Connecticut western news., 1898-10-06

hood into old age Very distinguished are Lord StaGord's hounds, the Earl of Yarborough's hounds and the Duke of Rutland's hounds, and Queen Victoria pays $S, 300 year to her master of buckhounds But all of them put togeth- CT do not equal in number or speed or power to hunt down the aleat kennel of hounds of which sin and trouble are owner and master.
 But what is relief for all this pur- suit of trouble and annoyance and pain and bereavement My text gives it to you in word of three letters, but each letter is chariot if you would triumph, or throne if you want to be crowned, or lake if you would slake your thirst -yes 8 chain of three lakes-G-O-D, the one for whom David longed, and the one whom David found. You might as well meet stag which after its sixth mile of running at the topmost speed through thicket and gorge, and with the breath of the dogs on it's heels. has come in full sight of Scroon lake, and try to cool its projecting and blistered tongue with drop of dew from blade of grass as to attempt to satisfy an immor- tai soul when flying from trouble and sin with anything less deep and high and broad and immense and infinite and eternal than God. His comfort-why, 1t embosoms all distress. His arm, 1t wrenches off all bondage. His hand, 1t wipes away all tears. His Christly atonement. it makes us all right with the past and all right with the future, all right with God and all right with man and all right forever. Lamartine tells us that King Nimrod said to his three sons: "Here are three vases, and one is of clay. another of amber and another of gold. Choose now which you will have" The eldest son, having first choice, chose the vase of gold, on which was written the word Empire, and when opened it was found to contain human blood. The second son, making the next choice, chose the vase of ann Der, inscribed with the word "Glory," and when opened it contained the ashes of those who were once called great. Tue third son took the vase of clay, and, opening it, found it empty, but on the bottom of it was inscribed the name of God King Nimrod asked his courtiers
 
 most. The avaricious men of his court said the vase of gold. The poets said the one of amber, but the wisest men said the empty vase, because one letter of the name of God outweighed universe.
 Gods Promise.
 For him thirst, for his grace beg, on his promise build my all. Without him I cannot be happy. I have tried the world, and it does we'll enough as far as it goes, but it is too uncertain world, too evanescent world. l am not prejudiced witness. I have noth- ing against this world. I have been one of the most fortunate, or, to use more Christian word, one of the most blessed of men-blessed in my parents, blessed in the place of my nativity, blessed in my health, blessed in my field of work, blessed in my natural temperament, blessed in my family, blessed in my op- portunities, blessed in comfortable livelihood, blessed in the hope that my soul will go to heaven through the par doning mercy of God, and my body, un less it be lost at sea or cremated in some confagration, will lie down in the gar dens of Greenwood among my kindred and friends, some already gone and oth- CTS to come after me. Life to many has been disappointment, but to me 1t has been 8 pleasant surprise. and yet l de- clare that if did not feel that God was now my friend and ever present help I should be wretched and terror stricken. But I want more of him. I have thought over this text and preached this sermon to myself until with all the aroused energies of my body, mind and soul caL cry out, "As the hart panteth after the water brooks, so panteth my soul after thee, O God"
 Through Jesus Christ make this God your God, and you can withstand any thing and everything, and that which affrights others will inspire you. As in time of an earthquake when an old Christian woman was asked whether she was scared answered, "No, am glad that have God who con shake the world, |" or, as in a financial panic, when Christian merchant was asked if he did not fear he would break, an- swered: "Yes shall break when the Fiftieth Psalm breaks in the fifteenth verse, Call upon me in the day of trou- ble; will deliver thee and thou shalt glorify me-" Oh, Christian men and women, pursued of annoyanoes and ex- asperations. remember that this hunt, whether 8 still hunt or O hunt in full cry, will soon be over. If ever a whelp looks ashamed and ready to slink out of sight, 1t is when in the Adirondacks a deer by one tremendous plunge into Big Tupper lake gets away from him. The disappointed canine swims in little way, but, defeated, swims out again and cringes with humiliated yawn at the feet of his master. And how abashed and ashamed will all your earthly trou- bles be when you have dashed into the river from under the throne of God, and the heights and depths of heaven are between you and your pursuers.
 The Eternal Brooks.
 We are told in Revelation xii, 15, Without are dogs" by which I con- clude there is whole kennel of hounds outside the gate of heaven. or, as when master goes in through door his dog lies on the steps waiting for him to come out, so the troubles of this life may follow us to the shining door, but they cannot get in. "Without are dogsl" I have seen dogs and owned dogs that would not be chagrined to see in the heavenly city. Some of the grand Old watchdogs who are the oonsta bulary of the homes in solitary places and for years have been the only protection for wife and child, some of the shepherd dogs that drive back the wolves and bark away the flocks from going too near the precipice, and some of the dogs whose neoks and paws Landseer, the painter, has made immortal, would not find me shutting them out from the gate of shining pearl. Some of those old St. Bernard dogs that have lifted perishing travellers out of the Alpine snow, the