Connecticut western news., 1899-09-28

| luuu worry dDOul HIS TeputdtiOh' A'Vs
 much. If that broker who some years
 ago in Wall street, after he had lost | money, sat down and wrote a fare | well letter to his wife before he blew
 his brains out-if, instead of taking out
 of his pocket pistol, he had taken out well read New Testament, there
 would have been one less suicide.
 O nervous and feverish people of the
 world, try this almighty sedative! You l will live 9 years longer under It's | soothing power. It Is not chloral that you want or morphine that you want. | It is the gospel of Jesus Christ With
 long life will I satisfy him."
 | Again, practical religion is a friend | of longevity in the fact that 1t removes
 all corroding care about future ex- | istence Every man wants to know | what Is to become of him. If you get l on board a rail train, you want to know at what depot 1t Is going to stop.
 If you get on board ship, you want l to know into what harbor 1t Is going | to run. And if you should tell me you have no interest in what Is to be your | future destiny I would, in as polite
 way as I know how, tell you did not believe you. Before I had this matter
 settled with reference to my future | existence the question almost worried me into ruined health. The anxieties ! men have upon this subject put to- | gether would make a martyrdom. This | Is a state of awful unhealthiness. | There are people who fret themselves | to death for fear of dying. l want to take the strain off your nerves and | the depression off your soul, and l | make two or three experiments. Elk | pertinent first: When you go out of this | world, it does not make any difference | whether you have been good or bad, whether you believed truth or error, | you will go straight to glory. I'm
 possible" you say. My common sense
 us we'll as my religion teaches that the
 bad and the good cannot live together | forever. You give me no comfort in l that experiment" Experiment the sec
 ond: When you leave this world. you | will go into an intermediate state, where you can get converted and pre- pared for heaven. Impossible" you | say. AS the tree falleth, so must it
 lie, and cannot postpone to an inter mediate state reformation which ought | to have been effected in this state." Experiment the third: There is no fu- ture world. When man dies, that Is the last of him. Do not worry about what you are to do in another state of
 being. You will not do anything. I'm possible" you say. "There is some
 thing that tells me that death is not 1 the appendix, but the preface to life. There Is something that tells me that on this side of the grave only get
 started and that shall go on forever. | My power to think says forever my
 affections say forever my capacity l to enjoy or suffer, forever"
 The Healing Balm.
 l Well, you defeat me in my three ex- l periments. I have only one more to l make, and If you defeat me in that I
 am exhausted: A mighty One on
 knoll back of Jerusalem one day, the
 skies filled with forked lightnings and the earth filled with volcanic disturb ances, turned his pale and agonized ] face toward the heavens and said: 'I
 take the sins and sorrows of the ages | tion. Witness earth and heaven and
 hell, I am the expiation." And the 1 hammer struck him, and the spears punctured him. and heaven thundered:
 The wages of sin Is deathr' '"The soul l that sinneth, 1t shall dier' 'T will by
 no means clear the guiltyw Then there was silence for half an hour, and the l lightnings were drawn back into the scabbard of the sky, and the earth
 ceased to culver, and all the colors of
 the sky began to shift into a rainbow
 woven out of the falling tears of Jesus, and there was red as of the bloodshed- ding, and there was blue as of the
 bruising, and there was green as of
 the heavenly foliage, and there was orange as of the day dawn, and along | the line of the blue I saw the words,
 '1 was bruised for their iniquities," l md along the line of the red saw the l words, "The blood of Jesus Christ cleanseth from all sin," and along the line of the green I saw the words, "The leaves of the Tree of Life for the heal ing of the nations" and along the line I of the orange I saw the words, '"The l day spring from on high hath visited us," and then I saw the storm was
 over, and the rainbow rose higher and l higher until 1t seemed retreating to
 another heaven, and, planting one col
 umn of it's colors on one side the eter-
 nal hill, and planting the other col
 umn of its cofors on the other side the eternal hill, 1t rose upward and up
 ward, land, behold, there was a rain
 bow about the throne" Accept that
 sacrifice and quit worrying. Take the
 tonic, the inspiration, the longevity, of
 this truth. Religion Is sunshine; that
 Is health. Religion is fresh air and pure water; they are healthy. Religion | Is warmth; that Is healthy. Ask all
 the doctors, and they will tell you that
 a quiet conscience and pleasant antici-
 pations are hygienic. offer you per I feet peace now and hereafter.
 What do you want in the future
 world? Tell me, and you shall have
 1t. Orchards? There are the trees
 with twelve manner of fruits, yield
 ing fruit every month. Water sceneryf There is the river of Life from under
 the throne of God, clear as crystal and
 the sea of glass mingled with fire. Do
 you want music? There is the oratorio
 of the Creation led on by Adam, and
 the oratorio of the Red sea led on by
 Moses, and the oratorio of the Messiah
 led on by St. Paul, while the archangel
 with swinging baton controls the one
 hundred and forty-four thousand who
 make up the orchestra. Do you want
 reunion? There are your children
 waiting to kiss you, waiting to em-
 brace you, waiting to twist garlands In
 your hair. You have been accustomed
 to open the door on this side the
 sepulcher. open the door on the oth-
 CT side the sepulcher. You have been
 accustomed to walk in the wet grass
 on the top of the grave. show you
 the under side of the grave. The bot | tom has fallen out, and the long ropes | wit xr1 al, IA l