Connecticut western news., 1898-02-17

marian. No time to attend to improved dentistry; the grinders cease because they are few. Actually dying of old age at 40 or 30, when they ought to be at the meridian Many of these business men have bodies like neglected clock to which you come, and when you wind it up it begins to buzz and roar, and then the hands start around very rapid ly, and the clock strikes or 10 or 40, and strikes without any sense, and then suddenly stops. So is the body of that wornout business man. It is a neglect ed clock, and, though by some summer recreation 1t may be wound up, still the machinery is all out of gear. The hands turn around with Il velocity that excites the astonishment of the world. Men cannot understand the wonderful activ- ity, and there is a roar and buzz and a rattle about these disordered lives, and they strike 10 when they ought to strike ,, and they strike 12 when they ought to strike 6, and they strike 40 when they ought to strike nothing, and sud- denly they stop. Postmortem examina- ton reveals the fact that all the springs and pivots and weights and balance wheels of health are completely de- ranged The human clock is simply run down, and at the time when the steady hand ought to be pointing to the industrious hours on clear and sunlit dial the whole machinery of body, mind and earthly capacity stops forever. Oak Hill and Greenwood have thousands of h,,r x.,hn 1tn1 af .11 of 30, 90, 40, 45.
 Wants of Business Life.
 Now, what is wanted is grace-di. vine grace for ordinary business men, men who are harnessed from morn till night and all the days of their life harnessed in business. Not grace to lose $100, 900, but grace to lose $10. Not grace to supervise 250 employees in a factory, but grace to supervise the book keeper and two salesmen and the small boy that sweeps out the store. Grace to invest not the $50, 900 of net profit, but the $2, 500 of clear gain. Grace not to endure the loss of a whole shipload of spices from the Indies, but grace to en- dure the loss of paper of collars from the leakage of a displaced shingle on a poor roof. Grace not to endure the tardi- ness of the American congress in pass ing necessary law, but grace to endure the tardiness of an errand boy stopping to play marbles when he ought to de- liver the goods. Such a grace as thou sands of business men have today keeping them tranquil, whether goods sell or do not sell, whether customers pay or do not pay, whether tariff is up or tariff is down, whether the crops are luxuriant or Q dead failure-calm in all circumstances and amid all vicissi- tudes. That is the kind of grace we want.
 Millions of men want it, and they may have it for the asking. Some hero or heroine comes to town, and as the procession passes through the street the business men come out, stand on tiptoe on their store step and look at some one who in arctic cline, or in ocean storm, or in day of battle. or in hospital ago nies did the brave thing, not realizing that they, the enthusiastic spectators, have gone through trials in business life that are just as great before God. There are men who have gone through freezing arctics and burning torrids and awful Marengos of experiences with out moving five miles from their door, step.
 Christ's Friendship.
 Now, what ordinary business men need is to realize that they have the of that Christ who looked after the religious interests of Matthew, the custom house clerk, and helped Lydia of Thyatira to sell the dry goods and who opened a bakery and fish mar ket in the wilderness of Asia Minor to feed the 1000 who had come out on religious picnic and who counts the hairs of your head with as much partic- ularity as though they were the plumes of coronation, and who took the trou- ble to stoop down with his finger writ ing on the ground, although the first shuffle of feet obliterated the divine and who knows just how many locusts there were in the Egyp tian plague, and knew just how many ravens were necessary to supply Elijah's pantry by the brook Cherith, and who, as floral commander, leads forth all the regiments of primroses, foxgloves iaffodils, hyacinths and lilies which pitch their tents of beauty and kindle their campfires of color all around the hemisphere-that that Christ and that God knows the most minute affairs of your business life and however incon- understanding all the affairs of that woman who keeps thread and needle store as well as all the affairs of a Rothschild and Barring.
 Then there are all the ord dinary farm CTS. We talk about agricultural life, and we immediately shoot of to talk about Cincinnatus, the patrician, who went from the blow to high position, and after he got through the dictator ship in al days went back again to the blow. What encouragement is that to ordinary farmers? The vast majority of them-none of them will be patrioians. Perhaps none of them will be senators. If any of them have dictatorships, it will be over 40 or 50 or 100 acres of the old homestead What these men want is grace to keep their patience while blowing with balky oxen and to keep cheerful amid the drought that destroys the corn crop and that enables them to restore the garden the day after the cattle have broken in and trampled out the straw berry bed and gone through the Lima bean patch and eaten up the sweet corn in such large quantities that they must be kept from the water lest they swell up and die.
 Noble Husbandmen.
 Grace in catching weather that en- ables them, without imprecation, to spread out the hay the third time, al- though again and again and again it has been almost ready for the mow. A grace to doctor the COW with hollow horn. and the sheep with the foot rot, and the horse with the distemper and to compel the unwilling acres to yield a livelihood for the family, and school ing for the children, and little extras to help the older boy in business, and for the daughters wedding