Connecticut western news., 1896-02-27


 only 26 people escaped. By one shake of the world at Lisbon in five minutes 80, GOO perished. and 300. 000 before the earth stopped rocking A mountain falls in Switzerland, burying the village of Goldau. A mountain falls in Italy in the night, when a,000 people are asleep, and they never arouse. By oonvulsion of the earth Japan broken of from Chi na. By a convulsion of the earth the Caribbean islands broken of from Amer ica. Three islands near the mouth of the Ganges, with $40, 900 inhabitants a great surge of the sea breaks over them, and 214,0 perish that day. Alas, alas, for our poor world It has continent has sunk, continent that connected Europe and America-part of the inhabitants of that continent going to Europe, part coming to America over the tablelands of Mexico, up through the valleys of the Mississippi, and we are finding now the remains of their mounds and their cities in Mexico. in Colorado and the tablelands of the west. It is matter of demonstration that whole continent has gone down, the Azores of the coast of Spain only the highest mountain of that sunken conti- nent Plato described that continent, its grandeur, the multitude of its inhab- itants, its splendor and its awful de- struction, and the world thought it was romance, but arch@ologists have found out it was history. and the English and the German and the American fleets have gone forth with arch@ologists, and the Challenger. and the Dolphin, and the Gazelle have dropped anchor, and in deep sea soundines they have found the contour of that sunken continent.
 The Rock Of Ages
 Oh, there is trouble marked on the rocks. on the sky. on the sea, on the fora and the fauna Astronomical trou- ble, geological trouble. oceanic trouble, political trouble, domestic trouble, and standing in the presence of all those stu pendous devastations ask if am not right in saying that the great want of this age and all ages is divine sympathy and mnnipotent comfort, and they are found not in the Brahma of the Hindoo or the Allah of the Mohammedan, but in the Christ unto whom shall the gath ering of the people be. Other worlds may fall. but this morning star will never be plotted from the heavens. The will never be shaken from it's founda- tions The same Christ who fed the 5000 will feed all the worlds hunger. The same Christ who cured Bartimeus will illumine all blindness. The same Christ who made the dumb speak will put on every tongue hosanna. The same Christ who awoke Lazarus from the sarcophagns will yet rally all the pioas dead in glorious resurrection. "I know that~lny Redeemer hveth," and that ito him shall the gathering of the people be-" Ah, my friends, when Christ starts thoroughly and quickly to lift this miserable wreck of a sunken world it will not take him long to lift it. have thought that this particular age in which we live may be given up to discoveries and inventions by which through quick and instantaneous com- munication all cities and all communi- ties and all lands will be brought to- gether, and then in another period per haps these inventions which have been used for worldly purposes will be brought out for gospel invitation, and some greet prophet of the Lord will come and snatch the mysterious, sub lime and miraculous telephone from the hand of commerce, and, all lands and kingdoms connected by a wondrous wire, this prophet of the Lord may. through telephonic communication, in an instant announce to all nations par don and sympathy and life through Jesus Christ, and then. putting the wondrous tube to the ear of the Lords prophet, the response shall come back. "I believe inGod, the Father Almighty. Maker of heaven and earth, and in Jesus Christ, his only begotten Son"
 You and l may not live to zee the day think those of us who are over 40 years of age can scarcely expect to see the day. expect before that time our bodies will be sound asleep in the ham mocks of the old gospel ship as 1t goes sailing on. But Christ will wake us up in time to see the achievement We who have sweated in the hot harvest fields will be at the door of the garner when the I sheaves come in. That work for which | in this world we toiled and wept and I struggled and wore ourselves out shall l not come to consummation and we be oblivious of the achievement. We will be allowed to come out and shake hands with the victors. We who fought in the | earlier battles will have just as much right to rejoice as those who reddened | their feet in the last Armageddon. An, yea, those who could only give cupful | of cold water in the name of disciple those who could only scrape a handful | of lint for a wounded soldier; those who | could only administer to old age in it's decreptitude; those who could only | coax 8 poor waif of the street to go back home to her God; those who could only lift a little child in the arms of Christ, will have as much right to take part in the ovation to the Lord Jesus Christ as | Chrysostom. It will be your victory 7, and mine as well as Christ's, he the conqueror, we shouting in his train. Christ the victor will pick out the hum- blest of his disciples in the crowd, and | turning half around on the white horse of victory he shall point her out for ap- proval by the multitude as he says. .She did what she could. :" Then put- ting his hand on the head of some man. who by his industry made one talent do the work of ten, he will say: "Thou hast been faithful over a few things. ] will make thee ruler over ten cities. '' Two different theories about the fulfill ment of this promise.
 l Gathering of the People.
 There are people who think Christ will come in person and sit on throne. Perhaps he may. Ishould like to see the scared feet going up the stairs of g palace in which all the glories of the Alhambra, and the Tai Mahal, and St. Marks, and the Winter palace are gathered. I should like to see the world pay Christ in love for what it did to him in maltreatment. I should like to be one of tho -grooms of the charges | holding the stirrup as the King mounts