The united opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1881-1970, 1895-11-08

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old soldiers because they are weak and
worn and because they tainted by the
brook Besor? Are they going TO get no
part of the spoils of the victory? Just
look at them. Do you think those crew
| ices in the face are wrinklesf No. They
are battle scars. They fought against
sickness, they fought against trouble,
they fought against sin, they fought fol-
God they fought for the church, they
fought for the truth they fought for
heaven. When they had plenty of mon
ey their names were always on the sub
scription list When there was any hard
work to be done for God they were
ready to take the heaviest part Of it.
When there came great revival they
were ready to pray all night for the
| anxious and the sin struck. They were
ready to do any work, endure any sacri-
| fee, do the most unpopular thing that
| God demanded of them. But now they
cannot 90 further. Now they have phys
| ical infirmities. Now their head trou
bles them. They are weak and faint by
the brook Besor. Are they to have no
share in the triumph Are they to get
none of the treasures, none Of the spoils
of conquest? You must think that Christ
has very short memory if you think he
| has forgotten their services.
Fret not, ye aged ones Just tarry by
the stuff and wait for your share of the
spoils Yonder they are coming. hear
the bleating of the fat lambs, and see
the jewels CLINT in the sun. 1t makes me
laugh to think how you will be sur
prised when they throw chain of gold
| over your neck and tell you to go in and
dine with the king. see you backing
out because you feel unworthy. The
| shining ones come up on the one side
and the shining ones come up on the
other side, and they push you on, and
they push you up, and they say, Here
is an old soldier Ct Jesus Christ" and
the shining ones will rush opt toward
you and say, Eyes; that man saved my
SOUL" or they will rush out and say,
ooh, yes she was with me in the last
sickness And then the cry will go
round the circle: Come in, come in,
come in, come up! We saw you away
down there, old and sick and decrepit
and discouraged because you could not
go to the front, but AS his part is that
goeth down to the battle, 80 shall his
part be that tarrieth by the stuff. '"
Tho Veterans and tho Nobodies.
There is high, consolation also in this
for aged ministers see some Of them
here today. They ht in pews in our
churches. They used to stand in pulpits.
Their hair is white with the blossoms Of
the tree of life, their names marked on
the roll of the general assembly, or OF
the consolation, emeritus. They some
times hear text announced which
brings to mind sermon they preached
50 years ago ON the same subject. They
preached more gospel on $500 year
than some of their successors preach on
| $4,000. Some Sunday the old minister
| is in church, and near by in another
| pew there are husband and wife and
row of children. And after the benedic
tion the lady comes up and says, doc
tor, you don't know me, do your"
well" he says, "your face is familiar,
but cannot call you by name.'
"Why," she says, "you baptized me,
and you married me, and you buried my
father and mother and sisters" "Oh,
yes" he says. my eyesight isn't as
good as 1t used to be-" They are in all
our charlottesville heroes of 1920, the
heroes Of 1889, the heroes Of 1857. By
the long grave trench that cut through
half century they have stood sounding
the resurrection. They have been in
more Balaklavas and have taken more
Sevastopols than you ever heard of. e
Sometimes they get a little fretful be-
cause they cannot be at the front. They
hear the sound of the battle and the old
war horse champs his bit. But the co.
900 ministers of religion this day stand
ing in the brunt of the fray shall have
no more reward than those retired vet
erans my father, my father, the chart
| OTIS of Israel and the horsemen thereof.
"As his part is that goeth down to the
battle, so shall his part be that tarrieth
by the stuff. y
Cheer up, men and women Of unap-
preciated services. You vii get your
reward, if not here, hereafter When
Charles Wesley comes up to Judgment,
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waited into glory through his songs
shall be enumerated, he will take his
throne Then John Wesley will come
up to Judgment, and after his name has
been mentioned in connection with the
salvation of the millions OF souls
brought God through the Methodism
which he founded he will take his
throne But between the two thrones of
Charles Wesley and John Wesley there
will be throne higher than either, on
which shall sit Susannah Wesley, who,
| with maternal conservation in Epworth
rectory, Lincolnshire, started those two
souls on their triumphant mission of
sermon and song through all following
ages Oh, what day that will be for
many who rocked Christian cradles with
weary foot, and who patched WORKOUT
garments and darned socks, and out Of
| a small income made the children COM
Portable for the winter. What a day that
will be for those to whom the world
gave the cold shoulder and called them
nobodies and begrudged them the least