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

suit A good pair Of shoes for every
hat or Z good bonnet and . good shawl,
and complete masculine or feminine
OUTFIT Of apparel. A wardrobe for al!
nations adapted to all chimes, and not
Q string or button or pin or hook
or an eve wanting. But, alas where
are the good clothes for three-fourths
Of the human racei The other one
fourth have appropriated them. the
fact is, there needs to be and Will 90
Q redistribution. Not by anarchistic
violence. II outlawry had its way,
1t would rend and tear and diminish
until instead of three-fourths Of the
world not properly attired, four
fourths would be in rags. / let you
know how the redistribution will take
place. By generosity on the part OF
those who have q surplus and p
creased industry on the part OF 7 e
suffering from deficit. Not all, bu
large majority Of cases Of power
this country are a result Of idleneS
drunkenness, either on the part OF
present sufferers or their ancestors
most cases the rum jug is the m |.
strom that has swallowed down be
livelihood of those who are in rags
But things will change, and by gener-
osity on the part Of the crowded ward
robes and industry and sobriety on
the part Of the empty wardrobes there
will be enough for all to wear. God
has done his part toward the dressing
OF the human race. He grows q sur
plus Of wool on the sleeps back,
and aocks roam the mountains and
valleys with burden of warmth in
tended for transference to human com.
fort, when the shuttles of the factories
reaching all the way from the Chatta-
hoochee to the Merrimac shall have
spun and woven it. And here come
forth the Rocky Mountain goat and
the cashmere and the beaver. Here are
the merino sheep. their origin traced
back to the flocks of Abrahamic and Da-
vidic times. In white letters of snowy
fleece, God has been writing for a
thousand years his wish that there
might be warmth for all nations.
While others are discussing the effect
Of high or low tariff or no tariff at all
on wool, you and I had better see il
In our wardrobes we have nothing that
we can spare for the shivering, or pick
out some poor lad of the street and
take him down to clothing store and
fit him out for the winter. Don't
think that God has forgotten to send
ice and snow, because Of this wonder
fully mild January and February.
We shall yet have deep SHOWS and so
much frost on the window pane that in
the morning you cannot see through
it; and whole focks of billiards., for
God long ago declared that winter
as well as summer shall not cease,
and between this and the spring Gro
Gus we may all have reason to cry out
with the psalmist: "Who can stand
before his cold2"
HOW MAY WE SERVE OUR GENERATION?
Again, let us look around and see
how we may serve our generation.
What short sighted mortals we would
be if we were anxious to clothe and
feed only the most insignificant part
of man, namely, his body, while we
put forth no effort to clothe and feed
and save his soul. Time is a u
pieae brQIfoa Oft e great ete2
W. aFS dOing Tor the soll
THO uM9ent generation9 Let ne say
it is a generation worth saving. Most
men and women arein it.
We make great ado about the i'm
provements in navigation, and in loco
motion, and in art and machinery.
We remark what wonders of tele-
graph, and telephone, and stethoscope.
What improvement is electric light
over a tallow candlel But all these
are insignificant COM
pared with the improvement in the
human race In olden times, once in
a while, great and good man or
woman would come up and the world
has made great fuss about it ever
since, but now they are SO numerous
we scarcely speak about them. We
put a halo about the people of the
past, but think if the times demanded
them it would be found we have now
living in this year 1889 fifty Martin
Luthers, fifty George Washingtons,
fifty Lady Huntingtons, fifty Eliza
beth Frys. During our civil war
more splendid warriors in north and
south were developed in four years
than the whole world developed in the
previous twenty years. l challenge
the four thousand years before the
flood and the eighteen centuries after
the flood, to show me the equal of
charity on large scale of George Pea
body. This generation of men and
women is more worth saving than any
Of the one hundred and eighty gener-
atoms that have passed off.
But where shall we begin2 With
ourselves. That is the pillar from
which we must start. Prescott, the
blind historian, tells us how Pizarro
saved his army for the right when
they We're about deserving him. With
his sword he made a long mark on the
the ground. He said: my men, on
the north side are desertion and death,
on the south side is victory; on the
north side Panama and poverty, on
the south side Peru with all its riches.
Choose for yourselves; for my part /
60 to the south" Stepping across the
line one by one, his troops followed
and finally his whole army. The
sword of Gods truth draws the
dividing line today. On one side Of
it are sin and ruin and death,
on the other side are pardon and use
fnlness and happiness and heaven en-.