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


LIDO not want to die this year We
have plans and projects on foot thai
| want to see completed, but Goo
knows best, and he has a thousand
better men than to do the work yet
undone. have a hope that, notwith
standing all my sins and wanderings
! shall, through the infinite mercy OF
my Saviour, come out at the right
place | have nothing to brag OF
by way of Christian experience; but
two things have learned-my utter
helplessness before God, and the all
Astounding grace of the Lord Jesus.
If the text means some of you, my
hearers. do not want you to be
caught unprepared | would like to
have you, either through money you
have laid up, or a life insurance, >
be able to leave the world feeling
that your family need not become
paupers. But if you have done your
best and you leave not one dollars
worth of estate, you may confidently
trust the Lord who hath promised to
care for the widow and the father
less, would like to have your soul
fitted out for eternity, so that if any
morning or noon or evening or night
of these three hundred and sixty five
days death should look in and ask
Are you ready?" you might with
an outburst of Christian triumph an
swer, Aye ayel all ready?"
CHARACTERISTIC LAST WORDS.
| know not what our last words
may be- Lord Chesterfield prided
himself on his politeness and said in
his last moment, Give Dayrolles a
chair" Dr. Adam, a dying school
master, said: 1T grows dark. The
boys may dismiss. Lord Tenterden,
supposing himself on the bench of
courtroom, said in his last moment,
Gentlemen of the jury, you will
now consider your verdict" A dying
play actor said: Drop the curtain
The farce is played out.
| would rather have for my dying
words those of one greater than
Chesterfield or DR.. Adam or Lord
Tenterden: Il am now ready to be
offered and the time of my departure
is at hand. l have fought a good
fight, | have finished my course, |
have kept the faith; hencefolth there
is laid up forme crown of righteous
ness which the Lord, the righteous
Judge, shall give me-"
The sooner the last hour comes the
better if we are fitted for entrance in
the celestial world. There is no
clock in heaven, because it is an
everlasting day; yet they keep an ac-
count of the passing years because
they are all the time hearing from
our world. The angels flying through
heaven report how many times the
earth has turned on its axis, and in |
that way the angels can keep a diary
and they say it is almost time now
for father to come up or for mother
to come up.
sonno day they see a cohort leaving
heaven and they say, whittier
bounds" and the answer is, ITO bring
up soul from earth" And the ques-
ton is asked, What soul?" And
family circle in heaven find that it is
one of their own number that is to be
brought up, and they come out to
watch, as on the beach we now watch
or a ship that is to bring our friends
home. After awhile the cohort will
leave in sight, flying nearer and
learer, until with a great clang the
rates hoist and with an embrace wild
With the ecstacy of heaven old
riends meet again.
Away with your stiff, formal
leavenl want none of it. Give
ne place of infinite and eternal
My feet free from the clods
/, earth, | shall bound the hills with
ladness and break forth in laugh
f triumph Ahal ahal We weep
ow, but then we shall laugh. "Abra-
ans bosom" means that heaven
as open arms to take us in. Now {
re fold our arms over our heart and
I'll the world to stand back, as
lough our bosom was a two barred 9
ate to keep the world out. Heaven
.ands not with folded arms, but with :
cart open. 1t is ''Abraham's BOSOM 6
CHILDHOOD IN HEAVEN. o
| see mother and her child meet =
lg at the foot of the throne after a
,me years absence. The child died n
yenty years ago, but is a child 7
ct. | think the little ones who die :
i'll remain children through all
ernity. 1t would be no heaven
ithout the little darlings. lido not
ant those that are in heaven to v
'ow up. We need their infant le
,ices in the great song. And when Il
g walk out in the fields of light we n
ant them to run ahead and clap b
cir hands and pick out the bright b
t of the field flowers. Yes, here is C,
child and its mother meeting. The A
lid long in glory, the mother just M
rived HI
"How changed you are, my dar e,
lgp says the mother. Yes, says SC