Connecticut western news., 1896-06-11

hieroglyphicS We cannot understand them until we take up the Rosetta stone of divine inspiration, and the explana- tion all comes out, and the mysteries all vanish. and what was before beyond our understanding now is plain in it's meaning. as we read. ''All things work together for good to those who love God. {" Sowe decipher the hicroglyphics Oh. my friends have you ever calculat- ed what trouble did for David? It made him the sacred minstrel for all ages What did trouble do for JoSephs Made him the keeper of the corncrihs of Egypt. What did it do for Panls Made him the great apostle 10 the gennles What did it do for Samuel Rutherford? Made his invalidism moro illustrious than robust health. What did it do for Richard Baxter? Gave him capacity to write of the "Saint' Everlasting Rest " What did it do for John Bunyan? Showed him the shining gates of the city. What has it done for yous Since the loss of that child your spirit has been purer. Since the loss of that prop erty. you have found out that earthly investments are insecure. Since you lost your health, you feel as never be fore rapt anticipation of eternal re- lease. Trouble has humbled you, has enlarged you. has multiplied your re sources, has equipped you, has loosened your grasp from this world and frightened your grip on the next Oh, bless God l for the east windi It has driven you in to the harbor of Gods sympathy. Nothing like trouble to show us that this world is an insufficient portionH | Hogarth was about done with life, and he wanted to paint the end of all things | He put on canvas a shattered bottle, a | cracked bell, an unstrung harp, a sign board of a tavern called ''The Worlds End" falling down, shipwreck, the horses of Phebus lying dead in the clouds, the moon in her last quarter, and the world on fire. ''One thing more, " said Hogarth, "and my picture | is done" Then he added the broken palette of painter. Then he died But | trouble, with hand mightier and more skillful than Hogarth's. pictures the fall ing. failing. moldering. dying world. | And we want something permanent to I lay hold of, and we grasp with both hands after God. and say, 'tThe Lord is my light the Lord is my love. the Lord is my fortress, the Lord is my sacrifice, | the Lord, the Lord is my God
 Bless God for your trials Oh, my Christian friend. keep your spirits up by the power of Christ's gospel. Do not surrender. Do you not know that when you give up. others will give ups You have courage, and others will have oour- l age The Romans went into the battle, I and by some accident there was an in | clination of the standard. The standard | upright meant forward march; the in | clination of the standard meant surren- der. Through the negligence of the man who carried the standard. and the in clination of it. the army surrendered. | Oh, let us keep tho standard up. whether it be blown down by the east wind or | the north wind or the south wind. No inclination to surrender. Forward into | the conflict
 The Borrowing Tree
 There is near Bombay tree that they call the ''sorrowing tree. ]" the peculiar ity of which is it never puts forth any bloom in the daytime, but in the night | puts out all its bloom and all its redo lence, And have to tell you that though Christian character puts forth its sweet est blossoms in the darkness of sickness, tho darkness of financial distress, the darkness of bereavement the darkness ! of death, weeping may endure for . night. but joy cometh in the morning. !" Across the harsh discords of this world rolls the music of the skies-music that hreSks from the lips. music that breaks | from the harps and rustles from the | palms, music like falling water over rocks, music like wandering winds among leaves, music like caroling birds | among forests, music like ocean pillows storming the Atlantic beach. ''They | shall hunger no more. neither thirst any more, neither shall the sun light on them nor any heat, for the Lamb which | is in the midst of the throne shall lead | them to living fountains of water, and God shall wipe away all tears from their | eyes" I see 8 great Christian fleet ap- proaching that harbor. Some of the ships come in with sails rent and bull | warks knocked away, but still afloat | Nearer and nearer the shining shore. | Nearer and nearer eternal anchorage. Haul away, my lads haul swayl Some of the ships had mighty tonnage, and others were shallops easily listed of the wind and wave. Some were men-of-war I and armed of the thunders of Christian battle, and others were unpretendine tugs taking others through the Mar \ rows, and some were coasters that never yentured out into the deep seas of Christian experience; but they are all | coming nearer the wharf-brigantine. galleon. line of battle ship, longboat, pinnace, war frigate-and as they come into the harbor I find that they are driven by the long. loud. terrific blast of the east wind. It is through much tribulation that you are to enter into the
 kingdom of God
 You have blessed God for the north wind, and blessed him for the south wind, and blessed him for the west wind: can you not in the light of this subject bless him for the east wind?
 Nearer. my God, to thee,
 Nearer to thee.
 Fen though it be . cross
 | That raiseth me.
 | Stin all my song shall be.
 | Nearer. my God. to thee.
 Nearer to thee.
 One Name For Everybody.
 On the slopes of Mount Terrible. mol
 far from Delsberg, in the Basler Jura
 lies . small village called Montavon.
 The Sunday before last was the day oi
 the communal elections A list of the
 successful candidates Is given in De,
 Birsthaler and Le Pays. the iournals
 respectively of the German speaking and
 French speaking inhabitants of the val
 ley of the Birs. The names stand as fol
 lows:
 l President (maire or burger
 | meisterl ................... Joseph Montsvor | Vice president. yiktor Montavol | Peter Montayon
 Councillors or aldermen. Julius Moneavon | Ernst Montavon | Communal steward. .......... George Montavo1