Connecticut western news., 1894-02-22

who has lost all nis property py an un- fortunate investment or by putting his name on the back of a friends note. Aft CT you have taken brief nap, which every man and woman is entitled to on Sun- day afternoon, go and cheerup that man. You can, if God helps you, say some tking that will do him good after both of you have been dead thousand years.
 Shinei You know of 8 family with a bad boy who has run away from home. Go before night and tell that father and mother the parable of the prodigal son, and that some of the illustrious and use ful men now in church and state had ally passage in their lives and ran away from home. Shinel You know of fam fly that has lost child, and the silence of the nursery glooms the whole house from cellar to garret. Go before night and tell them how much that child has happily escaped, since the most prosper ous life on earth is struggle.
 Shinel You know of some invalid who is dying for lack of an appetite. She cannot get we'll because she cannot eat. Broil chicken and take 1t to her before night and cheat her poor appetite into keen relish. Shinei You know of some one who likes you, and you like him, and he ought to be Christian. Go tell him what religion has done for you, and ask him if you can pray for him.
 THE FAILURE OF ECLoGY.
 Shinel Oh, for B disposition so charged with sweetness and light that we cannot help but shinei Remember if you cannot be a -leviathan flashing the ocean into fury you can be one of the phosphori. doing your part toward making 8 path of phosphorescence. Then will tell you what impression you will leave as you pass through this life and after you are gone. will tell you to your face and not leave it for the minister who ofici- ates at your. obsequies.
 The failure in all eulogium of the de- parted is that they cannot hear it. All hear it except the one most interested. This, in substance, is what or some one else will say of you on such an occasion: We gather for offices of respect to this departed one. It is impossible to tell how many tears he wiped away, how many burdens he lifted. or how many souls he was under God. instrumental in saving. His influence will never cease We are all better for having known him.
 That pillow of flowers on the casket was presented by his Sabbath school class. all of whom he brought to Christ. That cross of flowers at the head was pre- sented by the orphan asylum which he Defriended. Those three single flowers -one was sent by poor woman for whom he bought ton of coal, and one was by a waif of the street whom he res cued through the midnight mission, and the other was from O prison cell which he had often visited to encourage re- pentance in a young man who had done wrong.
 "Those three loose flowers mean quite as much as the costly garlands now breathing their aroma through this sad dened home crowded with sympathizers. Blessed are the dead who die in the Lord. They rest from their labors, and their works do follow them"
 Or if it should be the more solemn bur ial at sea, let it be after the sun has gone down, and the captain has read the appropriate liturgy, and the ships bell has tolled, and you are let down from the stern of the vessel into the resplend- ent phosphorescence at the wake of the ship. Then let some one say, in the words of my text, He maketh path to shine after him."