Connecticut western news., 1901-10-10

muslc making a deafenIus lackel. John represents heaven as exqu:sitely beau tiful. Three crystals! In one place he says, Her light was like precious stone, clear as crystal" In anothe place he says, T saw pure river froE. under the throne, clear as crystal" Ia another place he says, Before tht throne there was q sea of glass cleal as crystal" Three crystals! John says crystal atmosphere. That means health. Balm of eternal June. What weather after the worlds east wind! No rack of stormclouds. One breath of that air will cure the worst tubercle. Crystal light on all the leaves: crystal light shimmering on the topaz of the temples; crystal light tossing In the plumes of the equestrians of heaven on white horses. But "the crystal cannot equal It." John says crystal river. That means joy. Deep and ever roll ing. Not one drop of the Potomac or the Hudson or the Rhine to soil It, not one tear of human sorrow to imbitter It. Crystal, the rain out of which It was made; crystal, the bed over which 1t shall roll and ripple; crystal, It's in- finite surface. But .'the crystal can. not equal it." John says crystal sea. That means multitudinously vast, vast in rapture, rapture vast as the sea, deep as the sea, strong as the sea, ever changing as the sea; pillows of light, pillows of beauty, blue with skies that were never clouded and green, with depths that were never fathomed; Arc tics and Antarctics and Mediterra- means and Atlantics and Pacifics in crystalline magnificence. Three crys- tals-crystal light falling on crystal river, crystal river rolling into crys- tai sea. But "the crystal cannot equal It."
 Happy Trannformation.
 "Oh," says some one, putting his hand over his eyes, "can 1t be that l who have been in so much sin and trou- ble will ever come to those crystals 1" Yes, 1t may belt will be. Heaven we must have, whatever we have or have not, and we come here to get 1t. How much must I pay for itY you say. You will pay for It just as much as the coal pays to become the diamond. Ip other words, nothing. The same Al mighty power that makes the crystal In the mountain will change your heart, which Is harder than stone, for the promise Is, T will take away your stony heart, and will give you heart of flesh."
 "Oh," says some one, it is just the doctrine I want. God Is to do every thing, and l am do nothing" My brother, 1t Is not the doctrine you want. The coal makes no resistance. It hears the resurrection voice in the mountain, and 1t comes to specialization; but your heart resists. The trouble with you, my brother, Is the coal wants to stay coal.
 do not ask you to throw open the door and let Christ in. 1 only ask that you stop bolting 1t and barring it. My friends, we will have to get rid of our sins. I will have to get rid of my sins, and you will have to get rid of your sins. What will we do with our sins among the three crystals? The crystal atmosphere would display our pollu- tion. The crystal river would be be- fouled with our touch. Transformation must take place now or no transforma- ton at all. Give sin full chance In your heart, and the transformation will be downward instead of upward. Instead of crystal 1t will be a cinder.
 In the days of Carthage a Christian girl was condemned to die for her faith, and boat was bedaubed with tar and pitch and filled with combustibles and set on Ire, and the Christian girl was placed in the boat, and the wind was offshore, and the boat foated away with It's precious treasure. No one can doubt that boat landed at the shore of heaven. Sin wants to put you In fiery boat and shove you of in an op- posite direction-off from peace, of from God, off from heaven, everlasting ly of, and the port toward which you would sail would be port of darkness, and the guns that would greet you would be the guns of despair. and the flags that would wave at your arrival would be the black flags of death. Oh, my brother, you must either kill sin or sin will kill you. It Is no exaggera- ton when I say that any man or wom- an that wants to be saved may be saved. Tremendous choice! A thou sand people are choosing this moment between salvation and destruction, be tween light and darkness, between charred ruin and glorious crystalliza. ton.
 Copyright 1901, Louis Klopsch, N. Y.l