Connecticut western news., 1896-04-16

is an inseparable connection between
 all events however remote. The uni
 verse is only one thought of God Those
 things which seemed fragmentary and
 isolated are only different parts of that
 great thought How far apart seemed
 these two events-Joseph sold to the
 Arabian merchants and his rulership of
 Egypt-yet you see in what a mysterious
 way God connected the two into one
 plan So the events are linked together.
 You who are aged men look back and
 group together a thousand things in
 your life that once seemed isolated. One
 undivided chain of events reaches from
 the garden of Eden to the cross of
 Calvary, and thus up to the kingdom of
 heaven There is a relation between the
 smallest insect that huns in the sum-
 mer air and the archangel on his throne.
 God can trace direct ancestral line
 from the blue jay that this spring will
 build its nest in the tree behind the
 house to some one of the flock of birds
 window, with whir and dash of
 bright wings, went out to sing over
 Mount Ararat. The tulips that bloom
 in the garden this spring were nursed
 by the snowfiakes. The farthest star on
 one side of the universe could not look
 toward the farthest star on the. other
 side of the universe and say, "You are
 no relation to me, for from that bright
 orb voice of light would ring across
 the heavens responding, ''Yes, yes, we
 are sisters. Nothing in God s universe
 swings at loose ends Accidents are only
 Gods way of turning leaf ill the book
 of his eternal decrees. From our cradle
 to our grave there is path all marked
 out. Each event in our life is connected
 with every other event in our life. Oul
 losses may be the most direct road to
 our gain. Our defeat and our victory are twin brothers.
 The whole direction of your life was changed by something which at the time seemed to you trifling, while some oc. currence which seemed tremendous af fected you but little. Gods plans ar. magnificent beyond all comprehension. He molds us and turns and directs us, and we know it not Thousands of years are to him as the flight of shuttle, The most terrific occurrence does not make God tremble. The most trium- phant achievement does not lift him in to rapture. That one great thought oi God goes out through the centuries, and
 nations rise and fall, andseras pass, and the world changes, but God still keeps
 the undivided mastery, linking event tt event and century to century. To God they are all one event, one history, one plan, one development, one system. Great and marvellous are thy works,
 Lord God Almighty Twas years ago in New Orleans at the exposition rooms, when a telegram was sent to the presi. dent of the United States, at Washing ton, and we waited some 15 or 20 min. utes, and then the presidents answer came back, and then the presiding off cer waved his handkerchief, and the sig nal was sent to Washington that we
 were ready to have the machinery of the exposition started, and the president put
 his finger on the electric button, and in.
 stantly the great Corliss wheel began tc move, rumbling, rumbling, rolling, roll
 ing. It was overwhelming, and l5, 00C people clapped and shouted Just one finger at Washington started that vast machinery, hundreds and hundreds of
 miles away, and I thought then. as ] think now. that men sometimes toucE influences that respond in the far dis tance, 40 years from now, 50 years from now, l, ,000 years from now, ,000,-
 900 years from now-one touch sound
 ing through the ages. -..r
 Provi.ion For the Future.
 We also learn from this story the pro-
 priety of laying up for the future. Dur ing the seven years of plenty Joseph prepared for the famine, and when 1t | came he had crowded storehouse. The | life of most men in a worldly respect is | divided into years of plenty and famine. | It is seldom that any man passes through life without at least seven years | of plenty. During those seven years | your business bears a rich harvest. You | scarcely know where all the money | comes from, it comes so fast. Every
 bargain you make seems to turn into
 gold. You contract few bad debts You are astonished with large dividends.
 You invest more and more capital You wonder how men can be content with | small business, gathering in only a | few hundred dollars while you reap ! your thousands Those are the seven years of plenty. Now Joseph has time
 to prepare for the threatened famine, for
 to almost every man there do come sev- | en years of famine. You will be sick, you will be unfortunate, you will be | defrauded, there will be hard times, you will be disappointed, and if you
 have no storehouse upon which to fall
 back you may be famine struck We
 have no admiration for this denying | oneself all personal comfort and lux
 ury for the mere pleasure of hoarding up, this grasping, grasping for the mere I pleasure of seeing how large pile you
 can get, this always being poor because as soon as a dollar comes in it is sent | put to see if it can find another dollar, 90 that it can carry it home on its back We have a contempt for all those things, but there is an intelligent and noble | minded forecast which we love to see in men who have families and kindred depending apon them for the blessings of education and home. God sends 1s to
 the insects for lesson, which, while
 they do not stint themselves in the
 present, do not forget their duty to fore
 cast the future. ''Go to the ant, thou | sluggard Consider her ways, and be
 wise, which, having no guide, overseer
 or ruler, provideth her meat in the sum-
 mer and gathereth her food in the har- yest''
 Now, there are two ways of laying up
 money. One of these is to put it in stock
 and deposit it in bank and invest it on
 bond and mortgage. The other way to
 lay up money is giving it away. He is the safest who makes both of these in- vestments. There are in this house men
 who if they lose every dollar they have
 in the world would be millionsires for
 eternity. They made ae spiritual in-
 vestment. But the man who devotes