Connecticut western news., 1893-03-02

and leave our children. We fight their battles now, and we stand between them and harm, but our arm will after awhile get weak, and we cannot fight for them, and our tongue will be palsied, and we cannot speak for them. Are we going to leave them out in the cold world to take their chances, or are we doing all we can to get them under the wing of eternal safety?
 SHELTER FROM LIFE'S TEMPEsTS.
 But we all need the protecting wing If you had known when you entered upon manhood and womanhood what was ahead of you, would you have dared to undertake life? How much you have been through! With most life has been disappointment; they tell me so. They have not attained that which they ex- pected to attain. They have not had the physical and mental vigor they expected, or they have met with rebuffs which they did not anticipate. You are not at 40 or 50 or 60 or 70 or 80 years of age where you thought you would be. do not know any one except myself to whom life has been 8 happy surprise. I never ex- pected anything, and so when anything came in the shape of human favor or comfortable position or widening field of work it was to me surprise.
 was told in the theological seminary by some of my fellow students that never would get anybody to hear me preach unless I changed my style, so that when I found that some people did come to hear me it was happy surprise. But most people, according to their own statement, have found life a disappoint- ment. Indeed we all need shelter from it's tempests. About 3 o'clock on hot August afternoon you have heard 8 rum ble that you first took for wagon cross ing bridge, but afterward there was & louder rumbling, and you said, "Why, that is thunderw And sure enough the clouds were being convoked for full diapason. A whole park of artillery went rolling down the heavens, and the blinds of the windows in the sky were closed. But the sounds above were not more certain than the sounds beneath.
 The cattle came to the bars and moaned for them to be let down that they might come home to shelter, and the fowl, whether dark BraAma or Hamburg or Leghorn or Dominick, began to call to it's young, "Cluckl" "Cluckr' "Cluckw and take them under the wagon house or shed, and had them all hid u2der the soft feathers by the time that the first plash of rain struck the roof.
 So there are sudden tempests for our souls, and ,ohl how dark it gets, ,and threat ening clouds of bankruptcy or sickness or persecution or bereavement gather and thicken and blacken, and some run for shelter to bank, but it is poor shelter, and others run to friendly advisers, and they fail to help, and others fly nowhere simply because they know not where to go, and they perish in the blast, but others hear divine call saying, "Come, | for all things are now ready ''The spirit and the bride say come" And while the heavens are laundering terror the divine voice proffers mercy, and the soul comes under the breeding care of the Almighty ''as hen gathereth her chickens under her wing"
 DANGER OF ICY PORTABILITY.
 The wings of my text suggest warmth, and that is what most folks want. The fact is that this is cold world whether you take it literally or figuratively. We have big fireplace called the sun, and it has very hot fire, and the stokers keep the coals well stirred up, but much of the year we cannot get near enough to | this fireplace to get warmed. The worlds extremities are cold all the time. Forget not that it is colder at the south pole than at the north pole, and that the Arc | tic is not so destructive as the Antarctic. Once in awhile the Arctic will let ex- plorers come back, but the Antarctic hardly ever When at the south pole 8 1 ship sails in, the door of ice is almost sure to be shut against its return.
 | So life to many millions of people at the south and many millions of people at the north is prolonged shiver, but when I say that this is 8 cold world chiefly mean figuratively. If you want to know what is the meaning of the ordi- nary term of receiving the "cold shoul- der," get out of money and try to bor- row. The conversation may have been almost tropical for luxuriance of thought and speech, but suggest your necessities and see the thermometer drop to 50 de grees below zero, and in that which till a moment before had been 8 warm room. i Take what is an unpopular position on some public question and see your friends fly as chaff before windmill.
 AS far as myself is concerned, I have no word of complaint, but l look off day by day and see communities freezing out men and women of whom the world Is not worthy. Now it takes after one and now after another. It becomes popular to depreciate and defame and execrate and lie about some people. This is the best world I ever got into, but it is the mean. est world that some people ever got into, The worst thing that ever happened to them was their cradle, and the best thing that will ever happen to them will be their grave. What people want is warmth. ..
 Many years ago man was floating down on the ice of the Merrimac, and great efforts were made to rescue him Twice he got hold of plank thrown tc him and twice he slipped away from it because that end of the plank was GOV cred with ice, and he cried out, ''Fol Gods sake, give me the wooden end oi the plank this time," and this done he was hauled to shore. The troubleis that in our efforts to save the soul there ii too much coldness and icy formality