The united opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1881-1970, 1892-01-08

Painters fall under their own brush
Foundrymen take death in with the
filings. Shoemakers pound away
their own lives on the last Over
driven merchants measure off their
own lives with the yardstick Millers
grind their own lives with the grist.
Masons dig their graves with the
trowel And in all our occupations
and professions there are the elements
of peril
Rapid climatic changes threaten
our lives. By reason of the violent
fits of the thermometer, within two
days we live both in the arctic and
the tropic. The warm south wind
finds us with our furs on The win
try blast cuts through our thin ap-
parel The hoof. the wheel, the fire
arms, the assassin wait their chance to
put upon us their quietus. Lannounce
it as an impossibility that three hun
dred and sixty five days should lass
and leave us all as we now are. In
what direction to shoot the arrow /
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ture This year thou shalt die.
In view of this, advise that you
have your temporal matters adjusted.
Do not leave your worldly affairs at
the mercy of administrators Have
your receipts properly pasted and
your letters filed and your books
balanced. If you have trust funds"
see that they are rightly deposited
and accounted for Let no widow or
orphan scratch on your tombstone
This man wronged me Of my in
heritance. Many man has died
leaving a competency whose prop
erty has, through his own careless.
ness, afterward been divided between
the administrators the surrogate,
the lawyers and the sheriffs charge
you, before many days have gone, as
far as possible, have all your worldly
matters made straight, for This year
thou shalt die.
POSSIBILITIES OF SABBATH WORK.
| advise also that you be busy in
Christian work How many Sab.
baths in the year2 Fifty-two. If
the text be true of you it does not
say at what time you may go, and
therefore it is unsafe to count on all
of the fifty two Sundays. AS you are
as likely to go in the first half of the
year as in the last half, | think we
had better divide the fifty-two into
halves and calculate only twenty six
Sabbaths Come, Christian men,
Christian women, what can you do
in twenty six SabbathsI
Divide the three hundred and sixty
five days into two parts; what can
you do in one-hundred and eighty
two daysS What by the way of say
ing your family, the church and the
world9 You will not, through all I.
the ages of eternity in heaven, get
over the dishonor and the outrage
of going into glory, and having
helped none up to the same place. 1t
will be found that many Sabbath
school teacher has taken into heaven
her whole class; that Daniel Baker,
the evangelist, took thousands into
heaven; that Doddridge has taken in
hundreds of thousands; that Paul
took in a hundred millions. How
many will you take in2
If you get into heaven and find
none there that you sent, and that
there are none to come through your
lnstrumentality, | beg of you to
crawl under some seat in the back (
corner and never come out. lest the I
redeemed get their eyes on you and
some one cry out That is the man
who never lifted hand or voice for
The redemption of his fellows Look
at him, all heaven !" Better be busy.
Better put the pillow in deep. Better
say what you have to say quickly.
Better cry the alarm Better fall on ,
your knees, Better lay hold with
both hands. What you now leave
lndone for Christ will forever be I'M
lone This year thou shalt der
In view of the probabilities men
Toned | advise all the men and WON
an not ready for eternity to get ready 6
# the text be true, you have no time {
20 talk about noneSsentials, asking
Why God let sin come into the world, {
II whether the book of Jonah is in
pired, or who Melchisedec was, or {
What about the eternal DEGREES. If
vou are as near eternity as some of /
you seem to be, there is no time for l
but the question, What
must | do to be saved2" The drown f
ng man, when a plank is thrown G
Tim, stops not to ask what sawmill b
made it, OF whether it is oak or cedar b
II who threw it. The moment it is a
brown he clutches it. n
If this year you are to die, there is t
10 time for anything but immediate G
y laying hold on God 1t is high tt
ime to get out of your sins. You Il
ay, Il have committed no great Il
But are you not q
ware that your life has been sinful2 b
he snow comes down on the Alps t.
AXE by flake, and it is so light that L
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