Tris EVENING GAZETTE 'N'rnaEn AT THE POST OFFICE IN Nonwamr as A NEWSPAPER. or 41L 5 UBSCJHPI’IONS ' ,Dsmr.’ one year. $3; six months. $1.75; three months. $1.00; one month. 300.. WEEKLY. . one year. in ladvance. $1.30; 'six months." (5%.: three months. 35c. ' . r7 SATURDAY, APRIL 8, 1897. After False Gods. Of all professions that of the ministry of the Gospel is the holiest and ap- proaches nearest to the divine. To bring comfort to the hearts of the sorrowing, to inspire with hope lives that are full ' of doubt, to cleanse souls that are stain- ed and decayed—could there be any- thing holier than this? To open the eyes of those who now see as through a. glass, darkly; to open the ears that are closed to the music of Heaven; to ' untie the tongues that have never spoken the praise of God; to restore vigor to the feet that now halt and stumble; to raise from the dead those who are buried deep in sin—is there anything half so divine as this? Preachers of the Gospel who believe that the Gospel is Jesus Christ and nothing else are, indeed, worthy of having His cross emblazoned upon their breasts, and are, indeed, the fol- lowers of the Lamb. Too many of the preachers of to-day follow after false gods, and feed their flocks upon husks that kill, instead of giving renewed life. They search the Scriptures, but merely for speculative or obscure passages upon which they can hanga sensational-“idiscourse and thus obtain what seems to be the very breath of their nostrils—notoriety and newspaper advertisement. Instead of preaching Jesus Christ and Him crucified, they dilate upon matters i that have no possible bearing upon the question of salvation; that are merely dust, obscuring a vision that should be steadfiastly fixed upon the Cross of Cal- vary. Of what possible value is it to a Christian life, is it whether Jonah was swallowed by a whale, or whether David wrote all the Psalms or not?‘ Does "the red emptiOn of the souls of humanity depend upon such trifles, their truth or falsity? If it does, then, indeed, is the world loot. Why strip the husk merely to throw the kernel away,iand exhibit to the longing world asthe bread of life that which is only fit to throw aside as but a'hindrance to the life that seeks to walk with Christ? ~ Is it material to the soul that stands shivering upon the shores of doubt, what boat is coming to its relief, so that the hand he the hand of Goa and the ' voice be the voice of Christ? Long winded essays on things that are the more shadows of forgotten creeds will not'bind up the wounds of the man who lies wounded and bleeding upon the highway. It is love and mercy and compassion that will make him once more fit to do battle with fate. I Learned disquiaitions as to the turn of a comma or the twirl of a semicolon will not wipe the tears from the eyes of a mother weeping over her dead. Only love can do this—the love that is born ‘ of Christ. A repentant sinner enters the church and kneels at the altar hoping to hear of God’s love and of the infinite sacrifice by which His only begotten Son opened to al‘, the gates of paradise. Does his burden'roll off and comfort enter his heart to hear that St. Paul wore a num- ber six shoe and that St. Luke ate with his fingers at times instead of using a fork ? a terrible responsibility rests upon these professional teachers of divine truths who turn. from the, body and blood of Christ to some Biblical waste basket in search of topics for discussion. The great trouble is that too many of _ them are merely professors of religion and have but little in common with the gentle Nazarene, whose words of love and faith are the inspiration of all true . holiness. They turn from the Mount of Olives to one of their own construc- tion upon which a dim. mystical figure stands, cold and lifeless, too far elf to be reached even by prayer; and this they call the Son of God. They turn from the gentle, kindly light that went out in darkness for a moment, '0 that 'to-‘vall the world should never come night any more, to a broken fragment of tradition, and strive to make it the corner-stone upon which the true Christian faith has rested and does now ' :rest. 1 Have these seekers after false gods :lorgotten what the Son of the only true Bod has said: “I am the way, the'truth .1 s I Father but by me?” - - Let them preach this, and there will be less infidelity in the world, less doubt, and less sneering at things that should be very dear to all humanity. Vestibulcu Cars. ' There has been much said about the sufferings of motormen in the frigid days of winter. Some people have thought that vestibuled trolley cars would be beneficial to the hard-work- ing man who works the brake and. gong and it has been sometimes thought that the only reason why such care were not generally provided by traction com- panies was on account Of a penurious policy. But it seems there are other reasons, according to the Street Rail- way Review, a periodical devoted to the local transportation interests. A recent issue of the periodical contained an editorial upon the accident which oc- curred. a year ago at Cleveland, 0. In order to satisfy himself of the efficacy of vestibuled cars an editor of the trade paper, rode over a suburban road in a snow storm. He says: “.[‘he snow was very wet, and the combined force of the wind and the speed of the car, which was fully thirty miles an hour, was sufficient to pack the snow an inch thick on the entire vestibule front. Occasionally the motorman would lower his front window and scrape a place about 'six inches square, clean. But this was again covered in a few moments, and at all times the glass was wet and streaky. That no one was struck during the trip was due to the absence of anyone upon the track, and not because the man could see where he was running. The Review has al- ways maintained,” concludes this edi- torial witness, “that while the vestibule has certain desirable features, it was at the expense of increased danger in operation.” At the Cleveland inquest, the motorman whose car went into the river said: could see a man distinctly on such'a night as Saturday unless I took a very careful look. The front glass of tne vestibule was spatteredwith rain when the car approached the draw.” Judge Carpenter’s Will. The will of Judge Elisha Carpenter has been admitted to probate. His en- tire estate is left to his wife and chil- dren. J and the life. 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Increase in Accident Inshrance in Force, $2 I ,73650000 Increase. in Accident Premiums, $ l 75,086.72—01‘ 62 per cent.‘ . Increase in New Life Insurance Written in Connecticut, $3 I 0,642.00. Increase in total Life Insurance in Connecticut. $472,569.00. From the increased Surplus the usual increase of dividends to policy-holders will be paid in l891, making the Twenlv-Fillli Regular Annual Increase of Dividends lo the insured, and a record unparalleled -—_ lHSUflANdE_ ‘GOIPANY. L Made the Follow‘inzifiains in theiYear "396': Notwithstanding the material increase of new business on. which the expense in Life Insurance is chiefly incurred. the ratio of expense to income on the Life business of this company, excluding the Accident business, is somewhat lower than last year, and is 23 ”per cent. less than the average expense of the ten leading “purely mutual” companies Their figures lorl896 have not been published. uonom a. courier, Precident. J. L. ENGLISH. Sec. H. W. ST. JOHN. Actuary; W. C. FAXON, Ass’t. Sec. Accident Departm t ‘ G. W,'.RUSSELL, M. D.. Med. Director. JAMES CAMPBELL, M.D.. Medial}; .E. E. HALLOCK, General Agent, 5 Hubinger Bld’g., New Eng; .14.. I1,UTC»HINSON, ceneral Accident Agent, use... ,
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