Connecticut western news., 1895-09-26

you to engineer Cunarder from New York to Liverpool. But whatever enter prise you undertake, and on whatever voyage you start, be sure to take Christ in the ship. Here are men largely pros- pered. The seed of a small enterprise grew into an accumulated and overshad- owing success. Their cup of prosperity is running over. Every day sees con- mercial or mechanical triumph. Yet they are not puffed up. They acknowl- edge the God who grows the harvests and gives them all their prosperity. When disaster comes that destroys oth- CTS, they are only helped into higher ex. periences The coldest winds that ever blew down from snow capped Hermon and tossed Genuesaret into foam and agony could not hurt them. Let the winds blow until they crack their cheeks. | Let the breakers boom-all is we'll, | Christ is in the ship. Here are other l men, the prey of uncertainties. When | they succeed, they strut through the | world in great vanity and wipe their ! feet on the sensitiveness of others. Dis aster comes, and they are utterly down. l They arc good sailors on fair day, when tho sky is clear and the sea is smooth, but they cannot outride storm. After awhile the packet is tossed abeam's end, and it seems as if she must go l, down with all the cargo. Push out from the shore with lifeboat, long boat, shal- 1 lop and pinnace. You cannot save the crew. The storm twists off the masts. | The sea rises up to take down the ves- sell Down she goes! No Christ in that ship.
 speak to young people whose voyage i'll life will be a mingling of sunshine and of darkness, of arctic blast and of tropical tornado You will have many l long, bright. day of prosperity. The skies clear, the sea smooth. The crew | exhilarant. The boat stanch will bound merrily over the pillows. Crowd on all the canvas. Heigh, ho! Land ahead But suppose that sickness puts its bitter cup to your lips; suppose that death oversliadows your heart; suppose mis- fortune, with some quick turn of the wheel -~hurls you .backward; suppose l that the wave of trial strikes you athwart ships. and bowsprit shiyered, and halyards swept into the sea, and gangway crowded with piratical disas- ters, and he wave beneath, and the sky above, and the darkness around are fill I cd with the clamor of voices of destruc- tion. Oh, then you will want Christ in the ship!
 When Storms Como. learn, in the next place, that people who follow Christ must not always ex- pect smooth sailing. When these disci- ples got into the small boats, they said {: What a, delightful thing this is Who would not be a follower of Christ when he can ride in one of these small boats after the ship in which Jesus is sail ing?'' But wlien the storm came down these disciples found ont that following Jesus did not always make smooth sail ing. So you have found out, and so I have found out If there are any people who you would think ought to have. had good time in getting out of this world,
 the apostles of Jesus Christ ought to have been the men. Have you ever mo- f7ticed how they. got. out of the world ? St. James lost bis head;St. Philip was Ehung to death against pillar; St.
 Matthew was struck to death by q hal berd; St. Mark was dragged to death through the streets; St. James the Less had his brains dashed out with full er's club; St. Matthias was stoned to death; St. Thomas was struck through with spear. John Huss in the fire, the Albigenses, the Waldenses, the Scotch Covenanters-did they always find smooth sailing? Why go SC far?
 There is a young man in a store in
 New York who has hard time to main
 tain his Christian character. All the
 clerks laugh at him, the employers in
 that store laugh at him, and when he
 loses his patience they say, "You are
 pretty Christian p' V Not so easy is it for
 that young man to follow Christ. If the
 Lord did not help him hour ly hour,
 he would fail There are scores of young
 men today who would be willing to tes.
 tify that ill following Christ one does
 not always find smooth sailing. There | is a Christian girl. In her home they dc
 not like Christ. She has hard work to
 get silent place in which to say hel
 prayers. Father opposed to religion
 mother opposed to religion; brothers
 and sisters opposed to religion. The
 Christian girl does not always find il |
 Jesus. But be of good heart. As seafar
 CTS, when winds are dead ahead, by set
 ting the ship on starboard tack and brac
 ing the yards make the winds that op
 pose the course propel the ship forward
 so opposing troubles, through Christ
 veering around the bowsprit of faith i will wait you to heaven, when, if tn, F winds had been abaft, they might hay,
 rocked and sung you to sleep, and whil'
 dreaming of the destined port of heavei you c.,uld not have heard the cry O warning and would have gone crashin, into the breakers.
 No Need of Fear.
 Again, my subject teaches me tha good people sometimes get very mucl
 frightened. From the tone and manne of these disciples as they rnshed int the stern of the vessel and woke Chris up, yon know that they are fearfull, scared. And so it is now that you oftel find good people wildly agitated. "Oh P l says some Christian man, the infide { magazines, the bad newspapers, tn spiritualistic societies, the importation of so many foreign errors, the church o , God is going to be lost, the ship is goin , 10 founder! The ship is going down r . What are you frightened about? An ol , lion goes into his cavern to take sleep 2 and he lies down until his shaggy man [ covers his paws. Meanwhile tho spider 2 outside begin to spin webs oyer tn , mouth of his cavern and say, "That lio ! cannot break out through this web, ! and they keep on spinning the gossame : threads until they get the mouth of th O cavern covered over. "Now," they say g "the lion B done, the lions done." Aft . CT awhile the lion awakes and shake , himself, and he walks out from tn