The united opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1881-1970, 1891-10-02


power. America will be hia Europe
will be his Asia will be his. Africa
will be his. Australia will be his. New
Zealand will be his All the earth will
be hist Do you realize that until now
Il was impossible for the world to be
converted3 Not until very recently has
the world been found. The Bible talks
about 1.-THE ends OF the earth" and the
'uttermost parts Of the world" as be
ing saved, but not until now have the
lends of the earth" been discovered,
and not until now have the ''uttermost
parts of the world" been revealed.
The navigator did his work, the ex-
plorer did his work, the scientist did
bis work, and now for the first time
since the world has been created has
the world been known, measured of,
and geographical, the lost, hidden and
unknown tract has been mapped out,
and now the work of evangelization
will be begun with an earnestness and
velocity AZ yet unimagined. The
steamships are ready, the lightning ex-
press trains are ready, the printing
presses are ready, the telegraph and
telephone are ready, millions Of Chris
tans are ready and now see Christ
marching on through the centuries.
Marching onl Marching onl
One by one governments will fall
Into line and constitutions and litera-
lures will adore his name. More hon.
ored and worshiped is he in this year
OF 1891 than at any time since the year
one, and the day hastens when all ma
lions will join one procession follow
ing the Lamb whithersoever he goeth."
Marching on, marching on!
This dear old world whose back has
been scourged, whose eyes have been
blinded, whose heart has been wrung
will yet rival heaven. This planets
torn robe of pain and crime and de-
mentia will come of and the white and
spotless and glittering robe of holiness
and happiness will come on. The last
wound will have stung for the last
time, the last grief will have wiped its
last tear, the last criminal will have
repented of his last crime and our
world that has been a straggler among
worlds, lost star, hayward planet,
. rebellious globe, a miscreant satel-
lite, will hear the voice that uttered
childish plant in Bethlehem and ago.
nized prayer in Gethseinane and dying
groan on Golgotha, and as this voice
cries Come" our world will return
from its wandering never again to
stray. Marching on, marching onl
THE GLORIOUS FINAL1TY.
Then this worlds Joy will be SO great
that other worlds besides heaven may
be glad to rejoice with us. BY the aid
Of powerful telescopes, year by year
becoming more powerful, mountains in
other stars have been discovered and
chasms and volcanoes and canals and
The style of atmosphere, and this will
90 on, and mightier and mightier tele
scopes will be invented until l should
not wonder II we will be able to ex-
shangs signals with other planets.
And a. / have no doubt other worlds
IN Inhabited, for God would not have
6aa1t Hob insignificant world houses to
have them stand without tenants or oc-
in the final Joy Of earth's re-
iemption all astronomy, ! think, will
lake part, we signaling other worlds
and they in turn signaling their stellar
neighbors. Oh, what day In heaven
that will be when the march Of Christ
Is flnishedl know that on the cross
Christ said, 1T is finished" but he
meant his sacrificial work was finished.
ALI earth and all heaven knows that
is not finished, but there
will come day in heaven most raptur-
GUS.
It may be after our world, which is
to have about fifteen hundred
million people, shall have on its decks
twice its present population, namely,
three thousand million souls and all
redeemed, and it will be after this
world shall be 80 damaged by hfa-
grafton that no human foot can Tread
its surface and no human being can
breathe its air, but most certainly the
day will come when heaven will be fin
shed and the last of the twelve gates
II the eternal city shall have changed
hut, never to open except for the ad-
mission of some celestial eInbassage re-
turning from some other world, and
Christ may strike his SCARED but healed
1and in emphasis on the arm OF the
throne and say In sub
Itance: "All my ransomed ones are
yathered. The work is done. l have
inished my march through the cen
;uries."
When in 1918, after the battle OF
Leipsic, which decided the fate of the
century, in some respects
he most tremendous battle ever fought,
he bridge down, the river incarna-
lined, the street choked with the
wounded, the fields for miles around