Connecticut western news., 1905-01-05

lSSlllcu you III tue lStSt lldl lS llp Ied- son why you should think every dark cloud presages for you Il destroying tempest, Indeed, l go further than that: do not believe your past storms )f troubles have all been destroying ,empests. You are still living, you have survived your worst troubles, and now, chastened and strengthened, you ire going forward armed by past ex- perience and wiser by your trials, strong in faith, to meet what the new year may bring.
 It can bring with it nothing
 But he will bear us through;
 Who gives the lilies clothing
 Will clothe his people too.
 When the great philosopher wrote the words of my text he was expressing a negative truth. 'He that observeth the winds shall not sow" and the con- yerSe of that fact is that if a man will only go forth with brave heart, if he will only plant and SOW his seed faithfully and conscientiously, God will give him q large harvest. ''To him that soweth righteousness shall be a | this? O man. will you not go forth to your coming years work with brave and hopeful spirit for coming conquest?
 But there are some whose apprehen- sions of coming trial are based on facts of a different kind. "My trouble" says one, lis not due to a~lack of faith in God or in my own ability, but in the loyalty of others. The apostolic ad- vice not to be unequally yoked with unbelievers extends further than the marriage relation. 1 am finding that out In the broader sense of business. It also means that those who are un- equally yoked together can never pull well as d team. My business associ- ates and I are fretting and worrying and irritating and retarding one an others labors."
 Yes, brother, l at once catch the meaning of your Bible simile. AL though born in the city, have spent q great deal of my spare time in the country, and I have witnessed again and again feats of horse team pulling. The farmers have great deal of pride in their horses. If one farmer can have a perfectly matched team of heavy farm horses he always think they can outdraw and outpull all other teams in the country. It is not uncommon at the county fairs to have these trials of strength tested. A great load will be oiled upon a sled at the bottom of a nill Then the team will be hitched up. The farmer will take the reinS firmly in his hands and cry, Get up!' If the horses pull together evenly and steadi- iy in all probability the sled will move over the hard, bare ground as if the runners were slipping over the winters snow But if one horse jerks at his traces one moment and then bal1s when his mate is pulling it is inn possible to move the heavy load. The great difficulty with your business and professional life may be that you are not equally yoked" with your associ- ates. You may have pulled while they were baking, and they may be pulling while you are baking. But did you ever stop to think that perhaps your lack of faith in yourself may be the chief reason why they have no faith in you and why they do not work in harmony with you?
 Faith Is Needed.
 Lack of faith in our own work will kill absolutely any faith others may have in our ultimate success. The olu proverb says, Rats will leave q sink ing ship" All our friends and associ- ates will leave us as quickly as they can if they once get into their minds the thought that we ourselves feel that we are certainly doomed to failure. A man who is always anticipating fail tre and taking gloomy view of the future not only works half heartedly himself, but depresses his associates. What church would wish to listen to minister who had no hope of the ulti- mate triumph of the gospel? If he were to preach week after week ser mons the keynote of which was that man is q failure the church a failure, Christ for the most of us q failure and the world is going to the dogs, would uDJ ODt "dhl u llSICh tO ouAh oCA mons? Would any one continue to work for the upbuilding of the grand old church of Christ, which has had such a mighty influence for good in the past and is having such mighty infiu- ence for good In the present and will have such mighty influence for good in the future? No, of course you would not. You would say to yourself: "Well, the church is going to smash and the people are going to smash. I guess will get off the train and let the Limit ed Express of Destruction go over the open drawbridge as it may"
 Snpposing your daughter is sick and you call in a physician and beg him tC cure her. That physician, having ex amined her, declares there is no hope He leaves some medicine for her, but doubts if it can do her any good; he advises this course and that, but says there is really no hope for saving her What would you do with such doc tor? You would turn him out of doors in the twinkling of an eye. You would say, If a physician has no faith in his own medicine, I will have no faith 1T him." And yet the strange fact of life is this: There are scores and hundreds of men who always keep talking about their misfortunes. They keep on tell ing their employees only the dark side of their business. After awhile theil employees and business associates lose faith in their business prospects and they do not work as they ought. Take nm Inventory.
 What you need, o man, at the begin
 ming of this new year is to take a big inventory, not of your misfortunes, but of your blessings. Find out all tho | bright things you know about your life | Repeat them over and over and over tC yourself. Get faith in God and il yourself. Then your associates will ger | faith ill you. By their increased labor | you will get faith in them. Then, to | gether with faith in each other anC | faith in God, you will go forth with re | newed zeal for the seed planting ant ] the multitudinous harvest will surely come. Never let your associates know