Connecticut western news., 1895-11-07

love to steal awhile away
 From every cumberfng care
 And spend the hours of setting day
 In humble. grateful prayer.
 Shall there be no reward for such un- pretending. yet everlasting service9
 Clear back in the country there is a boy who wants to go to college and get an education. They call him a book worm. Wherever they find him-in tho barn or in the house-he is reading a book. "What pity it is." they say. "that Ed cannot get an educationl" His father, work as hard as be will, can no more than support the family by the product of the farm. One night Ed has retired to his room, and there is fam fly conference about him. The sisters say: Father, I wish you would send Ed to college. If you will, we will work harder than we ever did, and we will make our old dresses do." The mother says: "Yes; will get along without any hired help. Although I am not as strong as used to be, think l can get along without any hired help" The fa- ther says, "Well, think by husking corn nights I can get along without any assistance. ' Sugar is banished from the table, butter is banished from the plate. That family is put down on rigid-yea. suffering-economyt that the boy may 20 to college. Time passes on. Com menoement day has come. Think not that I mention an imaginary case. God knows it happened. Commencement day has come, and the professors walk in on the stage in their long gowns. The interest of the occasion is passing on, and after awhile it comes to climax of interest as the valedictorian is to be in- troduced. Ed has studied so hard and worked SO we'll that he has had the hon. !. or conferred upon him. There are rounds of applause, sometimes breaking into vociferation. It is great day for Ed. But away back in the galleries are his sisters in their plain hats and their fad ed ehawls, and the old fashioned father and mother-dear me, she has not had a new hat for six years he hmnot had new coat for six years-and they get up and look over on the platform, and they laugh and they cry, and they sit down, and they look pale, and then they are very much flushed. Ed gets the garlapds, and the old fashioned group in the gal lery have their full share of the tri- umph. They have made that scene pos sible, and in the day when God shall more fully reward self sacrifices made for others he will give grand and glor- ious recognition. ''As his part is that ~.rokl A~,~rc &, xl~, hofk1a cbon nic part be that tarrieth by the stuff. '"
 The Has Besns.
 There is high encouragement in this subject also for those who once wrought nightly for Christ and the church, but through sickness or collapse of fortune or advanced years cannot now go to the front. These two hundred men of the text were veterans Let that man bare bis arm and show how the muscles were torn. Let him pull aside the turban and see the mark of battleax. Pull aside the coat and see where the spear thrust him. Would it have been fair for those men. crippled, weak and old by the brook Besor, to have no share in the spoils of triumph? was in the Soldiers hospital in Paris and saw there some of the men of the first Napoleon, and asked
 them where they had fought under their l great commander. One man said, "I | was at Austerlitz- Another man said. "I was at the Pyramids. Another man
 said. "I was in the awful retreat from Moscow" Another man said, 1T was at the bridge of Lodi" Some of them were lame, they were all aged. Did the | <xSv N<R khr,ca al soldiers to die in wsntl No Their last days were spent like princes. Do you think my Lord Is going to turn on his old soldiers because they arc weak and worn and because they tainted by the brook Besor? Are they going to get no part of the spells of the victory? Just
 look at them. Do you think those crev- ices in the face are wrinklesi No They are battle scars. They fought against
 sickness, they fought against trouble. they fought against sin, they fought for
 God, they fought for the church, they fought for the truth, they fought for
 heaven. When they had plenty of mon- l ey their names were always on the sub- scription list. When there was any hard work to be done for God they were
 ready to take the heaviest part of it. When there came a great revival they
 were ready to pray all night for the
 anxious and the sin struck. They were
 ready to do any work, endure any sacri.
 fioe. do the most unpopular thing that
 God demanded of them. But now they
 cannot go further. Now they have phys. l ical infrmities Now their head trou-
 bles them. They are weak and faint by
 the brook Besor. Are they to have nc
 share in the triumphf Are they to get
 none of the treasures, none of the spoils
 of conquest? You must think that Christ
 has a very short memory if you think he
 has forgotten their services.
 Fret not, ye aged ones. Just tarry by
 the stuff and wait for your share of the
 spoils. Wonder they arc coming. I bear
 the bleating of the fat lambs, and sse
 the Jewels glint in the sun. It makes me
 laugh to think how you will be sur prised when they throw . chain of gold
 over your neck and tell you to go in and
 dine with the king. see you backing
 out because you feel unworthy. The
 shining ones como up on the one side
 end tho shining ones come up on the
 other side, and they push you on, and
 they push you up, and they say, "Here is an old soldier of Jesus Christ, 1" and
 the shining ones will rush out toward you and say, "Yes; that man saved my
 soul," or they will rush out and say,
 "Oh, yes; abe was with me in the last
 sickness" And then the cry will go round the circle; Come in, come tn,
 come in, como upi We saw you away
 down there, old and sick and decrepit and discouraged because you could not | go to tho front, but As his part is that