Connecticut western news., 1897-06-03
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Not word have to say against ac- curaoy of speech or fine elecution or high mental culture. Get all these you can. But do say to those who were brought up in the day of poor school houses and ignorant sohoolmasters and no opportunity: You may have so much of good in your soul and so much of heaven in your everyday life that you will be mightier for good than any who went through the curriculum of liar yard or Yale or Oxford, yet never grad uated in the school of Christ. When you get up to the gate of heaven, no one will ask you whether you can parse the first chapter of Genesis, but whether you have learned the fear of the Lord, which is the beginning of wisdom, nor whether you know how to square the circle, but whether you have lived a square life in a round world. Mount Zion is higher than Mount Parnassus.
 But what other multitudes there are under other disadvantages Here is a Christian woman whose husband thinks religion sham, and while the wife prays the children one way the husband swears them another. Or here Is a
 
 best for God and the church, and his wife holds him back and says on the way home from prayer meeting, where he gave testimony for Christ: 'What a fool you made of yourselfl hope here after you will keep still" And when he would be benevolent and give $50 she oriticises him for not giving 50 cents. I must do justice and publicly thank God that never proposed at home to give anything for any cause of humanity or religion but the other part ner in the domestic firm approved it, and when 1t seemed beyond my ability and faith in God was necessary she had three-fourrhs the faith. But I know men who, when they contribute to char itable objects, are afraid that the wife shall find it out. What whitening curse such woman must be to good manl
 Then there are others under the great disadvantage of poverty. Who ought to get things oheapestr You say those who have little means. But they pay more. You buy coal by the ton; they buy it by the bucket. You buy flour by the bar rel; they buy it by the pound. You get apparel cheap because you pay cash; they pay dear because they have to get trusted. And the Bible was right when 1t said, 'The destruction of the poor is their poverty" ...-
 Mistakes In Early Life.
 Then, there are those who made mistake in early life, and that over shadows all their days. Do you not LII on?" is whispered. Or, Do you know that that man once attempted suicide?" Or, ''Do you know that that man once absconded?" Or, "Do you know that that man was once discharged for dis honestly" Perhaps there was only one wrong deed in the mans life, and that one act haunts the subsequent half cen- tury of his existence.
 Others have unfortunate predomi- nance of some mental faculty, and their rashness throws them into wild enter prises, or their trepidation makes them decline great opportunity, or there is vein of melancholy in their disposition that defeats them, or they have an en- dowment of overmirth that causes the impression of insincerity.
 Others have mighty obstacle in their personal appearance, for which they are not responsible. They forget that God fashioned their features, and their complexion and their stature, the size of their nose and mouth and hands and feet, and gave them their gait and their general appearance, and they for get that much of the worlds best work and the ohuroh's best work has been done by homely people, and that Paul the Apostle is said to have been hump backed and his eyesight weakened by ophthalmia, while many of the finest in appearance have passed their time be- fore fattering looking glasses or in studying killing attitudes and in dis playing the richness of wardrobes-not one ribbon or vest or sack or glove or button or shoestring of which they have had brains to earn for theT%selves. Others had wrong procnvities from the start. They were born wrong, and that sticks to one even after he is born again. They have natural crankiness that is 275 years old. It came over with their great grandfathers from Scotland, or Wales, or France. It was born on the banks of the Thames, or the Clyde, or the Fiber, or the Rhine, and has sur vived all the plaques and epidemics of many generations, and is living today on the banks of the Potoinao, or the Hudson, or the Androscoggin, or the Savannah, or the La Plata. And when man tries to stop this evil ancestral proclivity he is like man on rock in the rapids of Niagara, holding on with grip from which the swift currents are trying to sweep him into the abyss beyond.
 Oh, this world is an oyerburdened world, an oTerworked world. It is an awfully tired world. It is dreadfully unfortunate world. Scientists are try ing to find out the cause of these earth quakes in all lands, oisatlantic and transatlantic. Some say this and some say that. have taken the diagnosis of what is the matter with the earth. It has so many burdens on it and so many fires within it, it has a fit. It cannot stand such circumference and such diameter. Some new Cotopaxi or Strom- boli or Vesuvius will open, and then all will be at peace for the natural world. But what about the moral woes of the world that have racked all na- tions, and for 5000 years science pro- poses nothing but knowledge, and many people who know the most are the most uncomforted?
 | A Way Out For All.
 In the way of practical relief for all disadvantages and all woes the only voice that is worth listening to on this subject is the voice of Christianity, which is the voice of Almighty God. Whether I have mentioned the partio- ular disadvantage under which you la- bor or not, distinctly declare, in the name of my God, that here is way out and way up for all of you. You cannot be any worse off than that Christian young woman who was in