Connecticut western news., 1901-10-31

| Pleiades there come no such powerful. | influences as from the two worlds tha; | I am now mentioning. My only hopt | for this world Is In the re-enforcemeni | that is to come from another world | But that Is promised, and so l feel as | sure of the rectification of all evil as | though looking out of my window to- | day I saw the parks and the gardens | Towering into another paradise and | the apocalyptic angel flying through | the midst of heaven with the news | that the kingdoms of this world have | become the kingdoms of our Lord. | Homes Sweet Influences.
 My text called Job and calls us to
 consider 'the sweet influences" We put too much emphasis upon the acidi- ties of life, upon the irritations of life, | upon the disappointments of life. Am | mianus Marcelllnus said that Chaldea was in olden times overrun with lions. | but many of them lost their power be- cause the great swamps produced many | gnats that would get into the eyes of | the lions, and the lions, to free them | selves of the gnats, would claw their | own eyes out and then starve. And in | our time many a lion has been over come by gnat. The little, stinglns annoyances of life keep us from appre- ciating the sweet influences. And how | many of these last there are! Sweet | influences of home, however plain 1t | may bel That Is the harbor into which | we sail; that Is the goal for which we | run; that is the place where we rest; | there abide all confidence and affec- | tions; there we lay out our plans; there | we extend our sympathies; there We | talk over our successes; there we un- | load our griefs. Its four walls shut out prying and inquisitive world. | Thank God for the home in which we
 were born, the home In which we now | live, the home In which we expect to | diei
 Not sufficiently do we recognize the | sweet influences of the wife. We men ! are of rougher mold, and our voice Is | loud, and our manners need to be tam- | ed, and gentleness Is not as much of | characteristic as 1t ought to be, and we often say things we ought to take | back. It Is to change this that the | good wife comes in The interests of the twain are identical. That which | from outsiders would be considered | criticism and to be resented becomes kindly suggestion. Sweet influences | that make us better men than we oth- erwise would have been or could have | been!
 The last chapter of Proverbs recog-
 nizes the good wife's influence when | 1t says, Her husband Is known In the gates when he sitteth among the elders of the land"-that Is, his apparel indi-
 cates that he has some one to look aft CT his wardrobe, and his manners show
 that he Is under refining influences at home. But no one fully appreciates the sweet influences of the wife until the dark day comes and the slight symp- toms become serious and the serious phases of the disorder pass Into the fatal and the temperature Is 106 and
 medical ingenuity Is exhausted and you are told for your consolation that
 "while there Is life there Is hope" which means that there Is no hope at all, and the precious life futters and is
 gone, and you must put out of sight
 the one who, from the day she took the vow amid the orange blossoms under
 the marriage bell had been to you more
 than all the world besides. Then you realize as never before what had been the sweet influences.
 Refining Power of the Gospel. Sweet influences of friendship! If
 we have behaved ourselves tolerably
 we'll, we have friends. In our days of
 mirth they come with their congratula- tons. In times of sorrow they come
 with expressions of solace. In times of perplexity they come with their advice. They are with us at weddings and at burials. If there Is anything good in
 us, they find 1t out, and our frailties
 they overlook or excuse. If something
 appears against us, they say, Walt till I hear the other side" If disaster
 shall befall us, we know from whom
 would come the first condolence. Fam fly friends; church friends; business friends; lifelong friends. In our heart
 of hearts we cherish them.
 Sweet influences of our holy religion, surrounded as we are by all the ameni- ties of Christian society-men and wo-
 men who have felt the refining and ele-
 vating power of the gospell Sweet in- | fiuences of the Sabbath, fifty-two of them chiming their joy into every year! Sweet influences of the Scriptures, with their balm for all wounds and ] their light for every darkness! When the heirs of a vast estate In England | wished to establish their claim to prop erty worth $1OO,OOO,0O0, they offered a
 reward of $500 for the recovery of an | old Bible, the family record of which | contained the evidence requisite. But 1 any Bible, new or old, can help us to a
 vaster inheritance than the one spoken | of, one that never fades away.
 The sweet influences of the heavenly world, which many wise men thought 1 for long while was Alcyone, the cen | ter of the constellation of the Pleiades world of our future residence, as we hope; world of chorus and illumination; 1;
 world of reunion; world where we shall
 be everlastingly complete; world where | our old faculties will be intensified and | quickened and new faculties implant- | ed; world of high association with l Christ, through whose grace we got
 there at all, and apostles and poets,
 Habakkuk, and St. John of Patmos, and
 Edward Young, his Might Thoughts"
 turned into eternal day; and Horatius
 Bonar of modern hymnology, and Han
 nah More, and Mrs. Hemans, and Mrs. | Sigourney, who struck their harps till
 nations listened; and David, the victor
 over Goliath with what seemed insuffi- cient weapons; and Joshua or the pro-
 longed day in Gibeon, and Havelock,
 the evangelist hero, and those thou ] sands of men of the sword who fought
 on the right side. What company to
 move in! What guests to entertain!
 What personages to visit! What choirs | to chant! What banquets with lifted | chalices filled with "the new wine of