The united opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1881-1970, 1892-07-01

: utterly friendless, an officer of the court
: room comes up and smites him in the
mouth, and see the blood stealing from
{ gum and lip Oh! it was farce of 8
, trial, lasting only perhaps an hour, and
then the judge rises for sentence. Stop
, 1t is against the law to give sentence
: unless, there has been an adjournment OF
the court between condemnation and
!, Hntence; but what cares the Judge fol-
} the law? "The man has no friends-let
him die" says the Judge; and the ruff.
fans outside the rail cry: 'Aha! aha
that's what we want! Pass him out
here to us! Away with hint Away
with him!"
DIVINE sYDIPATHIzER.
Oh! bless God that amid all the in
justice that may have been inflicted upon
us in this world we have divine sym-
pathizer. The world cannot lie about
you nor abuse you as much as they did
Christ, and Jesus stands today in every
courtroom, in every house, in every
store, and says: "Courage! By all nv
hours of maltreatment and abuse, | will
protect those who are trampled upon"
And when Christ forgets that two o'clock
morning scene, and the stroke of the
ruffian on the mouth, and the bowling
of the unwashed crowd, then he will
forget you and me in the injustices of
life that may be inflicted upon u.s.
Further, remark: The last great in
stallment paid for our redemption was
the demise of Christ. The world has
seen many dark days. Many summers
ago there was very dark day, when
the sun was eclipsed. The fowl at noon
day went to their perch, and we felt
gloom as we looked at the astronomical
wonder. 1t was dark day in London
when the plague was at it's height, and the
dead with uncovered faces were taken
in open carts and dumped in the
trenches. 1t was a dark day when the
earth opened and Lisbon sank; but the
darkest day since the creation of the
world was when the carnage of Calvary
was enacted.
1t was about noon when the curtain
began to be drawn. 1t was not the COM
ing on of night that soothes and re-
freshes; it was the swinging of great
hung it. AS when there is dead one
in the house you bow the shutters or
turn the lattice, SO God in the afternoon
shut the windows of the world. AS it is
appropriate to throw black pail uponthe
coffin as it passes along, so it was appro-
pirate that everything should be somber
that day as the great hearse of the earth
rolled on bearing the corpse of the king.
A mans last hours are ordinarily kept
sacred. However you may have hated |
or caricatured man, when you hear he
is dying silence puts its hand on your
lips, and you would have loathing for
the man who could stand by deathbed
making faces and SOOTHING. But Christ
in his last hour cannot be left alone.
What! pursuing him yet after so long
pursuit? You have been drinking his
tears. Do you want t-o drink his blocsas-S
They come up closely, SO that notwith-
standing the darkness they can glut
their revenge with the contortions of his
countenance. They examine his feet.
They want to feel for themselves whether
those feet are really spiked. They put
out their hands and touch the spikes,
and bring them back wet with blood,
and wipe them on their garments.
Women stand there and weep, but can
do no good. 1t is no place for the ten
der hearted women. 1t wants a heart
that crime has turned into granite.
The waves of mans hatred and of
hell's vengeance dash up against the
feet, and the hands of sin and
pain and torture clutch for his holy
heart. Had he not been thoroughly
fastened to the cross they would have
torn him down and trampled him with
both feet. How the cavalry horses ]
arched their necks and champed their
bits and reared and snuffed at the blood, /
Had Roman officer called out for a I
light his voice would not have been
heard in the tumult; but louder than /
the clash of spears and the wailing of I
and the neighing of the {
chargers, and the believing of the cru =
,ifyers there comes a voice crashing
clear, overwhelming,
terrific. 1t is the groaning of the diving
son of God! Look! what a scene! Look, S
world, at what you have done! 5
l lift the covering from the maltreat- /
I'd Christ to let you count the wounds |
md estimate the cost. OH when the Z
nails went through Christ's right hand s
md through Christs left hand, that
bought both your hands, with all their G
oower to work and lift and write: when 9
he nails went through Christ's right q
DOT and Christ's left foot, that bought .
,our feet, with all their power to walk II
II run or climb; when the thorn went g
nto Christs temple, that bought Your
'rain, with all its power to think and P
Ian; when the spear left Christs side,
hat bought your heart, with all its
lower to love and repent and pray. .
APPEAL TO SINNERS. =
o sinner, come, come backl If a man .
) in no pain, if he is prospered, if he is =
veil, and he asks you to come. you take I
our time and you say: Il can't come o.
ow. I'll come after awhile. There is 8
% haste" But if he is in want and Y
rouble you say: Il must 90 right away. =
must go now" Today Jesus stretches y
ut before you two wounded hands. and -
e begs Won to come. Go and Won live.