Connecticut western news. [volume] (Salisbury, Litchfield Co., Conn.) 1871-1970, 1901-05-16

of intemperauce and the kindred mon
sters of fraud and uncleanness requires
you to rally all your Christian courage!
Through the press. through the pulpit,
through the platform, you must assault
1t.
Christian Reform.
Would to God that all our American
Christians would band together, not
for crackbrained fanaticism, but for
holy Christian reform! | think it was
in 1893 that there went out from Luck
now, India, under the sovereign, the
greatest hunting party that was ever
projected. There were 10000 armed
men In that hunting party. There
were camels and horses and elephants.
On some princes rode, and royal ladies
under exquisite housings, and 500
coolies waited upon the train, and the
desolate places of India were invaded
by this excursion, and the rhinoceros
and deer and elephant fell under the
stroke of the saber and bullet. After
awhile the party brought back trophies
worth $4,000 rupees, having left the
wilderness of India CHASTITY with the
slain bodies of wild beasts. Would to
God that instead of here and there a
straggler going out to fight these great
monsters of iniquity in our country
the millions of members of our church
es would band together and hew in
twain these great crimes that make
the land frightful with their roar and
are fattening upon the bodies and
souls of immortal men! Who is ready
for such a party as that? Who will
be mighty hunter for the Lord?
1 remark, again, If you want to be
successful in spiritual archery you
need not only to bring down the game,
but bring it in. l think one of the
most beautiful pictures Of Thorwald-
sen is his Autumn" 1t represents q
sportsman coming home and standing
under grapevine. He has a staff over
his shoulder, and on the other end of
that staff are hung rabbit and a
brace of birds. Every hunter brings
home the game. No one would think
of bringing down a roebuck or whip
ping up stream for trout and letting
them lie in the woods. At eventide
the camp is adorned with the treasures
If you go out to hunt for immortal
souls, not only bring them down under
the arrow of the gospel, but bring them
into the church of God, the grand
home and encampment we have pitch
ed this side the skies. Fetch them
In. Do not let them lie out in the open
field. They need our prayers and SYM
pathies and help. That is the meaning
of the church OF God-help. o We
hunters for the Lord, not only bring
down the game, but bring 1t In!
The MercffuI Huntsman.
If Mithridates liked hunting so well
that for seven years he never went in
doors, what enthusiasm ought we to
have who are hunting for immortal
soulsl If Domitian practiced archery
until he could stand boy down in the
Roman amphitheater with hand out,
the fingers spread apart, and then the
king could shoot an arrow between the
fingers without wounding them, to
what drill and what practice ought we
to subject ourselves in order to become
spiritual archers and mighty hunters
before the Lord" But let me say you
will never work any better than you
pray. The old archers took the bow,
put one end of it down beside the foot,
elevated the other end, and it was the
rule that the bow should be just the
size Of the archer. If it were just his
size, then he would go into the battle
with confidence. Let me say that your
power to project good In the world will
correspond exactly to your own spirit
ual stature. In other words, the first
thing in preparation for Christian work
Is personal conservation.
Oh. for a closer walk with God,
calm and heavenly Frame
light to shine upon the road
That leads me to the Lambl
/ am sure that there are some men
who at some time have been hit by
the gospel arrow. You felt the wound of
that conviction, and you plunged into
the world deeper, just as the stag, when
the hounds are after it, plunges into
Schroon lake, expecting in that way
to escape. Jesus Christ is on your track
today, o impenitent man, not in wrath,
but in mercy. o ye chased and painting
souls, here Is the stream Of Gods mer-
cy and salvation, where you may cool
your thirst! Stop that chase of sin to-
day. By the red fountain that leaped
from the heart of my Lord 1 bid you
stop! There Is mercy for you-mercy
that pardons, mercy that heals, ever
lasting mercy. The II gates of Gods
love stand open. Enter and be forever
SAFE
FThnrn O In In ~
place they call the deer leap''-two
crags, about Is yards apart, between
them n fearful chasm. This is called
the deer leap" because once a hunter
was on the track Of deer. 1t came to
one of these crags. There was no es-
cape for 1t from the pursuit of the
hunter, and in utter despair it gathered
itself up and in the death agony at
tempted to jump across. OF course 1t
fell and was dashed on the rocks far
beneath. Here Is path to heaven. 1t
Is plain; it is safe. Jesus marks 1t out
for every man to walk in. But here is
man who says, Il won't walk in that
path; 1 will take my own way" He
comes on up until he confronts the
chasm that divides his soul from heav-
en-. Now his last hour has come, and
he resolves that he will leap that chasm
from the heights Of earth to the heights
of heaven. Stand back now and give
him full swing, for no soul ever did
that successfully. Let him try. Jump!
He misses the mark, and he goes down,
depth below depth, destroyed without
remedy" Men, angels, devils, what
shall we call that place Of awful catas-
trophe? Let it be known forever as
the souls death leap.
copyright, 1901, by Louis Klopsch, N. VI
rate OF a Once Powerful People.