Connecticut western news., 1900-07-19


 Shout 1t down that dark Gley! Let all Ioppa hear 1t. Dorcas is resurrected! Gocd Never Dies.
 You and have seen the same thing many a time; not dead body resusci- tated. but the deceased coming up again after death in the good accom- plished. If a man labors Gp to 50 years of age, serving God, and then | dies, we are apt to think that his earth | ly work is done. No. His influence on earth will continue till the world ceases. Services rendered for Christ never stop. A Christian woman tolls | tor the upbuilding of a church through many anxieties. through many self de- | nials, with prayers and tears, and then | she dies. It is 15 years since she went away. Now the Spirit of God de- scends upon that church; hundreds of souls stand up and confess the faith of Christ. Has that Christian woman who went away 15 years ago nothing | tA do with these things? I see the | towering out of her noble heart. l | hear the echo of her footsteps in all | the songs over sins forgiven, In all the | prosperity of the church. The good | that seemed to be buried has come up again. Dorcas is ressurected!
 After awhile all these womanly | friends of Christ will put down their needle forever. After making gar ments for others some one will make | a garment for them; the last robe we ever wear-the robe for the grave. ! You will have heard the last cry of pain. You will have witnessed the last | orphanage. You will have come in worn out from your last round of mercy. do not know where you will | sleep nor what your epitaph will be, | but there will be n lamp burning at that tomb and an angel of God guard | Ing 1t, and through all the long night ! no rude foot will disturb the dust. Sleep on, sleep on! Soft bed, pleasant shadows, undisturbed repose! Sleep onl | Asleep in Jesusi Blessed sleep
 From which none ever wake to weepi Reward Has Come.
 Then one day there will be a sky | rending and whirl of wheels and the | flash of a pageant, armies marching. | chains clanking, banners waving, thun- | ders booming, and that Christian wo- man will arise from the dust, and she | will be. suddenly rounded-surround- | ed by the wanderers of the street | whom she reclaimed. surrounded by | the wounded souls b whom she had | administered! Daughter of God, so | strangely surrounded, what means | this? It means that reward has come;
 that the victory Is won; that the crown | Is ready; that the banquet Is spread. Shout 1t through all the crumbling earth! Sing 1t through all the flying
 heavens! Dorcas Is resurrected! In 1855, when some of the soldiers | came back from the Crimean war to
 London, the queen of England distrib- | uted among them beautiful medals, | called Crimean medals. Galleries were
 erected for the two houses of parlia-
 ment and the royal family to sit In. | There was a great audience to witness the distribution of the medals. A colo
 nel who had lost both feet In the bat | tie of Inkermann was pulled in on a
 wheel chair; others came In limping on I their crutches. Then the queen of England arose before them in the name of her government and uttered words of commendation to the officers
 and men and distributed those medals,
 inscribed with the four great battle
 fields - Alma, Balaklava, Inkermann
 SevastopoI. As the queen gave | ,Aese to the wounded men and the wounded officers the bands of music struck up the national air, and the peo- pie, with streaming eyes, joined in the
 song:
 God gracious queeni hF Long live our noble queen!
 God save the queenl
 | And then they shouted "Huzza! Huz- zar' Oh, 1t was a proud day for those
 returned warriors! But brighter, bet
 ter and gladder day will come when Christ shall gather those who have
 toiled in his service-good soldiers of
 Jesus Christ. He shall rise before
 them, and in the presence of all the | glorified of heaven he will say, Well
 done, good and faithful servant!' And
 then he will distribute the medals of
 eternal victory, not inscribed with
 works of righteousness which we have
 done. but with those four great battle
 fields, dear to earth and dear to heav-
 en-Bethlehem, Nazareth, Gethsemane
 and Calvary!
 Copyright. 1900. by Louis Klopsch.l