Connecticut western news., 1895-08-08

Der her nowsas she sat in cap and spec tacles reading her Bible Sunday after noon What good advice she used to give you How black and terrible the hole in the ground looked to you when with two ropes they let her down to rest in the graveyard An, l think from your looks that am on the right track. Awake, O sleeper, and call upon thy mothers God.
 But perhaps both your father and mother were depraved. Perhaps your cradle was rocked by sin and shame, and it is a wonder that from such a starting you have come to respectabil- ity. Then don't call upon the God of either of your parents, I beg of you.
 The God of Thy Children.
 But you have children. You know God kindled those bright eyes and rounded those healthy limbs and set beating within their breast an immor- tality. Perhaps in the belief that some how it would be for the best you have taught them to say an evening prayer, and when they kneel beside you and fold their little hands and look up, their faces all innocence and love, you know that there is God somewhere about in the room.
 I think I am on the right track at last. Awake, O sleeper, and call upon the God of thy childrenl May he set these little ones to pulling at thy heart until they charm thee to the same God to whom tonight they will say their lit tie prayers!
 p,,t al n1o of and women are unmoved by the fact that their father had a God that their mother had God, and their children have God, but they have no God. All the divine goodness for nothing All warning for nothing. They are sound asleep in the side of the ship, though the sea and sky are in mad wrestle Many years ago man, leaving his | family in Massachusetts, sailed from l Boston to China to trade there. On the | coast of China in the midst of a night of | storm he made shipwreck. The adven | turer was washed up on the beach sense- less-all his money gone. He had to beg in the streets of Canton to keep from starving. For two years there was no | communication between himself and family. They supposed him dead. He knew not but that his family were dead. | He had gone out as a captain. He was | too proud to come back as private sail | or. But after awhile he choked down | his pride and sailed for Boston. Arriv | ing there, he took an evening train for the center of the state, where he had left his family. Taking the stage from | the depot and riding score of miles, he | got home. He says that, going mp in front of the cottage in tho bright moon | light, the place looked to him like heav- ell. He rapped on the window, and the affrighted servant let him in. He went to the room where his wife and child were sleeping He did not dare to wake them for fear of the shock Bending over to kiss his child's cheek, a tear fell upon the wife's face, and she wakened, and he said, "Mary !'' and she knew his voice, and there was an indescribable scene of welcome and joy and thanksgiv- ing to God.
 Today I know that many of you are sea tossed and driven by sin i'll a worse storm than that which came down on the coast of China, and yet pray God that you may, like the sailor, live to get home. In the house of many mansions your friends arc waiting to meet you. They are wondering why you do not come. Escaped from the shipwrecks of earth, may you at last go in It will be bright night-a very bright night as you put your thumb on the latch of that door, Once in you will find the old fam fly faces sweeter than when you last saw them, and there it will be found that he who was your fathers God, and your nsother's God, and your children's God, is your own most blessed Redeem CT, to whom be glory and dominion throughout all ages, world without end. | Amen