The united opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1881-1970, 1892-03-11

Have you syer thanked God for your
homer Have you childrenrN Yes"
Have you ever thanked God for
your children3 Who keeps them
safer Were you ever sickr Yes"
"Who made you welll Haveyou been
fed every day2 Who feeds your Put
your hand on your pulse. Who
makes it throb3 Listen to the res
piration of your lungs. Who helps
you to breathe2 Have you Bible in
the house, spreading before you the
future hfe2 Who gave you that
Bible?"
Oh, it has been story of goodness
and mercy all the way through You
have been one of Gods pet children.
Who fondled you and caSassed you
and loved you2 And when you went
astray and wanted to come back did
he ever refuse2 | know of a father
who, after his son came back the
fourth time, said, NO; ! forgave
you three times, but will never for
give you again" And the son went
off and died. But God takes back
his children the thousandth time as
cheerfully as the first. AS Asily as
with my handkerchief | strike the
dust off book God will wipe out all
your sins.
There are hospitals for ''incura-
bles. When men are hopelessly
sick they are sent there Thank
God, there is no hospital for spiritual
incurables Though you had the
worst leprosy that ever struck a soul,
your flesh shall come again like the
flesh of little child, Oh, this mercy
of God | am told it is an ocean.
Then place on it four swift sailing
craft, with compass and charts and
choice rigging and skillful navigators,
and tell them to launch away and
discover for me the extent of this
ocean.
That craft puts out in one direc-
ton and sails to the north; this craft
to the south; this to the east; this to
the west. They crowd on all their
canvas and sail ten thousand years,
and one day come up the harbor of
heaven, and | shout to them from
the beach, Have you found the
shoreg" and they answer, No shore
to Gods mercy" Swift angels, dis
patched from the throne, attempt to
go across it. For a million years
they fly and fly, but then come back
and fold their wings at the foot of
the throne, and cry, mo shorel no
shore to Gods mercy!
Mercy Mercy Mercy l sing
it. | preach it. pray it. Here |
find man bound hand and foot to
the devil, but with one stroke of the
hammer of Gods truth the chains
fall off and he is free forever. Mercy!
Mercy! Mercy! There is no depth
it cannot fathom, there is no height
it cannot scale, there is no infinity it
cannot compass. | take my stand
under this goodly cedar and see the
fiocks flying thither. They are torn
with the shot of temptation, and
and sick and SCARED. Some
fought with iron beak, some once
Toasted on carcasses, some wefe fierce
of eye and cruel of talon, bun they
came, flock after fock-"All fowl of
every wing.
ALL THE DYING.
Again, all the dying will find their
nest in this goodly cedar. 1t is cruel
to destroy a birds nest, but death
does not hesitate to destroy one.
There was a beautiful nest in the
next street Lovingly the parents
over it. There were two or
5hree little robins in the nest. The
scarlet fever thrust it's hot hands into
he nest and the birds are gone.
Only those are safe who have their
lests in the goodly cedar. They
nave over them 1.-The feathers of the
Almighty" Oh, to have those soft,
warm, eternal wings stretched over
Is! Let the storms beat, and the
of the cedar toss on the
vind-no danger. When a storm
zones, you can see the birds flying
% the woods. Ere the storm of death
comes down, let us fly to the goodly
,edar.
Of what great varieties heaven
will be made upl There come men
Who once were hard and cruel and
desperate in wickedness, yet now,
oft and changed by grace, they
.ome into glory-"All fowl of every |
wing" And here they come, the |
children who were reared in loving
home circles, fiocking through the |
tates of ife-"All fowl of every |
wing" These were white, and came |
rom northern homes; these were |
lack, and assembled from southern |
plantations; these were copper col
red, and went up from Indian res
rvations-"All fowl of every wing"
So God gathers them up. 1t is as
how easy it is for a good
oul to enter heaven. A prominent
man in Philadelphia went
Iome one afternoon, lay down on the
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