Connecticut western news., 1895-07-11


 this coroding care of the heart, this sends great many of our best men in life into the grave, their life dashed out against money safes. They go with their store on their backs They trudge like camels, sweating. from Aleppo to Damascus, They make their life crucifxion. Standing behind desks and counters, banished from the fresh air, weighed down by carking cares, they are so many suicides. Oh, wish could today rub out some of these lines of care; that could lift some of the bur dens from the heart that I could give relaxation to some of these worn mus cles. It is time for you to begin to take it little easier. Do your best and then trust God for the rest. Do not fret. God manages all the affairs of your life, and he manages them for the best Consider the lilies. They always have robes.
 Behold the fowls of the airl They al- ways have nests. Take long breath Bethink betimcs that God did not make you for pack horse Dig yourselves out from among the hogsheads and the shelves, and in the light of the holy Sab bath day resolve that you will give to the winds your fears, and your fretful- ness, and your distresses You brought nothing into the world, and it is very certain you can carry nothing out. Hav- ing food and raiment, be herewith con- tent The merchant came home from the store. There had been great disas- ter there. He opened the front door and said in the midst of his family circle: "I am ruined. Everything Is gone. I am all ruined.'' His wife said, 1T am left" and the little child threw up its hands and said, "Papa, I am here. " The aged grandmother, seated In the room, said, "Then you have all the promises of God beside, John" And he burst into tears and said: "God forgive me that have been so ungratefull I find I have great many things left God forgive mep
 Home Matters.
 Again, I remark that many of our business men arc tempted to neglect their home duties. How often it ts that the store and the home seem to clash. but there ought not to be any collision. It is often the case that the father is the mere treasurer of the family, a sort of agent to see that they have dry goods and groceries. The work of family gov ernment he does not touch. Once or twice in year he calls the children up on Sabbath afternoon, when he has a half hour he does not exactly know what to do with, and in that half hour he dis ciplines the children and chides them and corrects their faults and gives them a great deal of good advice, and then wonders all the rest of the year that his children do not do better when they have the wonderful advantage of that semiannual castigation.
 The family table, which ought to be the place for pleasant discussion and cheerfuness, often becomes the place of perilous expedition. If there be any blessing asked at all, it is cut off at both ends and with the hand on the carving knife. He counts on his fingers, making estimates in the interstices of the repast. The work done. the hat goes to the head. and he starts down the street, and before the family have arisen from the table he has bound up another bundle of goods and says to the customer, Anything more can do for you today, sir?" A man has more responsibilities than those which are discharged by putting com- potent instructors over his children and giving them a drawing master and a music teacher. The physical culture of the child will not be attended to unless the father looks to it He must some times lose his dignity. He must unlim- Der his joints. He must sometimes lead them out to their sports and games. The parent who cannot forget the severe du- ties of life sometimes, to fly the kite and trundle the hoop and chase the ball and jump the rope with his children, ought never to have been tempted out of Q crusty and unredeemable solitariness. If you want to keep your children away from places of sin, you can only do it by making your home attractive. You may preach sermons and advocate re- forms and denounce wiokedness, and yet your children will be captivated by the glittering saloon of sin unless you can make your home brighter place than any other place on earth to them. Oh, gather all charms into your house. If you can afford it, bring books and pic lures and cheerful entertainments to the household. But above all teach those children, not by half an hour twice a year on the Sabbath day, but day after day and every day teach them that re- igion is great gladness; that it throws chains of gold about the neck; that it takes no spring from the foot, no bhthe- ness from the heart, no sparkle from the eye, no ring from the laughter, but that ther ways are ways of pleasantness, and all her paths are peace" sympathixe with the work being done in many ol our cities by which beautiful rooms ars set apart by our Young Mems Christian associations, and I pray God to prosper them in all things. But tell you thert is something back of that and befor, that. We need more happy. consecrated cheerful Christian homes everywhere. Of Eternal Importance.
 Again remark that great many O l our business men are tempted to put tn attainment of money above the value O the soul It Is grand thing to hav | plenty of money. The more you get O
 it the better, if 1t come honestly and g
 usefully. For the lack of 1t sicInes dies without medicine, and hunger find
 it coffin in the empty bread tray, ant
 nakedness shivers for lack of clothes an,
 fire. When hear a man in canting ti
 rade against money--a Christian man
 as though it had no possible use ol
 earth and he had no interest in it a ! all, come almost to think that tn
 heaven that would be appropriate fo
 him would be an everlasting poorhouse
 While, my friends, we do admit there
 such thing as the lawful use of none "a profitable use of money-let us rec
 ognize also the fact that money canno
 satisfy mans soul; that it cannot gilt
 ter in the dark valley; that it canno | pay our fare across tho Jordan of death
 that it cannot unlock the gate of heav
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