The united opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1881-1970, 1892-07-29

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ty and English beauty, but care not in
what land man first looks at Christ, he
pronounces him ''chief among ten thou
sand, and the one altogether lovely" .
my blessed Jesus, Light in darkness!
| The rock on which | build! The cap
tain of salvation! My joy! My strength!
! How strange it is that men cannot love
| thee!
The diamond districts of Brazil are
carefully guarded, and man does not
get in there except by a pass from the
| government, but the love Of Christ is a
diamond district we may all enter and
pick up treasure for eternity. Oh, cry
for mercy! To-day, if we will hear this
voice, harden not your hearts" There
is way of opposing the mercy OF God
too long, and then there remaineth no
more sacrifice for sin, but fearful look
ing for Judgment and fiery Indignation
which shall devour the adversary. My
friends, my neighbors, what can | say
to induce you to attend to this matter
to attend to it now? Time is flying, fly
ing-the city clock joining my voice this
moment, seeming to say to you: CHOW
is the time? Now is the time!" Oh, put
it not off!
Why should | stand here and plead
and you sit there? 1t is your immortal
soul. 1t is a soul that shall never die.
1t is soul that must soon appear before
God for reviewal. Why throw away
your chance for heaveni Why plunge
off into darkness when al the gates of
glory are open? Why become cast
away from God when you can sit upon
the throne? Why will we die miserably
when eternal life is offered you, and it
will cost you nothing but just willing
ness to accept it? "Come, for all things
are now ready" Come, Christ is ready.
pardon is ready! The church is ready.
Heaven is ready. You will never find a
more convenient season if you should
live fifty years more than this very one.
Reject this and you may die in your sins.
THE PERIL AND THE ESCAPE.
Why do | say this? Is it to brighten
your soul? Oh, no. 1t is to persuade
you. show you the peril. l show you
the escape. Would not be a coward
beyond all excuse if, believing that this
great audience must soon be launched
into the eternal world, and that all who
believe in Christ shall be saved, and that
all who reject Christ will be lost-would
| not be the veriest coward on earth to
hide that truth or to stand before you
with cold or even a placid manner?
Ny dear brethren, now is the day of
your redemption.
1t is very certain that you and l must
soon appear before God in judgment.
We cannot escape it. The Bible says,
every eye shall see him, and they also
which pierced him, and all the kindreds
of Il earth shall wall Lecause of him. "
On hat day all our advantages will
come up for our glory or for our discom-
fture-every prayer, every sermon,
every exhortatory remark, every re-
proof, every GILL of grace; and while the
heavens are rolling away like scroll,
and the world is being destroyed, your
destiny and my destiny will he an
nouuced. Alas! alas! if on that day it
is found that we have neglected these
matters. We may throw them off now.
We cannot then. We will all be in
earnest then. But no pardon then. No
offer of salvation then. No rescue then
Driven away in our wickedness-ban-
ished, exiled forever!
Have you ever imagined what will be
the soliloquy of the soul on that day I'M
pardoned, as it looks back upon its past
life? "Oh," says the soul, Il had glor-
ious Sabbaths! There was one Sabbath
in autumn when was invited to Christ
There was a Sabbath morning when
Jesus stood and spread out his arms and
invited me to MS holy heart. l refused
him. l have destroyed myself. 1 have
no one else to blame. Ruin complete.
Darkness implying, deep, eternal! am
lost. Notwithstanding all the opportuni-
ties have had of being saved, am LOST
Oh, thou long suffering Lord God AL
mighty, am lost! Oh, day of judg-
ment, am lost! Oh, father, mother,
brother, sister, child in glory, am lostr'
And then as the tide goes out your soul
goes out with it--farther from God,
farther from happiness, and | hear your
voice fainter and fainter and fainter,
"Lost! Lost! Lost! Lost! LOST o
we dying yet immortal men! Seek the
Lord while he may be found"
But want you to take the hint of the
text that have no time to dwell on
the hint that there is time when he
cannot be found. There was man in this
city, eighty years of age, who said to
clergyman who came in, do you think
that man at eighty years of age can
get pardoned?" "Oh, yes" said the
clergyman. The old man said: Il can't;
when l was twenty years of age-I am
now eighty years-the spirit of God came
to my soul, and felt the importance of
attending to these things, but put it
off l rejected God, and since then l
have had no feeling" Well said the
minister, wouldn't you like to have me
pray with your Eyes" replied the old
man, ''but it will do no good. You can
pray with me if you like to-"
The minister knelt down and prayed,
and commended the mans soul to God.
1t seemed to have no effect upon him.
After awhile the last hour of the mans
life came, and through his delirium
spark of intelligence seemed to flash,