Connecticut western news., 1895-01-24

men who got by police bribery their thousands and tens of thousands and perhaps hundreds of thousands of dol lars to go scot free, while some who were merely the cats paw and agents of bribery are struck with the lightnings of the law. It reminds me of a scene in Philadelphia when I was living there A poor woman had been arrested and tried and imprisoned for selling molasses candy on Sunday. Other lawbreakers had been allowed to go undisturbed, and the gro2shops were open on the Lords day, and the law, with its hands behind its back, walked up and down the streets declining to modest many of the offenders, but we all rose up in our righteous indignation, and calling upon all powers, visible and invisible. to help us, we declared that though the heavens fell no woman should be allowed to sell molasses candy on Sunday.
 Party snd Politics.
 A few weeks ago, after I had preached in ona of the churches in this city, man stage red up on the pulpit stairs, maudlin drunk, saying, "I am one of the reformers that were elected to high office a the last election. " got rid of that great reformer" as soon as could, but did not get rid of tho impression that man like that would cure the abominations of New York about as soon as smallpox would cure typhoid fever or a buzzsaw would render Haydn "Crea- tion" Politics in all our cities has be- hat he l between the Republican and Democratic parties is that each is worse than the other. But what nothing else in the uni verse can do the gospel can and will ac- complish. ''They shall come from the west, and for that purpose the evan gelistio batteries arc planted all along the Pacific coast, as they are planted all along the Atlantic coast. All the prai ries, all the mountains, all the valleys, all the cities are under moro or less gos- pei influence, and when we get enough faith and consecration for the work this whole American continent will cry out for God They shall come from the west !"
 The work is not so difficult as many suppose. You say, ''There' are the for eign populations. /" Yes, but many of them are Hollanders, and they were brought up to love and worship God, and it will take but little to persuade the Hollanders to adopt the religion of their forefathers. Then there are among these foreigners so many of the Scotch. They or their ancestors heard Thomas Chalmers thunder and Robert Mo Cheyne pray. The breath of God so often swept through the heather of the high lands, and the voice of God has so often sounded through tho TroSsaohs, and they all know how to sing Dundee, so that they will not have often to bo invited to accept the God of John Knox and Both we'll Bridge.
 Then there arc among these foreigners so many of tho English. They inherited the same language as we inherited-thc English in which Shakespeare drama tized, and Milton chimed his cantos, and Henry Melville gospelized, and Oliver Cromwell prorogued parliament, and Wellington commanded his eager hosts. Among these foreigners are the Swiss, and they were rocked in O cradle under the shadow of the Alps, that cathedral of the Almighty in which all tie ele- ments, snow and hail and tempest and hurricane. worship. Among these for eigners are vast host of Germans, and they feel centuries afterward the power of that unparalleled spirit who shook the earth when he trod it, and the heav- CTS when he prayed-Martin Lutheri From all nations our foreign popula- tions have come, and they arc homesick, far away from the place. of their child hood and tho graves of their ancestors, and our glorious religion presented to them aright will meet their needs and fill their souls and kindle their enthusi asm. They shall come from amid the wheat sheaves of Dakota, and from the ore beds of Wyoming, and from the sill yer mines of Nevada, and from the gold en gulches of Colorado. and from the banks of the Platte, and the Oregon. and tho Sacramento, and the Columbia. ''They shall come from the west.
 Invited to Sit Down.
 But what will they do after they come? Here is something gloriously con
 
 "They shall come from the east, and the west, and the north, and the south. and shall sit down. Oh, this is Q tired worldl Tho most of people are kept on the run all their lifetime Business keeps them on the run. Trouble keeps them on tho run. Rivalries of life keep them on the run. They are running from dis aster. They are running for reward. And those who run the fastest and run the longest seem best to succeed. But my text suggests restful posture for all Gods children, for all those who for a lifetime have been on the run. "'They shall sit down" Why run any longer When man gets heaven, what moro can he get? "They shall sit down. Not alone, but picked companionship of the universe; not embarrassed, though se- raph should sit down on one side of you and an archangel on the other.
 There is that mother who, through all the years of infancy and childhood, was kept running amid sick trundle beds, now to shake up the pillow for that faxen head, and now to give drink to those parcbed lips, and now to hush the frightened dream of little one, and when there was one less of the children, because the great lover of children had lifted one out of the croup into the easy breathing of celestial atmosphere, tho mother putting all the more anxious care on those who were left, so weary Of arm and foot and back and head, so often crying out: "I am so tired! I am so tiredr' Her work done, she shall sit down, and that business man for 30, 40, 50 years has kept on the run, not urged by selfshness, but for the purpose of achieving livelihood for the household. On the run from store to store, or from factory to factory, meeting this loss and discovering that inaccuraoy and suffer ing betrayal or disappointment, never more to be cheated or perplexed or exas- perated, he shall sit down, not in great armchair of heaven, for the rockers of