" "Where is Emperor Trajan who sat here?" "Gone to judgment. , Where is Emperor Maximinus, who sal here? "Gone to judgment" "Where are all the multitudes who clapped and shouted and waved flags to let the van. quished up, or to have them slain put thumbs down?" The echoes answered "Gone to judgment" inquired, "All? And they answered, "All"
 And I looked up to the sky above the !, ruins, and it was full of clouds scurry, ing swiftly past, and those clouds seemed as though they had faces, and some ot the faces smiled, and some of them frowned and they seemed to have wings, and some of the wings were moongilt and the others thunder charged and the voices of those clouds overpow cred the echoes beneath. Behold, ht cometh with clouds, and every eye shal ] see him."
 THE LAST JUDGMENT. !
 . And as l stood looking up along thu ) walls of the Coliseum they rose higher and higher, higher and higher, until the amphitheater seemed to be filled with al | the nations of the DaSt and all the nation,