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

against it, while it was intended fo-
only one thing, and that to show all ma
tions the way into the harbor of Gods
mercy and to the crystalline wharves O.
the heavenly city, where the immortal.
are waiting for new arrivals. Dead sky
larks, when they might have been flyine
seraphs
Question of Belief.
Here also come, covering up the ole
gospel, some who think they can by law
and exposure of crime save the world,
and from Portland, Me-, across to San
Francisco, and back again to New Or.
leans and Savannah, many of the minis
ters have gone into the detective bust
ness. Worldly reform by all means, but
unless it be also gospel reform it will
be dead failure. In New York it's ohiet
work has been to give us a change of
BOSSES We had Democratic boss, and
now it is to be Republican boss, but
the quarrel is, Who shall be the Repub-
lican? Politics will save the cities the
same day that satan evangelizes perdi-
ton.
Here comes another class of people
who in pulpit and outside of it cover up
the gospel with the theory that it makes
no final difference what you believe or
how you act, you are bound for heaven
anyhow. There they sit, side by side,
in heaven: Garfield, and Guiteau, who
shot him; Lincoln, and John Wilkes
Booth, who assassinated him; Washing
ton, and Thomas Paine, who slandered
him; Mana Sahib, and the missionaries
whom he dubbed to death at Cawnpur;
Herod, and the children whom he mas
sacred; Paul, and Nero, who beheaded
him. AS result of the PRONUNCIATION of
such mongrel and oonglomerate heav-
en-, there are millions Of people in Chris
tendon who expect to go straight to
heaven from their seraglios, and their
inebriation, and their suicides, when
among the loudest thunders that break
over the basaltic island to which St.
John was expatriated was the one in
which God announced that "the abom-
Unable and the murderers and whore
mongers and sorcerers and idolaters and
all liars, shall have their place in the
lake which burneth with fire and brim-
stone, which is the second death" l
correct what | said when l declared the
gospel was buried 80 feet deep. 1t is
buried 200 feet deep. Had the glorious
gospel been given full opportunity,
think before. this the world would have
had no need of pulpit or sermon or
prayer or church, but thanksgiving and
hosannas would have resounded in the
temple to which the mountains would
have been pillars, and the blue skies the
dome, and the rivers the baptistery. and
all nations the worshipers in the audi
forum of the outspread world. But so
far from that, as | remarked in the
opening sentence Of this sermon, the
greatest novelty of our time is the Cos
pei And let me say to the hundreds
and thousands of educated and splendid
young men about to enter the gospel
ministry from the theological seminaries
of all denominations, on this and the
other side of the seas, that there is no
drawing power like the glorious gospel.
Him hath God lifted up to draw all
men unto him. F" Get your souls charged
and suroharged with this gospel, and
you will have large audiences and will
not have to announce in order to assem-
BILE such audiences a Sunday night sa-
cred concert, with a brief address by
the pastor, or the presence of "Black
PATHS" or Creole Ministries, or some
new exposure of Tammany, or sermon
accompanied by magic lantern or ste
reopticon views.
Glorious News.
The glorious gospel Of the blessed God |
as spoken of in my text will have more
drawing power, and when that gospel
gets full swing it will have a momen-
tum and power mightier than that of
the Atlantic ocean when under the
force of the September equinox it strikes
the highlands of the Navesink. The
of the word gospel" is "good
news, " and my text says it is glorious
good news, and we must tell it in our
churches, and over our dry goods coun.
5ers, and in our factories, and over our
machines, and behind our
blows, and on our ships decks, and in
our parlors, our nurseries and kitchens,
rs though it were glorious good news,
md not with a dismal drawl in our
7oice, and dismal look ON our faces,
rs though religion were a rheumatic
winge, or a dyspeptio pang, or a ma
arial chill, or an attack of nervous
With nine 'blesseds' or
'happys, - Christ began his sermon on
he mount-blessed the poor; blessed
he mourner; blessed the meek; blessed
he hungry; blessed the merciful; bless
ID the pure; blessed the peacemakers;
blessed the prosecuted; blessed the re-
lied; blessed, blessed, blessed; happy,
Happy, happy. Glorious good news for
he young as through Christ they may
AVE their coming years ennobled, and
or lifetime all the angels of God their
and all the armies of heaven |
heir allies. Glorious good news for the
middle aged as through Christ they may I
lave their perplexities disentangled, and
heir courage rallied, and their victory
ver all obstacles and hindrances made 6
orever sure. Glorious good news for the 1
ged as they may have the sympathy of ,
Tim of whom St John wrote, His head
nd his hairs were white like wool, as
White as snow" and the defense of the ,