The united opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1881-1970, 1888-09-14

PACoc UAiOAA OWA ACCAilkS Ill tu0 WOIub VI
the Baroness of Marin at the close of her
long life:
Would you be young again
So would not I;
One tear of memory given,
Onward III HE;
Lies dark wave forded DER,
All but at rest on shore;
Say, would you plunge once more.
With home so nigh?
If you might, would you now
Retrace your wayY
Wander through stormy wildA
Faint aud astrayY
Nights gloomy watches fed
Morning all beaming red,
Hopes smile around us shed,
Heavenward, away
Yes; for some people in this world
there seems no let up. They are pursued
from youth to manhood, and from man.
hood into old age. Very distinguished
are Lord Staffords hounds, and Earl of
Yarboroughs hounds, and the Duke Of
Rutland's hounds, and Queen Victoria
pays $500 per year to her master Of
buckhounds. But all of them put to-
gether do not equal in number, or speed,
or power to hunt down, the great ken
mel of hounds of which sin and trouble
are owner and master.
But what is relief for all those pur-
suits of trouble, and annoyance, and
pain, and bereavement My text gives
it to you in word of three letters, but
each letter is chariot if you would
triumph, or throne if you want to be
crowned, or lake if you would slake
your thirst-yea, chain Of three letters
-G-o-d, the one for whom David
longed, and the one whom David found.
You might as well meet stag which,
after its sixth mile of running at the top
most speed through thicket and gorge,
and with the breath of the dogs on it's
heels, has come in full sight Of Scroon
lake and tried to cool its projecting and
blistered tongue with a drop Of dew
from blade of grass, as to aatehh ITO
satisfy an immortal soul, when flying
from trouble and sin. with anything less
deep, and high, and broad, and immense,
and infinite, and eternal than God. His
comfort, why it embosoms all distress.
His arm, it wrenches off all bondage. His
hand, it wipes away all tears. His Christly
atonement, it makes us all right with the
past, and all right with the future, and all
right with God, all right with man, and
all right forever. Lamartine tells us
that King Nimrod said to his three sons:
Here are three vases, and one is Of
clay, another of amber, and another of
gold. Choose now which you will have"
The eldest son, having the first choice.
chose the vase of gold, on which was
written the word empire" and when
opened it was found to contain human
blood. The second son, making the next
choice, chose the vase of amber, in
scribed with the word "glory," and
when opened it contained the ashes of
those who were once called great. The
third son took the vase of clay, and opening
it, found it empty, but on the bottom of it
was inscribed the name of God King
Nimrod asked his courtiers which vase
they thought weighed the most. The
avaricious men of his court said the vase
of gold. The poets said the one Of am
Der. But the wisest men said the empty
vase, because one letter of the name Of
God outweighed universe.
For him thirst; for his grace beg;
on his promise I build my all. Without
him I cannot be happy. l have tried the
world, and it does well enough as far as
it goes, but it is too uncertain a world,
too evanescent a world. I am not
prejudiced witness I have nothing
against this world. I have been one of
the most fortunate, or, to use
a more Christian word, one of
the most blessed of men, blessed
in my parents, blessed in the
place of my nativity, blessed in my
health. blessed in my field of work,
blessed in my natural temperament,
blessed in my family. blessed in my
blessed in a comfortable
livelihood, blessed in the hope that my
soul will go to Heaven through the par
doning mercy of God, and my body, I'M
less it be lost at sea or cremated in some
coniagration, will lie down in the gar
dens Of Greenwood among my kindred
and friends, some already gone and others
to come after me. Life to many has
been disappointment, but to me it has
been a pleasant surprise, and yet de-
clare that if did not feel that God was
now my friend and ever present help,
l should be wretched and terror struck.
But want more of him. / have
thought over this text and preached
this sermon to myself until with all the
energies of my body, mind and
soul, and l can cry out: ''As the hart
panteth after the water brooks, 80 pahteth
my soul after thee, o God" Through
Jesus Christ make this God your God and
you can withstand anything and every
thing, and that which affrights others
will inspire you. As in time of earth
quake when an old Christian woman
was asked whether she was scared. an
swered: mo. l am glad that l have a
God who can shake the world" or. as in
a financial panic. when Christian mer-
chant was asked if he did not fear he |
would break, answered.: "Yes, shall
break when the fifteenth Psalm breaks |