The united opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1881-1970, 1891-12-04

10 reIreSn us, ana IOOu 10 sUrengtneI
us; and the herbs yield medicine whel
, we are sick, and the forests lumbe
when we would build house or eros
the water in ship.
The rocks are transported for oul
foundation, and metals upturned fo
our currency, and wild beasts mus
give us covering, and the mountain
must be tunneled to let us pass, anG
the fish of the sea come up in our net
and the birds of the air drop at the flash
of our guns and the cattle on thou
sand hills come down to give us meat
For us the peach orchards bend down
their fruit and the vineyards theil
purple clusters. To feed and refresh
our intellect ten thousand wonders in
nature and providence-wonders OF
mind and body, wonders of earth and
air and deep analogies and antitheses;
all colors and sounds; lyrics in the air;
idyls in the field; conhagrations in the
sunset; robes of mist on the mountains
and the "Grand March" Of God in the
storm.
! But for the soul still higher adapta-
tion-a fountain in which it may wash
a ladder by which it may climb; song
of endless triumph that it may sing; a
crown of unfading light that it may
wear Christ came to save it-came
with cross on his back; came with
spikes in his feet; came when no one
else would come, to do work which
10 one else would do. See how suited
to mans condition is what God has
done for him! Man is a sinner; here is
pardon. He has lost Gods image;
Christ retraces it. He is helpless; AL
mighty grace is proffered He is lost
wanderer; Jesus brings him home. He
is blind and at one touch of him who
cured Bartimeus eternal glories stream
into his SOUL Jesus, I sing thy grace |!
Cure of worst disease! Hammer to
smite off heaviest chain! Light for
thickest darkness Grace divine! Devils
scott at it and men reject it, but
heaven celebrates til
HEALTH, PLENTY AND LIBERTY.
wish you good cheer for the,nation-
al health. Pestilence, that in other
years has come to drive out its thou
sand hearses to Greenwood and Laurel
Hill, has not visited our nation. 1t is
a glorious thing to be WELL How
strange that we should keep our health
when one breath from a marsh, or the
sting of an insect, or the slipping of a
foot, or the falling of tree branch
might fatally assault our life! Regular
ly the lungs work, and their motion
seems to be spirit within us painting
after its Immortality. Our sight fails
not, though the air is so full of objects
which by one touch could break out
the souls window. What ship, after
years tossing on the sea, could come in
with SO little damage as ourselves.
though we arrive after a years voyage
ntoday9
wish you good cheer for the ma
Aar10st Reertns machines
- l1kekS[srye, and corn
lekS peg never ripped out fuller
kr, and NOW poles never bent down
under sweeter hay, and windmills hop
per never shook out larger wheat.
Long trains of white covered wagons
have brought the wealth down to the
great thoroughfares. The gamers are
full, the storehouses are overcrowded,
the canals are blocked with freights
pressing down to the markets. The
cars rumble all through the darkness
and whistle up the flagman at dead of
night to let the western harvests come
down to feed the mouths of the great
cities. A race of kings has taken pos
session of this land-King Cotton, King
Corn, King Wheat, King Rice, King
Grass, King Coal.
wish you good cheer for civil and
religious liberty. No official spy
watches our entrance here, nor does
an armed soldier interfere with the
honest utterance of truth. !, We stand
here today with our arms free to work
and our tongues free to speak. This
Bible-it is all unclasped. This pulpit |
there is no chain around about it.
There is no swapping of musketry in
the streets. Blessed be God that to- |
day we are free men, with the prospect |
and determination of always being
free. No established religion-Jew and |
Gentle, Arminian and Calvinist, Trim
itarian and Unitarian, Protestant and
Roman Catholic on the same footing.
If persecution should come against
the most unpopular of all the sects, I
believe that all other denominations
would band together and arm them
selves, and hearts would be stout, and
blood would be free, and the right of
men to worship God according to the
dictates of their consciences would be
at the point Of the bayonet
and with blood flowing up to the bits
of the horses brides.
For mercies temporal and spiritual
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