Connecticut western news., 1898-04-28

"It is easier for camel to go through needles eye than for a rich man to enter the kingdom of heaven. What does that mean? It means that the grandest blessing God ever bestowed upon you was to take your money away from you. Let me here say, in passing, do not put much stress on the treasures of this world. You cannot take them along with you. At any rate, you can not take them more than two or three miles; you will have to leave them at the cemetery. Attila had three collins. So fond was he of this life that he decreed that first he should be buried in coffin of gold and that then that should be in closed in coffin of silver and that should be inclosed in coffin of iron, and then large amount of treasure should be thrown in over his body And so he was buried, and the men who buried him were slain, so that no one might know where he was buried and no one might there interfere with his treasures. Oh, men of the world, who want to take your money with you, bet ter have three coffins
 Helpful Thoughts
 Again, remark, you ought to make the very best of your bereavements. The whole tendency is to brood over these separations, and to give much time to the handling of mementos of the departed, and to make long visita- tions to the cemetery, and to say: "Oh, can never look up again. My hope IS gone; my courage is gone; my religion is gone; my faith in God is gone. Oh, the wear and tear and exhaustion of this loneliness. The most frequent be- reavement is the loss of children. If your departed child had lived aslong as you have lived, do you not suppose that he would have had about the same amount of trouble and trial that you have had? If you could make choice noyance loss, yexation,. exasperation and bereavements and 40 years in heav en, would you take the responsibility of choosing the former? Would you snatch away the cup of eternal bliss and put into that child's hands the cup of many bereavements? Instead of the complete safety into which that child has been lifted would you like to hold it down to the risks of this mortal state? Would you like to keep it out on sea in which there have been more ship wrecks than safe voyages? Is it not Q comfort to you to know that that child, instead of being besoiled and flung into the mire of sin, is swung clear into the skies? Are not those children to be con- graduated that the point of celestial bliss which you expect to reach by a pilgrimage of 50 or GO or 70 years they reached at fashi If the last 10, 900 children who had entered heaven had gone through the average of human life on earth, are you sure all those 10, 900 children would have finally reached the blissful terminus? Besides that, my friends, you are to look at this matter as self denial on your part for their benefit. If your children want to go off in May day party. Y your children want to go on a fowery and musical ex- oursion, you consent. You might prefer to have them with you, but their jubi- lant absence satisfies you. We'll. your departed children have only gone out in a May day party, amid fowery and mu- sical entertainment, amid joys and hi- larities forever. That ought to quell some of your grief, the thought of their glee.
 So it ought to be that you could make the best of all bereavements. The fact that you have so many friends in heaven will make your own departure very cheerful. When you are going on voy- age, everything depends upon where your friends are-if they are oil the wharf that you leave or on the wharf toward which you are going to sail. In other words, the more friends you have in heaven the easier 1t will be to get away from this world. The more friends here the more bitter goodbys; the more friends there the more glorious well comes. Some of you have so many brothers, sisters, children, friends in heaven that do not know hardly how you are going. to crowd through. When the vessel came from foreign lands and brought a prince to our harbor, the ships were covered with bunting, and you remember how the men of-war thundered broadsides, but there was no joy there compared with the joy which shall be demonstrated when you sail up tho broad bay of heavenly salutation. The more friends you have there the easier your own transit. What is death to a mother whose children are in heav- en? Why, there is no more grief in it than there is in her going into nursery amid the romp and laughter of her household. Though all around may he dark, see you not the bright light in the clouds-that light the irradiated faces of your glorified kindred?
 Making the Worst of Things.
 So also, my friends, I would have you make the best of your sicknesses. When you see one move off with elastic step and in full physical vigor, some- times you become impatient with your lame foot. When man describes an object mile off, and you cannot see it at all, you become impatient of your dim eye. When you hear of we'll man making a great achievement, you be- come impatient with your depressed nervous system or your dilapidated health. Twill tell you how you can make the worst of it. Brood over it; brood over all these illnesses, and your nerves will become more twitchy and your dyspepsia more aggravated, and your weakness more appalling. But that is the devils work, to tell you how to make the worst of it. It is my work to show you bright light in the clouds.
 Which of the Bible men most attract your attention? You say, Moses, Job, David, Jeremiah, Paul. Why, what strange thing it is that you have chosen those who were physically disorderedi Moses-I know he was nervous from the clip he gave the Egyptian. Job-his blood was vitiated and diseased, and his skin distressfully eruptive. David he had running sore, which he speaks of when he says, My sore ran ill the night and ceased not. Jeremiah had enlargement of the spleen. Who can doubt it who reads Lamentations? Paul