The united opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1881-1970, 1895-07-12

with the work being done in many Of
our cities by which beau full rooms are
set apart by our Young Mems Christian
associations, and pray God to prosIT
them in all things. But l tell you there
is something back of that and before
that. We need more happy, consecrated,
cheerful Christian homes everywhere.
OF Eternal Importance.
Again remark that great many of
our business men are tempted to put the
attainment of money above the value of
the soul 1t is grand thing to have
plenty Of money. The more you get of
it the better, if it come honestly and go
usefully. For the lack of it sickness
dies without medicine, and hunger finds
it coffin in the empty bread tray, and
nakedness shivers for lack of clothes and
fire When hear man in canting til
rade against money-a Christian man
as though it had no possible use on
earth and he had no interest in it at
all, I come almost to think that the
heaven that would be appropriate for
him would be an everlasting poorhousel
While, my friends, we do admit there is
such thing as the lawful use of money
"a profitable use of money-let us rec
ognize also the fact that money cannot
satisfy mans soul; that it cannot gilt
ter in the dark valley; that it cannot
pay our fare across the Jordan of death;
that it cannot unlock the gate OF heav-
en-. There are men in all occupations
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that pack of bonds and mortgages
could be traded off for title to heaven
and as though gold would be lawful
tender in that place where it is SO com
mon that they make pavements out Of it.
Salvation by Christ is the only salvation.
Treasures in heaven are the only incor-
ruptible treasures.
Have you ever ciphered out in the
rule of loss and gain the sum, what
shall it profit a man if he gain the
whole world and lose his own soul?'
However fine your apparel, the winds of
death will futter it like rags. Home
spun and threadbare coat have some
times been the shadow of coming robes
made white in the blood Of the lamb
The pearl of great price is worth more
than any gem you can bring from the
ocean, than Australian or Brazilian
mines strung in one caroanet. Seek after
God, find his righteousness, and all shall
be we'll here-all shall be we'll here
after
Lost and Saved.
Some of you remember the sbipwreck
of the Central America That noble
steamer had, 1 think. about 500 passen-
gers aboard Suddenly the storm camey
and the surges tramped the decks and
swung into the matches, and there went
up a hundred voiced death shrek The
foam on the jaw of the wave. The pitch
ing of the steamer as though it were
leaping a mountain. The dismal flare of
the signal rockets The long cough OF
the steam pipes The hiss of extinguish-
ed furnaces. The walking of God on the
wave! The steamer went not down with
! out a struggle AS the passengers STA
toned themselves in rows to bale out
the vessel, bark to the thump of the
buckets, as men unused to toll, will
blistered hands and strained muscle, tug
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against the sky. The flash Of the distress
gun is noticed; it's voice heard not, for
it is choked in the louder booming Of
the sea- A few passengers escaped, but
the steamer gave one great lurch and
was gone So there are some men who
sail on prosperously in life Ais well,
all's we'll But at Last some financial
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they go! The bottom of the commercial
sea is strewn with shattered hulks. But
because your property goes do not let
your soul 60 Though all else perish,
save that, for I have to tell you of a
more stupendous shipwreck than that
which Just mentioned God launched
this world 5000 years ago. 1t has been
going on under freight Of mountains
and immortals, but one day it will stag
ger at the cry of fire. The timbers of
rock will burn, the mountains flame
like masts, and the clouds like sails in
the Judgment hurricane. Then God shall
take the passengers off the deck, and
from the berths those who have long
been asleep in Jesus, and he will set
them far beyond the reach of storm and
peril But how many shall go down will
never be known until it shall be an
nounced one day in heaven. The ship
wreck of a world So many millions
saved So many millions drowned Oh,
my dear hearers, whatever you lose,
though your houses go, though your
lands go, though all your earthly pos
sessions perish, may God Almighty,
through the blood of the everlasting COW