The united opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1881-1970, 1893-01-20

very soon. His steps are shoraer sd
shorter. He is going to stop. But CD
J has an account to settle with you on tat
subject. After awhile your eye will be
dim, and your gait will halt, and ne
sound of the grinding will be low sd
you will tell the same story twice, apd
your children win wonder if you are 60
ing to live forever and wonder " you
will never be taken away.
They called you father" once; now
they call You the "old man." If you
live few years longer they will call yon
the 'old chapp' What are those rough
words with which your children are &C.
costing your They are the echo of the
very words you used in the ear Of your
old father forty years ago. What is that
which you are trying to chew, but find
it unmasticable, and your jaws ache
and you surrender the attempt? Per-
haps it may be the gristle which you
gave to your father for his breakfast
forty years ago
A gentleman passing along the street
saw son dragging his father into the
street by the hair Of the head. The gen
tleman, outraged at this brutal conduct,
was about to punish the offender when
the old man arose and said, Don't hurt
him; it's all right; forty years ago this
morning dragged out my father by the
hair of his headp 1t is circle. My fs-
ther lived into the eighties. and he had
very wide experience. and he said that
maltreatment of parents was always
punished in this world. Other sins may
be adjourned to the next world, but NAL
treatment Of parents is punished in this
world. 4#, hH
THEY CIRCLE AROUND TO THE JUDGMENT
DAY.
The circle turns quickly, very quickly
Oh, what stupendous thought that the
good and the evil we start come back to
usl Do you know that the Judgment
Day will be only the points at which the
circles join. the good and the bad we
have done coming back to us. unless di-
vine Intervention hinder-coming back
to us with welcome of delight or curse
of condemnation. p
Oh, would like to see Paul, the invar
hid missionary. at the moment when his
influence comes to full orb-his influence
rolling out through Antioch, through
Cyprus, through Lystra, through Cor
NTH. through Athens, through Asia,
through Europe, through America,
through the First century, through five
centuries, through twenty centuries.
through all the succeeding centuries, |
through earth, through heaven, and at |
asst, the wave of influence having made |
'ull circuit, strikes his great soul. Oh,
hen would like to see hint No one can |
ell the wide sweep of the circle of his
save the one who is seated ON
he circle of the earth.
should not want TO see the counte-
lance of Voltaire when his influence
,omes to full orb. When the fatal hem
,rrhage seized him at eighty-three years
# age his influence did not cease. The
most brilliant man of his century, he
lad used all his faculties for assaulting
Christianity, his bad influence widening
through France, widening out through
Germany, widening through all Europe,
widening through America, widening
through the 115 years that have gone by
iince he died, widening through earth.
through hell, until at last the
accumulated influence of his bad life in
iery surge of omnipotent wrath will beat
against his destroyed spirit, and at that
it will be enough to make the
black hair of eternal darkness turn white
With the horror. No one can tell how
hat bad mans influence girdled the
arth save the one who is seated on the
,ircle of the earth-the Lord Almighty.
well, now" say people in this audi
nee, this in some respects is very
lad theory and in others a very sad one;
We would like to have all the good we
AVE ever done come back to us, but the
bought that all the sins we have ever
committed will come back to us fills us
With alright" My brother, l have to
ell you God can break that circle and
will do so at your CALL | can bring
wenty passages of Scripture to prove
hat when God for Christ's sake forgives
man the sins of his past life never
;ome back.
The wheel may roll on and roll on,
,ut you take your position behind the
ross, and the wheel strikes the cross
md is shattered forever. The sins fly
IF from the circle into the perpendicu-
ar, falling at right angles with COM
,lete oblivion. Forgiven! Forgiven! The
neanest thing man can do is, after
ONE difficulty has been settled, to bring
up again, and God will not be SO
mean as that. Gods memory is mighty
nough to hold all the events of the
Iges, but there is one thing that is sure
o slip his memory, one thing he is sure
o forget. and that is pardoned trans
ression. How do know it? will
,rove it. Their sins and their iniqui-
les will remember no more" Come
nto that state this morning, my dear
brother, my dear sister. BLESSED is the
me whose transgressions are forgiven.
THE CIRCLE OF GLORY.
But do not make the mistake of think
ng that this doctrine of the circle stops
With this life; it rolls on through heaven.
You might quote in opposition to me