Connecticut western news., 1894-06-21

 ual, whether at 90 or 40 or years, his mission is ended This last church stood three years, and any person who knows what multitudes have there as- sembled, and what transactions for eternity have there taken place. will admit that it was well to build 1t, even if we had known at the start that 1t would only last from 1891 to 1894.
 Another reason why I think this last church went down was to keep me humble. The Lord had widened my work through Christendom, and with two receptions the week before the con- fagration, the one city reception pre- sided over by our mayor, and the other a national and international reception presided over by one of the chief men of the nation, who had recently stepped from the presidential cabinet, and the occasion honored by addresses and let ters and cablegrams from men of world wide fame in church and state, and the whole scene brilliant beyond descrip- tion, and in compliment to myself, who was brought up a farmers boy, there was danger that might become puffed
 up and my soul be weakened for future work. did not yet feel any stirrings of
 that sort, and had only felt humble
 gratitude for what had been said and done by friends transatlantic and cisat
 lantic, but had ordered full reports of
 the meeting laid aside for future perusal.
 and had engaged the fleetest stenog- rapher I know of to take down every
 word, from the opening doxology of the first reception to the benediction of the last reception, and some time, when
 less busy, would take in all the elo- quence and kindness and splendor of
 that memorable week What might have
 been the result upon myself know not.
 have seen upon others the whitening effect of human praise. A cold chill of the world s neglect is no more destruct- i've than the sunstroke from too much
 heat of popular approval The disaster may have been needed, and it came so close upon the adulation that it. acted as an everlasting prevention. In the light of that awful blaze of that Sabbath in
 May, 1894, no self sufficiency could stand second.
 Another reason for the fires, think,
 is that somehow, and in way that I know not, my opportunities are to widen. After each of the other fires new doors were open. I prayerfully expect that such will be the sequence of the last conf1agration.
 Will the Brooklyn Tabernacle be re-
 built? I know not. What or when or
 where shall be my work cannot even guess, nor have I the least anxiety. Noth- ing but an inspired utterance of the Bible could bear such repetition as l have for the last 12 days given to the words of the psalmist, ''The Lord reign eth; let the earth rejoice"
 I have safely arrived on the Pacific coast. A startling question was asked me just before reached here. I was in deep slumber in section of a sleeping car when the curtain was pushed back, and a venerable lady seized hold of me
 and shrieked, 'Who are you, and what
 are you doing here?" It was sudden calling of the roll of passengers, and did not feel like Answering to my name The question was repeated in more earnestness, with louder voice. l could not at first understand why the interro- gation as to my identity, but after gath
 ering my senses together mildly sug gested that perhaps she had mistaken my place for her own This was no doubt the case, and she made quick retreat. The fact is that the sections and berths of sleeping car are very
 much alike. The new mode of hang ing the number of the berth in large figures on the outside of the drapery of al r,lo iu ment, but midnight perambulation. even
 under the best of circumstances, Is more or less confusing. The mistake that the venerable lady made is a mistake that thousands of people make, for they think some one else has their place. Most of the struggle in the world is in trying to get some one else's berth. Better go back contented and take the place as- ,isned you. In trying to get some one else's place we may lose our own with out getting his I cannot jeer at the old lady's mistake, for that night on the Southern Pacific railroad bethought
 myself that there are during every presi- dential campaign at least 100. 900 peo- pie trying to get the berths of the 10o,- 900 present occupants
 Goodby, my friends all overi On the other side of the world will think of
 those who have put me under obliga- tion, and the first hour have passed the latitude and longitude farthest away from home and begin to return win
 count the weeks and days that stand be- tween me and the lowest step of the front door from which, on the evening of May IA, I departed
 T. DE WITT TALMAoR Ban Francisco May 2R