Connecticut western news., 1899-02-16


 care ever the eocs in the grave. Notu. ing but the old fashioned religion of Jesus Christ can take a woman happily through home trials All these modern religions amount to nothing. They do not help They do not comfort when there is dead babe in the house. Away with them and give us the old fashioned religion of Jesus Christ, that has com forted so many in the days of sorrow and troublel .. -...... ..&
 Romance VIII Not samce.
 Romance and novelty may for lit tie while seem to be substitute. The marriage day has only gone by, just gone by, and all household cares arc atoned for by the joy of being together and by the fact that when it is late at night it is not necessary to discuss whether it is time to go. All the mis- haps of the newly married couple in the way of household affairs are not matters of anxiety or apprehension, but merriment- The loaf of bread turned into geological specimen, the slushy custards and jaundiced and measly bis cults. Oh. it is very bright sunlight that falls upon the cutlery and mantel ornaments of a new holnel Romance and novelty will do for little while, but after awhile the romance is all gone and there is loaf to be made, loaf that cannot be sweetened by any earthly condiments and cannot be fla vored with any earthly favors and can not be baked in any ordinary oven. It is the loaf of domestic happiness. All the ingredients from heaven. Fruit from the tree of life and sweetened with the new wine of the kingdom and baked in the oven of home trial God only can make that loaf. You can cut it, but it takes God to make it.
 Solomon wrote out of his own miser- able experience-he had wretched home no man can be happy with two wives, much less with TOO, and out of his wretched experience he wrote-"Bet- ter is dinner of herbs where love IS than stalled OK and hatred there with" Oh, the responsibilities of house keepers Kings by their indigestion have lost empires and generals through indigestion have lost battles. One of the great statisticians says that out of 1000 unmarried men 30 were crimi- nals, and out of 1, 900 married men only 18 were criminals, showing the power of home. And, oh, the responsibility resting upon housekeepers By the food they provide, by the couch they spread, by the books they introduce, by the in- fuence they bring around the home, they are helping to decide the physical, the intellectual, the moral, the eternal welfare of the human race. Oh, the re- sponsibility
 That woman sits in the house of God today perhaps entirely unappreciated. She is the banker of her home, the pres ident, the cashier, the teller, the dis count clerk, and ever and anon there is 8 panic. God knows the anxieties and the cares, and he knows that this is not useless sermon, but that there are multitudes of hearts waiting for the distillation of the divine mercy and solace in their hour of trials and their home duties and their own fatigues. The world hears nothing about them. They never speak about them. You could not with the agonies of an inquisition bring the truth out of them-> They keep it still They say nothing They endure and will until God and the judgment right their wrongs. Oh, but says some sister, Are you not trying to show that all woman's life at home is one of self sacrificef'' Yes, my sister, and that is the only kind of life worth liv- ing. That has been the life of Florence Nightingale; that was the life of Ed ward Payson; that was the life of the Lord Jesus Christ; that is the life of every man or woman that is happy-a life of self sacrifice. Those people living for themselves-are they happyi Find me one. Twill give you all the nations of the earth to find me one. Not happy mo, not happy.
 Self Sacrifice Brings Happiness.
 It is the self sacrificing people that are happy, for God pays so largely. so gloriously, so magnifcently, in the deep and eternal satisfactions of the soul Self sacrifcei We all admire it in others. How little we exercise of iti How much would we enduref How much would we risk for othersf A very rough schoolmaster had poor lad that had offended the laws of the school. and he ordered him to come up. "Now,' he said, .'you take off your coat instantly and receive this whip" The boy declined. and more vehement ly the teacher said; 'I tell you, now, take off your coat Take it off instant ly." The boy again declined. It was not because he was afraid of the lash; he was used to that in his cruel home. But it was for shame. He had no under garments, and when at last he removed his coat there went up sob of emotion all through the school as they saw why he did not wish to remove his coat, and as they saw the shoulder blades almost cutting through the skin. As the school master lifted his whip to strike a rose ate, healthy boy leaped up and said: "Stop, schoolmaster; whip me. He is only a poor chap; he can't stand it. Whip me" "Oh," said the teacher, "it's going to be very severe scourg ingl But if you want to take the posi- tion of a substitute, you can do it. '' The boy said: ''I don't care; whip me. I'll take it; he's only 8 poor chap. Don't you see the bones almost come through the aeshf Whip me. And when the blows came down on the boys shoulders, this healthy, robust lad made no outcry; he endured it all uncom- plainingly. We all say ''Bravop fer that lad. Bravol That is the spirit of Christ Splendidi How much scourg- ing, how much chastisement, how much anguish will you and take for othersf Oh, that we might have something of that boys spirit Aye, that we might have something of the spirit of Jesus Christ; for in all our occupations and trades and businesses, and all our life home life, foreign life-we are to re- member that the sacrifice for others will soon be over.