Connecticut western news., 1901-08-08


 the acclaim In Germany be louder than that of America? Soft, long drawn out music Is appropriate for the drawing room and appropriate for the concert. but St. John gives an idea of the sono- rous and resonant congregational sing ing appropriate for churches when In listening to the temple service of heav- en he says: "l heard a great voice, as the voice of a great multitude and as the voice of many waters and as the voice of mighty thunderings. Halle luiah. for the Lord God omnipotent reigneth?'
 Counteracts All Trouble.
 Join with me In a crusade, giving me not only your hearts but the mighty uplifting of your voices, and l believe we can. through Christ's grace, sing 5000 souls Into the kingdom of Christ. An argument they can laugh at. a ser mon they may talk down, but a 5000 voiced utterance of praise to God Is irresistible. Would that Queen Balkis would drive all her spice laden drome- daries into our church music. "Nei- ther was there any such spice as the queen of Sheba gave King Solomon"
 Now, I want to impress you with the fact that religion Is sweetness and per fume and spikenard and saffron and cinnamon and cassia and frankincense and all sweet spices together. "Oh," you say, 'I have not looked at 1t as such. I thought 1t was a nuisance. It had for me a repulsion. l held my breath as though it were a malodor. have been appalled, at Its advance. have said. if have any religion at all. I want to have just as little of 1t as Is possible to get through with" Oh. what a mistake you have made, my brotherl The religion of Christ Is present and everlasting redolence. IL counteracts all trouble. Just put Il on the stand beside the pillow of sickness. 1t catches In the curtains and perfumes the stifling air. It sweetens the cup of bitter medicine and throws a glow on the gloom of the turned lattice. It Is a balm for the aching side and a soft bandage for the temple stung with pain. It lifted Samuel Rutherford into a revelry of spiritual delight while he was In physical agonies. It helped IhlSudIu DdAteE uuliL, III tue ulluSt OA | such a complication of diseases as per haps no other man ever suffered, he wrote "The Saints Everlasting Rest" And 1t poured light upon John Bun- vans dungeon. the light of the shining gate of the shining city. And 1t Is good for rheumatism and for neuralgia and for low spirits and for consumption. It is the catholicon for all disorders. Yes. 1t will heal all your sorrows.
 Why did you look so sad this morn- ing when you came In? Alas, for the loneliness and the heartbreak and the load that Is never lifted from your souli Some of you go about feeling like Ma caulay when he wrote. "If had anoth- CT month of such days as l have been spending. l would be impatient to get down into my little narrow crib in the | ground, like a weary factory child.'' | And there have been times in your life when you wished you could get out of | this life. You have said. "Oh. how | sweet to my lips would be the dust of the valleyw and wished you could pull over you In your last slumber the GOV | erlet of green grass and daisies You have said: "Oh. how beautifully quiet | 1t must be in the tomb! wish l was | therew I see all around about me widowhood and orphanage and childlessness, sad ness, disappointment, perplexity. If I could ask all those in any audience who have felt no sorrow and been buf- feted by no disappointment-if I could | ask all such to rise, how many would | rise? Not one.
 A widowed mother, with her little child, went west. hoping to get better wages there, and she was taken sick and died. The overseer of the poor got l her body and put 1t In box and put 1t in wagon and started down the street | toward the cemetery at full trot. The little child, the only child, ran after it | through the streets, bareheaded, cry | ing: Bring me back my mother! Bring me back my motherw And ii was said that as the people looked on and saw her crying after that which lay In the box in the wagon, all she l loved on earth-it Is said the whole VII | lage was In tears. And that is what . great many of you are doing-chasins the dead. Dear Lord, Is there no ap peasement for all this sorrow that I set about me? Yes, the thought of resur rection and reunion far beyond thii scene of struggle and tears. "They shall hunger no more, neither thirst any more, neither shall the sun light or them nor any heat. for the Lamb whfct Is in the midst of the throne shall leat them to living fountains of water, and
 God shall wipe away all tears iron their eyes" Across the couches oi your sick and across the graves of you dead fling this shower of sweet spices Queen Balkis, driving up to the pillaret portico of the house of cedar, carried
 no such pungency of perfume as ex
 hales today from the Lords garden. |
 Is peace. It Is sweetness. It is com
 fort. It is infinite satisfaction. thii
 gospel commend to you.
 Some one could not understand wh,
 an old German Christian scholar use<
 to be always so calm and happy ant
 hopeful when he had so many trial.
 and sicknesses and ailments. A mar
 secreted himself In the house. He said
 Il mean to watch this old scholar ant
 Christian" And he saw the old Chris
 tian man go to his room and sit dowI
 on the chair beside the stand and oper
 the Bible and begin to read. He reat
 on and on, chapter after chapter, houl
 after hour, until his face was all aglov
 with the tidings from heaven, ant
 when the clock struck 12 he arose ant
 shut his Bible and said: Blessed Lord
 we are on the same old terms yet. Goot
 night. Good night" Oh, you sil
 parched and you trouble pounded, her,
 Is comfort, here Is satisfaction. VII you come and get 1t? I cannot tell yo'
 what the Lord offers you hereafter s'
 we'll as I can tell you what he offer
 now. Tt doth not yet appear what W,
 shall be-"
 Home of the Blessed.
 Have you read of the Tai Mahal II ! India in some reSDpctS the most ma