The united opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1881-1970, 1889-02-15

posture q man ever takes-on his
knees He had served his generation
by unrolling the scroll Of q continent,
and by the will Of God fell on sleep:
Grimshaw, the evangelist, when asked
how he felt in his last moments, 70
sponded' "As happy a. ] can be on
earth and as sure Of glory a. u ! were
in it. have nothing to do but TO
step out OF this bed into heaven. "
Having served his generation In sue
cessful evangelism by the will VI God,
he fell on sleep.
pital, England, there is 9 fragment OF
q book that was found in the Arctic
regions amid the relics Of Sir John
Franklin, who had persisted amid the
snow and ice, and the leaf OF that
piece OF book was turned down
at the words, when thou passest
through the waters will be with
thee" Having served his generation
in the cause OF science and discovery
by the will of God, he fell on sleep.
WHY will you keep us all 30 ner-
yous talking about that which is only
q dormitory and q pillowed slumber,
canopied by angels wings3 Sleepl
Transporting sleepl And what glo-
rious awakening You and l have some
times been thoroughly bewildered after
q long and fatiguing journey we have
stopped at q friends house for the
night, and after hours Of complete
Inconsistencies we have opened our
<ho srh M fy,I1 in
faces, and, before we could fully col
lect our faculties, have said Where
am I, whose house is this, and whose
are these gardens9" And then it has
flashed upon US in glad reality. And
should not wonder if, after we have
served our generation and, by the will
of God, have fallen on sleep, the deep
sleep, the restful sleep, we should
awake in blissful bewilderment and
for little while say: Where am II
What palace is this1 Who hung
this upholstery9 What fountains
are these tossing in the light7
Why, this looks like heavenl
It is. It is. Why, there is build
ing grander than all the castles of
earth heaved into mountain of splen-
dor, that must be the palace of Jesus.
An6slooks there, at those walks lined
v with 4 f0n \ y bsaHtlfR ths ss
those who are walking down those
aisles of verdure. From what have
heard of them, those two arm in arm
must be: Moses and Joshua, him of
Mount. Sinai and him of the hating
sun over Ajalon. And those two
walking arm in arm must be John
and Paul, the one so gentle and the
other so mighty. And those two with
the robes as brilliant as though made
out of the cooled off flames of martyr
dom, must be John Huss and Hugh
Latimer.
A HOUSE NOT BUILT WITH HANDS.
But | must not look any longer at
those gardens of beauty, but examine
this building in which / have just
awakened. look out of the window
this way and that and up and down,
and find it is a mansion of immense
size in which am stopping. All its
windows of agate and its colonnades
Of porphyry and alabaster. Why,
wonder If this is not the house of
many mansions" Of which I used to
reada 1t is, 1t is. There must be many
of my kindred and friends in this very
mansion. Hank whose are those
voices, whose are those bounding feet9
open the door and see, and 10! they
are coming through all the corridors
and up and down all the stairs, our
long absent kindred. Why, there is
father, there is mother, there are the
children. All well again. All young
again. All Of us together again.
And as we embrace each other
with the cry, Never more to
part never more to part!' the arches,
the alcoves, the Railways echo and re-
echo the words, Never more to part.
Never more to part" Then our glori-
fed friends say: "Come out with us
and see heaven" And, some of them
bounding ahead of us and some of
them skipping beside us, we start
down the ivory stairway. And we
meet, coming up, one of the kings of
ancient Israel, somewhat small Of stat
ure, but having countenance radiant
with thousand victories. And as all
are making obeisance to this great one
of heaven cry out, who is he2" and
the answer comes: ''This is the great
est of all the kings OF Israel. It is
David, who after he had served his
generation by the will Of God, fell on
sleep"