Connecticut western news., 1898-09-08

way you go they will go, If we are not saved, we will never save any one else
 How to get saved? Be willing to ao- cept Christ, and then accept him in- simultaneously and forever. Get on tha rock first, and then you will be able to help others upon the same rock Men and women have been saved quicker than I have been talking about It.
 Whatl Without prayer2 Yes Whati Without time to deliberately think it over? Yes Whatl Without a. tear9
 Yes Believe; that is all. Believe " hatf That Jesus died to save you from sin and death and hell. Will you? Do youf You have. Something makes me think you have. New light has come into your countenance. Welcome, welcome Hail, hail Saved yourselves, how are you to save others? By testimony. Tell it to your family. Tell it to your busi- ness associates. Tell it everywhere.
 We will successfully preach no more religion and will successfully talk no more religion than we ourselves have.
 The most of that which you do to bene- fit the souls of thls generation you will
 effect through your own behavior. Go
 wrong, and that will induce others to go wrong. Go right, and that will in- drce others to go right. When the great Centennial exhibition was being held in Philadelphia, the question came up lnong the directors as to whether they hsould keep the exposition open on Sun- tAys, when director, who was a man U the world iron, Nevada, arose and SfI hfo ,hl fnn xuit ind tears running down his cheeks: II fsel like returned prodigal. Twenty 4ears ago I went west and into region where we had no Sabbath, but today old memories come back to me, and remember what my glorified mother
 taught me about keeping Sunday, and seem to hear her voice again and feel sa did when every evening l knelt by her side in prayer. Gentlemen, l vote for the observance of the Christian Sab bath," and he carried everything by
 storm, and when the question was put,
 "Shall we open the exhibition on tho
 "Eo, mo-" What one man can do if hc does right, boldly right, emphatically
 right
 6lOrlOus oioep-
 I confess to you that my one wish is t0 serve this generation, not to antag- | onize 1t, not to damage ii, not to rule it, but to serve it. I would like to do
 something toward helping unstrap its
 load, to stop it's tears, to balsam its
 wounds and to induce 1t to put foot on the upward road that has at it's termi
 nus exclamation rapturous, and gate, rearline, and garlands amaranthine, and fountains rainbowed, and domin- ions enthroned and ooroneted. for can. not forget that lullaby in the closing | words of my text, David, after he had
 served his own generation by the will
 of God, fell on sleep" What lovely sleep il was Unfilial Absalom did not trouble it. Ambitious Adonijah did not worry <. Prosecuting Saul did not har-
 row it. Exile did not fill it with night
 mare. Since redheaded boy amid his
 fathers focks at night be had not had
 such good sleep At 70 years of age
 be laid down to it. He had had many a | troubled sleep, as in the caverns of Adullam or in the palace at the time his enemies were attempting his cap ture- But this was g, peaceful sleep, Q
 calm sleep, restful sleep, glorious sleep After he had served his genfGa- ton by the will of God he fell on sleep"
 Oh, what good thing is sleep after hard days work It takes all the
 aching out of the head. and all tho weariness ont of the limbs, and all the slnarting out of the eyes. From it we rise in the morning and it is a new
 W orld, and if we, like David, serve our generation we will at life's close have
 most desirable and refreshing sleep In it will vanish our last fatigue of body,
 our last worriment of mind, our last sorrow of soul To the Christians body
 that was hot with raging levers, so that the attendants must by sheer force keep
 on the blankets, it will be the cool sleep. To those who are thin blooded
 and shivering with agues 1t will be the warm sleep. To those who because of physical disorders were terrified with night visions it will be the dreamless sleep. To nurses and doctors and moth CTS who were wakened almost every hour of the night by those to whom | they ministered or over whom they
 watched it will be the undisturbeA | sleep. To those who could not get to
 bed till late at night and must riss
 early in the morning and before getting
 rested it will be the long sleep.
 Away With Gloom.
 | Away with all your gloomy tafk
 about departing from this world If ws
 have served our generation, it will not
 be putting out into the breakers; it will
 not be the fight with the king of ter
 TOTS; it will be going to sleep A | friend. writing me from Illinois, nays
 that Rev. Dr. Wingate, president of
 Wake Forest college, North Carolina,
 after a most useful life, found his last day on earth his happiest day, and that
 in his last moments he seemed. to bS
 personally talking with Christ, as friend | with friend, saying: "Oh, how delight I ful 1t isl knew you would be with me when the time came. and I knew 1t
 would be sweet, but did not know 1t would be as sweet as it Is" The fact
 was he had served his generation in the gospel ministry, and by the will of God
 he fell asleep. When in Africa Maj
 wara the servant, looked into the tent
 of David Livingstone and found him on
 his knees, he stepped back, not wishing
 to disturb him in prayer, and some time
 after went in and found him in the
 same posture and stepped back again,
 but after awhile went in and touched
 him, and, To- the great traveller had
 finished his last journey, and be had
 died in the grandest and mightiest pos | ture man ever takes-on his knees
 He. had served his generation by un-
 rolling the scroll of continent, and by
 the will of God fell on sleep. In the
 museum of Greenwich, England, there
 is fragment of book that was found
 in the arctic regions, amid the relics of
 Sir John Franklin, who had perished