The united opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1881-1970, 1890-11-14
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OH the shelves of the grog shops and
boot above the dead. lam often asked
to what political party belong, and l
now declare my opinion of the political
parties today. Each one is worse than
the other, and the only consolation In
regard to them is that they have putre-
fed until they have no more power to
rot. Oh, that comparatively tame Scene
upon which Rizpah looked! She looked
upon only seven of the slain. Amer
lean motherhood and American wife
hood this moment are looking Upon
seventy of the slain, upon seven hun
dred of the slain, upon seventy thou
sand of the slain. Woe! woe! woe!
My only consolation on this subject
is that foreign capitalists are buying up
the American brewerics. The present
owners see that the doom of that bust
ness is coming as surely as that God is
not dead. They are unloading upon
foreign capitalists, and when we can
get these breweries into the hands of
people living on the other side of the
sea our political parties will cease to be
afraid of the liquor traffic, and at their
conventions nominating presidential
candidates will put in their platform a
plank as big as the biggest plank of the
biggest ocean steamer, saying: Re
solved unanimously that we always
have been and always will be opposed
to alcoholism"
But must spur on our Arab steed,
and here we come in sight of Beeroth,
said to be the place where Joseph and
Mary missed the boy Jesus on the way
from Jerusalem to Nazareth, going
home now from great national fes-
tival. Where is my child, Jesus"
says Mary. Where is my child, JesusT'
says Joseph. Among the thousands
that are returning from Jerusalem they
thought that certainly he was walking
on in the crowd. They described him,
saying: ''He is IL years old, and of
light complexion and blue eyes. A lost
child" Great excitement in all the
crowd. Nothing SO stirs folks as the
news that a child is lost. l shall not
forget the scene when, in great out
door meeting, l was preaching, and
some one stepped on the platform and
said that child was lost. We went on
with the religious service, but all our
minds were on the lost child.
After while man brought on the
platform a beautiful little tot that look
ed like a piece of heaven dropped
down, and said, Here is that child"
And l forgot all that was preaching
about, and lifted the child to my shout
der and said, "Here is the lost child,
and the mother will come and get her
right away, or l will take her home
and add her to my own brood!" And
some cried and some shouted and
amid all that crowd instantly detect
ed the mother. Everybody had to get
out of her way or be walked over
Hats were nothing and shoulders were
nothing and heads st;sna. nothinssi4 her
pathway, and l realized something of
what must have been Mary's anxiety
when she lost Jesus, and what her
gladness when she found her boy in the
temple of Jerusalem, talking with these
old ministers of religion, Shammai,
Hillel and ,Betirah.
THE ANCwER To Drawer
l bear down on you today with a
mighty comfort. Mary and Joseph
said, Where is our Jes 1s" and you
say, "Where is John? or where is Hen
ry? or where is George" WE'LL
should not wonder If you found him
after a while. Where9 In the same
place where Joseph and Mary found
their boy-in the remple. What do
mean by that? mean. you do your
duty toward God and toward your
child and you will find him after a
while in the kingdom of Christ. Will
you say, 81 do not have any way of in
fluencing my childy" I answer you
have the most tremendous line of
influence open right before you
As you write a letter, and there
are two or three routes by which it
may go, but you want it to go the
quickest route, and you put on it "via
Southampton, or ''via San Francisco"
or ''via Marseilles," put on your wishes
about your child, "via the throne of
God" How long will such a good
wish take to get to its destination:
Not quite as long as the millionth part
of second. l will prove it. The
promise is, Before they call l gill an
swer." That means at your first mo-
ton toward such prayerful exercise the
blessing will come, and if the prayer
be made at 10 o'clock at night it will
be answered five minutes before ten,
Before they call will answer"
Well. you say, I am clear discour-
aged about my son, and | am getting
On in years, and fear l will not live to
zee him converted. Perhaps not. New
,rtheless l think you will find him in
he temple, the heavenly temple. There
las not been an hour in heaven the
asst one hundred years when parents in
ylory had not had announced to them
he salvation of children whom they
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