Connecticut western news., 1902-01-09

iaration of IndepcEQeEce, with all Its ensures and interlincations. The in- stitution which for seventy or eighty years kept the nation in angry contro-
 versy has disappeared, and nothing is left to fight about. The north and the south today are in as complete accord as ever were flute and cornet in the same orchestra. The north has built
 Its factories on the banks of the Chat
 tahoochee and the Roanoke. and the
 south has sent many of its ablest Gt- torneys into our northern courthouses. its most skillful physicians into our sickrooms, its wisest bankers into our exchanges, its most consecrated minis ters into our pulpits-all this the re- suit of the proclamation of Jan. i, 1863.
 Birthdays of Great Men. Furthermore. I notice that January has been honored with the nativity of some of the greatest among the na- tions. Edmund Burke was born this
 month, the marvel and glory of the legal world; Fenelon of the religious
 world, Benjamin Franklin of the philo- sophie world, William H. Prescott of
 the historic world, Sir John Moore of the military world, Robert Burns of the
 poetic world, Polycarp of the martyr world, Peter the Great of the kingly
 world, Chrysostom of the sacred rhet-
 oric world, Daniel Webster of the statesman world.
 In this month, at Hampton court, 1G04, a new translation of the Holy Bible was ordered. There were Bibles of all kinds abroad, some of them translations from Hebrew and Greek
 by incompetent men, and the church
 and the world cried out for a Bible translated by group of the good and the learned. King James disliked the
 Bibles abroad and appointed a commis-
 sion of fifty-four men, afterward re- duced to forty-seven. Those men pre-
 sented the world with Bible that held
 mighty sway among the nations for
 more than 250 years, the revision of the Bible thirty years ago being found ed on that revision, which began under
 King James of 1904. The old transla- ton, made more than two and a half centuries ago, sustained the martyrs in the fire, illumined the homesteads of
 many generations, was the book that l was read aloud at the embarkation of the forefathers from Delft Haven,
 cheered the weary voyagers on the
 Mayflower, comforted them in the
 wilds of America, was the book on
 which the first American congress, as | we'll as the last, took the oath and with
 which all the presidents of the United States have solemnized their entrance into office, is the book that has advanc-
 ed the worlds civilization as no other influence ever could and which now
 lies on the table of more homes than any book that was ever printed since Johann Gutenberg borrowed money of Martin Brother and John Faust to complete the art of printing. What January in the worlds history-the
 January that gave the ages book like that!
 Time of Sadness.
 But January, like all the other months
 of the year, has had its sadnesses and
 its disasters. During this month died
 LinnRus, the botanist of Sweden and the world, who called the roll of the flowers and shrubs and trees, putting them into companies and calling them by their names, his beautiful statue standing in park of Stockholm, rose in bronze held in his right hand. Dur ing this month expired Francis Bacon, :nd Garrick, and Galilei, and Louis VI, and William Pitt, and Francis Jef- frey of the immortal pen, anc Dtsraeli the first, and Edward Everett, and Bruce, and Catiline. In this month died l Peter the Great, the man of whom 1t was written: He gave polish to his people and was himself a savage. He taught them the art of warfare, of which he himself was ignorant. From l the sight of a small boat on the river Moskwa he erected a powerful fleet, making himself an expert and active shipwright, sailor, pilot and command er- He changed the manners, customs and laws of the Russians and lives In ! their memory as the father of his coun- try"
 But cannot read the epitaphs of one out of a hundred illustrious graves in this first month of the year. Many of i those well known gained half their re- ! nown and did half their work through
  little or nothing. Lord Herschel is
 known all the world over and will be l known through all time, but little is
 said of her who was born this first month of the year and without whose
 help he never could have been what he
 was-his sister, Caroline Lucretia Au- ! gusta. She helped him hunt the worlds. 1 She repaired and adjusted hls tele- l scopes. She ciphered out his astronom- 1 ical problems. She was his amanuen-
 sis. She planned for him his work.
 She discovered seven comets and made
 "A Catalogue of Nebul@ and Star
 Clusters" The month of January h. ] troduced her to the observatories, but
 she has never been properly introduced to the world.
 Preparing For the Future.
 According to my text, "This month
 shall be unto you the beginning of
 months; it shall be the first month of the year to you" Through 1t make | preparation for the other eleven
 months. What you are in January
 you will probably be in all the other
 months of the year. Prepare for them
 
 | guine anticipation. Apprehension of
 misfortune will only deplete your body l and gloom your soul and unfit you for any trouble that may come. On the
 other hand, if you expect too much, dis appointment will be yours. Cultivate l faith in God and the feeling that he | will do for you that which Is best, and | you will be ready for either sunshine or shadow. The other eleven months
 of the year 1902 will not al be made up
 of gladness or of grief. The cup that
 is all made up of sweetness is insipid-- | Between these just opened gates of | the year and the closing of those gates 1 there will be many times when you will want God. You will have questions to
 decide which will need supernatural
 impulse. There may be illnesses of the