Connecticut western news., 1899-11-16

 saved and lostg' There satan thrusts in the mathematics of redemption. He suggests that you find out the mathe- matical proportion of the redeemed. But be not deceived. am now dis cussing the eternal welfare of only two persons. yourself and myself. Get ourselves right before we bother our selves about getting others right. O Christ, come hlther and master our easel Here are our sins-pardon them; our wounds-heal them; our burdens-lift them; our sorrows-com- fort them. We want the Christ of Christ of Martha to help us In our do mestic cares, the Christ of Oliyet to help us preach our sermons, the Christ of Lake Galllee to still our tempests the Christ of Lazarus to raise our dead. Not too tired Is he to come though he has on his whipped shoul ders so long carried the worlds woe and on his lacerated feet walked this way to accept our salutation.
 The Royal Banquet.
 By the bloody throes of the noun tain on which Jesus died, and by the sepulcher where his mutilated body was inclosed in darkened crypt, and by the Olivet from which he arose while astonished disciples clutched for his robes to detain him In their compan- ionship, and by the radiant and omnip- otent throne on which he sits waiting for the coming of all those whose re- demption was settled in heaven. 1 im- plore you bow your head in immediate and final submission. Once exercise sorrow for what you have done and ex- ercise trust In him for what he Is will ing to do, and all Is we'll for both worlds. Then you can swing out de fiance to all opposition, human and diabolic. In eonquering his foes he con- quered yours. And have you noticed that passage in Colossians that repre- sents him having despoiled principali ties and powers, he made a show of them. openly triumphing," so bringing before us that overwhelming spectacle of Roman triumph
 When Pompey landed at Brindisi Italy, returned from his victories, he disbanded the brave men who had fought under him and sent them re joicing to their homes, and, entering Rome, his emblazoned chariot was fol lowed by princes in chains from king doms he had conquered, and flowers such as only grew under those Italian skies strewed the way, and he came under arches inscribed with the names of battlefelds on which he had tri- umphed and rode by columns which told of the 1,5OO cities he had destroyed and the 12,000,00O people he had con- quered or slain. Then the banquet was spread, and out of the chalices filled to the brim they drank to the health of the conqueror. Belisarius, the great soldier, returned from his military achievements and was robed in purple, and in the procession were brought golden thrones and pillars of precious stones and the furniture of royal feasts, and amid the splendors of kingdoms overcome he was hailed to the hippodrome by shouts such as had seldom rung through the capital. Then also came the convivialities.
 In the year 274 Aurelian made his entrance to Rome in triumphal car, In which he stood while a winged fig ure of Victory held a wreath above his head. Zenobia, captive queen of Pal myra, walked behind his chariot, her person encircled with letters of gold, under the weight of which she nearly fainted. but still a captive. And there were in the procession POO lions and tigers and beasts of many lands and 1,60O gladiators excused from the cruel amphitheater that they might decorate the day, and Persian and Ara bian and Ethiopian ambassadors were in the procession and the long line of cap lives, Egyptians. Syrians. Gauls. Goths and Vandals
 It was to such scenes that the New Testament refers when 1t speaks of Christ having despoiled principalities and powers. he made a show of them. openly triumphing" But. oh. the diff ference in those triumphs! The Ro- man triumph represented arrogance. cruelty, oppression and wrong, but Christ's triumph meant emancIpation and holiness and joy. The former was procession of groans, accompanied by a clank of chains, the other a pro- cession of hosannas by millions set forever free. The only shackled ones of Christ's triumph will be satan and his cohorts tied to our Lords chariot wheel, with all the abominations of all the earth bound for an eternal cap tivity. Then will come a feast In which the chalices will be filled with the new wine of the kingdom" Under arches commemorative of all the bat ties in which the bannered armies of the church militant through thousands of years of struggle have at last won the day Jesus will ride. Conqueror of earth and hell and heaven. Those armies. disbanded. will take palaces and thrones. And they shall come from the east and the west and the north and the south and sit down in the kingdom of God" And may you and I, through the pardoning and sane tifying grace of Christ, be guests at that royal banquet!
 An UnIucky Postman.