Connecticut western news., 1893-03-16

and stood there and not overfowing the surrounding country. Oh, the complete ness of everything that God does!
 One would have thought that, if the waters of Jordan had dropped until they were only two or three feet deep, the Is- raelites might have marched through it and have come up on the other bank with their clothes saturated and their garments like those of men coming ashore from shipwreck, and that would have been as wonderful deliverance, but God does something better than that. When the priests feet touched the waters of Jordan and they were drawn of, they might have thought there would have been bed of mud and slime through which the army should pass.
 Draw off the waters of the Hudson or the Ohio, and there would be good many days. and perhaps many weeks, before the sediment would dry up, and yet here in an instant, immediately, God provides path through the depths of Jordan. It is so dry the passengers do not even get their feet damp. Oh, the completeness of everything that God doesl Does he make a universe2 It is a perfect clock, running ever since it was wound up, the fixed stars the pivots, the cancellations the intermoving wheels, and ponderous laws the weights and mighty swinging pendulum, the stars in the great dome of night striking the mid night, and the sun, with brazen tongue. tolling the hour of noon.
 The widest comet has chain of law that it cannot break. The thistle down flying before the schoolboy's breath is controlled by the same law that controls the sun and the planets. The rosebush in your window is governed by the same principle that governs the tree of the universe on which the stars are ripening fruits, and on which God will one day put his hand and shake down the fruit a perfect universe. No astronomy has ever proposed an amendment.
 COMPLETE BIBLE.
 If God makes Bible, it is complete Bible. Standing amid the dreadful and delightful truths, you seem to be in the midst of an orchestra where the wailings over sins, and the rejoicings over pardon and the martial strains of victory make the chorus like an anthem of eternity. This book seems to you the ocean Of truth, on every wave of which Christ walks-sometimes in the darkness of prophecy, again in the splendors with which he walks on Galilee. In this book apostle answers to prophet, Paul to Isa- iah, Revelation to Genesis glorious light, turning midnight sorrow into the midnoon joy, dispensing every fog, hush- ing every tempest. Take this book; it is the kiss of God on the soul of lost man Perfect Bible, complete Biblel No man has ever proposed any improvement.
 God provided a Saviour. He is com plete God-man-divinity and humanity united in the same person. He set up the starry pillars of the uni verse and the towers of light. He plant ed the cedars and the heavenly Lebanon. He struck out of the rock the rivers of life, singing under the trees, singing un- der the thrones. He quarried the sar- donyx and crystal and the topaz of the heavenly wall He put down the jasper for the foundation and heaped up the amethyst for the capital and swung the 12 gates which are 12 pearls. In one in- stant he thought out a universe, and yet he became child crying for his mother, feeling along the sides of the manager, learning to walk.
 Omnipotence sheathed in the muscle and flesh of child's arm; omniscience strung in the optic nerve of a child's eye; infinite love beating in 8 child's heart; great God appearing in the form of a child year old, 5 years old, 16 years old. While all the heavens were as- cribing to him glory and honor and power on earth, men said, r"Who is this fellowY' While all the heavenly hosts, with folded wing about their faces, bowed down before him crying Holy holyr on earth, they denounced him as g blasphemer and sot. Rocked in 8 boat on Gennesaret, and yet he it is that unr dirked the lightning from the storm cloud and dismasted Lebanon of it's for ests and holds the five oceans on the tip of his finger as the leaf holds the rain drop.
 Oh, the complete Saviour, rubbing his hand over the place where we have the pain, yet the stars of heaven the adornr ing gems of his right hand. Holding us in his arms when we take our last view of our dead. Sitting down with us on the tombstone, and while we plant roses there he planting consolation in our heart. every chapter stalk. every verse 8 stem, every word a rose. A complete Saviour, a complete Bible, complete universe, complete Jordanic passage Everything that God does Is complete. ! OBSTACLES TO OVERCOME.
 | Again. learn from this Jordanic pasr sage that between us and every Canaan of success and prosperity there is river that must be passed. ''Oh, how l would like some of those grapes on the other sider' said some of the Israelites ts Joshua. "Well," says Joshua, Eff you want the grapes, why don't you crosl over and get themf There is river ot difficulty between us and everything that is worth having. That which costs noth ing is worth nothing.
 God didn't intend this world for al easy parlor, through which we are to b drawn in rocking chair, but we are t, work our passage, climb masts, fgh battles, scale mountains and ford rivers God makes everything valuable difficult to get at, for the same reason that he pu the gold down in the mine and the pear clear down in the sea,-to make us ail and dive for them. We acknowledg this principle in worldly things; oh, tha we were only wise enough to acknowl edge it in religious thingsl
 You have scores of illustrations unde your own observation where men hay had the hardest lot and been trodde
 under foot, and yet after awhile had easy. Now their homes blossom an
 bloom with pictures, and carpets tha made foreign looms laugh now embrac their feet; the summer winds lift tn tapestry about the window gorgeou enough for a Turkish sultan; impatien
 steeds paw and neigh the door, thei carriages moving through the sea c
 New York life very wave of splendor
 Who is it9 Why, it is boy who cam
 to New York with dollar in his pockt
 and all his estate slung over his shoulde
 in cotton handkerchief. All that silve