Connecticut western news., 1896-09-03

Doctrine of Original Sin" or Angus tines "Anthropology" You might as we'll go to a man who has the pleurisy and put on his side plaster made out of Dr. Paris Treatise on Medical Ju- risprudence.
 In all our sermons there must be help for every one somewhere You go into an apothecary store. We see others being waited on. We do not complain because we do not immediately get the medi- cine. We know our turn will come after awhile. And so while all parts of a sermon may not be appropriate to our case, if we wait prayerfully, before the sermon is through we shall have the divine prescription. say to these young men who are going to preach the gospel, these theological students-I say to them: We want in our sermons not more metaphysics, nor more imagination, nor more logic, nor more profundity. What we want in our sermons and Christian exhortations is more sympathy. When Father Taylor preached in the Sailors Bethel at Boston, the jack tars felt they had help for their duties among the rat lines and the forecastles When Richard Weaver preached to the operatives in Oldham, England, all the workingmen felt they had moro grace for the spin dles. When Dr. South preached to kings and princes and princesses, all the mighty men and women who heard him felt preparation for their high station.
 Do you not know that this simple ctN Np ,O F. fo tO deem all nations? The hard heart of this worlds obduracy is to be broken before that story. There is in Antwerp, Belgium, one of the most remarkable pictures I ever saw. It is ''The Descent of Christ From the Cross" It is one of Rubens' pictures No man can stand and look at that Descent From the Cross' as Rubens pictured it without having his eyes flooded with tears. if he have any sensibility at all. It is an overmastering picture-one that stuns you and staggers you and haunts your dreams. One afternoon man stood in that cathedral looking at Ruben's 'De- scent From the Cross" He was all ab- sorbed in that scene of Saviour's suf- erings when the janitor came in and said: ''It is time to close up the cathe- dral for the night. I wish you would depart. The pilgrim looking at that Descent From the Cross'' turned around to the janitor and said: 'No, no, not yet. Wait until they get him down." Oh, it is the story of Saviour's s suffering kindness that is to capture the world When the bones of that great behemoth of iniquity which has tram pied all nations shall be broken and shattered, it will. be found out that the work was not done by the hammer of the iconoclast, or by the sword of the conqueror, or by the torch of persecu- tion, but by the plain. simple, over- whelming force of "the soft tongue that breaketh the bone.'
 We All Need More Kindness.
 Kindnessl We all need more of it in our hearts, our words and our behavior. The chief characteristic of our Lord was kindness. A gentleman in England died, leaving his fortune by will to two sons. The son that stayed at home de- stroyed the fathers will and pretended that the brother who was absent was dead and buried. The absent brother, after awhile, returned and claimed his part of the property. Judges and jurors were to be bribed to say that the re- turned brother and son was no son at all, but only an impostor. The trial came on. Sir Matthew Hale, the pride of the English courtroom and for 90 years the pride of jurisprudence, heard that that injustice was about to be prao- ticed. He put off his official robe. He put on the garb of miller. He went to the village where that trial was to take place. He entered the courtroom. He somehow got impaneled as one of the jurors. The bribes came around, and the man gave ten pieces of gold to the other jurors, but as this was only @ poor miller the briber gave to him only five pieces of gold: A verdict was brought in rejecting the right of this returned brother. He was to have no share in the inheritance. "Hold, my lord, |" said the miller. "Holdl We are not all agreed on this verdict. These other men have re- ceived ten pieces of gold in bribery and I have received only five" !" "Who are youi Where do you come fromf" said the judge on the bench. The response was: "I am from Westminster hall my name is Matthew Hale, lord chief jus tice of the kings bench. Of of that place, thou villainl" And so the injus- tice was baked, and so the young man got his inheritance.
 It was all for another that Sir Mat thew Hale took off his robe and put on the garb of miller. And so Christ took off his robe of royalty and put on the attire of our humanity, and in that dis guise he won our eternal portion. Now we are the sons of God. Joint heirsl We went off from home sure enough, but we got back in time to receive our eternal inheritance. And if Christ was so kind to us, surely we can afford to