Connecticut western news., 1901-10-31

to realize, and we In turn by our virtue or vice may influence those who shall live POO years from now. Moral gray itation Is as powerful as material gray itatlon, and if, as my text teaches and science confirms, the Pleiades, which are millions of miles from our earth, in- huence the earth we ought to be inn pressed with how we may be influ- enced by others far away back and how we may influence others far down the future. That Till away up among the Alleghanies, so thin you think 1t will hardly find its way down the rocks, becomes the mighty Ohio, roll ing into the Mississippi and rolling into the sea. That word you utter, that deed you do, may augment itself as the years go by until rivers cease to roll and the ocean itself shall be dried un ia the burning of the world. Paul, v.3 was all the time saying i'm portant things, said nothing more star tlingly suggestive than when he de- clared, "None of us liveth or dieth to himself" Words, thoughts, actions. have an eternity of flight. As Job could not bind the sweet influences of the Seven Stars. as they were called, so we cannot arrest or turn aside the good projected long ago. Those infiu- ences were started centuries before cur cradle was rocked and will reign centuries after our graves are dug. Oh, 1t Is a tremendous thinS to live! God help us to live alright.
 Importance of Good Actions.
 Astronomers can easily locate the Pleiades. They will take you into their observatories on clear night and aim their revealing instrument toward the part in the heavens where those seven stars have their habltude, and they will point to the constellation Taurus, and you can see for yourself. But 1t Is impossible to point to influences far back that have affected our character and will affect our destiny. We know the influences near by-paternal, ma ternal, conjugal-but by the time we have gone back two generations, or, at most, three, our Investigations falter and fail. Through the modern inter- estlng habit of searching back to find the ancestral tree we may find long list of names, but they are only names. The consecration or abandonment of some one 200 years ago was not record ed. It would not be so important if you and I, by our good or bad behavior, blessed or blasted only those immedi- ately around us, but our goodness or our badness will reach as far as the strongest ray of Alcyone-yea, across the eternities. Under this considera- tion, what do you think of those who give themselves up to frivolity or idle ness and throw away fifty years of their existence as though they were shells or pebbles or pods instead of em- bryo eternities?
 I suppose one of the greatest sur prises of the next world will be to see what wide. farreaching influence for good or evil we have all exerted. am speaking of ourselves, who are only ordinary people. But who can fully appreciate the farreaching good done by men of wealth In Great Britain for the working classes - MT. Lister of Bradford, Edward Akroyd of Halifax, Thomas Sikes of Huddersfeld, Joseph Wentworth and Josiah Mason and Sir Titus Salt? This last great soul, with his vast wealth, provided 756 houses at cheap rent for 5000 working people and chapel and cricket ground and cro- quet lawn and concert hall and sav- ings bank, where they might deposit some of their earnings, and life insur- ance for those who looked further ahead and bathhouses and parks and museums and lecture halls with philo- sophical apparatus, the generous ex- ample of these men of a previous gen eration being copied In many places In Canada and the United States, making life, which would otherwise be q pro- longed drudgery, an inspiration and joy.
 Two Mighty Worlds.
 At Dunfermline, Scotland, Is a stone house. the room on the second floor twelve feet by fourteen In size. The annual rent of that room years ago was $7 50, That was the one room in which the father and mother of Andrew Car negie lived with the whole family. In- fuences were started there which made Andrew Carnegie the most distinguish ed philanthroplst of all time. and what his gifts of great libraries on both sides the sea will do for the coming genera tions I do not think any angel of God would have enough capacity to calcu- late. Who could bind the sweet infiu- ences of that Pleiades?
 After awhile there will be a man who will do for churches and missionary so- cieties and Bible distribution what An drew Carnegie has done for libraries, and then the millennium will be here The millennium is here! The shower of uncounted millions of dollars for all good purposes I think Is the first step of that golden thousand years of peace and holiness which have been predict ed and for which the world has so long waited. As the snowdrops belong to January, and the violet to March, and the honeysuckle to June, and the chrys- anthemum to November, so this bloom and fragrance of generosity on the part of the worlds wealth mean the ad- vancing summer of the worlds release, of Eden restored, of paradise regained. You say there are things to discourage. l know it. But I am not now exploring sepulchers full of dead mems bones and all uncleanness. I am watching the daybreak. am studying the light that streams into the darkness. I am considering the sweet influences of the Pleiades.
 Notice also In my text the influence of other worlds upon this world. We all regard the effect which our conti- nent has upon other continents or one hemisphere upon the other hemisphere. Great harvest or drought on one side of our world affects the other side of our world. A panic in Wall street, New York, has It's echo In Lombard street and the bOurse. The nations of the earth cablegrammed together all feel the same thrill of delight or shock of woe. But we do not appreciate the influence of other worlds upon our world The author of my text rouses us to the con-