Connecticut western news., 1900-08-16


 pathetic God. In the great day of persons with whom you in this world never exchanged one word, will rise up and call you blessed, and there will be a thousand fingers pointed at you In heaven, saying, '"rhat Is the man, that Is the woman, who helped me when I was hungry, and sick, and and lost, and heart broken. That Is the man, that is the woman;" and the blessing will come down upon you as Christ shall say: "I was hungry and ye fed me, I was naked and ye clothed me, I was sick and In prison and ye visited me; inasmuch as ye did 1t to these poor waifs of the streets, ye did 1t unto me-"
 Brotherhood of Man.
 Again, in all cities I am impressed with the fact that all classes and con- ditions of society must commingle. We sometimes cultivate wicked ex- Intellect despises igno- rance. Refinement will have nothing to do with boorishness. Gloves hate the sunburned hand, and the high forehead despises the flat head, and the trim hedgerow will have nothing to do with the wild copsewood, and Athens hates Nazareth. This ought not so to be. like this democratic principle of the gospel of Jesus Christ which recognizes the fact that we stand before God on one and the same to Rn of Whatever position you have gained in society, you are nothing but a man, born of the same Parent, regenerated by the same Spirit, cleansed in the same blood, to lie down in the same dust, to get up in the same resurrec- ton. It Is high time that we all ac- not only the Fatherhood of God, but the brotherhood of man.
 Again, in all cities I am impressed with the fact that 1t Is a very hard thing for a man to keep his heart right and to get to heaven. Infinite temptations spring upon us from places of public concourse. Amid so much affluence, how much temptation to covetousness and to be discontented with our humble lot! Amid so many opportunities for overreaching, what temptation to extortion! Amid so much display, what temptation to van ity! Amid so many saloons of strong drink, what allurement to dissipation! In the maelstroms and hell gates of the street, how many make quick and eternal shipwreck! If a man-of-war comes back from battle, and is lowed Into the navy yard, we go down to look bullet holes, and look with patriotic admiration on the flag that floated in victory from the masthead. But that man Is more of a curiosity who has gone through 30 years of the sharp shooting of business life, and yet sails on, victor over the temptations of the street. Oh! how many have gone down under the pressure, leaving not so much as a patch of canvas to tell where they perished. They never had any peace. Their dishonesties kept tolling In their ears. If I had an ax, and could split open the beams of that fine house, perhaps I would find in the very heart of 1t a skeleton. In his very best wine there Is a smack of poor mans sweat. Oh! Is 1t strange that when a man has devoured widows houses he Is disturbed with indigestion? All the forces of nature are against him. The floods are ready to drown him, and the earthquake to swallow him, and the fires to consume him, and the lightning to smite him. Aye, the angels of God are on the street. and in the day when the crowns of heaven are distributed some of the brightest of them will be given to those men who were faithful to God and faithful to the souls of others amid the marts of business, proving themselves the heroes of the street Mighty were their temptations, mighty was their deliverance, and mighty shall be their triumph.
 Pretension and sham.
 Again, in all these cities I am i'm pressed with the fact that life is full of pretension and sham. What subter- fuge, what double dealing, what two facedness! Do all people who wish you good morning really hope for you a happy dayf Do all the people who shake hands love each other? Are all those anxious about your health who inquire concerning itf Do all want to see you who ask you to call? Does all the world know half as much as It pretends to knowl Is there not many q wretched stock of goods with bril- liant store window3 Passing up and down the streets to your business and your work, are you not impressed with the fact that society Is hollow and that there are subterfuges and pretensions! Oh, how many there are who swagger and strut, and how few people who are natural and walk! While fops simper and fools snicker and simpletons gig gle, how few people are natural and
 laugh! I say these things not to create in you incredulity or misanthropy, nor do forget there are thousands of peo- pie a great deal better than they seem, but do not think any man is prepared for the conflict of this life until he knows this particular peril.
 Again, in all cities I am impressed with the fact that there is great field for Christian Charity. There are hun ger and suffering and want and wretch edness in the country, but these evils chiefly congregate In our great cities On every street crime prowls, and drunkenness staggers, and shame winks, and pauperism thrusts out Its hand asking for aims Hero want Is most squalid, and hunger is most lean
 A Christian man going along a street In New York saw poor lad, and he stopped and said: My boy, do you know how to read and writeT The boy made no answer. The man asked the question twice and thrice: "Car you read and writer" and then the boy answered, with a tear plashing on the back of his hand. He said in defiance: NO, sir; I can't read nol
 write neither. God, sir, don't want me to road and writo Didp,t ho toEe