The united opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1881-1970, 1888-06-15

this1 Is there not eternal vacation 4
this2
"Oh," you say, "here Ia o man VIII
asked God for blessing in a certain en-
terprise, and he lost five thousand dol
lars in it. Explain that Twill. Yon
der is factory, and one wheel is goinl
north and the other wheel is going south
and one wheel plays laterally and TIN
other plays vertically. ! go to the manu-
facturer and say: ooh, manufacturer
your machinery Is contradiction. WHY
do you not make all the wheels 60 on
wayT'
"Well," he says, 81 made them t.
60 in opposite directions on purpose, ant
they produce the right result. You x
down stairs and examine the carpets W.
are turning out in this establishment and
you will see." Igo down on the other aool
and see the carpets, and l am obliged
to confess that though the wheels in that
factory go in opposite directions, they
turn out beautiful result; and while
am standing there looking at the exquis.
ite fabric an old Scripture passage comes
into my mind: "All things work to-
gether for good to them who love God. "
Is there not rest in that9 Is there not
tonic in that9 Is there not longevity in
that?
Suppose man is all the time worried
about his reputation? One man says he
lies, another says he is stupid, another
says he is dishonest and half dozen
printing establishments attack him, and
he is in great state of excitement and
worry and fume, and cannot sleep; but re-
ligion comes to him and says: "Nlan, God
is on your side; he will take care of your
reputation; if God be for you, who can
be against you2'' How much should
that man worry about his repu-
tation? Not much. If that broker
who some years ago in Wall street,
after he had lost money, sat down and
wrote farewell letter to his wife before
he blew his brains outfit instead of tax
ing out of his pocket pistol he had taken
out a well read New Testament there
would have been one less suicide. o
nervous and feverish people of the world,
try this almighty sedative. You will
live twenty-five years longer under its
soothing power. It is not chloral that
you want, or morphine that you want; it
is the Gospel of Jesus Christ. t'With
long life will satisfy him.
Again, practical religion is friend of
longevity in the fact that it removes all
corroding care about future existence.
Every man wants to know what is to be-
come of him. If you get on board rail
train you want to know at what depot it
is going to stop; if you get on board
ship you want to know into what harbor
it is going to run, and if you should tell
me you have no interest in what is to be
your future destiny, would in as polite
way as l know how tell you did not
believe you. Before I had this matter
settled with reference to my future exist
ence, the question almost worried me
into ruined health. The anxieties men
have upon this subject, put together,
would make martyrdom. This is
state of awful unhealthiness. There are
people who fret themselves to death for
fear of dying.
want to take the strain off your nerves
and the depression off your soul, and
make two OF three experiments. Expert
ment first: When you go out Of ri,i, |
world it does not make any difference
whether you have been good or bad, or
whether you believed truth or error, you
will go straight to glory. Impossible"
you say; "my common sense as well as
my religion teaches that the bad and the
good cannot live together forever. You
give me no comfort in that experiment"
the second: When you leave
this world you will go into an intermedi-
ate state where you can get converted
and prepared for heaven. Impossible"
you say; "as the tree falleth so it must
lie, and cannot postpone to an interme-
date state reformation which ought to
have been effected in this state" Ex-
pertinent the third: There is no future
world; when man dies that is the last
If him. Do not worry about what you
arctic do in another state of being; you
will not do anything. Impossible, you
say; 'there is something that tells me
hat death is not the appendix, but the
preface; there is something that tells me
hat on this side of the grave only get
started, and that shall go on forever;
ny power to think says forever my
|fections say forever my capacity to
~ suffer, forever.
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