Connecticut western news., 1894-04-19

reverence your husbands. Children, obey your parents in the Lord. Servants, bt obedient to your masters" 7" And tht family will be like garden on sum mer morning-the grass plot, and ths flowers, and the vines. and the arch ot honeysuckle standing in the sunlight glittering with dew.
 Religion In Misfortune. But then there will be sorrows tha will come to the household. There art but few families that escape the stroke of financial misfortune Financial mis fortune comes to a house where there l! no religion They kick against divine allotments they curse God for the in coming calamity, they withdraw iron the world because they cannot hold a. high position in society as they onct did, and they fret, and they scowl, ant they sorrow, and they die. During ths past few years there have been tens ot thousands of men destroyed by theil financial distresses
 But misfortune comes to the Christian household. If religion has full sway il that home, they stoop gracefully. They say, 'This is right The father says Perhaps money was getting to be my idol. Perhaps God is going to make me better Christian by putting me through the furnace of tribulation. Besides that, why should I fret anyhow? He who owneth the cattle on a thousand hills and out of whose hand all the fowls oi heaven peck their food is my Father. al ,Nf hn al IIe will clothe me. If he takes care of the raven, and the hawk, and the yulture, most certainly he will take care of me, his child. D
 Sorer troubles come-sickness and death. Loved ones sleep the last sleep. A child is buried out of sight You say: "Alas, for this bitter dayl God has dealt very severely with me. I can never look up. O God, I cannot bear it. '' Christ comes in, and he says: Hush, o troubled soull It is well with the child. will strengthen thee in all thy trou- bles. My grace is sufficient When thou passeth through the waters, I will be with thee.
 When through the deep waters call thee
 ogo,
 The rivers of sorrow shall not overflow, For will be with thee thy troubles to bless, And sanctify to thee thy deepest distress.
 But there are hundreds of families represented here this morning where re igion has been a great comfort There are in your homes the pictures of your departed and things that have no won derful value of themselves, but you keep them previously and carefully because hands now still once touched them. A father has gone out of this household, a mother has gone out of this, 8 daughter just after her graduation day, a son just as he was entering on the duties of life
 The Family Altar.
 And to other homes trouble will come say it not that you may be foreboding not that you may do the unwise thing of taking trouble by the forelock, but that you may be ready. We must go one by one. There will be partings in all our households. We must say farewell We must die. And yet there are triumphant strains that drown these tremulous ac- cents, there are anthems that whelm the dirge. Heaven is full of the shout of de- lvered captiyes, and to the great wide field of human sorrow there come now the reaper angels with keen sickles to harvest the sheaves of heaven.
 Saints will to the end endure;
 Safely will the Shepherd keep
 Those he purchased for his sheep
 Go home this day and ask the blessing on your monday meal Tonight set up the family altar. Do not wait until you become a Christian yourself. This day unite Christ to your household, for the Bible distinctly says that God will pour out his fury upon the families that call not upon his name. Open the Bible and read a chapter; that will make you strong. Kneel down and offer the first prayer in your household It may be a broken petition; it may be only "God bo merciful to me, a sinner. " But God will stoop, and spirits will listen, and angels will chant, Behold, he praysp'
 Do not retire from this house this morning until you have resolved upon the matter. You will be gone. will be gone. Many years will pass, and per haps your younger children may forget almost everything about you, but 40 years from now in some Sabbath twi- light your daughter will be sitting with the family Bible on her lap reading te her children when she will stop, and pc culiar solemnity will come to her face, and tear will start, and the children will say, Mother, what makes you cry?" And she will say, Nothing, only was thinking that this is the very Bi- ble out of which my father and mother used to read at morning and evening prayer.
 All other things about you they may forget, but train them up for God and heaven. They will not forget that.
 A Grand Gift.
 When queen died, her three sons brought an offering to the grave. One son brought gold, another brought sil- yer, but the third son came and stood over the grave and opened one of his veins and let the blood drop upon his mothers tomb, and all who saw it said it was the greatest demonstration ot affection. My friends, what is the grand est gift we c,.n bring to the sepulchers of Christian ancestry? It is life all consecrated to the God who made us and the Christ who redeemed us. I can- not but believe that there are hundreds of parents in this house who have re- solved to do their whole duty and that at this moment they are passing into 8 better life, and having seen the grace of the gospel in this place today you are now fully ready to return to your own house and show what great things God has done unto you.
 Though parents may in covenant be
 And have their heaven in view,
 They are not happy till they see
 Their children happy too.
 May the Lord God of Abraham and Isaac and Jacob, the God of our fathers, be our God and the God of our children forever.
 Suffrage Progress.