Connecticut western news., 1893-08-10

| l Gods forgiveness? Bless the Lord who | healeth all our diseases and redeemeth l our lives from destruction.
 Perhaps your last sorrow was 6nan- | cial embarrassment. 1 congratulate some of you on your lucrative profession | or occupation on ornate apparel, on | commodious residence-everythin you | put your hand to seems to turn to gold | But there are others of you who are like | the ship on which Paul sailed where two seas met, and you are broken by the vio- lence of the waves. By an unadvised | indorsement, or by a conjunction of un- | foreseen events, or by fire or storm, or senseless panic, you have been flung headlong, and where you once dispensed great charities now you have hard work | to make the two ends meet.
 THANK GOD FOR PROSPERITY. Have you forgotten to thank God for | your days of prosperity, and that through l your trials some of you have made in vestments which will continue after the last bank of this world has exploded and | the silver and gold are molten in fires of | burning world? Have you, amid all | your losses and discouragements, forgot l that there was bread on your table this morning and that there shall be shel- l ter for your head from the storm, and | there is air for your lungs and blood for | your heart and light for your eye and a | glad and glorious and triumphant reli- | zion for your soul?
 Perhaps your last trouble was be- reavement. That heart which in child l hood was your refuge, the parental | heart, and which has been source of | the quickest sympathy ever since, has | suddenly become silent forever. And | now sometimes whenever in sudden an- noyance and without deliberation you say, Il will go and tell mother" the | thought flashes on you, II have no moth | er" Or the father, with voice less ten | der, but at heart as earnest and loving | watchful of all your ways, exultant over ! your success without saying much, al though the old people do talk it over by l themselves-is taken away forever. | Or there was your companion in life, sharer of your joys and sorrows, taken, | leaving the heart an old ruin, where the | i'll winds blow over wide wilderness of | desolation, the sands of the desert driving
 across the place which once bloomed 1 like the garden of God. And Abraham mourns for Sarah at the cave of Mach l pelah. Going along your path in life, suddenly, right before you was an open grave. .-.
 | People looked down, and they saw it was only few feet deep and a few feet wide, but to you it was chasm down which went all your hopes and all your
 expectations. ...
 | But cheer up in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ, the comforter. He is not | going to forsake you. Did the Lord take
 that child out of your arms? Why, he is going to shelter it better than you could. He is going to array it in white | robe and give it palm branch and have it all ready to greet you at your coming | home Blessed the broken heart that Jesus heals. Blessed the importunate cry that Jesus compassionates. Blessed
 the weeping eye from which the soft hand of Jesus wipes away the tear.
 | Some years ago I was sailing down the
 St. John river, which is the Rhine and the Hudson commingled in one scene of
 beauty and grandeur, and while was on the deck of the steamer gentleman | pointed out to me the places of interest, and he said. "All this is interval land, and it is the richest land in all the prov inces of New Brunswick and Nova l Scotia"
 | What" said l, ''do you mean by in- terval landT' Well" he said, ''this land
 is submerged for a part of the year. | Spring freshets come down, and all these plains are overfowed with the water,
 and the water leaves a rich deposit, and when the waters are gone the harvest springs up, and there is the grandest harvest that was ever reaped." And l
 instantly thought, "It is not the heights
 of the church and it is not the heights of | this world that are the scenes of the | greatest prosperity, but the soul over | which the floods of sorrow have gone, the soul over which the freshets of tribu- lation have torn their way, that yields ! the greatest fruits of righteousness, and the largest harvest for time, and the
 richest harvest for eternity" Bless God | that your soul is interval land
 | THE LAST HOUR.
 | But these "reminiscences reach only to
 this morning. There is one more point | of tremendous reminiscence, and that is | the last hour of life, when we have to look over all our past existence. What
 a moment that will be! place Napo- | Icons dying reniniscence on St. Helena
 beside Mrs. Judson's dying reminiscence in the harbor of St. Helena-the same | island-20 years after. Napoleon's dy- | ing reminiscence was one of delirium | as he exclaimed, Head of the armyw
 Mrs. Judson's dying reminiscence, as she came home from her missionary toll and her life of self sacrifice for God, dying
 in the cabin of the ship in the harbor of St. Helena, was, '1 always did love the | Lord Jesus Christ" And then, the his
 torian says, she fell into sound sleep | for an hour and woke amid the songs of | angels.
 l place the dying reminiscence of Au- | gustus Caesar against the dying reminis- cence of the Apostle Paul. The dying
 reminiscence of Augustus Caesar was, addressing his attendants, "Have 1 | played my part well on the stage of ifeY" and they answered in the affirma-
 tive, and he said, "Why, then, don't you | applaud meY' The dying reminiscence | of Paul the Apostle was: 1T have fought
 good fight, have finished my course,
 have kept the faith. Henceforth there
 is laid up for me a crown of righteous
 ness, which the Lord, the righteous
 Judge, will give me in that day, and not
 to me only, but to all them that love his
 appearing"
 Augustus Cesar died amid pomp and l great surroundings. Paul uttered his
 dying reminiscence looking up through
 the roof of a dungeon. God grant that
 our dying pillow may be the closing of
 useful life and the opening of glorious
 eternity. | Flowed Up a Meteor In California.
 About year ago great meteor fell
 at or near Table mountain. The fall of
 the visitor from unknown spheres and
 the consternatiop it caused among those | IL