Connecticut western news., 1897-12-16

Ol iulqully lHdb pouuus you Ou Lu6 north and the south and the east and the west. While l speak there are tens of thousands of men and women going over the awful plunge of an impure life, and while l cry to God for mercy upon their souls call upon you to mar shal in the defense of your homes, your church and your nation. There is ban quoting hall that you have never heard described. You know all about the feast of Ahasuerus, where d thousand lords sat. You know all about Belshazzar's ca- rousal, where the blood of the murdered king spurted into the faces of the ban queters. You may know of the scene of riot and wassail when there was set be- fore Esopus one dish of food that cost $400, 900. But I speak now of differ ent banqueting hall. Its roof is fretted with fire. It's floor is tessellated with fire. Its chalices are chased with fire. Its song is song of fire. Its walls are buttresses of fire. Solomon refers to it when he says, "Her guests are in the depths of he'll.
 Death the Insincible. Behold also in this giant of the text
 
 l that great physical power must crumble and expire. Tho Samson of the text long ago went away. He fought the | lion. He fought the Philistines. He could fight anything, but death was too much for him. He may have required a longer grave and d broader grave, but | the tomb nevertheless was his terminus. If, then, we are to be compelled to go | out of this world, where are we to go? This body and soul must soon part. | What shall be the destiny of the former know-dust to dust. But what shall ! be the destiny of the latter? Shall it rise into the companionship of the white | robed, whose sins Christ has slain, or will it go down among the unbelieving, who tried to gain the world and save | their souls, but were swindled out of | both? Blessed be God, we have cham | pioni He is so styled in the Bible-a | champion who has conquered death and hell, and he is ready to fight all our battles from the first to the last. "Who | is this that cometh from Edom with | dyed garments from Bozrah, mighty to save?'' If we follow ill the wake of that | champion death has no power and the | grave no victory. The worst man trust ing in him shall have his dying bangs alleviated and his future illumined.
 In the light of this subject I want to call your attention to fact which may not have been rightly considered by five men ill all the world, and that is the fact that we must be brought into judg- ment for the employment of our physi- | cal organism. Shoulder, brain, hand, | foot-we must answer in judgment for | the use we have made of them. Have they been used for the elevation of so- ciety or for it's depression? In proportion as our arm is strong and our step elastic | will our account at last be intensified. l Thousands of sermons are preached to | invalids. preach this morning to stout men and healthful women. We must l give to God an account for the right use of this physical organism.
 | These invalids have comparatively little to account for perhaps. They could not lift 20 pounds. They could not walk half a mile without sitting down to rest. In preparation of this subject have said to myself, How shall account | to God in judgment for the use of a body which never knew one moment of real sickness? Rising up in judgment, standing beside men and women who had only little physical energy and yet consumed that energy in oonfagration of religious enthusiasm, how will we feel abashedl
 The Weak That Are Strong. Oh, men of the strong arm and the stout heart, what use are you making of your physical forces? Will you be able to stand the test of that day when we must answer for the use of every talent, whether it were physical ener- gy or a mental acumen or spiritual power?
 The day approaches, and see one who in this world was an invalid and as she stands before the throne of God to answer she says: "I was sick all my days. I had but very little strength, but 1 did as we'll as I could in being kind to those who were more sick and more suffering" And Christ will say, "Well done, faithful servant" l"
 And then little child will stand be- fore the throne, and she will say: "On earth I had a curvature of the spine, and l was very weak, and was very sick, but used to gather flowers out of the wildwood and bring them to my sick mother, and she was comforted when she saw the sweet flowers out of the wildwood. l didn't do much, but did something." And Christ shall say as he takes her up in his arms and kiss es her, "Well done, we'll done, faithful servant; enter thou into the joy of thy Lord" 7" What, then, will be said to us we to whom the Lord gave physical strength and continuous health?
 I said to an old Scotch minister, who was one of the best friends I ever had, Doctor, did you ever know Robert Pol, lock, the Scotch poet, who wrote The Course of Time?'" "Oh, yes," be re, piled, "I knew him we'll. I was his classmate. And then the doctor went on to tell me how that the writing of "The Course of Time" exhausted the health of Robert Pollock, and he ex- pired. It sems as if no man could have such a glimpse of the day for which other days were made as Robert Pollock had and long survive that glimpse. In the description of that day he says, among other things:
 Begin the woe, ye woods, and tell it to the
 doleful winds,
 And doleful winds vail to the bowling hills And bowling hills mourn to the dismal wales, And dismal wales sigh to the sorrowing brooks And sorrowing brooks weep to the weeping | stream,
 And weeping stream awake the grooming deep Ye heavens, great archway of the universe | put sackcloth on,
 ! 0le bvl lelf in If xri1 ubon And gather all thy waves into a groan and ut | ter it
 Long, loud, deep, piercing, dolorous, immense The occasion asks it-nature dies, and angels
 come to lay her in her grave
 What Robert Pollock saw in prophet. ic dream you and will see in positive reality-the judgment, the judgment