The united opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1881-1970, 1892-06-24

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the point at which you start from this
world is old age, and the point to which
you go is eternal juvenescence, aged
man, clap your hands at the anticipa-
ton and say, in perfect rapture of soul,
THE time of my departure is at hand. y
THAT WONDERFUL WORLD.
| remark again, all those ought to
feel this JOY Of the text who have holy
curiosity to know what is beyond this
earthly terminus. And who has not
any curiosity about it? Paul, | suppose,
had the most satisfactory view of
heaven, and he says, ut doth not yet
appear what we shall be-" 1t is like
looking through a broken telescope,
Now we see through a glass darby"
Can you tell me anything about that
heavenly place? You ask me thou
sand questions about it that | cannot
answer. ask you thousand questions
about it that you cannot answer. And
do you wonder that Paul was so glad
when martyrdom gave him chance to
go over and make discoveries in that
blessed country?
| hope some day, by the grace of God,
to go over and see for myself, but not
now. No well man, no prospered man,
| think, wants to go now. But the time
will come, think, when shall go over.
want to see what they do there and
want to see how they do it, | do not
want to be looking through the gates
ajar forever. want them to swing
wide open. There are ten thousand
things want explained-about you,
about myself, about the government of
this world, about God, about everything.
We start in plain path of what we
know and IN a minute come up against
a high wall of what we do not know. |
wonder how it looks over there. Some
body tells me it is like paved city
paved with gold-and another man tells
me it is like fountain, and it is like a
tree, and it is like triumphal process
sion, and the next man | meet tells me
it is all tigurative. | really want to
know, after the body is resurrected,
what they wear and what they eat, and
| have an immeas1lrable curiosity to
know what it is, and how it is and
where it is.
Columbus risked his life to find this
continent, and shall we shudder to go
out on voyage of discovery which shall
reveal vaster and more brilliant coun-
try? John Franklin risked his life to
find a passage between icebergs, and
shall we dread to find a passage to eter-
nal summer? Men in Switzerland travel
up the heights Of the Matterhorn with
alpenstock and guides and rockets and
ropes, and getting half way up stumble
and fall down in a horrible massacre.
They just wanted to say they had been
IN the tops of those high peaks. And
shall we fear to go out for the ascent of !
he eternal hills which start thousand |
niles beyond where stop the highest |
peaks of the Alps when in that ascent
here is no peril?
A man doomed to die stepped on the
caffold and said in joy, Nov in ten
minutes | will know the great secret"
)ne minute after the vital functions
ceased, the little child that kisl last
light knew more than JonaOs1G tEd-
wards or ST. Paul himself before he
lied. Friends, the exit from this world,
II DEATH if you please to call it, to the
christian is glorious explanation.
WE SHALL SEE EYE TO EYE.
1t is demonstration. 1t is illumina-
ion. It is sunburst. 1t is the opening
f all the windows. 1t is shutting up
he catechism of doubt and the unroll-
ng of all the scrolls of positive and &C
urate information. Instead of stand
lg at the foot of the ladder and looking
p it is standing at the top of the ladder
nd looking down. 1t is the last mys-
cry taken out of botany and geology
nd astronomy and theology.
Oh, will it not be grand to have all
uestions answered? The perpetually
interrogation point changed
IL the mark of exclamation. All rid
les solved. Who will fear to go out on
lat discovery, when all the questions
re to be decided which we have been
all our lives? Who shall not
lap his hands in the anticipation of that
lessed country, if it be no better than
trough holy curiosity, crying, "The
me of my departure is at hand?"
| remark again, we ought to have the
~ of the text, because, leaving this
'orld, we move into the best society of |
le universe. You see a great crowd !
people in some street, and you say:
Who is passing there? What general,
hat prince is going up there?" Well, |
.e a great throng in heaven. l say: '
Who is the focus of all that admira- 6
on? Who is the center of that glitter t
g company" 1t is Jesus, the cham
ION of all worlds, the favorite of all
yes.
Do you know what is the first ques- S
on the soul will ask when it comes
trough the gate of heaven? think the c
rst question will be, where is Jesus, c
le Saviour that pardoned my sin, that f
lrried my sorrows, that fought my bat c
es, that won my victories?" Oh, radiant I
lie! how would like to see thee! thou {
the manger, but without its humilia- t
Ons; thou of the cross, but without its C
lngs; thou of the grave, but without e
) darkness. S
ALIVE WITH JESUS. 0
The Bible intimates that we will talk
18th Jesus in heaven inst as a brother | 4