Connecticut western news., 1902-05-01
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 mechanic at his bench, with the sailor upon the ships deck, with the engineer in his cab, he can obtain answers to questions which he himself could never solve. He can always find a man who knows more, in at least some special field, than he himself knows, no matter how intelligent the questioner might be. The servant in the kitchen in all probability knows how to bake bread better than her master, even though the head of the house may be the chief owner of the great Pillsbury flour mills, where thousands and tens of thou, sands of bushels of grain are daily turned into the white substance which forms the staple of every meal. The skill of the eminent surgeon Is never lessened by seeing carpenter handle a saw, and there never comes a time when the man of ten talents can afford to despise the lessons he may learn from the man of one talent.
 The Strong Mans Duty.
 Proficiency being granted to us in mental or manual abilities, there is also proficiency given to us in spiritual abilities. Certain temptations which assail one sinner do not appeal to an- other sinner. One man may have a lurking propensity for gambling, an- other for drink, another for licentious- ness, another for sloth, another for pro- fanity, another for theft, still anoth- ed for perjury. Some men are born liars. Parents testify that certain chil- dren in one family have tendency to falsehood from their cradles; other children born in the same family never show a disposition to prevaricate. Par ents can often trace the life's weak nesses of their children almost from the time those children began to walk and talk. They can distinguish certain satanic characteristics as distinctly as a stranger can tell whether a child by the color of the skin is born from white or black parents. Of course it is often a great deal harder to tell wheth- CT the white child has black heart or q black skinned child has white heart than to tell the color of the outside epidermal covering.
 As nearly every man is stronger in a
 
 his neighbor 1t ought to be that strong mans duty to use his strength to com pensate for the weakness of his neigh bor. Bear and forbear Is the teaching of the Bible This Is the reason Christ sent forth his messengers two by two. This is the reason we find impulsive Peter often walking by the side of the well poised John; the gentle Mary liv- ing in the same house with her sister, who lost her temper in the kitchen, spiritualized by her own sweetness of soul that entire household. This is the way in which we can double our loved ones spiritual usefulness and diminish their temptations to sin. Bear ye one another's burdens' has a wider and deeper significance than most of us have ever realized.
 LiEAten Life's Burdens.
 Tn helping a brother bear his burdens we make the back stronger by which we can bear our own. A few years ago a dear friend of mine was threatened with the loss of one of his eyes. He be- came very much depressed. The sur geons said the eye must be cut out. For some time he stayed at home and brood ed over his nearing misfortune. He was rebellious against God and would not be comforted. But one day he started down Broadway. Ahead of him he saw an old blind colored woman standing upon the street corner waiting to pass over. She dare not without help. This old colored woman had long stick in her hand by which she would find her way along. Upon her arm she carried a market basket The gentleman went up and accosted her with the words, "Well, auntie, can help you over the streetT The colored woman's face was wreathed in smiles as she answered, ''Thank you, massa; thank you, suhp' On the way across the street the color ed woman said: 'Massa, some people say I am old and blind and no account to any one. But, massa, life is very sweet to me. I find the goodness of God everywhere. He has taken away my two eyes, but the people are always kinder to me than to any one else-I am blind. And then, sir, have still my hearing. My children love me, and I can never cease to praise God for the mercies with which he has surrounded my,hfe." My friend stopped his brood ing then and there. Surely" said he, If God can make poor old blind col ored woman happy, he does love and care for me" When a man tries to help carry his brothers burdens, he finds that his own become lighter to bear.
 Members of Christian church are in the sight of God one spiritual fam fly and therefore have a right to ex- pect help one from another. Every ship wrecked mariner has claim upon ev- cry stout keel floating the wide seas. The religion of the Lord Jesus Christ cannot be hemmed in by the four walls of a religious edifice. The parable of the good Samaritan teaches that we should love our neighbor as ourselves. Our neighbor is not alone the friend who lives next door. He is also the stranger of foreign birth who has fall en among the thieves on the road to Jericho. Any traveller who is naked, ahungered, athirst, any wayfarer who is lost upon the mountains far away from home, whose guide we can be, Is our neighbor. We as Christians have a duty to foreign missions as well as to home missions, to the savage living In the jungles of Africa as we'll as to the heathen in the back alley half block away from our kitchen door, to the waif of the street who has fallen asleep upon our doorstep. Direct the Feet of the wanderer. But the words of the text have still another application. Paul was ad- dressing the members of the Christian churches. Those churches were situ- ated in Galatia. The members-sturdy, warm hearted, but hot headed noun taineers-had internal dissensions. In the course of his letter he lays down the broad statement that each member must bear with the faults and frailties of other members. They should especially do this because they were brethren and members of a church family oP which God wac fhc