Connecticut western news. [volume] (Salisbury, Litchfield Co., Conn.) 1871-1970, 1901-05-02

trowels of earthly industry fail to rear
the scepters of heavenly reward will
more than make up. Persistence is the
lesson of every ant hill. Waste not
moment in useless regrets or unhealthy
repining. Men fret themselves down,
but no man ever yet fretted himself
up Make the obstacles In your way
your coadjutors, as all those have who
have accomplished anything worth &C.
complishment.
Put Your Trust In God.
John Philpot Curran, master Of the
rolls in Ireland, at his first attempt
In court stammered and sat down In
confusion and for that stammering
was derisively called "Stuttering Jack
Curran" and because of his failure in
speech was sneered at as "Orator
Num-" But he went to work and con-
quered himself and then conquered
courtrooms and great assemblages,
whom he thrilled with his eloquence.
So, instead of running against OBJ
stacles as against a stone wall, he
placed them aslant like steps on which
to mount. Put your trust in God, and
nothing can stand before you. Ritten-
house, the astronomer, at the start was
so poor that he figured out eclipses on
pillow handle.
Furthermore, go to the ant and con-
slider that If God honors an insect by
making it our instructor in important
lessons we ought not to abuse the low
er orders of creation. 1t has been
found by scientists that insects trans
fixed In the case Of museum have
been alive and in torture for years.
How much the insect and the fowl and
the brute may be rightly called to suf-
fer for the advancement of human
knowledge and the betterment of the
condition of the human race | do not
now stop to discuss, but he who use
lessly harms any Of Gods living crea-
ton insults the Creator. Alas, for the
horrors of vivisection! l have no con-
fidence In the morality of a man or a
woman who would harm horse or a
dog or a cat or a pigeon. Such men
and women, under affront, If they dar-
ed, would take the life of human be-
ing. You cannot make me believe that
God looks down indifferently upon the
CALLED neck of the OK, or the cruelty
curbed bit of the horse, or the unshel-
tered cattle in the snowstorm, or the
cockpit, or the bear batting.
Go to the ant, thou miscreant, and
see how God honors 1t. In the great
| college Of the universe it has been ap-
pointed your professor. All over the
land and all over the world there are
hot 70 no
harnessed, Gagged birds that ought to be
put on their wings in the free air of
heaven, droves of cattle agonized Of
thirst on the freight trains where they
ought to be watered, and erustacea be-
ing broiled alive that ought to be lifted
out of the fire. Christ chose II apos-
ties for the human race in the first GEN.
fury, and you know their names, but In
the nineteenth century he chose bis
thirteenth apostle, who wrought for the
relief of the brute creation, and his
name was Henry Bergh. In my text
the ant Is not impaled, is not dead, but
alive, and in the warm fields providing
her meat in the summer and gathering
| her food in the harvest.
Learn From the Ant.
Furthermore, go to the ant and learn
the lesson Of God appointed order. The
| being who taught the insect how to
build was geometer as well as archi-
tecL The paths inside that little home
| radiate from the door with as complete
arrangement as ever the boulevards Of
city radiated from triumphal arch
or Powered circle.
If there Is a divine regulation In a
| colony or republic of insects, is there
not q divine regulation in the lives of
| immortal men and women? If God
| cares for the least of his creatures and
| shows them how to provide their meat
| in the summer and gather their food
| In the harvest, will he not be interest
| ed In matters of human livelihood and
| In the guidance of human affairs?
| preach the doctrine of a particular
| providence. "Are not two sparrows
sold for a farthing? Are we not of
more value than many sparrows?''
| Let there be order in our Individual
| lives, order in the family, order in the
| church, order in the state. In all the
! world there is no room for anarchy.
| After what Linn@us and Pierre HUI
Der have told us concerning these liv-
ing mites of the natural world, are we
not ready to believe that the God who
turns the wheel Of the solar system
and the vaster wheel of the universe
regulates the beehive and the ant hill
and that all the affairs of our mortal
lives are under divine management
! When some one asked hermit ON the
top of mountain in Italy II he did
not feel it dangerous to live so many
miles from human habitation, he re.
piled, "No; Providence is my very next
door neighbor."
ProvidentiaI Rescues.
When during the plague in London
at the risk of his life and under the
protest of his friends, Rev. Thomas
Vincent spent his time preaching the
gospel to the sufferers and 6S, 596 PEG
| n1a rlaricba6 Savan fatalities IN fhe