The united opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1881-1970, 1892-04-29

| ne east the camelS StaSger under incl
Dads between Aleppo and Damascus
life is crushed out every day at counter
Id workbenches and anvil But Their
re other multitudes who die from mer
Aertia. Indulgences every day are con
racting diseases beyond the catholicoi
t allopathy and homeopathy and by
ropathy and eclecticism. Rather thai
4, ork they rush upon lancets and seal
els. Nature has provided for those wht
, .olate her laws by inactivity-wha
heum for the eyes, and what govt fol
he feet, and what curvature for the
line, and what structures for the chest
nd what tubercles for the lungs, ant
what rheumatisms for the muscles, ant
what neuralgias for the nerves. Nature
N time arraigns every such culprit al
Ter bar AMI presents against him al
| Indictment Of one hundred counts, and
convicts him on each one of them.
The laws of nature will not stop theil
tction because men may be ignorant OF
| hem. Disease, when it comes to do its
work, does not ask whether you under.
tand hygiene or pathology or materia
| medica. Ii there were not so many lies
| written on tombstones and in obituaries
| 1ou would see what multitudes of the
worlds inhabitants are slain in their at
tenpts to escape the necessity of toll.
Men cross oceans and continents, and
climb the Alps, and sit under the sky of
italy or the shadow of Egyptian pyra-
mid, and go down into ancient ruins,
and battle at Baden Baden, and come
nome with the same shortness of breath,
nd the same poor digestion, and the
same twitching of the nerves, when at
home with their own spade they might
have dug health out of the ground o,
with their own AK hewn health out of q
log. OF with their own scythe garnered
health from the grain field.
FOOLISH PRIDE ABOUT WORK.
There are many who estimate the
responsibility of an occupation by the
little exertion it demands, and would
not have their children enter any en-
ployment where their hands may be
soiled; forgetting that laborer's over
alls are just as honorable as priests
robes and an anvil is just as respectable
as pulpit. Health flies from the bed
of down and says, Il cannot sleep here;"
and from the table spread with ptar-
migan and epicurean viands, saying, Il
cannot eat here" and from the vehicle
of soft cushions and easy springs, say.
ing, 81 cannot ride here" and from
houses luxuriously warmed and uphol-
stored, saying, II cannot live here" and
some day you meet Health, who declined
all these luxuriant places, walking in
the plows furrow, or sweltering beside
the Kissing forge, or spinning among the
looms, or driving a dray or timing roof
or carrying hods of brick up the ladder
of wall.
Furthermore, notice that incidence
endangers the soul. Satan makes his
chief cOnquests over men who either
have nothing to do, or, if they have, re-
fuse to do it. There is legend that st.
Thomas, years after Christ's resurrec-
ton, began again to doubt, and he
went to the apostles and told them
about his doubts. Each apostle looked
at him with surprise and then said he
must be excused for he had not time to
listen any longer. Then st. Thomas
went to the devout women of his time and
his doubts. They said they
were sorry but that they had no time to
listen. Then st. Thomas concluded
that it was because they were so busy
that the apostles and the devout women
had no doubts.
Idleness not only leads a man into
associations which harm his morals, but |
often thrusts upon him the worst kind |
of skepticism. Loafers are almost al |
ways infidels, or fast getting to be. |
Consummate idlers never read the Bible, |
and if they appear in church can be |
in an audience of thou
sand by their listlessness, for they are
too lazy to hear. 1t is not so much
among occupied merchants, industrious
mechanics and professional men always
busy that you hear the religion of Jesus
as in public lounging places,
given up to profanity and dissoluteness.
They have no sympathy with the Book
hat says, LET him that stole steal no
more; but rather let him labor, working
With his hands the thing which is good,
hat he may have to give to him that
| never knew man given up to thor
ugh idleness that was converted. ST.
non and Andrew were converted while
ishing and Lydia while selling purple,
md the shepherds of Bethlehem watch
ng their f1ocks heard the voice of angels,
md Gideon was thrashing on the thrash
ng floor, but no one was ever converted
With his hands in his pockets. Let me
ell the idler that there is no hope for
i'm either in this world or the world
which is to come. If the Son of God,
Who owned the whole universe, worked
n the carpenter shop of Joseph, surely
We, who own so little yet want so much,
ught to be busy. The redeemed in
eaven are never idle. What exciting
Ongs they sing!
On what messages of love they fly
trough all the universe, fulfilling Gods Z
Ugh behests and taking worlds in one
ircuit rushing with infinite ferceness :
gainst sin and cruelty and oppression,
nd making the gates of hell to quake at
ne overthrow of the principalities of
arkness, and in the same twinkle of an
We speeding back to their thrones with
le news of sinners repentant. The
liver of Life is ever flowing, and the