Connecticut western news., 1896-09-24

came to pardon all your sins and to heal all your sorrow. To prove that I am a supernatural being, have just de- seconded from the clouds. Do you believe me, and do you believe me now" Why, all the telegraph stations of the earth would be crowded as none of them were ever crowded just after shipwreok.
 I tell you all these things to show you it Is not among the impossibilities or even the improbabilities that Christ will conquer the whole earth, and do it instanter, when the time comes. There are foretokenings in the air. Something great is going to happen. do not think that Jupiter Is going to run us down, or that the axle of the world is going to break. but mean something great for the worlds blessing and not for the worlds damage is going to happen. I think the world has had it hard enough. Enough the famines and plaques. Enough the Asiatio oholeras. Enough the wars Enough the shipwreoks. Enough the oonfagrations. think our world could stand right well a prooes- sion of prosperities and triumphs. Bet ter be on the lookout. Better have your observatories open toward the heavens and the lenses of your most powerful telescopes we'll polished. Better have all your Leyden jars ready for some new pulsation of might influence. Better have new fonts of type in your printing offices to set up some astounding good news Better have some new banner that has never been carried ready for sudden processiona Better have the ball lo in hnr frxu and rope within reach, that you may ring out the marriage of the Kings Son. Cleanse all your oourthouses, for the Judge of all the earth may appear. Let all your legislative halls be gilded for the Great Lawgiver may be about to come. Drive off the thrones of despotism all the occupants, for the King of heav- en and earth may be about to reign. The darkness of the night is blooming and whitening into the lilies of morning cloud and the lilies reckoning into the roses of stronger day-fit garlands, whether white or red, for him on whose head are many crowns. ''The day is st hand.
 From Desert to Garden.
 One more ray of the dawn see in facts chronological and mathematical. Come now, do not let us do another stroke of work until we have settled one matter. What is going to be the final issue of this great contest between sin and righteousness? Which is going to prove himself the stronger, God or Diabolus? Is this world going to be all garden or all desertf Now, let us have that matter settled. If we believe Isaiah and Ezekiel and Hosea and Micah and Malachi and John and Peter and Paul and the Lord himself. we believe that it is going to be all garden. But let us have it settled. Let us know whether we are working on toward a success or toward 8 dead failure. If there is child in your house sick and you are sure he is going to get well, you sym pathize with present pains, but all the foreboding is gone. If you are in a cy- clone off the Florida coast and the cap- tain assures you the vessel is stanch, and the winds are changing for better quarter, and he is sure he will bring you safe into the harbor, you patiently submit to present distress with the thought of safe arrival. Now want to know whether we arc coming on toward dismay, darkness and defeat or on to- ward light and blessedness You and believe the latter, and if SO every year we spend is one year subtracted from the worlds woe, and every event that passes, whether bright or dark, brings us one event nearer a happy ,oonsum- nation. and by all that is ine1nrable in chronology and mathematics commend you to good cheer and courage. If there is anything in arithmetic. If you sub tract two from five and leave three, then by every rolling sun we are coming on toward magnificent terminus Then every winter passed is one severity less for our poor world. Then every summer gone by brings us nearer unfading arboresoenoe. Put your algebra down on the top of your Bible and rejoice.
 If 1t is nearer morning at 8 o'clock than it is at 9, if it Is nearer morning at 4 o'clock than 1t Is at 8, then we are nearer the dawn of the worlds deliver ance. Gods clock seems to go very slowly, but the pendulum swings, and the hands move, and it will yet strike noon. The sun and the moon stood still once. They will never stand still again
 
 arithmetic as we'll as your Bible, you must believe we are, nearer the dawn. ''The day is at hand. "
 Physical and Spiritual.
 There is class of phenomena which makes me think that the spiritual and heavenly world may after awhile make a demonstration in this world which will bring all moral and spiritual things to a climax. Now, I am no spiritualist. but every intelligent man has noticed that there are strange and mysterious things which indicate to him that perhaps the spiritual world is not SO far off as sometimes we oonjeo- ture, and that after awhile from the spiritual and heavenly world there may be demonstration upon our world for its betterment We call 1t magnetism, or we call 1t mesmerism, or we oall 1t electricity, because we want some term to cover up our ignorance. I do not know what 1t is. Inever heard an audi ble voice from the other world am persuaded of this, however: That the veil between this world and the next is getting thinner and thinner and that perhaps after awhile, at the call of God mot at the call of the Davenport brothers or Andrew Jackson Davis some of the old Soriptural warriors, some of the spirits of other days mighty for Coda Joshua, or a Caleb, or a David, or Paul-may come down and help us in the battle against unright- eousness. Oh, how I would like to have them here-him of the Red sea, him of the valley of Aialon. him of Mars hilll English history says that Robert Clayton of the English cavalry at the close of the war bought up all the old cavalry horses lest they should be turned out to drudgery and hard work and bought piece of ground at Knaves- mire heath and turned out these old warhorses into the thickest and richest pasture to spend the rest of their days