The united opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1881-1970, 1896-04-17

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ped to report to the prophet how he had
executed his mission, when in the dis
lance the sheep began to bleat and the
oxen to below The secret was out, and
Samuel said to the blushing and con-
fused Saul "What mealeth the bleating
of the sheep that hear and the below
ing Of the cattle?" All, my nearer, you
cannot keep an iniquity still. At just
the wrong time the sheep will bleat
and the oxen will below. Achan cannot
steal the Babylonish garment without
being stoned to death, nor Arnold betray
his country without having his neck
stretched Look over the police arrests.
These thieves, these burglars, these
counterfeiters, these highwaymen, these
assassins, they all thought they could
bury their iniquity so deep down it
would never come to resurrection, but
there was some shoe that answered to
the print in the soil, some false keys
found in their possession, some bloody
knife that whispered of the death, and
the public Indignation and the anathema
of outraged law hurled them into the
dungeon or hoisted them on the gallows.
Francis l, king of France, stood coun.
selling with his officers how he could
take his army into Italy, when Ameril,
the fool of the court, leaped out from
corner of the room and said, ''You had
better be consulting how you will get
your army back" And it was found
that Francis l, and not Ameril, was the
fool. Instead of consulting as to the best
way of getting into sin, you had better
consult as to whether you will be able
to get out of it. If the world does not
expose you, you will tell it yourself.
There is an awful power in an aroused
conscience. A highwayman plunged out
upon Whitefield as he rode along on
horseback, sack of money on the horse
money that he had raised for orphan
asylums-and the highwayman put his
hand on the gold, and Whitefeld turned
to him and said, "Touch that if you
dare; that belongs to the Lord Jesus
Christ " And the ruffian skunk into the
forest. Conscience! Conscience The
ruffian had pistol, but Whitefield
shook at him the finger of doom. Do not
think you can hide any great and pro-
tracted sin in your heart, my brother.
In an ungualded moment it will slip off
the lip, or some slight action may for
the moment set ajar this door that you
wanted to keep closed. But suppose that
in this life you hide it, and you get
along with this transgression burning in
your heart, as ship on fire within for
days binders the flames from bursting
out by keeping down the hatches yet 1T
last in the Judgment that iniquity will
blaze out before God and the universe
Links of the Universe.
Learn also from this subject that there
is an inseparable connection between
all events, however remote. The uni
verse is only one thought of God Those
things which seemed fragmentary and
isolated are only different parts OF that
great thought. How far apart seemed
these two events-Joseph sold to the
Arabian merchants and his rulefship of
Egypt-yet you see in what a mysterious
way God connected the two into one
plan So the events are linked together.
You who are aged men look back and i
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your life that once seemed isolated. One
chain of events reaches from
the garden of Eden to the cross Of |
Calvary, and thus up to the kingdom of |
heaven. There is relation between the |
smallest insect that huns in the sum-
mer air and the archangel on his throne. |
God can trace direct ancestral line |
from the blue jay that this spring will |
build its nest in the tree behind the |
house to some one of the flock of birds |
which, when Noah hoisted the ark's |
window, with whir and dash of |
bright wings, went out to sing over
Mount Ararat The tulips that bloom
in the garden this spring were nursed
BY the snowfiakes. The farthest star ON
one side of the universe could not look
toward the farthest star ON the other
side of the universe and say, "You are
40 relation to me, - for from that bright
orb voice of light would ring across
he heavens responding, Eyes, yes, we
ire sisters. Nothing in Gods universe
swings at loose ends. Accidents are only
God s way of turning leaf in the book
If his eternal DEGREES. From our cradle
% our grave there is a path all marked
,ut. Each event in our life is connected
With every other event in our Iife. Our
osses may be the most direct road to
'ur gain. Our defeat and our victory
ire twin brothers.
The whole direction of your life was
hanged by something which at the time
eemed to you trifiing, while some &C.
urrence which seemed tremendous af-
ected you but little. Gods plans are
magnificent beyond all comprehension.
lie molds us and turns and directs us,
nd we know it not. Thousands of years
re TO him as the flight of shuttle
he most terrific occurrence does not
make God tremble. The most trium-
liant achievement does not lift him in
0 rapture. That one great thought of
rod goes out through the centuries, and
ations rise and fall, and eras pass, and
he world changes, but God still keeps
ne undivided mastery, linking event to
vent and century TO century. To God
hey are all one event, one history, one
Ian, one development, one system.
treat and marvellous are thy works
ord God Almighty! Twas years ago in
lew Orleans at the exposition rooms,
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