The united opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1881-1970, 1890-10-31

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geological formation. "Oh, yes" says
the Bible; Moses wrote thousands OF
years ago, The Lord rained upon
SodoIn and upon Gomorrah birthstone
and fire from the Lord out OF heaven,
and David wrote He toucheth the
hills and they smoke"
So guess we will hold ON to our
Bibles little longer. A gentleman in
the ante-room of the White House, at
Washington, having an appointment
with Mr. Lincoln at 5 O'Clock in the
morning. got there fifteen minutes
early, and asked the servant, who is
talking in the next room2" 1T is the
president, sir!" rs anybody with
himw "No, sir; he is reading the
Bible. He spends every morning from
4 to 5 o'clock reading the Scriptures.
GODS EASY CONTROL.
My text implies that God controls
volcanoes not with the full force of his
hand. but with the tip of his finger
Etna, Stromboli and Vesuvius fawn at
his feet like hounds before the hunter.
These eruptions of the hills do not be-
long to Pluto's realm, as the ancients
thought, but to the divine dominions.
Humboldt counted two hundred of
them, but since then the Indian Archi-
pelago has been found to have nine
hundred of these great mouthpieces.
They are on every continent and in all
ATTITUDES That earthquake which
shook all America about six or seve,
summers ago was only the ravine
around of volcanoes rushing against
the sides of their rocky caverns trying
to break out. They must come to the
surface, but it will be at the divine
call. They seem reserved for the pun
ishment of one kind of sin. The seven
cities they have obliterated were cele,
brated for one kind of transeression.
Profligacy was the chief characteristic
of the seven cities over which they put
their smothering wing-Pompeii, Her
culaneum, Stable, Adma. zeboim, So
dom and Gomorrah.
If our American cities do not quit
their profigacy, if in high life and low
life dissoluteness does not cease to be a
joke and become a crime, if wealthy
libertinism continues to find so many
doors of domestic life open to it's faint
est touch, if Russian and French and
American literature stepped in pruri-
ency does not get banished from the
news stands and ladies parlors, God
will let loose some of these suppressed
monsters of the earth. And I tell these
American cities that it will be more
tolerable for Sodom and Gomorrah in
the day of judgment, whether that day
of judgment be in this present century
or in the closing century of the earth's
The volcanic forces are
already in existence, but in the mercy
Of God they are chained in the kennels
Of subterraneous fire. Yet let profit
yacy, whether it stagger into lazat
retto or sit on a commercial throne.
it laugh in faded shawl I'M
der the street gasAlight or be ws%ppod in
The finest array that foreign loom ever
or lapidary ever impearled.
know right well that there is volcano
waiting for it, whether in domestic
ife, or social life, or political life, or in
he foundations of the earth from which
'prang out the devaststions that swal-
owed the cities of the plain. ''He
;oucheth the hills and they smoke"
OFF FOR JORDAN
But the dragoman was rejoiced when
We had seen enough of this volcanic re-
zion of Palestine, and he gladly tight
ms the girths for another march
round the horses, which are prancing
md neighing for departure. We are
IF for the Jordan, only two hours
way. We pass Bedouins, whose stern
eatures melt into smile as we give
hem the salutation ''Salaam aleikoum"
be with you, their smile some
ines leaving us in doubt as to whether
is caused by their gladness to see us
r by our poor pronunciation of the
Arabic. Oh, they are strange race
hose Bedouins. Such commingling
+ ruffianism and honor, of cowardice
nd courage, of cruelty and kindnessl
When band of them came down upon
party in which Miss Whately was
raveling, and were about to take
ocket books and perhaps life, this
ldy sitting upon her horse took out
or note book and pencil and began to
zeteh these brigands, and seeing this
omposure the bandits thought it
supernatural and fed
womanliness or manliness is
Il conquering. When Martin Luther
as told that Duke George would kill
i'm if he went to Leipsic Luther re-
lied. 81 would go to Leipsic if it
lined Duke Georges nine days"
Now we come through regions where
lere are hills cut into the shape of ca ,
ledrals, with altar and column and
'ch and chancel and pulpit and dome {
I'D architecture of the rocks, that |
link can hardly just happen so. Per
APPS it is because God loves the church
well he builds in the solitudes of 8
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