Connecticut western news., 1898-12-15
Luther's Faith.


 There is a good deal of fanatioism abroad about the recovery of the sick, hut if we had as much faith as Martin Luther we would have Luther's suc- cess. His friend Myconius was very ill. and Luther fell upon his knees and said: 70 Lord, no Thou must not yet take our brother Myconius to myself. Thy cause will not prosper without him. Amen" Then he wrote: My Dear Myconius- There is no cause for fear. The Lord will not let me hear that you are dead. You shall not and must not die. Amen.". Luther's letter so excited My conius that an ulcer on his lungs broke, and he got we'll. Would to God that like that we might be able to pray, that we might have similar results Oh, men and women, visible and invisible, the probability is you will never write your autobiography. It is the most diff ficult book to write, because you are tempted to omit passages in your life that were not complimentary to your self, and to quote from a diary, which is always incomplete, because there are some things which you do not think best to write down. As you will not undertake an autobiography, the story of yourself, will take the responsible ity of presenting your biography, which is the story of one's life by some one else. If you will give your love and trust to him of Bethlehem and Calvary, this will be your biography: "Born at the right time. but the most important event in his life was when he was born again. Died at the right time, but long before that he had died unto sin. He had many crises, but in all of them was divinely directed: weaknesses, but they were divinely sympatbized with. In his life there were many sorrows, wave after wave, storm after storm, but he outrode everything and landed in eternal safety. Why? Why? Because the Lord shut him in"
 But do not think that heaven is made up of an indiscriminate population. Some of my friends are so generous in their theology that they would let every body in without reference to condition or character. Do not think that hber- tines and blasphemers and rejeoters of oOd uuu HIS HOspSi uhfO sCttcio Ot credit" that will draw anything from the bank of heaven. Pirate crafts will not be permitted to go up that harbor. If there are those who as to heaven are to be "shut ins, there are those who will belong to the "shut outs" Heaven has g gates, and while those 12 gates imply wide open entrance for those who are properly prepared to enter them they imply that there are at least l2 possibilities that many will be shut out, because gate is of no use unless it can sometimes be closed. Heaven is not an unwashed mob Show your tickets or you will not get in-tickets that you may get without money and without price, tickets with cross and . crow
 upon them. Let the unrepentant and the vile and the offscourings of earth enter heaven as they now are, and they would depreoiate and demoralize 1t SC that no one of us would want to anter, and those who are there would want to move out The Bible speaks of the "withouts" as we'll as the "withins. l. Revelation xii, 15, Without are dogs and sorcerers and whoremongers and murderers and idolaters and whosoevei loveth and maketh lie. {" Through the converting, pardoning, sanctifying grace of God may we at last be found among the shut ins and not among the shut outs