Connecticut western news., 1896-05-07

ua2dTlh l SAW WQAE was TOT many years called the Black swamp of Ohio, it's chief crop chills and levers, but now, by the tiles put into the ground to carry of the surplus moisture, trans- formed into the richest and healthiest of regions. The God who wastes nothing, l think, means that this world, from pole to pole, has come to perfection of foliage and fruitage. For that reason he keeps the earth running through space, though so many fires are blazing down in its timbers and so many meteoric terrors have threatened to dash it to pieces. As soon as the earth is complet- ed Christ will divide it up among the good. The reason he does not divide it now is because it is not done. A kind father will not divide the apple among his children until the apple is ripe. In fulfllment of the New Testament prom ise, "The meek shall inherit the earth, !" and the promise of the Old Testament, ''He shall divide the spoil with the strong" the world will be apportioned to those worthy to possess it.
 It is not so now. In this country, ca pablo of holding, feeding, clothing and sheltering 1,200, 900, 900 people, and where we have only 50, 900, 900 inhabit- ants, we have 2,000, 900 who cannot get honest work, and with their families an aggregation of 1000, 900 that are on the verge of starvation. Something wrong, most certainly. In some way there will be a new apportionment. Many of the millionaire estates will crack to pieces on the dissipations of grandchildren and then dissolve into the possession of the masses who now have an insufficiency.
 From Sin to Righteousness.
 What, you say, will become of the expensive and elaborate buildings now devoted to debasing amusements? They will become schools, art galleries, mu seums, gymnasiums and churches. The world is already getting disgusted with many of these amusements and no won der. What an importation of unclean theatrical stuff we have within the last few years had brought to our shoresl And professors of religion patronizing such thingsl Having sold out to the devil, why don't you deliver the goods and go over to him publicly, body, mind and soul, and withdraw your name from Christian churches and say, ''Know all the world by these presents that I am a patron of uncleanness and child ot hellr' Sworn to be the Lords, you are perjurers.
 If you think these offenses are to gc on forever. you do not know who the ,C G@1 xxys11 af xr-a;t fr,- t6a lop Uf judgment All these palaces of sin will become palaces of righteousness. They will come into the possession O. those strong for virtue and strong fo1 God. He shall divide the spoil with the strong"
 China and Africa, the two richest portions of the earth by reason of metals and rare woods and inexhaust. ible productiveness, are not yet divided up among the good because they are not ready to be divided. Wait until all the doors that Livingstone opened in Africa shall be entered, and Bishop Taylor, with his band of self supporting mis- sionaries, have done their work, and the Ashantis and Senegambians shall know Christ as well as you know him, and there shall be on the banks of the Nile and the Niger higher civiliza- tion than is now to be found on the banks of the Potomac or the Hudson, then Christ will divide up that conti. nent among his friends. Wait until China, which is half as large as all Flu. rope, shall have developed her capaci- ties for rice and tea and sugar among edibles, and her amethyst and sapphire and topaz and opal and jasper and DOT phyry among precious stones, and her rosewood and ebony and camphor and varnish trees among precious woods, and turned up from her depths halt dozen Pennsylvanias of coal and iron, and 20 Nevadas of silver, and 50 Cali fornias of gold, and her 500, 900, 900 of people shall be evangelized. Then the Lord will divide it up among the good
 If my text be not deception, but the eternal truth, then the time is coming when all the farms will be owned by Christian farmers, and all the com merce controlled by Christian merchants, and all the authority held by Christian officials, and all the ships commanded by Christian captains, and all the uni versailles under the instruction of Chris tian professors; Christian kings, Chris tian presidents, Christian governors, Christian mayors, Christian common council. Yet, what securing out What an upturning! What demolition What a resurrection must precede this new apportionment
 do not underrate the enemy. Julius Caesar got his greatest victories by fully estimating the vastness of his foes and prepared his men for their greatest tri- umph by saying, Tomorrow King Juba will be here with 30, 900 horses, 100, 00C skirmishers and 300 elephants dc not underrate the vast forces of sin and death, but do you know who commands us? Johovahjireh. And the reserve corps behind us are all the armies of heaven and earth. with hurricane and thunder. bolt. The good work of the worlds re- demption is going on every minute. Never so many splendid men and glori ous women on the side of right as today. Never so many good people as now. Diogenes has been spoken of as a wise man because he went with lantern al monday, saying he was looking for al honest man. If he had turned his Ian tern toward himself, he might have dis covered crank. Honest men by the 10, 900! Through the international serie, of Sunday school lessons the next gen cration all through Christendom are go ing to be wiser than any generation since the world stood The kingdom if coming. God can do it. No housewife with chamois cloth ever polished 6 silver teaspoon with more ease than Christ will rub off from this world the tarnish and brighten it up till it glows like heaven, and then the glorious ap portionment, for my text is re-enforced by score of other texts, when it says oi Christ, "He shall divide the spoil with the strong"
 Some Grand Sights. .