Connecticut western news., 1897-01-21

earth and concerning which I wrote from the Sandwich Islands a few years ago:
 "What a hissing, believing. tum. bling, soaring force is Kilauea! Lake of unquenchable fire, convolutions and paroxysms of flame, elements of nature in torture, torridity and luridity, con- gregation of dreads, molten horrors, sulphurous abysms, swirling mystery of all time, infinite turbulence, chimney of perdition, wallowing terrors, l 5 acres of threats, glooms insufferable and Dan- tesque, caldron stirred by the cham pion witch of pandemonium, campfire of the armies of Diabolus, wrath of the mountains in full bloom, shimmering incandescence. pyrotechnics of the plan ct, furnace blast of the ages, Kilauean But, my friends, mightier, higher, vast. CT, hotter, more raging is the volcanic mountain of war. 1t has been blazing for hundreds of years, and will keep on blazing until, until-but I dare not hazard prophecy. Can it be that its fires will ever te put out? Can it be that its roar will ever be silencedg Can it be that before our Zerubbabel that blazing mountain will ever become a plain?
 Argus Eyed Abomination.
 There is also the long range of noun tains, longer than Appalachian range, longer than Caucasian range, longer than Sierra Nevada range-the piled up opposition of bad literature, bad homes, bad institutions, bad amusements, bad centuries, bad religiuns-Paganism, Hindooism, Buddhism, Mohammedan- ism and buttressed and enthroned god lessness, devoted to ambition and lust and hydra headed, Argus eyed atomina- tion, as it stands with lifted fist and mocking lips, challenging Jehovah upon the throne of the universe to strike If he dare. Oh. 1t is great mountain, as my text declares. There is no use in de- nying it. The most authentic statistics declare it The signs of the times prove it. All Christian workers realize it. It is Q mountain. 'The mountain can never be brought down." says worldly speculation. "The mountain can never be made a plain" says small faith in the churches. We'll, let us see. Let us look about for the implements we can lay our hands op. Let us count the number on our side who are willing 10 dig with 0 shovel or bore tunnel or blast rock. Let us see if there is any foreign help that will come in to re-enforce us. do not want to make myself absurd by at- tempting an impossibility. If it is only one spade at the foot of Mont Blanc, if it is only one arm, capable of lifting but few pounds, against mountain that weighs 100. 900, QUO tons. let us quit before we make ourselves the trav- esty and caricature of the universe. If we are to undertake this job, first of all we must have competent engineer, one who knows all about excavations, about entertainments, about tunnels, about mountains. know engineers who have carved up mountains, cut down mountains, removed mountains. l will do nothing unless I know who is to be our engineer. Zerubbabel led at the re- building of the ancient temple, and Matthew Henry, the greatest of com mentators, declares that our Zerubbabel is the Lord Jesus Christ. The Zerubba- 
 glorious and omnipotent Jesus, and as look up into the face of this divine en- gineer and see it glow with all the splendors of the godhead, and see that in his arm is the almightiness that flung out all the worlds that glitter in the midnight heavens, and that to lift the Himalayas would cost him no more effort than for me to lift an ounce, my courage begins to rally, and my faith be- gins to mount, and my enthusiasm is all af1ame, and the words of my text this moment just fit my lips and ex- press the triumph of my soul, and cry out "Who art thou, O great mountain? Before Zerubbabel thou shalt become a plain.
 The Mountain of Sin.
 My experiences with the shovel are of that implement, and that after you have been digging with it an hour what you have accomplished seems very lit tie, but just go along by the place where they are building railroad through a mountain and see what a great work 1000 shovels can do and know that while there are 1000 shovels at work on this side of the mountain there are 1000 shovels busy on the other side, and all have to do is to manage my own particular shovel. It cheers ne to think that against this old mountain of sin there are hundreds of thousands and millions of shovels this moment busy, and we are all at work under the one engineer who came down from his throne in heaven to oversee and help the removal of that mountain, and wlo has contracted to have it done. have seen the contract, and he is we'll paid for it. The compensation promised by the throne Of heaven is, 1T will give thee the heathen for thine inheritance and the uttermost parts of the earth for thy possession. /" The reason so many of us are idle is that we want a bigger shovel or we would like to manage some great hydraulic engine. No, brother. Stick to your shovel. Dig away in your Sabbath classes Dig away in your mis- i sions Dig away in your homes. Dig away in your pulpits. Do the work next to you. Do not spend too much time looking at the great size of the noun tains or at the way others use their shovels. All that you can accomplish to- ward the removing of that mountain will be with your own particular shovel. Remember little David, with Saul's helmet on him. dropping clear down over his ears even unto his shoulders. But when he got in his hand the boy 's | sling, how we'll he used iti If you dc not understand Greek, do not attempt to tell the people what the text is in the original. If you do not understand Latin. attempt no drafts upon Latinity. You who want to help in the removal of the mountain hold on to your shovel. Much time has been lost by the fact that many of the sharpest shovels. in.