Connecticut western news., 1898-04-28
LIGHT IN THE CLOUDS
DR. TALMAoe SAYS WE MUST LOOK
 FOR SUNSHINE.

of Life-MRke the Best of Misfortune.
 Wealth Often Destroys The Young
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 WASHINGTON, April 24.-This sermon of Dr. Talmage will have tendency to take the gloom out of many lives and stir up spirit of healthful antioipa- tion; text. Job xxxvii, 2l, And now men sec not the bright light which is in the clouds"
 Wind east. Barometer falling. Storm signals out Ship reeGng maintopsail. Awnings taken in. Prophecies of foul weather everywhere The clouds con- gregate around the sun, prosposing to abolish him. But after awhile he assails the Hanks of the clouds with flying ar tillery of light and here and there is a sign of clearing weather. Many do not observe it. Many do not realize it, And now men sec not the bright light which is in the clouds. In other words, there are hundred men looking for storm where there is one man look ing for sunshine My object will be to get you and myself into the delightful habit of making the best of every thing.
 You may have wondered at the sta tistics that in India, in the year 1875, thare were over 19,000 people slain by wild beasts, and that in the year 1876 there were in India over 90, 900 people destroyed by wild animals. But there is a monster in our own land which is year by year destroying more than that. It is the old bear of melancholy, and with gospel weapons l propose to chase it back to its midnight caverns, mean to do two sums-a sum in subtraction and sum in addition-a subtraction from your days of depression and an ad- ,lition to your days of joy. If God will bright light that there is in the clouds and compel you to make the best of ev erything.
 In the first place, you ought to mako the very best of all your financial mis- fortunes. During the panic few years ago you all lost money. Some of you lost it in most unaccountable ways. For the question, "How many thousands of dollars shall put aside this year!" you substituted the question, "Uow shall pay my butcher and baker and clothier and landlordf" You had the sensation of rowing hard with two oars and yet all the time going down stream.
 A Destroying Power.
 You did not say much about it be- cause it was not politio to speak much of financial em mbarrassment, but your wife knew. Less variety of wardrobe, more economy at the table, self denial in art and tapestry. Compression; re- trenchment Who did not feel the ne- cessity of it? My friend, did you make the best of this? Are you aware of how narrow an escape you made? Suppose you had reached the fortune toward which you were rapidly going? What then? You would have been as proud as Lucifer.
 How few men have succeeded largely in financial sense and yet maintained their simplicity and religious consecra- tionl Not one man out Of hundred. There are glorious exceptions, but the general rule is that in proportion as a man gets we'll off for this world he gets poorly off for the next. He loses his sense of dependence on God. He gets distaste for prayer meetings. With plenty of bank stocks and plenty of gov ernment securities, what does that man know of the prayer, "Give me this day | my daily bread?" How few men largely successful in this world are bringing nlc fn( jet chnx al for others or are eminent for piety? You can count them all upon your eight fin gers and two thumbs.
 One of the old covetous souls, when he was sick and sick unto death, used to have basin brought ina basin fill ed with gold-and his only amusement and the only relief he got for his in- famed hands was running them down through the gold and turning it up in the basin. Oh, what infatuation and what destroying power money has for many a manl Now, you were sailing at 80 knots the hour toward these vortices of worldiiness-what mercy it was, that honest defalcationl The same di- vine hand that crushed your storehouse, your bank, your office, your insurance company, lifted you out of destruction. The day you honestly suspended in busi- ness made your fortune for eternity.
 'Oh," you say, "I could get along very we'll myself, but I am so disap- pointed that 1 cannot leave competence for my children. My brother, the same financial misfortune that is going to save your soul will save your children. fha oi oF how much industry would your chil- dren have, without which habit of in- dustry there is no safety? The young man wonld say: Well. there's TO need of my working. My father will soon step out, and then I'll have just what want You cannot hide from him how much you are worth. You think you are hiding it. He knows all about It. He can tell you almost to dollar. Perhaps he has been to the county office and searched the records of deeds and mort gages, and be has added it all up, and he has made an estimate of how long you will probably stay in this world and is not as much worried about your rheumatism and shortness of breath as you are The only fortune worth any thing that you can give your child is the fortune you put in his head and heart. Of all the young men who start ed life with $40, 900 capital how many turned out we'll? do not know half a dozen.
 The Best Inheritance.
 The hest inheritance a young man can have is the feeling that be has to fight his own battle and that life is a struggle into which he must throw body. mind and soul or be disgracefully worsted Where are the burial places of the men who started life with fortune? Some of them i'll the potter's field, some in tho suicides grave. But few of these men reached 35 years of age. They drank, they smoked, they gambled. In them the beast destroyed the man. Some of them lived long enough to get their fortunes and went through them