The united opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1881-1970, 1895-09-20

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way of seeing him and hearing him
now. I have to tell you that unless you
see and hear Christ on earth you will
never see and hear him in heaven.
Lookl There he is Behold the Lamb
of Godl Can you not see him? Then
nrav to God to take the scales off your
ewes. Look that way-try to look that
way. His voice comes down to you this
dav-comes down to the blindest, to the
deafest soul-saying, "Look unto me,
all We ends of the earth, and be ye saved,
for I am God, and there is none else.
Proclamation Of universal emancipa-
ton for all slaves. Tell me, ye who
know most of the worlds history, what
other king ever asked the abandoned,
and the forlorn, and the wretched, and
the outcast to come and sit beside him
oh. wonderful invitation You can take
It today and stand at the head OF the
darkest alley in all this city and say
"Come! Clothes for your rags, salve for
your sores, throne for your eternal
reigning." A Christ that talks like that
and acts like that and pardons like
that-do you wonder that Stephen stood
looking at him? Ihope to spend eternity
doing the same thing. must see him.
I must look upon that face once clouded
with my sin, but now radiant with my
pardon. want to touch that hand that
knocked off my shackles. I want to hear
the voice that pronounced my deliver
anoe. Behold him, little children, for
if YOU live to threesoore years and ten
YOU will see none so fair. Behold him,
We aged ones, for he only can shine
through the dimness of your failing eye
sight. Behold him, earth. Behold him,
heaven. What moment when all the
nations of the saved shall gather around
Christ All faces that way. All thrones
that way, gazing on Jesus.
His worth if all the nations knew
Sure the whole earth would love him too
Stoned by the World.
I pass on now and look at Stephen
stoned. The world has always wanted
to get rid of good men. Their very life
is an assault upon wickedness. Out
with Stephen through the gates of the
city. Down with him over the precl-
pieces. Let every man come up and drop
stone upon his head But these men
did not so much kill Stephen as they
killed themselves Every stone re-
bounded upon them. While these muir
derers are transfxed by the scorn OF
all good men Stephen lives in the ad-
miration of all Christendom. Stephen
stoned, but Stephen alive. So all good
men must be pelted. "All who will
live godly in Christ Jesus must suffer
persecution" 1t is no eulogy of a man
to say that everybody likes him Show
me any one who is doing all his duty
to state or church, and ] will show you
scores of men who utterly abhor him.
If all men speak well of you, it is
because you are either a laggard or
| dolt. If steamer makes rapid progress
through the waves, the water will boi.
and foam all around it. Brave soldiers
of Jesus Christ will hear the carbines
click. When I see man with voice
and money and influence all on the
right side, and some caricature him
and some sneer at him, and some de
nounce him, and men who pretend Il
be actuated by right motives conspir
to cripple him, to cast him out, to de
stroy him, say, Stephen stoned.
When I see man in some grea
moral or religious reform battling
against grogshops, exposing wickednes
in high places, by active means trying
to purify the church and better tn
worlds estate, and I find that the news
papers anathemattze him, and men
even good men, oppose him and de
nounce him because, though he doe
good, be does not do it in their way,
say, "Stephen stoned" But you notice
my friends, that while they assaulted
Stephen they did not succeed really Il
killing him You may assault goo
man, but you cannot kill him. On tn
day Of his death Stephen spoke befor
few people in the sanhedrin- Thi
Sabbath morning he addresses Christen
dom. Paul, the apostle, stood ON Mar
hill addressing a handful Of philosc
pliers who knew not 80 much abou
science as q modern schoolgirl Toda
he talks to all the millions Of Christen
dom about the wonders of justification
and the glories of resurrection. job
Wesley was howled down by the mob
whom he preached, and they thre0
, bricks at him. and they denounced him
and they jostled him. and they spa
upon him. and yet today, in all lands
i he is admitted to be the great father {
, Methodism. Booths bullet vacated tn
: presidential chair, but from that spot {
3 coagulated blood on the floor in the DO
! Of Ford's theater there sprang up tn
5 new life of nation. Stephen stoned
I but Stephen alive.
| A Dying Prayer.
l Pass on now and see Stephen IN b
dying prayer. his first thought was nc
= how the stones hurt his head, nor whit
0 would become of his body. His fir
r thought was about his spirit "Lor
Y Jesus receive my spirit" The murder'
r standing ON the trapdoor, the black ca
+, being drawn over his head before tt
y execution, may grimace about the fl
: ture, but you and have no shame
Q confessing some anxiety about where "
q are going to come out. You are not a
@ body. There is within you soul l 81