Connecticut western news., 1896-12-17

realize that God has furnished for her crown, and that after she has got through the fatiguing journey from Tir- zah to Shiloh, and from Shiloh back to Firzah, there will be throne of royalty on wlioh she shall rest forever. Glory yelled, affluence hidden, eternal rap lures hushed up, queen in mask, a princess in disguisel
 When you think of queen, you do not think of Catherine of Russia or Ma ria Theresa of Austria or Mary, queen of Scots When you think of queen, you think of plain woman who sat op- posite your father at the table or walked with him down the path of life arm in arm-sometimes to the Thanksgiving banquet, sometimes to the grave, but always side by side, soothing your little sorrows and adjusting your little quar- rels, listening to your evening prayer, toiling with the needle or at the spin- ming wheel and on cold nights tucking you up snug and warm, and then on that dark day when she lay a-dying, putting those thin hands that had toiled for you so long-putting them together in dying prayer commenting you to that God in whom she had taught you to trust. Oh, she was the queen-she was the queenl You cannot think of her now without having the deepest emo- tions of your soul stirred, and you feel as if you could cry as though you were now sitting in infancy on her lap, and if you call her back to speak your name with the tenderness with which she once spoke, you would be willing now t. throw yourself on the sod that covers her grave, crying, Mother, motherl" An, she was queenl Your father knew it. You knew it. She was the queen, but the quee-. in disguise. The world did not recognize it.
 A Grand Disguise.
 But there was a grander disguising. The favorite of great house looked out of the window of his palace and he saw that the people were carrying heavy burdens and that some of them were hob bling on crutches, and he saw some ly ing at the gate exhibiting their sores, and then he heard their lamentation and he said, 1T will just put on the clothes of those poor people, and Twill go dowI and see what their sorrows are, and will sympathize with them, and I will be one of them, and will help them"
 Well, the day came for him to start. The lords of the land came to see him of. All who could sing joined In the parting song. which shook the hills and woke up the shepherds. The first few nights he has been sleeping with the hostlers and the camel drivers, for no one knew there was king in town. He went among the doctors of the law, as- founding them, for, without any doc tors gown, he knew more law than the doctors. He fished with the fishermen, he smote with his own hammer in the carpenters shop, he ate raw corn out of the field, he fried fish on the banks of Gennesaret. He was howled at by crazy people in the tombs, he was splashed of the surf of the sea, pilgrim without any pillow, sick man without any medicament, a mourner with no sym his tears Disguise completel I know that occasionally his divine royalty flashed out, as when in the storm on Galilee, as in the red wine at the we'd ding banquet, as when he freed the shackled demoniao of Gadara, as when he turned whole school of fish into the net of the discouraged boatmen, as when he throbbed life into the shriveled arm of the paralytic; but for the most part he was in disguise. No one saw the kings jewels in his sandal; no one saw ho al roho in, bio v,loir cpot. ,,a ono knew that that shelterless Christ owned all the mansions in which the hierarchs of heaven had their habitation; none knew that that hungered Christ owned all the olive groves and all the harvests which shook their gold on the hills of Palestine; no one knew that he who said, II thirstp' poured the Euphrates out of his own chalice; no one knew that the ocean lay in the palm of his hand like @ dewdrop in the vase of lily; no one knew that the stars and moons and suns and galaxies and con- stellations that marched on age after age were. as compared with his life- time, the sparkle of frefly on sum- mer night; no one knew that the sun in midheaven was only the shadow of his throne; no one knew that his crown of universal dominion was covered up with bunch of thorns Omnipotence sheath ed in human body, omniscienoe hid den in human eye, infinite love beat ing in a human heart, everlasting har- monies subdued into a human voice, royalty en masque, grandeurs of heaven in earthly disguisel
 
 My subject also impresses me with how people put on masks and how the Lord tears them off. It was terrible moment in the history of this woman of Tirzah when the prophet aocosted her, practically saying: 'I know who you are. You cannot cheat me. You cannot impose upon me. Why feignest thou myself to be anotherf" She had right to ask for the restoration of her son. She had no right to practice that falsehood. It is never right to do wrong. Some times you may be able to conceal an af- fair. It is not necessary to tell every thing. There is natural pressure to the lips which seems to indicate that silence sometimes is right, but for double deal ing, for moral shuffling. for counterfeit and for sham God has nothing but anathema and exposure. He will tear of the lie. He will rip up the empiricism. He will scatter the ambusoade. There are people who are just ready to be duped. They seem to be waiting to be deceived. They believe in ghosts. They saw one themselves once. They heard something strange in an uninhabited house. Going along the road one night, something approached them in white and crossed the road. They would think it very disastrous to count the number of carriages at a funeral. They heard in a neighbours house something that DOT tended death in the family. They say 1t is sure sign of evil if a bat fly into a room on a summer night or they see A. 119s .L