The united opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1881-1970, 1889-04-12

hands to drink, and their exhausted
nervous system seeming to demand
stimulus. Their religion caricatured
by the most of the clerks in the store
and most Of the operatives in the fac
tory. The rapids of temptation and
death rushing against that young man
forty miles the hour, and he in frail
boat headed up stream, with nothing
but broken oar to work with. Unless
Almighty God help them they will go
under
All when told you to take care of
yourself you misunderstood me if you
thought ] meant you are to depend
upon human resolution, which may
be dissolved in the foam of the wine
cup, or may be blown out with the
first gust of temptation. Here is the
helmet. the sword of Lord God AL
mighty. Clothe yourself in that pam
oply and you shall not be put to con-
fusion Sin pays well neither in this
world nor the next, but right thinking
and right believing and right acting
will take you in safety through this
life and in transport through the next
never shall forget prayer heard
a young man make some fifteen years
ago. It was very short prayer, but
it was a tremendous prayer: "Oh Lord,
help us. We find it SO very easy to do
wrong and so hard to do right Lord
help us" That prayer, warrant you,
reached the ear of God, and reached
his heart. And there are in this house
hundred men who have found out
a thousand young men, perhaps, who
have found out that very thing. 1t is
SO very easy to do wrong, and SO hard
to do right.
got letter. only one paragraph of
which shall read: Having moved
around somewhat / have run across
many young men of intelligence,
ardent strivers after that will-o' the
wisp, fortune, and of one of these l
would speak. He was young Eng
lishman of twenty-three or four years,
who came to New York, where he had
acquaintance, with barely sufficient
to keep him a couple of weeks. He
had been tenderly reared; perhaps |
should say too tenderly, and was not
used to earning his living, and found
it extreme, ifiicult to get any posi-
ton that \ WAS capable OF filling.
After man vain efforts in this direc-
ton he found himself on Sunday even
ing in Brooklyn, near your church,
with about three dollars left of his
small capital. Providence seemed to
lead him to your door, and he de-
termined to go in and hear you
"He told me his going to hear you
that night was undoubtedly the turn
ing point in his life, for when he
went into your church he felt des-
perate, but while listening to your
discourse his better nature got the
mastery. truly believe from what
this young man told me that your
sounding the depths of his heart that
night alone brought him back to his
God whom he was so near leaving"
TAKE THE RIGHT ROAD AND KEEP TO 1T.
The echo that is, of multitudes in
the house. | am not preaching an
abstraction, but great reality Obi
friendless young man, Oh! prodigal
young man, Oh! broken hearted
young man, discouraged young man,
wounded young man, / commend you
to Christ this day, the best friend
man ever had. He meets you this
morning. You have come here for
this blessing. Despise not that emo
ton rising in your soul; it is divinely
lifted. Look into the face of Christ.
Lift one prayer to your fathers God,
to your mothers God, and get the par
doning blessing Now, while speak,
you are at the forks of the road, and
this is the right road, and that is the
wrong road, and l see you start on
the right road.
One Sabbath morning, at the close
of my service, saw a gold watch of
the world renowned and deeply la
mented violinist Ole Bull. You re-
member he died in his island home off
the coast Of Norway. That gold watch
he had wound up day after day through
his illness, and then he said to his
companion, Nov l want to wind this
watch as long as can, and then when G
l am gone want you to keep it wound t
up until it gets to my friend DR.. Dore-
mus, in New York, and then he will t
keep it wound up until his life is done,
and then l want the watch to go to
MS young son, my especial favorite. " :
The great musician, who more than :
any other artist had made the violin :
speak and sing and weep and laugh :
md triumph-for it seemed when he S
lrew the bow across the strings as if c
Ill earth and heaven trembled in de- t
lighted sympathy-the great musician, :
n room looking off upon the sea,
md surrounded by his favorite instru-
nents Of music, closed his eyes in
leath. While all the world was mourn 81
ng at his departure, sixteen crowded "
fell into line of funeral pro- .
session to carry his body to the main 8
and. There were fifty thousand of q
lis countrymen gathered in an amphi- 9
heatre of the hills waiting to hear the :.
ulogium, and it was said when the
.reat orator of the day with stentorian
'oice began to speak, the fifty thou
and people on the hillsides burst into
ears.
Oh! that was the close of life that
ad done SO much to make the world
Apply. But have to tell you, young
nan, if you live right and die right,
hat was tame scene compared with
hat which will greet you when from
he galleries of heaven the one hun
red and forty and four thousand