The united opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1881-1970, 1894-04-06

ioVe nlm, IS not ashamed to carry bun
Ole OF clothes up that dark alley to tn,
poor. Which of those young men dc
you admire the better? The one a sham
the other prince imperial.
oh, do you know of anything. m,
nearer, that is more beautiful than to SCI
young man start out for Christ? Here
ssome one falling; he lifts him up. Here
is vagabond boy; he introduces him t.
mission school. Here is family freez
ing to death; he carries them a scuttle Of
COAL There are 100000, 900 perishing il
midnight heather darkness. By all pos
slble means he tries to send them the
gospel. He may be laughed at, and he
may be sneered at, and he may be carl
catured, but he is not ashamed to &C
everywhere saying: 81 am not ashamed
OF the gospel of Christ. 1t is the power
OF God and the wisdom of God unto sal.
vation."
ouch young man can go through
everything. There is no force on earth
or III hell that can resist him. | show
you three spectacles:
CERTAIN SPECTACLES.
Spectacle the First-Napoleon passed
by with the host that went down with
HIM to Egypt and up with him through
Russia and crossed the continent on the
bleeding heart of which he set his iron
heel, and across the quivering flesh of
which he went grinding the wheels of his
gun carriages-in his dying moment ask
ing his attendants to put on his military
boots for him.
Spectacle the Second-Voltaire bright
and learned and witty and eloquent, with
tongue and voice and strategem Internal.
warning against God and poisoning whole
kingdoms with his infdelity, yet ap-
plauded by the clapping hands of thrones
and empires and continents-his last
words, in delirium supposing Christ
standing by the bedside-his last words.
"Crush that wretchr'
Spectacle the Third-Paul-Pau in
significant in person, thrust out from all
refined association, scOurged, spat on,
bounded like wild beast from city to
city. yet trying to make the world good
and heaven full; announcing resurrection
to those who mourned at the barred gates
of the dead; speaking consultations which
light up the eyes of widowhood and
orphanage and want with glow of GER
tain and eternal release; undaunted be-
fore those who could take his life. his
cheek flushed with transport and his eve
on heaven; with one hand shaking de-
fiance at all the foes of earth and all the
of hell, and with the other
hand reckoning messenger angels to
come and bear him away as he says: 81
am now ready to be offered, and the
time of my departure is at hand. I have
fought the good fight; have finished my
course; l have kept the faith. Hence
forth there is laid up for me crown of
which the Lord, the right
sous Judge, will give me-"
Which of the three spectacles do you
most admire? When the wind of death |
struck the conqueror and the infdel,
they were tossed like sea gulls in
tempest, drenched of the wave and torn
Of the hurricane, their dismal voices
heard through the everlasting storm.
but when the wave and the --s1ld of
Heath struck Paul, like an albatross, he
made throne of the tempest and one
lay foated away into the calm, clear
summer of heaven, brighter than the
love, it's wings covered with silver, and
is feathers with yellow gold. Oh, are
you not in love with such a religion-a
'eligion that can do so much for man
while he lives and so much for man
when he comes to die?
A CONTRAST.
J. suppose you may have noticed the
between the departure of a
christian and the departure of an infdel.
)iodorus, dying in chagrin because he
ould not compose joke equal to the
oke uttered at the other end of his table:
.euxis, dying in a fit of laughter at the
ketch of an aged woman-a sketch
lade by his own hand; Mazarin, dying
laying cards, his friend holding his
ands because he was unable to hold
hem himself.
All that on one side, compared with
he departure of the Scotch minister
Tho said to his friends: Il have no in
crest as to whether | live or die. If l
lie, shall be with the Lord, and if |
We the Lord will be with me-" Or the
tst words of Washington, ''It is we'll"
II the last word of Mcintosh, the learn
and the great, Happy Or the last
'ords of Hannah More, the Christian
oetess, "Joyr Or those thousands of
hristians who have gone, saying: Lord
esus, receive my spirit! Come, Lord
esus, come quicklyp 80 death, where
thy sting? o grave, where is thy vic
,ryY'
Behold the contrast. Behold the charm
the one, behold the darkness of the l
her. Now, know it is very popular {
this day for young men to think there
something more charming in skepti-
SIN than in religion. They are ashamed |
the old fashioned religion of the cross.
Id they pride themselves on their free
linking on all these subjects. Nv
'ung friends, l want to tell you what t
low from observation-that while skep- /
cism is beautiful land at the start. il t
a great Sahara desert at the last. t
AN APT STORY.
fears ago minister's son went off