Connecticut western news., 1894-09-06
grave, and call it a beautiful place. Un-

grave, and call 1t a beautiful place. Un- less there be some supernatural illumi- nation I shudder back from it My whole nature revolts at it. But now this glorious lamp is lifted above the grave, and all the darkness is gone, and the way is clear. look into it now without single shudder. Now my anxiety is not about death; my anxiety is that l may live alright.
 What power Is there in anything to chill me in the last hour if Christ wraps around me the skirt of his own gar ment? What darkness can fall upon my eyelids then, amid the heavenly day break? O death, I will not fear thee then. Back to thy cavern of darkness, thou robber of all the earth. Fly, thou despoiler of families. With this battleax I hew thee in twain from helmet to sandal, the voice of Christ sounding all over the earth and through the heavens: 70 death, will be thy plague. o grave, will be thy destruction.
 To be saved is to wake up in the pres ence of Christ You know when Jesus was upon the earth how happy he made every house he went into, and when he brings us up to his house in heaven how great shall be our glee! His voice has more music in it than is to be heard in all the oratorios of eternity. Talk not about banks dashed with eff1crescence. Jesus is the chief bloom of heaven. We shall see the very face that beamed sympathy ill Bethany and take the very hand that dropped it's blood from the short beam of the cross. Oh, want to stand in eternity with him. Toward that harbor I steer Toward that goal run. I shall be satisfied when awake in his likeness.
 GIorifed In Heaven.
 Oh, broken hearted men and women, how sweet it will be in that good land to pour all of your hardships and be- reavements and losses into the loving ear of Christ and then have him explain why it was best for you to be sick, and why it was best for you to be widowed, and why it was best for you to be per secuted, and why it was best for you to be tried and have him point to an ele- vation proportionate to your disquietude here, saying, "You suffered with me on earth; come up now and be glorified with me in heaven.
 Some one went into house where there had been good deal of trouble and said to the woman there, ''Y ou seem to be lonely'' "Yes,' she said; "I am lonely" "How many in the fam ily?' "Only myself. !" Have you had any children?' ''I had seven children. !" Where are they?'' Gone. " "All gone?' "All." :" "All deai?' "All. !" Then she breathed long ,igh into the loneliness and said, "Oh, sir, have been a good mother to the grave '"
 And so there are hearts here that are utterly broken down by the bereave- ments of life. point you today to the eternal balm of heaven. Oh, aged men and women who have knelt at the throne of grace for threescore years and ten will not your deorepitude change for the leap of heart when you come to look face to face upon him whom having not seen you love? Oh, that will be the Good Shepherd. not out in the night and watching to keep off the wolves, but with the lamb re- clining on the sunlit hill. That will be the Captain of our salvation, not amid the roar and crash and boom of battle, but amid his disbanded troops keeping victorious festivity. That will be the Bridegroom of the church coming from afar, the bride leaning upon his arm while he looks down into her face and says: Behold, thou art fair, my love! Behold, thou art fairi''