Connecticut western news., 1901-01-17

of your face, and the once rheumatic step has become like that of the bound ing roe. Just as expected, you aged, gloritied soul. you had an abundant entrance.
 The Gates Thrown Wide.
 There is another kind of spirit who will have radiant admission to the up per dominion. There Is a fact which ought to have most emphatic pro- nouncement. All over the world today there are men and women of conse- crated wealth. They are multiplying by the day and hour. People who feel themselves the Lords stewards. and from their opulence they are making distribution which pleases the heav- ems. The checkbook in the office draw CT of that man has on its stubs a story of beneficence clear up into the sublime. In all the round of the worlds suffering and ignorance and woe you cannot mention one worthy object to which that prosperous and good man has not made contribution. He Is not irritated, as many are, by solicitation for aims. In some poor woman, in thin shawl. holding in her arms a child with rheum in it's eyes, this good man sees the Christ who said, 'Inasmuch as ye have done 1t unto one of the least of these. ye have done it unts me-"
 Well. this man of consecrated affiu- ence is about to go out of this world He feels In brain and nerve the strain of the early struggles by which he won his fortune and at 60 or 70 years col lapses under the exhaustions of the twenties and thirties of his lifetime. When the morning papers announce that he is gone, there Is excitement not only on the avenues where the man. sions stand, but all through the hospi- tals and asyiums and the homes of those who will henceforth have no helper. But the excitement of sadness on earth is very tame affair compar- ed with the excitement of gladness in heaven. The guardian angel of that good mans life swept by his dying pill low the night before and on swift wing upward announced that In a few hours he would arrive, and there Is mighty stir in heaven. He comesp' cries ser aph to seraph. The Kings heralds are at the gate to say, Come, ye blessed" and souls who were saved through the churches that good man supported and hundreds who went up after being by him helped in their earthly struggle will come down off their thrones and out of their palaces and through the streets to hail him into the land which they reached some time before through his Christian philanthropy. Now, that Is what I call an abundant entrance. You see, 1t Is not necessary to be failure on earth in order to be a success in heaven.
 Received With Joyful Acclaim. But I promise that all those who have lived for others and been truly Christian, whether on large scale or a small scale, will have illustrious intro duction into the impearled gateway. Here and there in some large family you see an attractive daughter who de clines marriage that she may take care of father and mother in old days. This Is not an abstraction. l have known such. You have probably known such. | There are in this world womanly souls | ns big as that. They cheerfully endure | the whimsicalities and querulousness | which sometimes characterize the aged and watch nights when pneumonia Is threatened and are eyes to the blind and sit in close rooms lest the septua- Genarian be chilled and count out the | right number of drops at the right ! time. The mother of a little child has her hands full, but the daughter who | stays at home to take care of an aged | father or mother has her hands just as | full. After years of flial fidelity on the part of this self sacrificing daughter | the old folks go home. Now the | daughter Is free from marital alliance but the damask rose in her cheek Is | faded, and the crows feet have left | their mark on the forehead, and the | gracefulness Is gone out of the figure, | and the world calls her by a mean and ungallant~ name. But. my Lord and
 my God, surely thou wilt make it up for that girl in heavenly reward, On all the banks of the river of life there
 Is no castle of emerald and carbuncle
 richer than that which awaits her. It's | windows look right out upon the Kings park, and the white horses of
 the chariot are being harnessed to meet
 her at the gate, and If there are no oth-
 CTS to meet her father and mother will
 be there to thank her for all she did for
 them when their strength failed and
 the grasshopper became burden. and
 they will say: My daughter, how kind ! you were to us even until the last!
 How good 1t Is to be together in heav-
 en! That Is the Kings chariot come
 for you. Mount and ride to your ever
 lasting homew Now, that Is what I
 call an abundant entrance.
 Triumphant Reception.
 Know right we'll that in whatever sta l ton of life you now move, and whether | your intellectual faculty be brilliant or
 dull and your worldly resources opu-
 lent or poor, you may have at the gate
 of heaven jubilant and triumphant re-
 ception. All soldiers cannot be Hanni-
 bals and Marlboroughs, all admirals
 cannot be Duponts and Farraguts, all
 authors cannot be Bacons and South
 eys, neither can all Christians be Pauls
 and Richard Cecils. Do your best right
 where you are, asking Gods help, and l you will not only win glorious admis-
 sion, but you will make all your life in
 heaven grander and higher life.
 It is good thing to have a healthy
 ambition in this world, and why not an
 ambition not to stand among the com
 parative failures of heaven saved as ! n ho clo SSifi
 those who did something worthy of
 immortals? The Bible distinctly tells
 that there will be grades in heaven,
 "as one star differeth from another
 star in glory" Will you be among the
 lower grades when you may be among
 the higher? Of course cherubic and
 seraphic orders are fixed, and you can.
 not enter them, but In what low ol
 high order of the sainthood you may l live and reign forever vou arc now do