Connecticut western news., 1896-12-03

mount ot beautudeS, Therefore all things whatsoever ye would that men should do to you, do ye even so to them, for this is the law and the prophets '
 Saving the World.
 Another thing that needs to be set in order before the veteran century quits us is a more thorough and all embracing plan for the worlds gardenization. We have been trying to save the world from the top, and it cannot be done that way. It has got to be saved from the bottom. The church ought to be only West Point to drill soldiers for outside battle. What if a military academy should keep its students from age to age in the mess room and the barracks? No, no! They are wanted at Montezuma and Chapul- tepec and South Mountain and Mission ary Ridge. and the church is no place for Christian to stay very long. He is wanted at the front He is needed in the desperate charge of taking the para pets. The last great battle for God is not to be fought on the campus of col lege or the lawn of church. It Is to be fought at Missionary Ridge. Before this century quits us let us establish the hab- it of giving the forenoon of the Sabbath to the churches and the afternoon and the evening of the Sabbath to gospel work in the halls and theaters and streets and fields and slums and wilder nesses of sin and sorrow. Why do Chris tians who have stuffed themselves with "the strong meat of the word" and all gospel viands on Sabbath forenoons want to come up to second service and stuff themselves again? These old gormand- izers at the gospel feast need to get into outdoor work with the outdoor gos- pei that was preached on the banks of the Jordan and on the fishing smacks of Lake Galilee and in the bleak air of As syrian mountains. I am told that throughout all our American cities the second Sabbath service in the majority of churches is sparsely-yea, disgrace fully-attended and is the distress of the consecrated and eloquent pastors who bring their learning and piety before pews ghastly for their inoccupanoy. What is the providential meaning? The greatest of all evangelists since Bible times recently suggested that the even- ing services in all the churches be turned into the most popular style of evangel- istic meetings for outsiders. Surely that is an experiment. worth making. If that does not succeed, then it does seem to me all the churches which cannot secure sufficient evening audiences ought to shut up their bull dings at>night and go where the people are and invite them to come to the gospel banquet.
 Help One Another.
 Let the Christian souls, bountifully fed in the morning, go forth in the aft ernoon and evening to feed the multi tudes of outsiders starving for the bread of which if a man eat he shall never again hunger. Among those clear down the gospel would make more rapid con- quest than among those who know so much and have so much that God can- not teach or help them. In those lower depths splendid fellows in the rough, like the shoeblack that a reporter saw near New York city hall. He asked a boy to black his boots The boy came up to his work provokingly slow and had just begun, when large boy showed him aside and began the work, and the {, and the boy replied: :'Oh, that's all rightl am going to do it for i'm. You see, he's been sick in the hospital more'n month, so us boys turn in and give i'm lift. i" Do all the boys help him?" asked the reporter. ''Yes, sir. When they ain't got no job themselves, and Jim gets one, they turn in and help i'm, for he ain't strong yet, you see. " "How much percentage does he give you?' said the reporter. The boy replied: 'I don't keep none of it. I ain't no such sneak as that All the boys give up what they git on his job. I'd like to ratch any feller sneaking on a sick boy, l wouldw The reporter gave him 25 cent piece and said, You keep 10 cents for yourself and give the rest to Jim. '" Can't do it, sir. It's his customer. Here, Jim" Such big souls as that strew all the lower depths of the cities and, get them converted to God, this would be the last full century of the worlds sin, and but little work of evan- gelization would be left for the next century. Before this century expires let there be combined effort to save the great cities of America and Great Brit ain and of all Christendom. What an awful thing 1t would be for you, O dying century, to bequeath to the com ing century, as yet innocent and unscar- red with a single sin or burdened with single sorrow, the blasphemy, the law lessness, the atheism. the profigacy and the woes of great cities still unevangel- izedl
 What we ought to see, O dying cen tury, is a revival of religion that would wrap the continents in confagrations of religious awakening, and that would make legislation and merchandise and all styles of worldly business wait awhile at the telegraph offices and the tele- phone offices because they are occupied with telling the story of cities and na- tions born in day. Nearly all the cen | turies closed with something tremen- Ious. Why may not this century close in the salvation of America? I do not know whether our theological friends who have studied the subject more than have are right or wrong when they say Christ will come in person to set up his kingdom in this world but, though we would be overwhelmed with our un- worthiness, l would like to see Christ descend from heaven in one of the clouds of this morning and planting his feet on this earth, which he came centuries ago to save, declare his reign of love and mercy and salvation on earth begun. And what more appropriate place. say it reverentially-for such divine land inp 10 mil al nf cursed by the tyrannies and supersti- tions of the old world?
 Wonderful Sights.
 What has this dying nineteenth cen tury to tell us before he goes? We all love to hear septuagenarians, octogena- 1 rians, nonagenarians and centenarians