Connecticut western news., 1900-06-07


 they in the last judgment find that mercy which they have refused to me, thy most unworthy but faithful serv- ant. Amen.'
 Crowned In Heaven.
 He rose and said, Isabel, the hour has come of which I spoke to you on the morning when l proposed hand and heart to you, and are you willing now, for the love of God, to let me die?' She put her arms around him and said: "The Lord gave, and the Lord hath taken away. Blessed be the name of the Lord" Stop that sniveling," said Claverhouse. II have had enough of 1t. Soldiers, do your work. Take aim! Fire!' And the head of John Brown was scattered on the ground. While the wife was gathering up in her apron the frag- ments of her husbands head-gather- ing them up for burial-Claverhouse looked into her face and said, Now, my good woman, how do you feel now about your bonnie man~ "Oh," she said, "I always thought weel of him. He has been very good to me. I had no reason for thinking anything but weel of him, and I think better of him now" Oh, what a grand thing it will be in the last day to see God pick out his heroes and heroines! Who are those paupers of eternity trudging off from the gates of heaven? Who are they? The Lord Claverhouses and the Herods and those who had scepters and crowns and thrones, but they lived for their own aggrandizement, and they broke the heart of nations. He roes of earth, but paupers in eternity. I beat the drums of their eternal de- spair. Woe, woe, woe!
 But there is great excitement in heaven. Why those long processions? Why the booming of that great bell in the tower2 1t Is coronation day in heaven. Who are those rising on the thrones with crowns of eternal royal ty? They must have been great people on the earth, world renowned people. No. They taught in ragged school. Taught in a ragged school! Is that allP That is all Who are those souls way ing scepters of eternal dominion? Why, they are little children who walt ed on invalid mothers. That all? That Is all. She was called Little Mary" on earth. She Is an empress now. Who are that great multitude on the highest thrones of heaven? Who are they? Why, they fed the hungry, they clothed the naked, they healed the sick, they comforted the heartbroken. They never found any rest until they put their heads down on the pillow of the sepulcher. God watched them. God laughed defiance at the enemies who put their heels hard down on these his dear children, and one day the Lord struck his hand so hard on his thigh that the omnipotent sword rattled in the buckler as he said. II am their God, and no weapon formed against them shall prosper"
 The Great Captain.
 What harm can the world do you when the Lord Almighty with un- sheathed sword fights for your preach this sermon for comfort. Go home to the place just where God has put you to play the hero or the heroine. Do not envy any man his money or his applause or his social position. Do not envy any woman her wardrobe or her exquisite appearance. Be the hero or the heroine. If there be no four In the house and you do not know where your children are to get bread, listen, and you will hear something tapping against the window pane. Go to the window, and you will find 1t is the besk of raven, and open the window, and there will fly in the messenger that fed Elijah. Do you think that the God who grows the cotton of the south will let you freeze for lack of clothes? ed his disciples on Sabbath morning to go into the grainfield and then take the grain and rub 1t in their hands and eat do you think God will let you starve? Did you ever hear the experience of that old man, "I have been young and now am old, yet have never seen the righteous forsaken or his seed begging breadf" Get up out of your discourage ment, O troubled soul, O sewing wom- an, O man kicked and cuffed by un- just employers, O ye who are hard be- set in the battle of life and know not which way to turn, O you bereft one, o you sick one with complaints you have told to no one, come and get the comfort of this subject! Listen to our great Captains cheer, ITO him that overcometh will I give to eat of the fruit of the tree of life which is in the midst of the paradise of God" .. Copyright, 1900. by Louis Klopsch.l