Connecticut western news., 1896-05-07

Handel and Haydn and Mozart and Charles Wesley and Thomas Hastings and Bradbury have their homes, out of some snatch of an earthly oratorio or hymn transported with the composer.
 We will want to see Revival terrace.
 where Whitefield and Nettleton and Payson and Rowland Hill and Charles Kinney and other giants of soul reaping
 are resting from their almost supernat-
 ural labors, their doors thronged with converts just arrived, coming to report themselves.
 But brilliant as the sunset and like
 the leaves for number are the celestial homes yet to be awarded when Christ to you and millions of others shall di- vide the spoil What do you want there? You shall have it. An orchard? There
 it is-12 manner of fruits. and fruit ev- cry month. Do you want river scenery2 Take your choice on the banks of the
 river, in longer, wider, deeper roll than Danube or Amazon or Mississippi, if
 mingled in one, and emptying into the sea of glass, mingled with fire. Do you want your kindred back again? Go out and meet your father and mother, with out the staff or the stoop, and your chil- dren in dance of immortal glee. Do you want throne? Select it from the million furnished elevations. Do you want a crown? Pick it out of that noun tain of diamonded coronets. Do you want your old church friends of earth around you? Begin to hum an old re- vival tune, and they will flock from all quarters to revel with you in sacred rem iniscence. All the earth for those who are here on earth at the time of conti- mental and planetary distribution and all the heavens for those who are there.
 Conspicuous Souls.
 That heavenly distribution of spells will be a surprise to many. Here enters heaven the soul of a man who took up great deal of room in the church on earth, but sacrificed little, and among his good works selfishness was evident. He just crowds through the shining gate, but it's very tight squeeze, so that the doorkeeper has to pull hard to get him in, and this man expects half of heaven for his share of trophies, and he would like a monopoly of all its splendor and to purchase lots in the suburbs, so that he could get advantage of the growth of, the city. Well, little by little he gets grace of heart, just enough to get him through, and to him is given second
 hand crown which one of the saints wore at the start, but exchanged for a brighter one as he went on from glory to glory. And he is put in an old house once occupied by an angel who was hurl
 ed out of heaven at the time of satan's rebellion.
 Right after him comes a soul that makes great stir among the celestials, and the angels rush to the scene, each bringing to her a dazzling coronet. Who is she? Over what realm on earth was she queen? In what great Dusseldorf festival was she the cantatrice? Neither She was an invalid who never left her room for 20 years, but she was strong in prayer, and she prayed down revival after revival and pentecost after pente- cost upon the churches and with her pale hand she knit many mitten or tippet for the poor, and with her con- trivances she added joy to many holi- day festival. and now with those thin hands so strong for kindness and with those white lips so strong for supplica- ton she has won coronation and in- thronement and jubilee. And Christ said to the angels who have brought each erowa for the glorified invalid: sNo, not these. They are not good enough. But in the jeweled vase at the right hand side of my throne there is one that have been preparing for her many a year, and for her every pang have set an amethyst, and for her every good deed I have set pearl Fetch it now and fulfill the promise I gave her long ago in the sickroom, Be thou faithful unto death, and will give thee a crown.
 But notice that there is only one Be ing in the universe who can and will distribute the trophies of earth and heaven. It is the Divine Warrior, the Commander In Chief of the Centuries, the Champion of Ages, the Universal Conqueror. the Son of God, Jesus You will take the spells from his hand or never take them at all Have his friend ship and you may defy all time and l all eternity, but without it you are pauper, though you had universe at | your command. We are told in Revela- l tion that Jacobs 12 sons were so hon. ored as to have the 12 gates of heaven named after them-over one gate of heaven Naphtali, over another gate of heaven Issachar, over another Dan, over 1 another Cad, over another Zebulon, over another Judah, and so on. But | Christ's name is written over all the gates and on every panel of the gates, and have his help, his pardon, his inter cession, his atonement, must or be a forlorn wretch forever. My Lord and my God, make me, and all who hear me | this day, and all to whom these words shall come, thy repentant, believing, sworn, consecrated and ransomed fol- | lowers foreverl
 The Final Triumph.
 What a day it will bel This entire | assemblage would rise to its feet if you could realize it, the day in which Christ
 shall, in fulfillment of my text, divide
 the spoil It was a great day when l Queen Victoria, in the midst of the Cri-
 mean war, distributed medals to the sol diers who had come home sick and | wounded. At the Horse guards, in pres
 ence of the royal family, the injured | men were carried in or came on crutches Colonel Trowbridge, who lost both
 feet at Inkermann, and Captain Saver,
 who had the ankle joint of his right leg
 shot off at Alma, and Captain Cure,
 his disabled limb supported by soldier,
 and others maimed and disfgured and
 exhausted-and with her own hand the | queen gave each the Crimean medal
 And what triumphant days for those sol
 diers when, farther on, they received
 the French medal. with the imperial
 eagle, and the Turkish medal. with it's
 representation of four dags-France,
 Turkey, England and Sardinia-and be-