Connecticut western news., 1899-05-11

| your place to hear Gods name, and to
 sing God praise, and to implore Gods | help, and to ask Gods forgivenessf l Bless the Lord who healeth all our dis
 eases and redeemeth our lives from de- 1 struction!
 Tears Wiped Away.
 Perhaps your last sorrow was finan- | cial embarrassment. I congratulate , some of you on your lucrative profes- sion or occupation, on ornate apparel, ! on commodious residence-everythin l you put your hands on seems to turn to | gold. But there are others of you who 1 are like the ship on which Paul sailed | where two seas met, and you are bro- 1 ken by the violence of the waves By ] an unadyised indorsement, or by con- | junction of unforeseen events, or by fire or storm, or senseless panic, you have
 been flung headlong, and where you | once dispensed great charities now you have hard work to win your daily l bread. Have you forgotten to thank
 God for your days of prosperity, and | that through your trials some of you ! have made investments which will con- | tinue after the last bank of this world 1 has exploded, and the silver and gold ! are molten in the fires of a burning 1 world2 Have you, amid all your losses ! and discouragements, forgot that there 1 was bread on your table this morning, I and that there shall be shelter for l your head from the storm, and there is
 air for your lungs, and blood for your ! heart, and light for your eye, and ! glad and glorious and triumphant reli- I zion for your soulf
 Perhaps your last trouble was be- l reavement. That heart which in child hood was your refuge, the parental I heart, and which has been a source of 1 the quickest sympathy ever since, has ! suddenly become silent forever. And ! now sometimes, whenever in sudden annoyance and without deliberation you say, 1T will go and tell mother, the ! thought flashes on you, ''1 have no | mother" '" Or the father, with voice less
 tender, but with heart as loving, watch | ful of all your ways, exultant over your | success without saying much, although I the old people do talk it over by them | selves, his trembling hand on that staff l which you now keep as family relic, | bis memory embalmed in grateful | hearts = is taken away forever. Or | there was your companion in life, sharer ! of your joys and sorrows, taken, leaving l the heart an old ruin, where the ill | winds blow over wide wilderness of | desolation, the sands of the desert driv | ing across the place which once bloom l ed like the garden of God. And Abra- l ham mourns for Sarah at the cave of | Machpelah As you were moving along | your path in life, suddenly, right be- | fore you, was an open grave. People l looked down, and they saw it was only ] few feet deep and a few feet wide, ! but to you it was a cavern down which went all your hopes and all your expec | tations. But cheer up in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ the Comforter. | He is not going to forsake you. Did the | Lord take that child out of your arms ! Why, he is going to shelter it better l than you could. He is going to array it i in a white robe and palm branch and | have it all ready to greet you at your | coming home. Blessed the broken heart i that Jesus healsl Blessed the importu-
 nate cry that Jesus compassionatesl Blessed the weeping eye from which the ] soft hand of Jesus wipes away the tear' Glorious Eternity.
 Some years ago was sailing down | the St. John river, which is the Rhine l and the Hudson commingled in enc
 scene of beauty and grandeur, and while
 was on the deck of the steamer gen. tleman pointed out to me the places of ] .~A l. Lx. .a :.~A1
 val land, and it is the richest land in all the provinces of New Brunswick and Nova Scotia. What" said I, ''do
 you mean by interval land F'' "Well," he said, "this land is submerged for a l part of the year; spring frcshets come
 down, and all these plains are over | flowed with the water, and the water
 leaves a rich deposit, and when the wa | ters are gone the harvest springs up,
 and there is richer harvest than l i know of elsewhere. And instantly
 thought, "It is not the heights of the
 church, and it is not the heights of this
 world that are the scene of the greatest
 prosperity, but the soul over which the
 floods of sorrow have gone, the soul
 over which the freshets of tribulation ! have torn their way, that yields the
 greatest fruits of righteousness and the
 largest harvest for time and the richest i harvest for eternity" Bless God that
 your soul is interval land
 There is one more point of absorbing
 reminiscence, and that is the last hour of life, when we have to look over all
 our past existence. What moment
 that will bel place Napoleon s dying
 reminiscence on St. Helena beside Mrs. | Judson dying reminiscence in the har-
 Dor of St. Helena, the same island, 20
 years after Napoleon's dying reminis- /! cence was one of delirium-"Tete 'ar-
 mee'-"Head of the army" Mrs. Jud sons dying reminiscence, as she came
 home from her missionary toll and her
 life of self sacrifice for God, dying in
 the cabin of the ship in the harbor of | St. Helena, was, .'I always did love the | Lord Jesus Christ" And then the his
 torian says she fell into sound sleep | for an hour and woke amid the songs
 of angels. place the dying reminis- cence of Augustus Caesar against the ] dying reminiscence of the apostle Paul. ! The dying reminiscence of Augustus | Cesar was, addressing his attendants.
 Have I played my part we'll on the
 stage of life? and they answered in the
 affirmative. and he said, "Why, then, don't you applaud mef' The dying
 reminiscence of Paul the apostle was, 'I have fought a good fight, have finished
 my course, I have kept the faith; hence
 forth there is laid up for me a crown of righteousness, which the Lord, the
 righteous Judge, will give me in that day, and not to me only, but to all
 them that love his appearing" Angus
 tus Caesar died amid pomp and great surroundings, Paul uttered his dying
 reminiscence locking up through the wall of dungeon. God grant that our | dying pillow may be the closing of