Connecticut western news., 1897-08-12

hold and besin to pull, when, by reason of the multitude of fish, the net brake.
 Nature is his servant. The flowers he twisted them into his sermons; the winds-they were his lullaby when he slept ill the boat the rain-it hung glittering on the thick foliage of the parables the star of Bethlehem-it sang Christmas carol over his birth; the rocks-they beat a dirge at his death.
 Behold his victory over the gravel The hinges of the family vault become very rusty because they are never opened except to take another in. There is knob on the outside of the sepul- cher, but none on the inside. Here comes the conqueror of death. He en- ters that realm and says, Daughter of Jairus, sit up," and she sat up. To Lazarus, "Come forth," and he came forth. To the widows son he said, "Get up from that bier," and he goes home with his mother. Then Jesus snatched up the keys of death and hung them to his girdle and cried until all the grayeyards of the earth heard him: "Oh, death, will be thy plague! Oh. grave, I will be thy destructionl' | Christ's Coming Victories.
 But Christ's victories have only just | begun. This world is his, and he must | have it. What is the matter in this | country? Why all these financial trou- | bles? There never will be permanent | prosperity in this land until Christ rules it. This land was discovered for | Christ, and until our cities shall be evangelical and north, south, east and west shall acknowledge Christ as King and Redeemer we cannot have perma- nent prosperity. What is the matter with Spain, with France, with all of the nations? All the congresses of the nations cannot bring quiet. When gov ernments not only theoretically but | practically acknowledge the Saviour of the world. there will be peace every where. In that day the sea will have more ships than now, but there will not be one an-of-war. y The foun- dries of the world vii jar with mightier industries, but there will be no mold
 ing of bullets. Printing presses will fly | their cylinders with greater speed, but | there shall go forth no iniquitous trash. | In laws, in constitutions, on exchange, in scientific laboratory, on earth as in heaven, Christ shall be called wonder ful. Let that work of the worlds re- l generation begin in your heart, oh.
 hearerl A Jesus so kind, a Jesus so | good, Jesus so loving-how can you help but love him?
 It is a beautiful moment when two persons who have pledged each other heart and hand stand in church and | have the banns of marriage proclaimed.
 Father and mother, brothers and sisters stand around the altar. The minister of Jesus gives the counsel, the ring is set, earth and heaven witness it, the organ sounds and amid many congratulations they start out on the path of life to- gether. Oh, that this might be your marriage day! Stand up, immortal soul. Thy beloved comes to get his betrothed.
 Jesus stretches forth his hand and says, "I will love thee with an everlasting
 love-" and you respond, My beloved
 is mine, and I am his." l put your hand in his; henceforth be one. No
 trouble shall part you, no time cool your love. Side by side on earth, side
 by side in heaven. Now let the blossoms of heavenly gardens fill the house with
 their redolence and all the organs of
 God peal forth the wedding march of
 eternity. Harkl "The voice of my be.
 loved. Behold, he cometh leaping upon
 the mountains, skipping upon the hills. !"