Connecticut western news., 1900-09-20

him to cut he has to go TO ovners the sharp edged weapon. In the same day shall the Lord shave with a razor that Is hired" God Is love. God Is pity. God Is help. God Is shelter God Is rescue. There are no sharp edges about him. no thrusting points. no In struments of laceration. If you want balm for wounds, he has that. If you want divine salve for eyesight. he has that. But if there Is sharp and cutting work to do which requires a razor, that he hires. God has nothing about him that hurts save when dire necessity demands. and then he has to go clear off to some one else to get the instru- ment. This divine clemency will be no novelty to those who have pondered the Calvarean massacre, where God submerged himself In human tears and crimsoned himself from punctured ar teries and let the terrestrial and infer nal worlds maui him until the chande- Hers of the sky had to be turned out because the universe could not endure the outrage. Illustrious for love he must have been to take all that as our substitute, paying out of his own heart the price of our admission at the gates of heaven.
 A wondrous Scene.
 King Henry II of England crowned his son as king and on the day of coro- nation put on a servants garb and waited. he, the king. at the sons table. Az ,f.t, oH ,Il4 But we know of more wondrous scene. the king of heaven and earth of fering to put on you, his child. the crown of life and in the form of serv- ant waiting on you with blessing. Ex- tol that love, all painting all sculpture, all music, all architecture. all worship! In Dresdenian gallery let Raphael hold him up as child, and in Antwerp ca- thedral let Rubens hand him down from the cross as martyr and Handel make all his oratorio vibrate around that one chord-"He was wounded for our transgressions. bruised for our in- iquities." But not until all the re- deemed get home and from the counte- naDces in all the galleries of the ran somed shall be revealed the wonders of redemption shall either man or seraph or archangel know the height and depth and length and breadth of the love of God.
 At our national capital a monument in honor of him who did more than any one to achieve our American independ- ence was for scores of years in build Ing, and most of us were discouraged
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 And how glad we all were when in the presence of the highest officials of the nation the work was done! But will the. monument to him who died for the eternal liberation of the human race ever be completed? For ages the work has been going up. Evangelists and apostles and martyrs have been adding to the heavenly pile. and every one of the millions of redeemed going up from earth has made to 1t contribution of gladness, and weight of glory Is swung to the top of other weight of glory. higher and higher as the centuries go by. higher and higher as the whole mil lenniums roll, sapphire on the top of Jasper, sardonyx on the top of chalced- ony and chrysoprasus above topaz, until far beneath shall be the walls and towers and domes of our earthly capi- tol, monument forever and forever rising and yet never done: Unto him who hath loved us and washed us from our sins in his own blood and made us kings and priests forever" Alleluia, amen.
 Copyright. 1900 by Louis Kionsehi HOW Twain Introducea nnwrey. "Only once did Mark Twain appear In public as a political speaker" says Will M. Clemens in Ainslee's. "As a conscientious Republican in his politi- | cal preferences MT. Clemens took an | active interest In the presidential cam paign of 1880. While visiting in Elmi- ra, N. Y, in the fall of that year he made a short speech one Saturday night, introducing to Republican meeting General Hawley of Connecti- cut. In the course of his remarks MT. Clemens said:
 "'General Hawley Is a member of | my church at Hartford and the author | of Beautiful Snow." Maybe he will | deny that. But l am only here to give | him character from his last place. AS | a pure citizen I respect him, as a per l sonal friend of years I have the warm est regard for him, as neighbor | whose vegetable garden adjoins mine, | why-why, I watch him. As the au-
 thor of Beautiful Snow" he has added
 a new pang to winter. He Is a square
 true man in honest politics, and must
 say he occupies mighty lonesome DO
 sition. So broad so bountiful Is his
 character that he never turned tramp
 empty handed from his door, but al
 ways gave him letter of introduction
 to me. Pure, honest. incorruptible. that
 Is Joe Hawley. Such a man in politics
 Is like bottle of perfumery in a glue
 factory-it may moderate the stench
 but 1t doesn't destroy 1t. I haven't
 said any more of him than 1 would say
 of myself. Ladies and gentlemen. this
 Is General Hawley.'"