The united opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1881-1970, 1891-07-03

will watch the procession. A man
The masterpiece of God Almighty. Ye
you say, 1T is only man." Can I
nature like that be fed on husks of tn
wildernessf
Substantial comfort will not grow
On natures barren soil;
All we can boast till Christ we know
Is vanity and toll.
Some of you got astray by looking
for better pasturage; Others by being
scared of the dogs The hound get
over into the pasture field. The pool
things fly in every direction. In few
moments they are torn of the hedges
and they are FLASHED of the ditch, and
the lost sheep never gets home unless
the farmer goes after it. There is
nothing so thoroughly lost rs lost
sheep 1t may have been in 1857, dur
ing the financial panic, or during the
financial stress in the fall Of 1873,
when you got astray. You almost be.
came an atheist. You said, where
is God, that honest men go down and
thieves prosperw You were logged of
creditors, you were logged of the
banks, you were logged of worldly dis,
aster. and some of you went into mis-.
anthropy, and some of you took to
strong drink, and others of you fed out
of Christian association, and you got
astray. o man, that was the last
time when you ought to have forsaken
God.
Standing amid the laundering of
your earthly fortunes, how could you
get along without God to comfort you,
and God to deliver you, and God
to help you. and God to save you9
You tell me you have been through
enough business trouble almost to kill
you. know it. cannot understand
how the boat could live one hour in
that chopped sea. But do not know
by what process you got astray; some
in one way and some in another, and
if you could really see the position some
of you occupy before God this morning
your soul would burst into an agony OF
tears and you would pelt the heavens
with the cry, s"God have mercy"
Sinai's batteries have been unlimbered
above your soul and at times you have
heard it thunder, 1.-The wages of sin is
DEATH" ''All have sinned and come
short of the glory OF God" by one
man sin entered into the world, and
death by sin; and SO death passed upon
all men, for that all have sinned."
1.-THE soul that sinneth. it shall die"
When Sebastopol was being bonn
barded two Russian frigates burned all
night in the harbor, throwing glare
upon the trembling fortress; and some
of you are standing in the night of
your souls trouble. The cannonade
and the confagration, the multiplied
ton of your sorrows and troubles, l
think, must make the wings Of Gods
lowering angels shiver to the tip.
THE 1N1oUrTY OF US ALL"
But the last part Of my text opens a
d1cr wide enough to let US all out and
- ~ SAn In. Sound it on the
y oh oAAO SUOPo OuOs AAuuu
The harps with all the strings
me. With all the melody possible
let the heavens sound it to the earth,
and let the earth tell it to the heavens.
'The Lord hath laid on him the iniquity
of us all" am glad that the prophet
did not stop to explain whom he meant
by ''him." Him of the manager, him of
the bloody sweat, him of the resurrec-
ton throne, him of the crucifixion
agony. ION him the Lord hath laid
the iniquity Of us ALL"
''Oh, says some man, that is not
generous. that is not fair; let every man
carry his own burden and pay his own
debts. That sounds reasonable. i'll
have an obligation and | have the
means to meet it. and l come to you
and ask you to settle that obligation
you rightly say, Pay your own debts"
If you and walking down the street,
both hale, hearty and well. ask you
TO carry me. you say, and say rightly,
Walk on your feetw But suppose
you and I were in a regiment, and l
was wounded in the battle, and l fell
at your feet with gunshot
fractures and dislocations, what would
you do? You would call to your COM
'ades: saying Come and help, this
nan is helpless; bring the ambulance;
ct us take him to the hospital" and l
would be a dead lift in your arms, and
you would lift me from the ground |
where | had fallen and put me in the
ambulance and take me to the hospital
md have all kindness shown me-
Would there be anything mean in your
loing that? Would there be anything
'emeaning in my accepting that kind
lessl Oh, no! You would be mean
lot to do it. That is what Christ does.
If we could pay our debts then it
would be better to go up and pay
hem, saying, Here, Lord, here is my
obligation; here are means with which
mean to settle that obligation; now
1--WE me receipt; cross it all out"
The debt is paid. But the fact is we
lave fallen in the battle, we have gone
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