Connecticut western news., 1896-03-05


 Ing happily foeethsr This win b. my tfsilyf prayer, knowtn0 that he has saia, Come unto me, ali ys that labor and sxs heavy iaden. and will give you rests' From your loving wife,
 MART
 "And so wandered on and wan iered on" says that man., until one night I passed Methodist meeting house, and I said to myself, 'I'll go in and see what they are doing, and got so the door, and they were singing:
 ".Ali may come, whoever will
 This man receives poor sinners stilh
 And dropped right there where was, and said, God have mercy r and he had mercy on me. My home is re- stored, my wife sings all day long dur. ing work, my children come out a long way to greet me home, and my house 1 hold is little heaven. Twill tell you what did all this for me It was the truth that this day you proclaim, On him the Lord hath laid the iniguity of us all. Wonder Is a woman who would say, I wandered off from my fathers house, heard the storm that pelts on a lost soul My feet were blistered on the hot rocks. I went on and on, thinking that no one cared for my soul. when one night Jesus met me, and he said, Poor thing, go homei Your father is waiting for you, your mother is waiting for you. Go home, poor thingi' And, sir, was too weak to pray, and I was too weak to repent, but just cried out-I sobbed out my sins and my sorrows oh the shoulders of him of whom it is said, the Lord hath laid on him the iniquity of us all '"
 Human Sympathy.
 ., There Is a young man who would say 1T had a Christian bringing up; Icalne from the country to city life; l started we'll; had good position-a good commercial position-but one night at the theater Imet some young men who did me no good. They dragged me all through the sewers of iniqnity. and lost my morals, and lost my position. and was shabby and wretched. I was going down the street, thinking that no one cared for me, when @ young man tapped me on the shoulder and said: George, come with me, and will do you good. looked athim to see wheth- CT he was joking or not saw he was in earnest, and said, What do you mean. sirp We'll, he replied, I mean 4 that if you will come to the meeting to- night will be very glad to introduce you. will meet you at the door. Will you come?' Said I, I will. went to the place where I was tarrying. I fixed myself up as we'll as could. button ed my coat over ragged vest. and went to the door of she church. and the ~,,x, ,oA nd xro f, as went in heard an old man praying and he looked so much like my father I sobbed right out, and they were all around. so kind and so sympathetic, that just there gave my heart to God, and I know that what you say Is true; know it in my own experience. "On him the Lord hath laid the iniquity of us all. ;" Oh. my brother. without stop ping to look whether your hand trem- bles or not, without stopping to look whether your hand Is bloated with sin or not, put it in my hand and let me give you one warm, brotherly, Christian grip and invite you right up to the heart, to the compassion, to the sympa thy, to the pardon of him on whom the Lord hath laid the iniquity of us all Throw away your sins. Garry them no longer. proclaim emancipation to all who are bound. pardon for all sin and eternal life for all the dead.
 .T Came From Cazv~py..
 Some one comes here today and stand aside. He comes up three steps. He comes to this place. must stand aside. Taking that place he spreads ah oIo 1a1 You see his feet; they were bruised. He pulls aside the robe and shows you his wounded heart. I say, "Art thou wearys" "Yes," he says, "weary with the worlds woe" I say, Whence comest thou?'' He says, ."I came from Calvary I say. "Who comes with thee?' He says, "No one; I have trod- den the winepress alone." say, Why comest thou here?" "Oh," be says, "I came here to carry all the sins and sorrows of the peoplep' And he kneels He says, "Put on my shoulders all the sorrows and all the sins" And. con- scious of my own sins first, take them and p1t them on the shoulders of the Son Sk God. say, "Canst thou bear any more. O Christi" He says, "Yes, more" And gather up the sins of all those who serve at these altars, the off, cers of the church of Jesus Christi gather up all their sins and put them on Christ's shoulders, and say, '1Canst thou bear any mores" He says, "Yes, more" Then gather up all the sins of hundred people in this house and l put them on the shoulders of Christ. and I say. "Canst thou bear moreP' He says, "Yea, more." And I gather up all the sins of this assembly and put them on the shoulders of the Son of God, and I say, "Canst thou bear themf' "Yea," he says, "more." But he is departing. Clear the way for him, the Son of God. Open the door and let him pass out. He is carrying our sins and bearing them away. We shall never see them again He throws them down into the abysm, and you hear the long reverberating echo of their fall. "On him the Lord hath laid the iniquity of us all. |" Will you let him take your sins today? or, do you say. "I will take charge of them myself, will fight my own battles, will risk eternity on my own account2' I know not how near some of you have como to crossing the line.
 A clergyman said in his pulpit one Sabbath, Before next Saturday night one of this audience will have passed out of ife." A gentleman said to an- other seated next to him: "I don't be- heve 1t. I mean to watch, and if it doesn't confe true by next Saturday night I shall tell that clergyman his falsehood. The man seated next to him said. Perhaps it will be yourself. "Oh, no," the other replied. "I shah live to be an old man." That night he breathed his last. Today the Saviour calls. All may come. God never pushes aman of. God never destroys anybody. The man jumps of, be jumps of. It is ixao-aosul az.;oiao if