The united opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1881-1970, 1892-01-22


his own head was chopped off with
the guillotine.
MAKE YOUR RECORD FOR JUDGMENT
DAY.
So. also, the judgment day will be
an Echo of all our other days. The
universe needs such day for there
are 30 many things in the world that
need to be fixed up and explained. If
God had not appointed such day all
the nations would cry out, "Oh, God,
give us judgment day." But we are
apt to think of it and speak about it
as day away off in the future,
having no special connection with
this day or any other day. The fact
is that we are now making up it's
voices, its trumpets will only sound
back again to us what we now say
and do.
That is the meaning of all that
Scripture which says that Christ will
on that day address the soul, saying,
Il was naked and ye clothed me;
was sick and in prison and we visited
me-" All the footsteps in that prison
corridor as the Christian Reformer
walks to the wicket of the incarcerat-
ed, yea all the whispers of condo
lence in the ear of that poor soul dy-
ing in that garnet, yea all the kind
nesses are being caught up and rolled
on until they dash against the judy
ment throne, and then they will be
struck back into the ears of these
sons and daughters of mercy.
Louder than the crash of Mount
Washington falling on its face in the
worldwide catastrophe, and the boil
ing of the sea over the furnaces of
universal confagration will be the
Echo and Re-echo of the good deeds
done and the sympathetic words ut
tered and the mighty benefactions
wrought. On that day all the chart
ties, all the self sacrifices, all the
philanthropies, all the benifcent last
wills and testaments, all the Chris
tan work of all the ages, will be piled
up into mountains, and those who
have served God and served the suf
fering human race will hear what
my text styles The sounding of the
mountains.
My subject advances to tell you
that eternity itself is only an echo of
time. Mind you, the analogy war
rants my saying this The Echo is
not always exactly in kind like the
sound originally projected. Lord
Raleigh says that woman's voice
sounding from grove was returned
an octave higher. A scientist play
ing flute in Fairfax county, Va,
found that all the notes were re-
turned, although some of them came
in a raised pitch. A trumpet sounded
ten times near Glasgow, Scotland,
and the ten notes were all repeated,
but third lower And the spiritual
law corresponds with the natural
world.
What we do of good or bad may
not come back to us in justshe pro
portion we expect it, but come back
it will; it may be from higher glad
ness than we thought or from
deeper woe. from a mightier con
queror or from a worse captive, from
a higher throne or deeper dungeon.
Our prayer or our blasphemy, our
kindness or our cruelty, our faith or
our unbelief, our holy life or our dis
solute behavior will come back some
how.
Suppose the boss of factory or
the head of a commercial firm some
lay comes out among his clerks or
and putting his thumbs in
the armholes of his vest says, with
IN air of swagger and jocosity:
We'll, don't believe in the Bible or
the church The one is an imposition
and the other is full of hypocrites.
declare would not trust one of those
very pious people farther than could
see him. That is all he says but he
mas said enough. The young men go
back to their counters or their shut
les and say within themselves,
We'll, he is a successful man and
las probably studied up the whole
subject and is probably right.
ECHO OF LYING UTTERANCEs.
That one lying utterance against
Bibles and churches has put five
7oung men on the wrong track, and
.hough the influential man had
spoken only in half jest the Echo
hall come back to him in five ruined
ifetimes and five destroyed eterni-
les. You SEQ the Echoes are an oc-
ave lower than he anticipated. On
he other hand, some rainy day,
when there are hardly any custom
rs, the Christian merchant comes
tut from his counting room and
tands among the young men who
AVE nothing to do and says:
well, boys, this is a dull day, but |
t will clear off after awhile. There
re good many ups and downs in
BUSINESS, but there is an overriding
Years ago | made up |
ny mind to trust God and he has al |
Ways seen me through. l remember