Connecticut western news., 1899-11-16

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 ment. All that Is settled in heaven. Gods Cause.
 Another thing decided in the high | places of the universe Is that this world, with or without us, will be | made over into a scene of arbores= | cence and purity. Do not think that such a consummation depends upon our personal fidelity. It will be done | anyhow. Gods cause does not go l a-begging. If all the soldiers of Jesus | Christ now living should become de- | serters and go over to the enemy, that would not defeat the cause. large | part of the Bible Is taken up with tell Ing us what the world will be. There Is a large army, human and angelic, now in the field, but Gods reserve forces are more numerous and more | mighty than those now at the front, and if he could in Gideon's time rout | the Midianites with crash of crock cry, and if he could In Shamgars time overcome a host with an OK goad. and If in Samson's time he could defeat an army with a bleached jawbone. and if the walls of Jericho went down under a blast of perforated rams horn. and if in Christ's day blind eyes were cured by ointment of spittle, then God can do anything he says he will do. AS yet he has taken only one sword out of whole armory of weapons. Do not get nervous. as if the Lord were going to be defeated. The redemption of these hemispheres was settled in heaven, and Isaiah and Ezekiel and Habakkuk and Malachi and St. John only reported what the Lord God Al mighty had decided upon. My only fear is that our regiment will not get into the fight to do something worthy of the Christ who redeemed us and we be left in lazy encampment at Tampa when we ought to have been at San tiago. Oh, that coming day of the worlds perfection! The earth will be so chang ed that the sermonology will be chang ed. There will be DO more calls to re pentance, for all will have repented; no more gathering of aims for the poor for the poor will have been en- riched; no hospital Sunday, for dis jointed bones will have been set and
  ble diseases of other times will have been overcome by materia medica and a pharmacy and a dentistry and therapeutics that have conquered everything that afflicted nerve or lung or tooth or eye or limb-healtholegy complete and universal. The poultice and the ointment and the panacea and the catholicon and the surgeons knife and the dentists forceps and the sci- sntist's X ray will have fulfilled their mission.
 Gospel Influences.
 The social life of the world will be perfected. In that millennial age l imagine ourselves standing In front of house lighted for levee. We enter among groups filled with gladness and talking good sense and rallying each other In pleasantries and in every pos sible way forwarding good neighbor- hood; no looking askance. no whis- pered backbiting, no strut of preten- sion, no oblivion of some ones pres ence because you do not want to know him; each one happy, determined on
 making some one else happy; words of honest appreciation instead of hollow flattery; suavities and genialities in- stead of inflations and pomposltfes; equipage and upholstery and sculpture and painting paid for; two hours of mental and moral improvement; all the guests able to walk as steadily down the steps of that mansion as when they ascended them; no awaking next morning with aching head and bloodshot eye and incompetent for the days duties; the social life as perfect as refinement and common sense and culture and prosperity and religion can make it; the earth made better than 1t was at the start, and all through gospelizing influences, directly or in- directly.
 l suppose the greatest tidal wave that ever rolled the seas was that which in 1868 was started by the Pc ruvian earthquake. At Africa, Peru, the wave was 50 feet high and swung war ships a mile forward on the land. At San Pedro, Cal, the wave was 60 feet high. It moved on to the Sandwich ls- lands and submerged some of them and beat against the shores of New Zealand and rolled up the beach of Ja- pan and stopped not until 1t had en- circled the entire globe. Oh, what wave! But the earthquake that shook the mountain where our Lord died started higher and swifter and mightier tidal wave that y-ill roll round and round the earth until all its rebel lions and abominations have gone un- der.
 That was an exciting scene after the battle of Bosworth, which was fought between Richard III and the earl of Richmond, the king falling and the earl triumphing, when Lord Stanley brought the crown and handed 1t to the earl, seated on horseback, while the dying and the dead of the battle were lying all around. But 1t is a more thrilling spectacle as we look forward through the centuries and see the last armed and imperial iniquity of the world slain and the crown of universal victory put upon the conqueror on the white horse of the Apocalypse and all nations ''hail the power of Jesus name." That the whole earth will be redeemed is one of the things long ago settled in heaven.
 Gods Plan of Salvation.
 Another thing decided in that high place Is that all who are adjoined to the unparalleled One of Bethlehem and Nazareth and Golgotha will be the sub jects of supernal felicity without any taking off. The old adage says that "beggers must not be choosers," and the human race in its depleted state had better not be critical of the mode by which God would empaIace all of us. could easily think of a plan more complimentary to our fallen humanity than that which is called the plan of salvation" If God had allowed us to do part of the work of recovery and he do the rest; If we could do three-quar- ters of 1t and he do the last quarter, if we could accomplish most of it and he