Connecticut western news., 1898-01-13

Time will pass on, and the son VIII be l6 or IF years of age, and you will be at the tea table, and he will shove back and have an engagement, and he will light bis cigar, and he will go out to the clubhouse, and you will hear nothing of him until you hear the night key in the door after midnight. But his physical constitution is not quite so strong as yours, and the liquor he drinks is more terrifically drugged than that which you drink, and so he will catch up with you on the road to death, though you got such long start of him, and so you will both go to hell together.
 The revolving Drummond light in front of hotel, in front of locomotive, may flash this way and flash that upon the mountains, upon the ravines, upon the city, but take the lamp of Gods eternal truth, and flash it upon all the clubhouses of these cities, so that no young man shall be deceived. By these tests try them, try them! Oh, leave the dissipating influences of the clubroom,
 if the influences of your clubroom are dissipating. Paid your money, have you? Better sacrifice that than your soul. Good fellows, are they? Under that process they will not remain such. Mollusca may be found 200. fathoms down beneath the Norwegian seas, Si- berian stag get fat on the stunted growth of Altaian peaks, hedysarium grows amid the desolation of Sahara. tufts of osier and birch grow on the hot lips of vol canic Sneehattan, but 0 pure heart and an honest life thrive in a dissipating elubhouse-never.
 The way to conquer wild beast IS to keep your eye on him, but the way for you to conquer your temptations, my friend, is to turn your back on them and fly for your life.
 Oh, my heart achesl see men strug- gling against evil habits, and they want help. 1 have knelt beside them, and have heard them cry for help, and then we have risen, and he has put one hand on my right shoulder and the other hand on my left shoulder and looked into my face with an infinity of earnest ness which the judgment day will have no power to make me forget as he has cried out with his lips scorched in ruin, , "God help mel' For such there is no help except in the Lord God Almighty. am going to make very stout rope. I ou know that sometimes a ropemaker will take very small threads and wind them together until after awhile they become ship cable. And am going to take some very small, delicate threads ] and wind them together until they
 make very stout rope. will take all the memories of the marriage day, a thread of laughter, thread of light, a thread of music, thread of banquet
 ing, thread of congratulation, and twist them together, and I have one strand. Then I take thread of the hour of the first advent in your house, a thread of the darkness that preceded, , and a thread of the light that followed, and a thread of the beautiful scarf that little child used to wear when she bounded out at eventide to greet you, and then a thread of the beautiful dress In which you laid her away for the res- urrection, and then I twist all these threads together, and I have another
 strand. Then take thread of the scar let robe of suffering Christ, and Q thread of the white raiment of your loved ones before the throne, and a string of the harp cherubic, and string of the harp seraphic, and twist them all together, and I have a third strand. "Oh, you say, "either strand is strong enough to hold fast a worldr' No. I will take these strands, and l will twist them together, and one end of that rope
 will fasten, not to the communion ta- ! ble, for it shall be removed-not to the
 pillar of the organ, for that will crum- ble in theages-but wind it round and round the cross of sympathizing Christ, and having i, ed one end of the rope to the cross 1 throw the other end to you. Lay hold of it! Pull for your lifel Pull for heaven!