Connecticut western news., 1898-05-05

tne BOSpel nal1 us nuCn as uO some WHO never come here. Rather than be prid ing myself on church in front of which there shall halt 90 splendid equipages on the Sabbath day, I would have a church up to whose gates there should come long procession of the suffering, and the stricken, and the dying, beg ging for admittance. You do not need the gospel as much as they. You have good things in this life. Whatever may be your future destiny, you have had pleasant time here. But those dying populations of which speak, by reason of their want and suffering, whatever may be their future destiny, are in per dition now, and if there be any con- fort in Christ's gospel, for Gods sake give 1t to them
 Revolution The pride of the church must come down. The exclusiveness of the church must come downl The finan- oial boastings of the church must come downl If monetary success were the chief idea ill the church, then say that the present mode of conducting finances is the best. If it is to see how many dollars you can gain, then the present mode is the best. But if it is the saving of souls from sin and death, and bring ing the mighty populations of our cities to the knowledge of God, then cry, Revolutioni It is coming fast. feel it in the air. I hear the rumbling of an earthquake that shall shake down, in one terrific crash, the arrogance of our modern Christianity.
 f., h xxTrn pl-C aT1A multitudes are drowning. We come out with the church lifeboat, Hnd the peo- pie begin to chamber in, and we shout: "Stop. stop! You must think it costs nothing to keep lifeboat. Those seats at the prov are $1 apiece, these i'll the middle 50 cents, and those seats i'll the stern 3 shillings. Please to pay up, or else founder on a little longer till the mission boat, whose work it is to save and pick you up. We save only first class sinners in this boat. "
 The talk is whether Protestant churches or Roman Catholic churches are coming out ahead. tell you, Prot estants, this truth plainly, that until your churches are as free as are the Ro- man Catholic oathedrals they will beat you. In their cathedrals the millionaire and the beggar kneel side by side. And until that time comes in our churches we cannot expect the favor of God or permanent spiritual prosperity.
 Revolution It may be that before the church learns it's duty to the masses God will scourge it and come with the whip of omnipotent indignation and drive out the money changers. It may be that there is to be a great day of up setting before that time shall come. If it must conc, o Lord God, let it come now.
 Day of Great Revivals.
 In that future day of the reconstruct ed church of Christ the church building will be the most cheerful of all build ings. Instead of the light of the sun strained through painted glass until an intelligent auditory looks green and blue and yellow and copper colored we will have no such things. The pure at- mcsphere of heaven will sweep out the fetid atmosphere that has been kept in many of our churches boxed up from Sunday to Sunday. The day of which l speak will be a day of great revivals. There will be such time as there was in the parish of Shotts, where 500 souls ware born to God in one day; such times,as were seen in this country when Edwards gave the alarm, when Tennent preached and Whitetield thundered and Edward Payson prayed; such times as some of you remember in 1857, when the voice of prayer and praise was heard in theater, and warehouse, and blacksmith shop, and factory, and en- zine house, and the auctioneer' cry of "a half, and half, and half" was drowned out by the adjoining prayer meeting, in which the people cried out, "Men and brethren, what shall we do?"
 In those days of which I am speaking the services of the church of God will be more spirited. The ministers of Christ, instead of being anxious about whether they are going to lose~ their place in their notes will get on fire with the theme and pour the living truth of God upon an aroused auditory -crying out to the righteous, "It shall be we'll with youl" and to the wicked: "Woel It shall be i'll with you." In those days the singing will be very diff ferent from what it is now. The music will weep and vail and chant and tri- umph. People then will not be afraid to open their mouths sen they sing. The man with cracked voice will risk it on "Windham" and "Ortonville' and lGI- e AI. l find the place for his grandchild in the hymnbook, or the little child will be spec- tacles for the grandfather. Hosanna will meet hosanna, and together go climbing to the throne, and the angels will hear, and God will listen, and the gates of heaven will hoist, and it will be as when two seas meet-the wave of earth ly song mingling with the surging an thems of the free.
 O my God, let me live to see that day! Let there be no power in disease or accident or wave of the sea to disap- | point my expectations. Let all other sight fail my eyes rather than that 1 should miss that vision. Let all other | sounds fail my ears rather than that should fail to hear that sound. I want to stand on the mountain top, to catch the first ray of the dawn and with fly ing feet bring the news. And, oh, when we hear the clattering hoofs that bring | on the kings chariot may we all be ready, with arches sprung and with hand on the rope of the bell that is to sound the victory and with wreaths all twisted for the way, and when Jesus dismounts let it be amid the huzza, huzza of a world redeemedl
 Where and when will that revolution | begin? Here and now. In your heart | and mine. Sin must go down; our pride must go down; our worldliness must go down, that Christ may come up. Revolution! Except 0 man be l born again he cannot see the kingdom of God" Why not now let the revolu- tion begin? Not next Sabbath, but now. | Not tomorrow, when you go out into