Connecticut western news., 1898-08-18

children, VIII preserve them aIlve ana let thy widows trust in me-" Or get mp into the heights of that other glorious promise, "The Lord preserveth the stranger and relieveth the widow and the fatherless. Oh, ye sewing women, on starving wages Oh, 70 widows,
 turned out from the once beautiful homel Oh, ye female teachers kept on niggardly stipendl Oh, ye despairing women, seeking in vain for work, wan dering along the docks and thinking to throw yourselves into the river last nightl Oh, ye women of weak nerves. and aching sides, and short breath, and broken heart, you need something more than human sympathy, you need the sympathy of God. Climb up into his arms He knows 1t all, and he loves you more than father or mother or hus- band ever could or ever did, and instead of sitting down, wringing your hands In despair, you had better begin to climb
 There are heights of consolation for you, though now "there Is sharp rock on one side, and sharp rock on the other side."
 An Invitation -..t Fz=f
 Again, that man Is in the crisis of
 the text who has wasted life on the one side and an unilluminated eternity on the other. Though man may all his life have cultured deliberation and self poise, If he gets into that position,
 all his self possession Is gone There are all the wrong thoughts of his exist ence, all the wrong deeds, all the wrong words-strata above strata, granite, ponderous, overshadowing. That rock call Bozez. On the other side are all the retributions of the future, the thrones of judgment, the eternal ages,
 angry with his long deaance. That rock call Seneh Between these two rocks 10. 900 times 10000 have per ishedY
 O man immortal. man redeemed.
 man blood bought. climb up out of those shadowsl Climb up by the way of the cross. Have your wasted life for given; have your eternal life secured.
 This hour just take one look to the past
 and see what 1t has been. and take one look to the future and see what 1t threatens to be. You can afford to lose your health, you can afford to lose your property, you can afford to lose your reputation, but you cannot afford to lose your soul. That bright. gleaming, glosi- ous, precious eternal possession you
 must carry aloft in the day when the earth burns up and the heavens burst. You see from my subject that when a man gets into the safety and peace of the gospel he does not demean himself. There Is nothing in religion that leads ' to meanness or unmanliness The gos- pei of Jesus Christ only asks you to climb as Jonathan did--climb toward God, climb toward heaven, climb into the sunshine of God s favor. To become a Christian is not to go meanly down; it is to come gloriously up-up into the communion of saints; up into the peace
 that passeth ali understanding; up into
 the oompanionship of angels. He lives upward; he dies upward.
 Oh, then, accept the wholesale invi-
 tation which make this day to all the peoplel Come up from between your invalidism and financial embarrass- I ments. Come up from between your bereavements and your destitution- Come up from between a wasted life and an unillumined eternity. Like Jon
 athan, climb up with all your might,
 instead of sitting down to wiring your hands in the shadow and in the dark ness-"a sharp rock on the one side and | sharp rock on the other side "