The united opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1881-1970, 1890-11-14

that he would wreck his own throne.
and the foundations Of his palace
would give way, and the bunk OF heaven
would suspend payment, and the dark
word "repudiation" would &c written
across the sky, and the eternal govern
ment would be disbanded and God
himself would become an exile. Keep
on with your prayer, and you will yet
find your child in the temple, either the
temple here or the temple above.
THE RoBBER OVERCOME.
Out on the western prairies was
happy but isolated home. Father,
mother and child. BY the sale of cat.
tie quite large sum of money was one
night in that cabin. and the father was
away A robber who had heard of the
money one night looked in at the win
dow, and the wife and mother of that
home saw him and she was helpless.
Her child by her side, she knelt down
and prayed among other things for all
prodigals who were wandering up and
down the world. The robber heard
her prayer and was overwhelmed and
entered the cabin, and knelt beside her
and began to pray He had come to
roo that house, but the prayer of that
woman for prodigals reminded him OF
his mother and her prayers before he
became vagabond, and from that
hour he began new life. Years after
that woman was in city in a great au-
dience, and the orator who came on
the platform and plead gloriously for
righteousness and G"d was the man
who many years before had looked into
the cabin on the prairie as robber.
The speaker and the auditor immedi-
ately recognized each other After so
long a time a mothers prayers an
swered.
But we must hurry on, for the mule
teers and baggage men have been Or
dered to pitch our ter+s for tonight at
Bethel. 1t is alread getting SO dark
that we have to giSe up all idea of
guiding the horses, and leave them to
their own sagacity. We ride down
amid mud cabins and into ravines,
where the horses leap from depth to
depth, rocks below rocks. rocks under
rocks. Whoa! Whoa! We dismount in
this place, memorable for many things
in Bible history, the two more promi-
nent, theological seminary, where of
old they made ministers, and for Jacobs
dream. The students of this Bethel
Theological seminary were called ''sons
of the prophets" Here the young men
were fitted for the ministry, and those
of us who ever had the advantage of
such institutions will everlastingly be
grateful, and in the calendar of saints,
which I read with especial affection,
are the doctors of divinity who blessed
me with their care.
thank God that from these theologi-
cal seminaries there is now coming forth
magnificent crop of young ministers,
who are taking the pulpits in all parts
of the land. hail their coming, and
tell these young brothers to shake off
the somnolence of centuries, and get
out from under the dusty shelves of
theological discussions which have no
practical bearing on this age, which
needs to get rid of its sins and have it's
sorrows comforted. Many of our pull
pits are dying of humdrum. People
do not 60 to church because they can
not endure the technicalities and pro-
found explanations of nothing, and
sermons about the eternal generation
of the son, !" and the difference between
sub-lapsarianism and supra lapsarian-
ism, and about who Melchisedeck
wasn't. There ought to be as much
difference between the modes of pre-
senting truth now and in olden time
as between lightning express rail train
and a canal boat.
Years ago l went up to the door of a
factory in New England. On the out
side door saw the words, "No admit
tance." went in and came to an
other door over which were the words,
A>O dOIlllCldIlCc. vi COuTSc i WcIlJ
in, and came to the third door in
scribed with the words, mo admit
tance." Having entered this l found
the people inside making pins, beauti-
full pins, useful pins. and nothing but
pins So over the outside door of
many of the churches has been prac-
Ideally written the words, "No admit
lance" Some have entered and have
come to the inside door, and found the
words, "No admittance. But, per-
'isting, they have come inside, and
found us sounding out our little nice
les of belief, pointing out our little diff
,erences of theological sentiment
making pins!
THE LADDER FROM EARTH TO HEAVEN.
But most distinguished was Bethel
or that famous dream which Jacob
lad, his head on collection of stones
lie had no trouble in this rocky region
n finding rocky pillow. There is
hardly anything else but stone. Yet
he people of those lands have way
# drawing their outer garment up
,ver their head and face, and such a
,illow 1 suppose Jacob had under his
lead. The plural was used in the BIZ
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