The united opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1881-1970, 1889-10-11

crystal, that was taken down after the
Bethlehem anthem Of eighteen cen
turtles ago was sung out, is rebuilt
again in the clouds, and the same an.
gelio singers are returned with the
same librettos Of light to chant
"Glory to God in the highest, and on
earth peace, good will to men,"
DON'T LET FOREIGN VICES IN.
Again, ! suggest in regard to the
Worlds fair that, while appropriate
places are prepared for all foreign ex-
hibits, we make no room for the i'm.
portation of foreign vices. America
has enough OF it's own, and we need no
new installments of that kind. A
worlds fair will bring all kinds of peo-
pie, good and bad. The good we must
prepare to welcome, the bad we must
prepare to shun. The attempt will
again be made in 1892, as in 1875, to
break up our American Sabbaths.
That attempt was made at the Phila-
delphia Centennial, but was defeated.
The American Sabbath is the best kept
Sabbath on earth. We do not want it
broken down, and substituted in the
place thereof the Brussels Sabbath, the
Vienna Sabbath, the St. Petersburg
Sabbath or any of the foreign Sab
baths, which are no Sabbaths at ALL
l think the Lord is more than gen.
erous in asking only fifty-two days
out of the 1865 for his service. You let
the Sabbath 60 and with it will 60
your Bible, and after that your liber-
ties, and your children or your grand
children will be here in America
under despotism as bad as in those
lands where they turn the Lords Day
into wassail and frolic.
Among those who come there will
be, as at other expositions, lordly peo-
pie who will bring their vices with
them. Among the dukes and duch-
esses and princes and princesses of
other lands are some of the best men
and women of all the earth. Remem-
Der Earl of Kintore, Lord Cairns and
Lord Shaftesbury. But there is a
snobbery and flunkeyism in American
society that runs after grandee, a
duke, lord or prince, though he
may be a walking lazaretto and his
breath plague. Itmakes the fortune
of some of our queens of society to
dance one cotillion with one of these
princely lepers. Some people cannot
get their hat off quick enough when
they see such foreign lord approach
ing, and they do not care for the mire
into which they drop their knees as
they bow to worship. Let no splen-
dor Of pedigree or any pomp and para
phernalia of circumstance make him
attractive. There is only one set of
Ten Commandments that ever heard
of, and no class of men or women in
all the world are excused from ODE
dience to those laws written by finger
of lightning on the granite surface of
Mount Sinai. Surely we have enough
American vices without making any
drafts upon European vice for 1892.
By this sermon I would have the ma
ton made aware Of its opportunity
and get ready to improve It, and Of
some perils and get ready to combat
them. I rejoice to believe that the ad-
vantages will overtop everything in
that worlds fair. What an introduce
ton to each other of communities, of
states, of republics, of empires, of
zones, Of hemispheres! What doors of
will be swung wide open
for the boys and girls now on the
What national and inter-
national education! What browning
Of Industry with sheaves of grain, and
what imperial robing of her with en-
broidered fabrics! What scientific ap-
paratusl What telescopes for the in
finitude above and microscopes for the
infinitude beneath, and instruments to
put nature to the torture until she tells
her last secret! What display of
The munificence of the God who has
grown enough wheat to make
! loaf of good bread large
for the human race, and
cotton to stocking every foot,
and enough timber to shelter every
1ead, making it manifest that it is not
3od's fault but either mans oppres-
;ion or Incidence or dissipation if
here be any without supply.
Under the arches of the chief build
ng of that exposition let Capital and
labor, too long estranged, at last be
each taking the hand of
ZACH in pledge of eternal fidelity,
while representations of all nations
tand round rejoicing at the nuptials,
md saying: "What God hath joined
ogether let not man put asunder."
Then shall the threnody of the needle
no longer be heard:
Work, work, work!
Till the brain begins to swim;
Work, work, work
Till the eyes are heavy and dim.
Seam and gusset and band,
Band and gusset and seam,
Till over the buttons fall asleep
And sew them on in dream.
CHRISTIANS, MAKE READY!
O, Christian America! Make ready
or the grandest exposition ever seen
lnder the sun! Have Bibles enough
ound. Have churches enough es-
ablished. Have scientific halls
nough endowed. Have printing
resses enough set up. Have revivals
+ religion enough in full blast. I be-
ieve you will. "Hosanna to the Son
{ Davidl Blessed is he that cometh