Connecticut western news., 1895-02-21

queens, and do not kings and queens have castles? But the one that you are offered was for 33 years an abandoned castle, though now gloriously inhabited. There is an abandoned royal castle at Amber, India. One hundred and seven ty years ago king moved out of it nev- CT to return. But the castle still stands in indescribable grandeur, and you go through bcezen doorway after braZen doorway, and carved room after carved room, aud under embellished ceiling after embellished ceiling, and through halls precious stoned into wider halls precious stoned, and on that hill are pa vilions deeply dyed and tasseled and arched, the fire of colored gardens cooled by the SHOW of white architecture; birds in arahesQue so natural to life that while you cannot hear their voices you imagine you sec the flutter of their wings while you are passing; walls pictured with triumphal procession; rooms that were called "Alcove of Light" and Hall of Victory" marble. and night; alabaster, and mother of pearl, ana lacQuer WOfk.
 Standing before it the eye climbs from step to latticed balcony, and from lat. ticed balcony to oriel. and from oriel to arch, and from arch to roof, aud then descends on ladder of all colors, and by stairs of perfect lines to tropical gar dens of pomesranate and pineapple. Seven stories of resplendent architec- turei But the royal castle provided for you, if you will only take it on the pre- scribe6 terms, is grander than all that, and, though an abandoned castle while Christ was here, achieving your redemp- tion, is again occupied by the "chief among ten thousand" and some of your own kindred who have gone up and waiting for you are leaning from the balcony. The windows of that castle look off on the Kings gardens where immortals walk linked in eternal friend ship, and the banqueting hall of that castle has princes and princesses at the table, and the wine is "the new wine of the kingdom, and the supper is the marriage supper of the Lamb, and there are fountains into which no tear ever fell, and there is music that trembles with no grief, and the light that falls upon that scene is never beclouded, and there is the kiss of those reunited after long separation. More nerve will we have there than now, or we would swoon away under the raptures. Stronger wis ion will we have there than now, or our eyesight would be blinded by the bril- liance. Stronger ear will we have there 1T {. la, oE th,f
 strelsy, and the clapping of that accla.
 nation, and the boom of that halleluiak we would be deafened.
 The Coronation.
 Glorious gospell You thought religion was straitjacket; that it put you on the limits; that thereafter you must go 1 cowed down. No, no, mol It is to be cas- tellated. By the cleansing power of the S,ed blood of Golgotha set your faces toward the shining pinnacles. Oh, it does not matter much what becomes of us here-for at the longest our stay is | short-if wu caa only land there. You see there are SD many 1 do>want to meet | there. Joshua, my favorite prophet, and John among the evangelists, and Paul | among the apostles, and Wyclif among the martyrs, and Bourdaloue among the preachers, and Dante among the poets, and Havelock among the heroes, and our loved ones whom we have so much missed since they left us, so many dar- ings of tho heart, their absence some times almost unbcarable, and, mention ed i'll this sentence last of all because want the thought climacteric, our bless. sd Lord, without whom we could never
 reach the old castle at all He took ou1 place. He purchased our ransom. He
 wept our woes. He suffered our stripes. He died our death. He assured our resur.
 rection. Blessed be his glorious name forever! Surging to his ear Do all the
 anthemsi Facing him be all the thrones Oh, 1 want to see it, and will see il the day of his coroD ation. On a throne already Methinks the day will come when in some great hall of eternity al the nations of earth whom he has con | quered by his grace will assemble again | to crown him. Wide and high and i'm. mense and upholstered as with the sun ! rises and sunsets of 1000 years, greai audience room of heaven. Like tho | leaves of an Adirondack forest tho ran somed multitudes, and Christ standing | on high place surrounded by worship
 CTS and subjects They shall come out
 of the farthest past led on by the proph | cts; they shall como out of the early gospel days led on by the apostles; they
 shall come out of the centuries stil ! ahead of us led on by champions of tho
 truth. heroes and heroines yet to b, | born.
 | And then from that vastest audience
 ever assembled in all the universe there
 will go up the shout: "Crown him
 Grown himl Crown him" and the Fla
 ther who long ago promised this hi:
 only begotten Son, "I will give thee tht
 heather for thine inheritance and tht
 uttermost parts of the earth for thy pos
 session." shall set the crown upon the
 forehead yet scared with crucifxior
 bramble, and all the hosts of heaven
 down on the levels and up in the gal
 leries. will drop on their knees, crying
 Hail, King of earthl King of heaven
 King of saints King of seraphsl Thy
 kingdom is an everlasting kingdom, anC
 to thy dominions there shall be no end
 Amen and amen! Amen and amenp'
 New Form of Color Blindness.
 The subject of color blindness, tho l Df x,alx kaay