The united opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1881-1970, 1894-02-02

heights, all depths, all immensltles
Chorus: Roll him through the heaven
in a chariot of universal acclaim, owe
bridges of hosannas, under arches o
coronation, along by the great tower
Ginning with eternal jubilee. Chorus
"Unto him who hath loved us and wash
ed us from our sins in his own blood, tx
him be glory, world without end!'
have word of five letters, but M
sheet white enough on which to write i
and no pen good enough with which tt
from the heavenly records-give me the
pencil with which the angel records his
victory-and then, with my hand strung
to supernatural ecstasy and my pen dip
ped in the light of the morning, will
write it out in the capitals of love
JESUS" 1t is this one, infinitely
fair, to whom you are invited. Christ is
waiting for you, waiting as banquetel
waits for the delayed guest-the meats
smoking, the beakers trimming, the
minstrels with fingers on the stiff string,
waiting for the clash of the hoofs at the
gateway.
Waiting for you as a mother waits for
her son who went off 10 years ago, drag
ging her bleeding heart along with him.
Waiting! Oh, give me comparison in
tense enough, hot enough, importunate
enough to express my meaning-some-
thing high as heaven and deep as hell
and long as eternity! Not hoping that
you can help me with such comparison,
I will say, "He is waiting as only the all
sympathetic Christ can wait for the COM
ing back of a lost SOUL"
Bow the knee and kiss the Son.
Come and welcome, sinner, come.
HOW LUTHER SAW THE TRUTH.
Again, the holy spirit is ready. Why
is it that so many sermons drop dead
that Christian songs do not get their
wing under the people-that so often
prayer goes no higher than hunters
"hollo?' 1t is because there is link
wanting-the work of the holy spirit.
Unless that spirit give graphing hooks
to a sermon and lift the prayer and watt
the song, everything is dead failure.
That spirit is willing to come at our call
and lead you to eternal life, or ready to
come with the same power with which
he endorsed Saul on the Damascus turn
pike, and broke down Lydia in her fine
store, and lifted the 5000 from midnight
into midnoon at the Pentecost. With
that power the spirit of God now beats
at the gate of your soul. Have you not
noticed what homely and insignificant
the spirit of God en-
ploys for mans conversion?
There was man on Hudson river
boat to whom tract was offered. With
Indignation he tore it up and threw it
overheard. But one fragment lodged on
mis- coat sleeve, and he saw on it the word
'aternity," and he found no peace until
10 was prepared for that great future.
Do you know what passage it was that
caused Martin Luther to see the truth?
'The just shall live by faith" Do you
know there is one-just one-passaget that
Drought Augustine from life of dissi-
patton? "Put we on the Lord Jesus Christ |
md make no provision for the flesh to full
ill the lusts thereof" 1t was just one
thatconverted Hedley Wears, the |
great soldier, to Christ, "The blood of
Jesus Christ cleanseth from all SIM"
Do you know that the holy spirit used
)ne passage of Scripture to save Jonathan |
Edwards? ''Now, unto the king, eternal,
invisible, the only wise God,
,ur Saviour, be glory" One year ago on
day l read for my text,
oh, give thanks unto the Lord, for he
S good, for his mercy endureth for
.ver." And there is a young man in the
house to whose heart the holy spirit took
hat text for his eternal redemption.
night speak of my own case. | will tell
'ou | was brought to the peace of the
gospel through the Syro-Phenician wom-
ms cry to Christ, even the dogs eat of
he crumbs that fall from the masters
able"
TRUE ELOQUENCE.
Do you know that the holy spirit al
lost always uses insignificant means?
Eloquent sermons never save anybody.
sermons never save any
ody. Metaphysical sermons never save
nybody. But the minister comes some
abbath to his pulpit worn out with en-
agements and the jangling q a frenzied
oorbel. He has only text and two or
lree ideas, but he says: 20 Lord. help
he. Here are good many people nay
ever meet again. | have not much to
~. Speak thou through my poor lips"
nd before the service is done there are
,arful eyes and solemnity like the
alignment. /
The great French orator, when the
Fad king lay before him, looked NJ, and {
led, God only is greatv' and the tri- 8
mph of his eloquence has been told by
lie historians. But | have not heard
lat one soul was saved by the oratorical
)urish. Worldly critics may think tiI,i /
IA early preaching of Thomas Chalmcis |
as masterpiece. But Thomas Ci..I-
ers says he never began to preach uAiI
, came out of the sickroo1n, white and
and told men the simpi story /
Jesus. In the great day of Ell lily it I
i'll be found that the most sUuls have I
en brought to Christ not by the Bos- '
cts and Massillons and Bourdaloues, i
1t by humble men, who, in the strength I
God and believing in the eternal spir- a
invited men to Jesus. q
There were wise salves, there were ex- /