Connecticut western news., 1902-01-02


 what deep snows they drew the logs or cut their way to the foddering of the cattle! What droughts, what fresh cts, what insectile invasions, they re member! To clothe and feed and edu- cate the household they went through tolls and self sacrifices that the world knew but little about. Rest, aged man: Let the boys do the shoveling and thrashing and cutting and sweating. You have put the harness of, and do not try to put it on again.
 There are old mechanics that can no more shove the plane or pound with the hammer or bore with the bit or run up the ladder to the scafrolding. Mas ter mechanics they were or subordi- mates who wrought faithfully in the work of house or barn or ship building. You have a right to quit. You have finished your task. Be thankful that your work is done.
 Faithful Service Remembered.
 Then there are aged physicians, What tragedies of pain and accident they have witnessed! How much suffering they have assuaged! How many brave battles they have fought with lancet and cataclysmI How many levers they cooledl How many broken bones they set! How many paroxysms they quiet ed! How many anxious days they passed when they knew that human lives depended upon their skill and many cradle.
 Il F-S. nv,n they were foremost in general assem- blies and conferences and associations. They have preached in Pentecosts. They have stood by Christian death beds and seen Elijahs go up in flaming chariots of glory. The gospel they preached for fifty or sixty years H. lumines their every feature They have stopped preaching, for their breath Is short, or their nerves are a-jangle, or suffer from confusion of ideas. Cheer up, aged dominies and doctors. The Bible says God forgets our sins when we repent of them, but he never for gets faithful services rendered. He re members that revival where you stood watching the souls that came ''as clouds and as doves to the windows" He has indicated by your physical or mental condition that 1t is time for you to stop. Be content to stop. Your helmet bears the mark of many a battleax; your sword is bent from many a holy strug- gle; your shield Is dented with tGe thrust of many a spear. Now hang up the armor with gladness
 unwfse BrAgEaAociO.
 Again, learn from Benhadad's be havior the unwisdom of boasting of what one is going to do. Two mes sages had he sent to the king of Israel, both messages full of tnsolence and With brimming beaker in hand he is talking with the royal group about what he will do with the spells of the victory he is going to achieve that afternoon. He takes 1t for granted that Samaria will surren- der. He gives command for the cap ture of some of the inhabitants of Samaria who are approaching, saying, Whether they be come out for peace take them alive, or whether they be come out for war take them alive" But behold the fugitive king in fright ened retreat before sundowni Better not tell boastingly what you are going to do. Wait until it is done. You do well to lay out your plans, but there are so many mistakes and disappoint- ments in life that you may not be able to carry out your plans, and there Is no need of invoking the worlds de rision and caricature. Napoleon was so sure of conquering England, Scot land and Ireland that he had a medal struck celebrating the conquest, which he never made. On that medal was represented his own crowned head.
 Dr. Pendleton and MT. Saunders were talking in the time of persecution under Queen Mary. Saunders was trembling and afraid, but Pendleton said: What! Man, there is much more cause for me to fear than you. You are small, and have a large bodily frame, but you will see the last piece of this flesh consumed to ashes before I ever forsake Jesus Christ and his truth. which have professed." Not long aft CT Saunders, the faint hearted, gave up his life for Christ's sake, while Pen dleton, who had talked so big, played coward and gave up religion when the test came. Wilberforce did not tell what he was going to do with the slave trade, but how much he accom- plished ts suggested by Lord Brough- am's remark concerning Wilberforce after bis decease, He went to heaven with a0O,0OO broken letters in bis hand"
 Do not boast of your moral strength. One of the most brilliant men of the nineteenth century, having temporarily reformed from inebriacy, stood on the platform of Broadway tabernacle, New York, and said, Were this great globe one crystalltte and were offered the possession of it if would drink one glass of brandy I would refuse with Scorn, and want no religion to help me" But that same man died at PoughkeepGie a drunken pauper. Bet ter underrate than overrate ourselves
 Famous Sentiment Refutsd.
 My subject is also a refutatton of the famous sentiment that God is on the side of the heaviest artillery. From all can read about this struggle Ben hadad spoke the truth when he said, ''The gods do 90 unto me and more also if the dust of Samaria shall sui nce for handfuls for all the people that follow me" He was so confident that with his superior numbers lie could defeat the king of Israel anu capture Samarta that he left the work for a short afternoon. He Is at noon in wassail with his royal associates. The battle of Waterloo was not opened un- til twenty-five minutes of 12 o'clock at noon, but that was because the ground was too wet to move the artti- lery. Benhadad waits until afternoon because he is overconfldent. God is not on the side of the most swords or the most war chariots or the most can non if they be in the wrong, but on the side of the right. How such a pre- ronkoror1u aopfiYnopf I ha y,aopffnp