Connecticut western news., 1896-06-11
AN ILL EAST WIND.
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 wAsfINeroN, June 7,-tn his dis ,oarse today Rev. Dr. TalmaSe pointed ut the consultations which the religion lf Christ extends to all who are in trou- hle and specially to such as arc in deep misfortune or suffering from hereave- mene He chose as his text Exodus x. IS, And the Lord brought an east wind upon the land all that day and all that night"
 The reference here is not to cyclone. but to the long continued blowing of the wind from an anhcalthful quarter. The north wind Is bracing, the south wind is relaxing. but the east wind is irritat- ing and full of threat Eighteen times does the Bible speak against the east wind Moses describes the thin ears blasted by the east wind. The psalmist describes the hreaking of the ships of Txrshish by the east wind The locusts that plagued Egypt were borne in on the east wind The gourd that sheltered Jonah was shattered by the east wind. and in all the 6. 900 summers. autumns, winters springs. of the worlds exist ence the worst wind that ever blew is the east wind. Now. if God would only give Us climate of perpetual nor west CT. how genial and kind and placid and industrious Christians we would all bel But it takes almighty grace to be what hA No, . el>.As ST
 Under the chilling and wet wing of the east wind the most of the worlds yillainies, frauds. outrages. suicides and murders have been matched out think if you should keep meteorologi- cal history of the days of the year and put right beside it the criminal record of the country you would find that thoee were the best days for public nor als which were under the north or west wind, and that those were the worst days for public morals which were un- der the east wind The points of the cunpan have more to do with the worlds morals and the church's piety than you have yet suspected. Rev. Dr. Archibald Alexander. eminent for learn ing and for consecration. when asked by one of his students at Princeton whether he always had full assurance of faith. replied. "Yes ercept when the wind blows from the east. !" Dr. Francia. dio- tAtor of Paraguay, when the wind was from the cast. made oppressive enact ments for the people. but when the weather changed repented him of the cruelties, repealed the enactments and was in good humor with all the world.
 Climatic Cha.ges-
 Before Iovertake the main thought of my subject I want to tell Christian people they ought to be obeervant of climAticsl changes Be on your guard when the wind blows from the east There arc certain styles of temptations that you cannot endure under certain styles of weather. When the wind blows from tho cost, if you are of a nervous temperament SO not among exasperat- ing people. try not to settle bad debts, do not try to settle old disputes, do not talk with . bigot on religion, do not go among those people who delight in say ing irritating things, do not try to collect funds for . charitable institution. do nos try to answer an insulting letter. If these things must be done, do them when the wind is from the north, or the south- or the west. but not when the wind is from the east
 You say that men and women ought not to be so sensitive and nervous ad- init it. but am not talking about what the world ought to be. I am talking about what the world is While there are persons whose disposition does not seem to be affected by changes in the att mosphere. nine out of ten are nightly played upon by such influences O Christian manl under such circum- stances do not write hard things against yourself. do not get worried about your huctuating experience. You are to re- member that the barometer in your soul is only answering the barometer of the weather. Instead of sitting down and being discouraged and saying, II am not . Christian because don't feel ex- hilarant." get up and look out of the window and see the weather vane point ing in the wrong quarter, and then say !; ''Get thee behind me, satan, thou prince of the power of the air; get out of my house. get out of my hears thou demon of darkness horsed on the east wind Awayr However good and great you may he in the Christian life, your soul will never be independent of physical condition feel I am uttering a most practical. useful truth here, one that may give relief to great many Chris Sans who are worried and Respondent at tinea
 Dr. Rush. . monarch in medicine, after curing hundreds of cases of mental depression. himself fell sick and lost his religious hope. and he would not believe his pastor when the pastor told him that his spiritual depression was only 8 consequence of physical depression An drew Fuller. Thomas Scott William Cowper, Thomas Boston. David Brain erd. Philipp MelaDchthon were mighty men for God. but all of them illustra- tions of the fact that man soul is not independent of his physical health An eminent physician gave as his opinion that no man ever died greatly tri- umphant death whose disease was below the diaphragm. Stackhouse, the learned Christian commentator, says he does not think Sanl was insane when David played the harp before him, but it was hypochondria coming from infiamma- tion of the liver. Oh. how many good people have been mistaken in regard to their religious hope, not taking these things into consideration.
 The dean of Carlisle. one of the best men that ever lived. and one of the most useful. sat down and wrote Though I have endeayored to discharge my duty as well as could, yet sadness and melancholy of heart stick close by and increase upon me. I tell nobody, but I am very much sunk indeed, and l wish could have the relief of weeping as used to My days are exceedingly dark and distressing. In a word, Al mighty God seems to hide his face, and I intrust the secret hardly to any earthly being. I know not what will become of ,z leol nf