Connecticut western news., 1901-11-21

uItles are 10 be enlarged and intensified and your qualifications for usefulness multiplied tenfold, hundredfold, thousandfold.
 Is your health gone? Then that Is sign that you are to enjoy celestial health compared with which the most jocund and hilarious vitality of earth Is inyalidism. Are your fortunes spent? Remember, you are to be kings and queens unto God. And how much more wealth you will have when you reign forever and ever! I want to gee you when you get your heavenly work dress on. This little bit of a speck of world we call the earth is only the place where we get ready to work. We are only journeymen here, but will be mas ter workmen there. Heaven will have no loafers hanging around. The book says of the inhabitants, "They rest not day nor night" Why rest when they work without fatigue? Why seek pillow when there is no night there? want to see you after the pedestrianism of earth has been exchanged for power of flight and velocities infinite and en- terprises interstellar, interworld.
 I suspect that the telescope of that observatory brings In sight constel,a- tions that may comprise ruined worlds which need looking after and need help saintly and missionary. There may be worlds that, like ours, have sinned and need to be rescued, perhaps saved by our Christ or by some plan that God has thought out for other worlds as wise, as potent, as lovely as the atone ment Is for our world. The laZiness which has cursed us in this world will not gain the land of eternal activities so much tonic in the air, so much fn- spiration in the society, so much achievement after we get the shackles of the flesh forever off Do not dwell so much on opportunities past, but put your emphasis on opportunities to come.
 Our Real Beginning.
 Am not right in saying that eterni- ty can do more for us than can time? What will we nvt be able to do when our powers of locomotion shall be quickened into the immortal spirits speed? Why should bird have a swiftness of wing when it is of no i'm portance how long 1t shall take to make its aerial way from forest to for est and we, who have so much more important errand in the world, get on so slowly? The roebuck outruns us, the hounds are quicker in the chase, but wait until God lets us loose from all limitations and indictments. Then we will fairly begin. The starting post will be the tombstone. Leaving the world will be graduation day before the chief work of our mental and spir itual career. Hope sees the doors open ing, the victor's foot in stirrup for the mounting. The day breaks-first flush of the horizon. The mission of hope will be an everlasting mission, as much of 1t in the heavenly hereafter as in the earthly now. Shall we have gained all as soon as we enter realms celestial = nothing more to learn, no other heights to climb, no new anthems to raise, monotony of existence, the same thing over and over again for endless years? No! More progress in that world than we ever made in this. Hope will stand on the hills of heaven and look for ever brightening land scapes, other transfgurations of color, new glories rolling over the scene, new celebrations of victories in other worlds, heaven rising into grander heavens, seas of glass mingled with fire, becoming more brilliant glass mingling with a more flaming fire. (Which hope"
 Now, let me introduce this feeling into the lives of some who are at times hopeless. There Is family whose son has gone wrong. Father and mother have about given him up, he seems so headlong, so ungrateful, so dissipated, and the old folks do not know half the story of moral precipitation. He has ceased writing home, but they hear of him through people who like to carry bad news, and every time the report Is more deplorable. He swears, he gam- bles, he drinks, he goes into all the shambles of sin. His former employer says there is no hope for him, and all outside the family agree In thinking he will never reform. The father and mother have not quite given him up, and these words are to strengthen their hope. That boy Is going to come back. You have a hold on him that you must not relax. Through prayer you may win the eternal God for your side of the struggle. You must enlist all the heavenly dominions, cherubim and seraphim and archangel, in the move ment to save your son. Some day or some night he will call a halt to his in- famous practices. Something will hap pen to him. as happened in New York hotel to a son of one of the most dis tinguished clergymen of Scotland and one of the queens chaplains. "When can I see your said a distinguished looking young man at the close of one of my services in Brooklyn tabernacle. l said, You can see me now" He said: NO; want a private conversa- tion with you at your own house. When can I comer I said, 'Tomor- row night" Your name," I asked. He gave me his name, the exact name of his father, whose name was known
 
 world, though years ago he departed this life. Returning home, took up a book of which his father was the au- thor, and In the picture at the opening of the book I found that the young man had most markedly his fathers features. So was sure there was no deception.
 Eorriye the Reuentant
 On the following evening he came. He said tEat he was the black sheep of the family flock. He had wandered the world over and been in all kinds of wickedness, but few nights before, after reading letter from his mother in Scotland, he had retired for sleep, but in the adjoining room he heard some young men in such horrible con- versation he could not sleep. He was shocked aS he had never before bepn