The united opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1881-1970, 1892-02-19

anceS and dictionaries and encyclo
pedias and systems of theology ON
our head to get down ON the plain.
Our vocabulary is too frosted. We
are too much under the domination
of customs regnant for many centu-
ries Come on. young men of the
ministry. Take this pulpit, take all
the pulpits and in the street, and the
market place. and the family circle
preach Christ on the plain.
AS soon as the church says by its
attitude, not necessarily by it's words.
MY one mission is to help for this
life and help for the life to come all
the people, and it proves its earnest
ness in the matter, people on foot and
on horseback and in wagons and in
carriages will come to the churches in
such numbers that they will have to
be met at the door by ushers, saying
"You were here last Sunday; you can
not come in today. Gentlemen and
ladies', you must take your turn"
And it will be as in the Johnstown
freshet and disaster, when a govern.
ment station was opened for the sup
ply of bread, and it took the officers
of the law to keep the sufferers in
line because of the great rush for
food. When this famine struck
world realizes that the church is a
government station set up by the
government of the universe to pro
vide the bread of eternal life for all
the people. the rush will be UMPIRE
cedented and unimaginable
WHAT SCIENTISTS HAVE NOT DONE.
Astronomers have been busy meas
uring worlds, and they have told us
how great is the circumference of
this world and how great is it's diam
eter, yea, they have kept on until
they have weighed our planet and
found it's weight to be six sextillon
tons. But by no science has the
weight of this worlds trouble been
weighed. Now. Christ standing on
the level of our humanity stands in
sympathy with every trouble There
are so many aching heads; his ached
under the thorns. There are SO
many weary feet; his were worn
with the long journey up and down
the land that received him not,
There are so many prosecuted souls.
Every hour of his life was under
human outrage. The world had no
better place to receive him than a
cattle pen, and it's farewell was slap
on his cheek and spear in his side.
So intensely human was he that
there has not been in all our race
grief or infirmity or exhaustion or
pang that did not touch him once
and that does not touch him now.
The lepers. the paralytics, the i'm
beetle, the maniac, the courtesan, the
repentant brigand-w which one.did he
turn off, which one did he nN pity,
which one did he not help9 TIE uni
versal trouble of the world'E be-
reavement. One may escape an the
other troubles but that no soul es-
capes. Out of that bitter cup every
one must take drink. For instance,
in order that all might know how he
sympathizes with those who have
lost daughter, Christ comes to the
house of Jarius. There is such big
crowd around the door he and his
disciples have to push their way in.
From the throng of people l conclude
that this girl must have been very
popular. She was one of those chill
dren whom everybody likes.
After Christ got in the house there
was such loud weeping that the or
binary tones of voice could not be
heard. do not wonder. The dead
daughter was twelve years of age. tits
about the happiest time in most lives.
Very little children suffer many in
justices because they are children,
and childhood is not a desirable
part of human existence-they get
whacked or set on But at twelve
years of age the child has come to
self assertion and is apt to make her
rights known. And then, twelve
years of age is too early for the cares
and anxieties of life. So this girl was,
think, the merriment of the house
hold. She furnished for them the
and the harmless mischief
and reused the guffaw that often
rang through that happy home. But
now she is dead, and the grief at her
departure is as violent as her pres
ence had been vivacious and inspirit-
ing. Oh, the bereavement was SO
sharp, so overwhelming How could
they give her upl
suspect that they blamed them
selves for this or for that. Oh, if
hey had had some other doctor. OF
aiken some other medicine, or had
been more careful of her health, or if
hey had not given her that reproof !
sometime when she had not really I
deserved it. Oh, if they had been I
more patient with her hilarities and, I
instead of hushing her play, had par
icipated in it'll You know there are
o many things that parents always '
,lame themselves for at such times 6
only twelve years of agel So fair. q