The united opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1881-1970, 1895-02-22

us forever free Making no apology fol
any one of the million sins of our life,
but confessing all of them, we can point
to that cliff of limestone and say, "There
was paid our Indebtedness, and Goo
never collects bill twice. Glad am
that all the Christian poets have exerted
their pen in extolling the matchless one
of this gospel Isaac Watts, how do you
feel concerning him? And he writes,
81 am not ashamed to own my Lord. u
Newton, what do you think of this Cos
pei? And he writes, Amazing grace,
how sweet the sound" Cowper, what
do you think of him? And the answer
comes, "There is fountain filled with
blood" Charles Wesley, what do you
think of him? And he answers, "Jesus,
lover of my soul" Horatius Bonar,
what do you think of him? And he re-
spends, II lay my siRs on Jesus" Ray
Palmer, what do youthink of him? And
he writes, my faith looks up to thee. "
Fannie Crosby, what do you think of
him? And she writes, BLESSED assur-
ance, Jesus is mine" But take higher
testimony: Solomon, what do you think
of him? And the answer is, Lilly of
the valley" Ezekiel. what do you think
of him? And the answer is, "Plant of
renown. David, what do you think of
him? And the answer is, my shep-
herd" st. John, what do you think of
him? And the answer is, bright and
morning star. " st. Paul, what do you
think of him? And the answer comes,
"Christ is all in all" Do you think as
we'll of him, o man, o woman of the
blood bought immortal spirit? Yes, Paul
was right when he styled it "the glo-
rious gospel. I"
And then as a druggist, while you are
waiting for him to make up the doctor s
prescription, puts into bottle so many
grains of this, and so many grains of
that, and so many drops of this, and SO
many drops of that and the intermix-
ture taken, though sour or bitter, re-
stores to health. So Christ, the divine
physician, prepares this trouble of our
lifetime, and that disappointment, and
this persecution, and that hardship, and
that tear, and we must take the inter-
mixture, yet though it be bitter draft
Under the divine prescription it admin
listers to our restoration and spiritual
health, call things working together for
god" Glorious gospel
The Royal Castle.
And then the royal castle into which
we step out of this life without so much
as soiling our foot with the upturned
earth of the grave ''They shall reign
forever and ever" Does not that mean
that you are, if saved to be kings and
queens, and do not kings and queens
have castles? But the one that you are
offered was for 33 years an abandoned
castle, though now gloriously inhabited.
There is an abandoned royal castle at
Amber, India One hundred and seven
ty years ago a king moved out of it new
er to return. But the castle still stands
in indescribable grandeur, and you go
through brazen doorway after brazen
doorway, and carved room after carved
room, and under embellished ceiling
after embellished ceiling, and through
halls precious stoned into wider halls
precious stoned, and on that hill are pa
vilions deeply dyed and tasseled and
arched, the fire of colored gardens cooled
by the snow of white architecture; birds
in arabesque SO natural to life that
while you cannot hear their voices you
imagine you see the flutter of their
wings while you are passing; walls
pictured with triumphal procession;
rooms that were called "Alcove of |
Light" and Hall of Victory" marble.
white and black, like mixture of morn !
and night; alabaster, and mother of /
pearl, and lacquer work.
Standing before it the eye climbs from |
step to latticed balcony, and from lat
ticed balcony to oriel, and from oriel to
arch, and from arch to roof, and then
iescends on ladder Of all colors, and by
stairs of perfect lines to tropical gar
1ens of pomegranate and pineapple.
Seven stories Of respondent architec-
5urel But the royal castle provided for
you, if you will only take it on the pre-
'cribed terms, is grander than all that,
and, though an abandoned castle while
Christ was here achieving your redemp-
ion, is again occupied by the "chief
among ten thousand" and some of
your own kindred who have gone up
md waiting for you are leaning from
he balcony. The windows of that castle
ook off on the Kings gardens where
walk linked in eternal friend
hip, and the banqueting hall of that
;astle has princes and princesses at the
able, and the wine is "the new wine of
he kingdom, and the supper is the
marriage supper of the Lamb, and there
re fountains into which no tear ever
ell, and there is music that trembles
With no grief, and the light that falls
Ipon that scene is never beclouded, and
here is the kiss of those reunited after
ong separation. More nerve will we
ave there than now, or we would swoon
way under the raptures. Stronger Wis
on will we have there than now, or our
yesight would be blinded by the bril-
lance. Stronger ear will we have there
han now, or under the roll of that min
trelsy, and the clapping of that accla-
nation, and the boom of that halleluiah
70 would be deafened
The Coronation. c
Glorious gospel You thought religion J
'as a straitjacket; that it put you ON l