Connecticut western news., 1898-12-15

Notice also that there was limit to the shut in experience of those ancient mariners. I suppose the 40 days of the descending and uprising floods and the 160 days before the passengers could go ashore must have seemed to those eight people in the big boat like small eter- nifty. "Rain, rain, rainl" said the wife of Noah. twill it never stop?" For 40 mornings they looked out and saw n0 one patch of blue sky. Floating around amid the peaks of mountains Shem and Ham and Japheth had to hush the fears of their wives lest they should dash against the projecting rocks. But after awhile it cleared of. Sunshine, glorious sunshine The ascending mists were folded up into clouds, which instead of darkening the sky only ornamented it. AS they looked out of the windows these worn passengers olapped their hands and rejoiced that the storm was over, and I think if God could stop such a storm as that he could stop any storm in your lifetime experience. If he can control Q vulture in midsky, be can stop a summer bat that flies in at your window. At the right time he will put the rainbow on the cloud and the deluge of your misfortunes will dry up. preach the doctrine of limitation, relief and disenthrallment. At just the right time the pain will cease, the bondage will drop, the imprisoned will be liberated, the fires will go out, the body and mind and soul will be free. Patiencel An old English proverb re- ferring to long continued invalidism says, "A breaking gate hangs long on its hinges, and this may be protract- ed case of valetudinarianism, but you will have taken the last bitter drop, you will have suffered the last misin- depreciation, you will feel the gnawing of the last hunger, you will have faint ed the last time from exhaustion, you will have felt the out of the last lancet, you will have wept under the last loneliness. The last week of the Noachi- an deluge came, the last day, the last hour, the last moment. The beating of the rain on the roof ceased, and the dashing of the pillows on the side of the ship quieted, and peacefully as yacht moves out over quiet Lake Oayuga, Como or Luzerne the ark, with it's il- lustrious passengers and important frieght, glided to its mountain wharf age.
 Cheer For the Sick.
 Notice also that on the cessation of the deluge the shut ins came oHt, and they built their houses and cultured their gardens and started a new world on the ruins of the old world that had been drowned out. Though Noah lived $50 years after this worldwide acci dent and no doubt his fellow passengers survived centuries warrant they never got over talking about that voyage. Now have seen Dore's pictures and many other pictures of the entrance into the ark, two and two, of the human family and the animal creation into that ship which sailed between two worlds -antediluvian world and the post. diluvian world-but never saw pic ture of their coming out; yet their em- barkation was not more important than their disembarkation. Many crew has entered ship that never landed. Wit ness the steamer Portland, few days ago, with 100 souls on board, going down with all its crew and passengers. Witness the line of sunken ships, reaoh- ing like submarine cable of anguish Aoloss the ocean depths from America to Europe. If any ship might expect complete wreokage, the one Noah oom- manded might have expected 1t. But no; those who embarked .disembarked. Over the plank reaching down the side of the ark to the Armenian cliffs on which they had been stranded the pro- cession descended. No other wharf felt SO solid or afforded such attractiveness a5 that height of Ararat when the eight passengers put their feet on 1t. And no Booner had the last one, the invalided wife of Japheth. been helped down the plank. upon the rock than the other apartments of the ship were opened, and Euoh dash of bird music never filled the air as when the entire ogchestra of robin redbreast, and morning lark, and chafhnoh, and hooking bird, and house swallow took wing into the bright sky, while the cattle began to low and the sheep to bloat and the horses to neigh for the pasture, which from the awful submergence had now begun to grow green and aromatic. tell you plainly nothing interests me more in that trag edy from the first to the last act than the "exit" and the "exeunt," '" than the fact that the "shut ins" became the 'got outs." And now cheer with this story all the inmates of siokrooms and hospitals, and those prisons were men and women are unjustIy endungeoned, and all the thousands who are bounded on the north and south and east and west by floods, by deluges of misfortune and disaster. The ark of your trouble, if it does not land on some earthly height of vindication and rescue, will land on the heights celestial.
 Put Your Trust In God.
 If you have put your trust in God, you will come out in the garden of the King, among orchards bending with 12 manner of fruits and harvests that wave in the light of sun that never sets. As the eight passengers sof that craft of Captain Noah never got ger talking about their seafaring experiences, so you who have been the shut ins of earth will add unbounded interest to the conversation of heaven by recalling and reciting your earthly experiences, and the rougher those experiences the more thrilling will they be to yourself and others who listen. AS when we sit amid a group of soldiers and hear their story of battle or group of sailors and hear their story of cyclones we feel stupid because we have nothing in our life worth telling, how uninteresting will be those souls in heaven who had smooth sailing all their lives and no accidents while Noah tells his story of the deluge and Lot his story of escape from de- stroyed cities and Paul his story of the Alexandrian corn ship and you tell your story of the days and nights and years of the times when you were shut ini You will be interesting and sought after