Connecticut western news., 1901-11-21

the elder brother who never left the old place, stood pouting at the back door and did not go in at all.
 To another class of persons I intro duce the angel of Hope. and they are the invalids. cannot take the diagno. sis of your disorder, but let hope cheer you with one of two thoughts. Such marvellous cures are being wrought In our day through medication and sur gerry that your invalidism may yet be mastered. Persons as Ill as you have got we'll. Cancer and tuberculosis will yet give way before some new discov- cry. I see every day people strong and well who not long ago saw pallid and leaning heavily on a staff and hardly able to climb stairs.
 The Perfect Life to Come.
 But If you will not take the hand of Hope for earthly conyalescence let me point you to the perfect body you are yet to have if you love and serve the Lord. Death will put prolonged an- aesthetic upon your present body, and you will never again feel an ache or pain, and then in his good time you will have a resurrection body, about which we know nothing except that 1t will be painless and glorious beyond all present appreciation. What must be the health of that land which never feels cut of cold or blast of heat and where there Is no east wind sowing pneumonias on the air, your fieetness greater than the foot of deer, your eye sight clearer than eagle in sky, perfect health, in country where all the h. habitants are everlastingly well! You who have in your body an encysted bullet ever since the civil war; you who have kept alive only by precautions and self denials and perpetual watch ing of pulse and lung; you of the deaf ened ear and dim vision and the severe backache; you who have not been free from pain for ten years, how do you like this story of physical reconstruc- ton, with all weakness and suffering subtracted and everything jocund and bounding addedf
 Do not have anything to do with the gloom that Harriet Martineau express ed in her dying words: Il have no req 
 had enough of life in one and can see no good reason why Harriet Martineau should be perpetuated." Would you not rather have the Christian enthusi- asm of Robert Amman, who when some one said, q will be satisfied if I man. age somehow to get into heaven" re piled, pointing to sunken vessel that was being dragged up the river Fay: Would you like to be pulled Into heav- en with two tugs like that vessel yon- der? I tell you I would like to go in with all my sails set and colors flying"
 Again, let me introduce the element of hope to those good people who are in despair about the worlds moral con- dition. They have gathered up appall- ing statistics. They tell of the number of divorces, but do not take into con- sideration that there are a thousand happy homes where there Is one of mar ital discord. They tell you of the large number in our land who are living profiigate lives, but forget to mention that there are many millions of men and women who are doing the best they can. They tell you the number of drunkeries in this country. but fail to mention the thousands of glorious churches with two doors-one door open for all who will enter for pardon and consolation and the other door opening into the heavens for the ascent of souls prepared for translation.
 Those pessimists do not realize that two inventions of our times are going to make 1t possible under God to bring this whole world into salvable and mil lennial condition within a few weeks after those two inventions shall be turned into the service of God and righteousness, as they will be. refer to the telegraph and the telephone. If you think that God allowed those two inventions to be made merely to get rapid information concerning the price of railroad stocks or to call up friend and make with him business engage ment, you have a very abbreviated idea of what can be done and will be done with those two instruments. The in- telligence of the world is to be expand ed, and civilization will overcome bar barism, and illiteracy will be extirpat- ed, and the promise will be literally full filled-''a nation born in a day.
 Let Hope say to the foreboding: Do all you can with Bible and spelling book and philosophic apparatus. but toll with the sunlight in your faces or your efforts will be failure. The pal Tor In the sky is not another phase of the night, but the first sign of ap- preaching day, which Is as sure to come as tonight will be followed with tomorrow. Things are not going to ruin. The Lords hosts are not going to be drowned in the Red sea of trou- ble. Miriam's timbrel will play on the high banks Israel Delivered High hope for the home! High hope for the church! High hope for the worldr'
 I introduce the angel of Hope to those who have through disease lost Christian friends. How could ind them." says bereft soul, up there in the land of the multitudinousY You may find them by inquiry. by heavenly escort and by unfailing memory of the guard at the gate. And he carried me away in the spirit to great and high
 
 city, the holy Jerusalem, descending out of heaven from God, having tho glory of God, and her light was like unto stone most precious, even like jasper stone, clear as crystal, md had a wall great and high and had twelve gates and at the gates twelve angels" So you see there will be an angel guarding each gate. AS you go in ask the armed guard. He saw your loved one pass through and will know the di- rection to take and by what fountain or in what street of gold Is the man. sion prepared. The blessed Christ knows where your departed loved one Is, and he will tell you if no one else will. Fifty ways of finding out the whereabouts of your ascended one. But will I surely know him when I get there, for he will be so changedT Yes, for you will be just as much changed, and the old affinity will as- sert itself. The soul will be as easily