Connecticut western news., 1898-11-24

the redeemed is-never ElnfFed with tears There is health in every cheek. There is spring in every foot. There is
 majesty on every brow. There is joy in
 every heart. There is hosanna on every
 lip. How they must pity us as they
 look over and look down and see us and
 say, "Poor things away down in that
 worldp And when some Christian is
 hurled into fatal accident, they cry:
 "Good He is comingp And when we
 stand around the couch of some loved
 one whose strength is going away and
 we shake our heads forebodingly they
 cry: "I'm glad he is worse. He has been down there long enough. There, he is deadl Come homel Come home r" Oh, if we could only get our ideas about
 that future world untwisted, our thought of transfer from here to there
 would be as pleasant. to us as 1t was to little child that was dying. She said,
 "Papa, when will go home2" And he said, 'Today, Florence. !" To-day? So soon? am so glad p' z The Day of DeIiverance.
 I wish I could stimulate you with these thoughts, o Christian man, to the highest possible exhilarationi The day of your deliveranoe is ooming-is com- ing, rolling on with the shining wheels
 of the day, and the jet wheels of the
 night Every thump of the heart is only hammer stroke striking off another
 chain of clay. Better SCOUT the deck and coil the rope, for harbor is only six miles away. Jesus will come down the Narrows to meet you. Now IS your salvation nearer than when you be- lieved."
 Man of the world. will you not today
 make choice between these two DOT tions, between the "south land'h of this
 world, which slopes to the desert, and this glorious land which thy Father
 offers thee, running with eternal water
 courses? Why let your tongue be con- stunned of thirst when there are the
 neither springs and the upper springs
 comfort here and glory hereafter?
 You and I need something better than this world can give us. The fact is that it cannot give us anything after awhile. It is changing world. Do you know that even the mountains on the back of thousand streams are leaping into the
 valley. The Alleghanies are dying. The
 dews with crystalline mallet are ham,
 mering away the rocks Frosts and showers and lightnings are soulpturing Mount Washington and the Catskills.
 Niagara every year is digging for itself a quicker plunge. The sea all around the earth on its shifting shores is mak- ing mighty changes in bar and bay and firth and promontory. Some of the old seaooasts are midland now. Off Nam tucket, eight feet below low water mark,
 are found now the. stumps of trees, showing that the waves are roonquering the land. Parts of Nova Scotia are sink ing. Ships today sail over what, only a little while ago, was solid ground Near the mouth of the St. Oroix river is an island which, in the movements of the earth, IS slowly but certainly TO- tating. All the face of the earth chang ing-changing. In 1881 an island
 springs up in the Mediterranean sea. In 1866 another island comes up under the observation of the American consul as he looks off from the beach,, The earth all the time changing, the columns of 8 temple near Bizoli show that the water has risen nine feet above the place 1t was when these columns were put down. Changing Our Colorado river, once
 vaster than the Mississippi, flowing through the great American desert, which was then an Eden of luxuriance, has now dwindled to a small stream creeping down through 8 gorge. The earth itself, that was once vapor, after
 ward water-nothing but water-after-
 ward molten rock, cooling off through
 the ages until plants might live and
 animals might live and men might live,
 changing all the while, now crum bling,
 now breaking off. The sun, burning
 down gradually in it's socket. Chang ing, changing, an intimation of the last
 great change to come over the world
 even infused into the mind of the
 heathen who has never seen the Bible.
 The End of the Earth.
 The Hindoos believe that Brahma, the creator, once made all things. He created the water, then moved oyer the
 water, out of it lifted the land, grew
 the plants and animals and men on it.
 Out of his eye went the sun. Out of his
 lips went the fire. Out of his ear went
 the air. Then Brahma laid down to
 sleep four thousand three hundred and
 twenty million years. After that they
 say, he will wake up, and then the
 world will be destroyed, and he will
 make 1t over again, bringing up land,
 bringing up creatures upon it, then ly- ing down again to sleep four thousand
 three hundred and twenty million years, then waking up and destroying. the
 world again-oreation and demolition
 following each other, until after three
 hundred and twenty sleeps, each one of these slumbers four thousand three hun
 dred and twenty million years long, Brahma will wake up and die and the universe will die with him-an intima-
 tion, though very faint, of the great change to come upon this physical
 earth spoken of in the Bible, but while Brahma may sleep our God never slum-
 bers nor sleeps, and the heavens shall
 pass away with great noise. and the
 clements shall melt with fer<ent heat,
 and the earth and all things that are therein shall be burned up.
 "Well, ? says some one, "if that is so,
 if the world is going from one change to another, then what is the use of my toiling for its betterment?" That is the
 point on which want to guard you. I
 do not want you to become misan-
 thropio. It is a great and glorious world. If Christ could afford to spend 33 years on it for it's redem ntion. then