Connecticut western news., 1898-08-04

 the sun at Wagram, of the 1000, 900 men under Darius at Arbela, of the 2,641, 900 men under Xerxes at Ther- mopyl@? Dustl Where are the guests who danced the floors of the Alhambra or the Persian palaces of Ahasuerus2 Dust Where are the musicians who played. or the orators who spoke, and the sculptors who chiseled, and the architects who built in all the centuries except our own? Dustl Where are the most of the books that once entranced the world? Bust Pliny wrote 20 books of history. All lost. The most of Me nander's writings lost. Of 130 comedies of Plautus, all gone but 20. Euripides wrote 100 dramas, all gone but 19. Eschylus wrote 100 dramas, all gone but seven. Varro wrote the laborious biographies of TOO Romans. not a frag- ment left Quintilian wrote his favorite book on the corruption of eloquence, all lost. Thirty books of Tacitus lost. Dion Cassius wrote so books, only 20 remain. Berosius' history all lost. Where there Is one living book there are a thousand dead books. The greatest library in the world, that which has the widest shelves and longest aisles and the most multitudinous volumes and the vastest wealth is the underground library. It is the royal library, the continental library, the hemispherio library, the planetary library, the library of the dust, and all these library cases will be opened, and all these scrolls unrolled, and all these volumes unclasped, and as easily as in your library or mine we take up book. blow the dust 6f of 1t and turn over its pages, so easily will the Lord of the resurrection pick out of this library of dust every volume of hu- man life and open it and read 1t and display it, and the volume will be re- bound, to be set in the royal library of the King palace or in the prison library of the self destroyed.
 The Candle In the Window.
 Oh, this mighty literature of the dust It is not so wonderful, after all, that Christ chose, instead of an ink stand, the impressionable sand on the floor of an ancient temple, and, instead of a hard pen, put forth his forefnger, with the same kind of nerve and muscle and bone and flesh as that which makes up our own forefnger, and wrote the awful doom of hypocrisy, and full and complete forgiveness for repentant sin ners, even the worst. We talk about the ocean of Christ's mercy. Put four ships upon that ocean and let them sail out in opposite directions for a thousand years, and see if they can find the shore of the ocean of the divine mercy. Let them sail to the north and the south and the east and the west, and then aft CT the thousand years of voyage let them come back and they will report, "No shore, no shore to the ocean of Gods mercyP'
 And now I can believe that which l read, how that a mother kept burning a candle in the window every night for ten years, and one night, very late, a poor waif of the street entered. The aged woman said to her, "Sit down by the fire," and the stranger said, "Why do you keep that light in the window?" The aged woman said: "That Is to light my wayward daughter when she re- turns Since she went away, ten years ago, my hair has turned white. Folks blame me for worrying about her, but you see I am her mother, and some times, half dozen times a night. I epen the door and look out into the darkness and cry, Lizzie, 'LizzieP But must not tell you any more about my trouble, for l guess, from the way you cry, you have trouble enough of your own Why. how cold and sick you seeml Oh. my, can it bei Yes you are Lizzie, my own lost ohildi Thank God that you are home again" And wbat a time of rejoicing there was in that house that night. And Christ again stopped down, and in the ashes of that heart, now lighted up, not more by the great blazing logs than by the joy of a reunited household, wrote the same lib erating words that had been written more than 1,S00 years ago in the dust of the Jerusalem temple. Forgiveness A word broad enough and high enough to let pass through it all the armies of heaven, a million abreast, on white horses, nostril to nostril, flank to flank.