Connecticut western news., 1896-04-30

It came foamlng, flashing, roaring down, until sunlight and wave in gleesome wrestle tumbled at my feet So it is with the church of God. Everything comes from above-pardon from above, joy from above, adoption from above, sanctification from above.
 Harkl I hear the latch of the garden gate, and look to see who is coming. hear the voice of Christ, 1T am come into my garden" I say "Come in, O Jesus! We have been waiting for thee Walk all through the paths. Look at the flowers, look at the fruit; pluck that which thou wilt for myself. Jesus comes into the garden and up to that old man and touches him, and says :: Almost home, father; not many more aches for thee. will never leave thee. Take courage little longer, and will steady thy tottering steps, and l will soothe thy troubles and give thee rest. Courage, old man." Then Christ goes up another garden path, and he comes to soul in trouble and says: "Peacel All is well. I have seen thy tears. have heard thy prayer. The sun shall not smite thee by day nor the moon by night The Lord shall preserve thee from all evil. He will preserve thy soul Courage, O troubled spiritp
 PluckinE the Flowers.
 Then I see Jesus going up another garden path, and I see great excitement among the leaves, and hasten up that garden path to see what Jesus is doing there, and lol he is breaking off flowers sharp and clean from the stem, and I say, "Stop, Jesus; don't kill those beau tiful flowers" He turns to me and says 'I have come into my garden to gather lilies, and I mean to take these up to @ higher terrace, for the garden around my palace, and there will plant them, and in better soil and in better air they shall put forth brighter leaves and sweet CT redolence, and no frost shall touch them forever. And I looked up into his face and said Well, it is his garden, and he has right to do what he will with it. Thy will be doner' the hardest prayer ever man made.
 | It has seemed as if Jesus Christ took the best; from many of your households | the best one is gone. You know that she was too good for this world; she was the gentlest in her ways, the deepest in | her affections, and when at last the sick ness came you had no faith in medicines You knew that the hour of parting had come, and when, through the rich grace of the Lord Jesus Christ, you surrender | ed that treasure you said: Lord Jesus, | take it. It is the best we have; take it Thou art worthyp The others in the ! NS mold She was of the finest. The heaven of your little ones will not be fairly begun until you get there. All the kindnesses shown them by i'm | mortals will not make them forget you. | There they are, the radiant throngs that went out from your homes. I throw 8 kiss to the sweet darlings. They are all we'll now in the palace. The crippled child has sound foot now. A little lame child says, ''Ma, will be lame in heaven?" "No, my darling; you won t be lame in heaven" A little sick child says, "Ma, will I be sick in heaven2" "No, my dear; you won't be sick in heaven. A little blind child says, "Ma, will be blind in heaven?'' "No, my dear; you won't be blind in heaven | They are all well there.
 | I notice that the fine gardens some times have high fences around them and you cannot get in. It is so with a king 8 garden. The only glimpse you ever get of such garden is when the king rides out in his splendid carriage. It is not so with this garden, this Kings garden. throw wide open the gate and tell you all to come in. No monopoly in religion. Whosoever will, may. Choose now be- | tween 8 desert and garden. Many of you have tried the garden of this world < delight. You have found it has been a chagrin. So it was with Theodore Hook. He made all the world laugh. He makes us laugh now when we read his poems, but he could not make his own heari laugh. While in the midst of his fes- tivities he confronted looking glass, and he saw himself and said: "There that is true. look just as I am-dont up in body, mind and purse. So it wal of Shenstone, of whose garden I tolC you at the beginning of my sermon. H. sat down amid those bowers and said 1T have lost my road to happiness. am angry and envious and frantic, ant despise everything around me, just as i becomes madman to dol"
 An Invitation.
 O ye weary souls, come into Christi garden today and pluck little hearts ease. Christ is the only rest and tn, only pardon for perturbed spirit D. you not think your chance has almos come? You men and women who have been waiting year after year for som, good opportunity in which to accep Christ, but have postponed it 5, 10, 20 80 years-do you not feel as if now you hour of deliverance and pardon and sal vation had come? O man, what grudg, hast thou against thy poor soul that thoI wilt not let it be saved? feel as if sal vation must come today in some of you, hearts.
 Some years ago vessel struck on tn, rocks They had only one lifeboat. II that lifeboat the passengers and crev were getting ashore. The vessel hat foundered and was sinking deeper ant deeper, and that one boat could not talk the passengers very swiftly. A little gir stood on the deck waiting for her tur1 to get into the boat The boat came ant went. came and went, but her turn di, not seem to come. After awhile sh could wait no longer, and she leaped ol the taffrail and then sprang into tn sea, crying to the boatman; tSave m nextl Save me nextp' Oh, how man, have gone ashore into Gods mercy, an, yet you are clinging to the wreck of sin Others have accepted the pardon o Christi but you are in peril. Why no this moment make rush for your i'm mortal rescue, crying until Jesus shal hear you and heaven and earth rim, with the cry: "Save me nexti Save m next" Now is the day of salvation Nowl Nowi
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