Connecticut western news., 1895-11-14
Sura and Sudden.

Sure and Sudden.
 have also to learn from the subject that the destruction of the vicious and of those who despise God will be very sudden. The wave of mirth had dashed to the highest point when the. invading, army broke through. It was unexpected. Suddenly, almost always, comes the doom of those who despise God and defy the laws of men,. How was 1t at the deluge? Do you suppose 1t came through a long northeast storm, so that people for days before were sure it was coming? No. I suppose the morning was bright ;; that calmness brooded on the waters !; that beauty sat enthroned on the hills,, when suddenly the heavens burst and the mountains sank like anchors into the sea that dashed clear over the Andes and the Himalayas.
 The Red sea was divided. The Egyp- tians tried to cross it. There could be no danger. The Israelites had just gone through. Where they had gone, why not the Egyptians? Oh, it was such beau tiful walking place! A pavement of tinged shells and pearls, and on either side two great walls of water-solid. There can be no danger. Forward, great host of the Egyptians! Clap the cymbals and blow the trumpets of victory After them! We will catch them yet, and they shall be destroyed. But the walls begin to tremblel They rock They fall The rushing watersl The shriek of drowning menl The swimming of the war horses in vain for the shore! The strewlng of the great host on the bottom of the sea, or pitched sby the angry wave on the beach-a battered, bruised and loath- some wreck Suddenly destruction came. One half hour before they could not have believed 1t. Destroyed, and without remedy.
 am just setting forth fact, which you have noticed as we'll as L. Ananias comes to the apostle. The apostle says, "Did you sell the land for so muchfo He says, "Yes." It was lie. Dead, as quick as that Sapphira, his wife, comes in. "Did you sell the land for so much p 'tYes'' It was lie, and quick as that she was deadl Gods judgments are upon those who dsspise him and defy him. They come suddenly.
 Words of Warning.
 The destroying angel went through Egpyt. Do you suppose that any of the people knew that he was coming? Did they hear the flap of his great wing? :? Mol No! Suddenly, unexpectedly, he came.
 Skilled sportsmen do not like to shoot bird standing on sprig neal. by. If they are skilled, they pride themselves on taking it on the wing, and they wait till it starts. Death is an old sportsman and. he loves to take men flying under the very sun. He loves to take them on the wing. Oh, flee to God this night ] If there be one in this presence who has wandered far away from Christ, though he may not have heard the call of the gospel for many year, invite him DOW to come and be saved. Flee from thy sin! Flee to the stronghold of the gos- pei Now is the accepted time. Now is the day of salvation.
 Good night, my young friends; may you have rosy sleep, guarded by him who never slumbers! May you awake in the morning strong and well But, oh, art thou despiser of God? Is this thy last night on earth? Shouldst thou be awakened in the night by something, thou knowest not what, and there be shadows floating in the room, and @ handwriting on the wall, and you feel that your last hour is come, and there be a fainting at the heart, and tremor in the limb, and catching of the breath -then thy doom would be but an echo Of the words of the text "In that night was Belshazzar, the king of the Chal- deans, slain.
 Oh, that my Lord Jesus would now make himself so attractive to your souls that you cannot resist him, and if you have never prayed before or have not prayed since those days when you knelt down at your mothers knee, then that tonight you might pray. saying: | Just as am, without one plea | But that thy blood was shed for me | And that thou bidst me come to thee, O Lamb of God, comei
 1 But if you cannot think of so long Q prayer as that, will give you a shorter prayer that you can say, "God be mer- ciful to me, sinnerl'' Or, if you can not think of so long prayer as that, I will give you a still shorter one that | you may utter, "Lord save me or I per ishl" Or, if that be too long prayer, you need not make it. Use the word "helpp' Or, if that be too long word, you need not use any word at all. Just look and live!