Connecticut western news., 1896-01-23

out of such stuff as they are. But let them not wait for such days as pray 10 God may never come. Drawn by the sense of fairness and justice and obliga- tion, let them show their oolors. Let the redeemed of the Lord say so.
 This chapter from which I take my text mentions several classes of persons who ought to be outspoken, among them all those who go on journey. What an opportunity you have, you who spend so much of your time on rail trains or on shipboard, whether on lake or river or seal Spread the story of Gods goodness and your own redemption wherever you go. You will have many a long ride beside some one whom you will never see again, some one who is waiting for one word of rescue or con- solation. Make every rail train and steamer moving palace of saved souls. Casual conversations have harvested \ great host for God.
 There arc many Christian workers ill pulpits, in mission stations, in Sabbath schools in unbeard of places who are do- ing their best for God and without any recognitiolN They go and come, and no one cheers them. Perhaps all the reward they get is harsh criticism, or repulse, or their own fatigue. If you have ever heard of any good they have done, let them know about it.. If you find some one benefited by their aims, or their prayers. or their cheering word, go and tell them. They may be almost ready to give up their mission. They may be al- most ill despair because of the seeming lack of results. One word from you may be an ordination that will start them on the chief work of their lifetime. A Christian woman said to her pastor: My usefulness is done. do not know why my life is spared any longer, be- cause can do no good. ." Then the pas tor replied, "You do me great good ev- cry Sabbath. She asked, How do do you any good?" and he replied, "In the first place, you are always in your seat in the church, and that helps me, and in the second place you are always wide awake and alert, looking right up into my face, and that helps me, and in the third place l often see tears running down your cheeks, and that helps me" What a good thing he did not wait until su6 WaS u6du p6ltI6 u6 sdlu sOI
 Why Not Bestov Praise9
 There are hundreds of ministers who have hard work to make sermons be- cause no one expresses any appreciation. They are afraid of making him vain. The moment the benediction is pro- nounced they turn on their heels and go out. Perhaps it was subject on which he had put especial pains He sought for the right text, and then did his best to put the old thought into some new shape. He had prayed that it might go to the hearts of the people, He had added to the argument the most vivid illustra- tions he could think of He had deliver ed all with power that left him nerv- ously exhausted. Five hundred people may have been blessed by it and resolved upon higher life and nobler purposes Yet all he hears is the clank of the pew door, or the shuffiing of feet in the aisle, or some remark about the weather, the last resort of inanity. Why did not that man come mp and say frankly, You have done me good?" Why did not some woman come up and say, "I shall go home to take up the burden of life more cheerfully?" Why did not some professional man come up and say: "Thank you, dominic, for that good ad vice? I will take it. God bless you" Why did they not tell him so? have known ministers, in the nervous reac- tion that comes to some after the de- livery of a sermon with no seeming re- suit. to go home and roll on the floor in agony.
 But to make up for this lack of out spoken religion there needs to be and will be great day when, amid the SO. lemnities and grandeurs of a listening universe, God will "say so" No statis- tics can state how many mothers have rocked cradles and lowered over infan- tile sicknesses and brought up their families to manhood and womanhood and launched them upon useful and suo cessful lives, and yet never received one 'Thank you" that amounted to any thing. The daughters became queens in social life or were affianced in highest realms of prosperity; the sons took the | first honors of tho university and became | radiant in monetary or professional spheres. Now the secret of all that up- | lifted maternal influence must come out. Society did not say so; the church did not say so; the world did not say so, but on that day of all other days, the last day, God will say so.
 There are men to whom life is grind | and a conflict, hereditary tendencies to | be overcome, accidental environments to be endured, appalling opposition to be met and conquered, and they never so much as had rose pinned to their coat lapel in admiration. They never had soing dedicated to their name. They never had a book presented to them with complimentary word on the fly leaf. All they have to show for their
 lifetime battle is scars. But in the last day the story will come out, and that
 life will be put in holy and transcendent I rhythm, and their courage and persist
 ence and faith and victory will not only
 be announced but rewarded. "These are
 they that came out of great tribulation
 and had their robes washed and made
 white in the blood of the Lamb" God
 will say sol
 We miss one of the chief ideas of Q
 last judgment. We put into the picture
 the fire, and the smoke. and the earth
 quake, and the descending angels, and
 the uprising dead, but we omit to put
 into the picture that which makes the
 last judgment magnificent opportu-
 nity. We omit the fact that it is to be a
 day of glorious explanation and com
 mendation. The first justice that mil
 lions of unrewarded and unrecognized and unappreciated men and women get
 will be on that day, when services that
 never called forth so much as newspa-
 per line of finest pearl or diamond type,
 as the printers term it, shall be called
 up for coronation. That will be the day
 of enthronement for those whom the
 world called "nobodies. '" Joshua, who
 commanded the sun and moon to stand