Connecticut western news., 1901-01-17

sees seated side by side on the banks Of the river of life Calvin and Arminius, Archbishop Cranmer and some dissent Ing preacher of the gospel who never graduated, one who on earth was a robed and surpliced ecclesiastic, and back woods minister who In the log cab in meeting house preached in linen duster? Among the great surprises of heaven for the bigot will be the celes- tial friendlineSs of those who on earth opposed each other in wrathiest polem- ics He will get through the gate. for he has a spark of divine grace in his heart, but there will not be an inch of room to spare on either side of him. It cate him into a glorious big hearted ness.
 Mcanness Coldiy Welcomed.
 Again, the penurious Christian will not have an abundant entrance. Per haps he was not converted until all his habits of tight fistedness were fixed be- yond recovery. The people who are generous were taught to be generous in childhood You can tell from the way that boy divides the apple what his characteristics for generosity or mean ness will be for the next so years If he lives so long. If he eat it all himself while others look wistfully on, he will some one who has no apple, be will be an ordinarily generous man. If he give tllree-fourths of 1t to another, he will be q Baron Hirsch or George Pea body.
 For 30 years this man has been practicing an economy which prided itself on never passing pin without picking it up, and if he responded at all in church would put on the collec- tion plate so insignificant a coin that he held his hand over it so that no one could discover the smallness of the denomination. Somewhere In the fif- ties or sixties of his life, during a re- vival of religion, he became a Chris tian. He Is very much changed in most respects, but his all absorbing ac- quisitiveness still influences him. To extract from him a gift for an orphan age or church or poor woman who has just been burnt out Is an achieve ment. You and 1 know very good men, their Christian character beyond dispute, and yet they are pronounced by all as penurious, and they know it themselves and pray against it. We all have our bad habits and yet expect to get to heaven, and this skinfiint has his mighty temptation. The passion of avarice well illustrated its strength when in one of the houses of exhumed Pompeii was found the skeleton of a man who was trying to escape with 60 coins and silver saucepan. For those valuables he dared the ashes and scoria of yesuvius which overwhelmed him, and many a good man has been held nightly by avarice. But the day Is coming for that penurious Christians departure from the world. He has an awful struggle in giving up his gov ernment securities. The attorney who drew his last will and testament saw how hard 1t was for him to leave his farm or his storehouse or investments, especially those that in the markets are called gilt edged. Those that yield only per cent he easily resigns to the care of his executors, but those that yield 8 or or 10 per cent, how can he give them up while the market Is still rising? Bolstered up in bed, know ing he has got to sign it, he reads the document over and over again, and then, with manner that seems to say, Well, if I must, I must" he signs his name to that surrender of his last farthing of earthly possessions. He enters heaven, but he has not an abun- dant entrance.
 Glorious Admission.
 But that brings me to the other thought of my text, that there are those who will when they leave this life bound into heaven amid salutations Infinite. For so an entrance shall be administered unto you abundantly." Such exultant admission will await those who enter heaven after on earth living a life for others and without ref erence to conspicuity. On the banks of the Ohio or the Tuscaloosa or the Androscoggin Is large family, all of whom have been carefully and reli- yiously reared. In the earlier stages of that family there were many priva- tions The mother of the household never had any amusements. Perhaps once in a year a poor theatrical play was enacted in the neighboring school house or a squawking concert in the town hall, and that was all the diver sion afforded for the winter season. I asked the manager of an insane asy- lum in Kentucky, "F'rom what class of persons do you get most of your pa tientsi" and he said, From farmers wives" I asked the same question of the manager of an insane asylum in Pennsylvania and the same question of the manager of an insane asylum in Massachusetts and got the same reply, ''We have on our rolls for treatment more farmers wives than persons com ing from any other class" That an Ewer will be a surprise to some. It was no surprise to me. The simple reason Is farmers wives as a general thing have no diversion. It is break fast, dinner and supper, sewing, SCOUT ing. scrubbing, knitting, mending, year in and year out. That mother is the milliner, the mantuamaker, the nurse, the doctor, the accountant, of the whole family. She plans the wardrobe of spring, of summer, of autumn, of win ter, cutting, fitting, completing gar ments, out of which the children soon grow and must have something else. The newspaper does not come, or If coming there is no time to read it. No selection of good books. The neighbors calling in are full of the same grinding routine. No wonder so many of them go into dementia. Oh, the country is beautiful to look at and a recuperative place in which to spend summer, and If you have the means to bring yourself amusements or go where they are or you can surround yourself by inspiring social life it Is a good place to stay all the year round. But alas for the thou. sands of good and noble women who are dying by inches In its solitudes!
 Now, the mother of whom I speak as living on the banks of that great