The united opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1881-1970, 1888-07-13

ing love. but you say; ~ don't wan,
to break out from my present associa-
tons. II 10 30 chilly and so damp to 60
down the stairs Of that vault. don't
want anything drown so tightly over my
eyes. II there were only some way Of
breaking through the partition between
worlds without tearing this body all to
shreds. wonder II the surgeons and
the doctors cannot compound mixture
by which this body and soul can all the
time be kept together9 Is there no es-
cape from this separation?' None: alb
solutely none. Sol look over this audi
ence today-the vast majority Of you
seeming in good health and spirits
and yet realize that in short time all
Of us will be gone-gone from earth, and
gone forever. A great many men tumble
through the gates of the future, as it
were. and we do not know where they
have gone, and they only add gloom and
mystery to the passage; but Jesus
Christ SO nightly stormed the gates of
that future world that they have never
since been closely shut. Christ knows
what it is to leave this world. Of the
beauty of which he was more appreciative
than we ever could be. He knows the
exquisiteness of the phosphorescence of
the sea- he trod it. He knows the glories
of the midnight heavens; for they were
the spangled canopy of his wilderness
pillow. He knows about the lilies; he
twisted them into his sermon. He
knows about the fowls of the
the air; they whirred their way
through his discourse. He knows about
the sorrows of leaving this beautiful
world. Not taper was kindled in the
darkness. He died physicianless. He
died in cold sweat and dizziness and
hemorrhage and agony that have put
him in sympathy with all the dying. He
goes through Christendom and he gath
ers up the stings out of all the death pill
lows and he puts them under his own
neck and head. He gathers on his own
tongue the burning thirsts of many gen.
erations. The sponge is soaked in the
sorrows Of all those who have died in
their beds as we'll as soaked in the sor-
rows of all those who persisted in icy or
fiery martyrdom. While heaven was
plying and earth was hooking and hell
was deriding, he took the vinegar!
To all those in this audience to whom
life has been an acerbity-a dose they
could not swallow, a draught that set
their teeth on edge and a-rasping-I
preach the omnipotent sympathy of Jesus
Christ. The sister of Herschel. the as
used to help him in his work.
III oil fbo ~. ch0
used to spend much Of her time polishing
the telescopes through which he brought
the distant worlds nigh, and it is my am
bition now, this hour, to clear the lens of
your spiritual vision, SO that looking
through the dark night of your earthly
troubles you may behold the glorious con-
stellation of a Saviour's mercy and
Saviour's love. o, my friends, do not
try TO carry all your ills alone. Do not
put your poor shoulder under the
Apeninnes when the Almighty Christ is
ready to lift up all your burdens. When
you have trouble of any kind, you rush
this way, and that way, and you wonder
what this man will say about it. and
what that man will say about it, and you
try this prescription, and that >prescrip-
ton, and the other prescriprfu1 why
DO you not 60 straight to the heart of
Christ, knowing that for our own SHINING
md suffering race, he took the vinegar!
There was vessel that had been
;ossed on the seas for a great many
weeks and been disabled, and the sup
bly, of water gave out, and the crew were
lying of thirst. After many days they
Jaw sail against the sky. They sig
laled it. When the vessel came nearer
he people on the suffering ship cried to
he captain of the other vessel: Send us
ome water. We are dying for lack of
water" And the captain on the vessel
hat was hailed responded: dip your
buckets where you are. You are in the
mouth of the Amazon, and there are
cores of miles of fresh water all around
bout you. and hundreds of feet deep"
md then they dropped their buckets
ver the side Of the vessel and brought
Up the clear, bright, fresh water and
tut out the fire of their thirst. So hail
ou today, after long and perilous voy-
ge, thirsting as you are for pardon, and
hirsting for comfort and thirsting
or eternal life: and I ask you what is
he use of your going in that death
truck state, while all around you is the
eep, clear, wide, sparkling flood of
'od's sympathetic mercy. Oh, dip your
tickets, and drink, and live forever.
'Whosoever will, let him come and take
f the water of life freely
Yet my utterance is almost choked at
he thought that there are people here
Tho will refuse this Divine sympathy;
nd they will try to fight their own bat
les, and drink their own vinegar, and
AIRY their own burdens; and their life,
1stead of being triumphal march from
ictory to victory, will be hobbling on
rom defeat to defeat, until they make
nal surrender to retributive disaster.
h, wish could today gather up in
line arms all the woes of men and
their heart aches-all their
appointments their chagrins-and
list take them right to the feet of SYM
Jesus. He took the vinegar.
Mana Sahib, after he had lost his last
attic in India, fell back into the jungles
Iheri-jungles SO full of malaria that
o mortal can live there. He carried
18th him also ruby of great luster and
great value. He died in those jungles;
is body was never found, and the ruby