The united opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1881-1970, 1896-01-10
when you feel great deal more like

when you feel great deal more like
crying. The world is cheat. 1t first
wears you down with its follies, then it
kicks you out into darkness 1t comes
back from the massacre Of a million
souls to attempt the destruction of your
soul today. No peace out of God. but
here is the fountain that can slake the
thirst. Here is the harbor where you
can drop safe anchorage
From Tears to Joy.
Would you not like, ask you-not
perfunctorily, but as one brother might
talk to another-would you not like to
have pillow Of rest to put your head
on? And would you not like, when you
retire at night. to feel that all is we'll,
whether you wake up tomorrow morn
ing at 6 O'Clock or sleep the sleep that
knows no waking? Would you not like
to exchange this awful uncertainty
about the future for glorious assurance
of heaven? Accept of the Lord Jesus to-
day and all is we'll. II on your way
home some peril should cross the street
and dash your life out, it would not
hurt you. You would rise up imme-
diately. You would stand in the ce-
lestial streets. You would be amid the
great throng that forever worship and
are forever happy. If this night some
sudden disease should come upon you,
it would not brighten you. If you knew
you were going, you could give a calm
farewell to your beautiful home on
earth and know that you are going right
into the ompanionship Ct those who
have already got beyond the toiling and
the weeping
You feel on Saturday night different
from the way you feel any other night
of the week. You come home from the
bank, or the store, or the office, and you
say, "Well, now my weeks work is
done, and tomorrow is Sunday" 1t is
pleasant thought. There are refreshment
and reconstruction in the very idea. Oh,
how pleasant it will be if, when we get
through the day of our life, and we go
and lie down in our bed of dust, we can
realize, "Well, now the work is all
done, and tomorrow is Sunday-an
everlasting Sunday"
Oh, when, thou city of my God,
Shall thy courts ascend,
Where congregations meier break up
And Sabbaths have no end2
There are people in this house today
who are very near the eternal world. If
you are Christians, bid you be of good
cheer. Bear with you our congratula-
tons to the bright city. Aged men, who
will soon be gone, take with you our
love for our kindred i'll the better land,
and when you see them, tell them that
we are soon coming. Only few more
sermons to preach and hear. Only few
more heartaches. Only few more tolls.
Only few more tears. And then
what an enhancing spectacle will open
before us
Beautiful heaven, where all is light;
Beautiful angels, clothed in white;
Beautiful strains that never tire,
Beautiful harps through all the choir;
There shall join the chorus sweet,
Worshiping at the Saviour's feet.
And so 1 approach you now with a
general invitation, not picking out here
and there a man, or here and there a
woman, or here and there child, but
giving you an unlimited invitation, say
ing, Come, for all things are now
ready" We invite you to the warm
heart of Christ and the Enclosure of the
Christian church. I know a great many
think that the church does not amount
to much-that it is Obsolete that it did
its work and is gone now, SO far as all
usefulness is concerned. 1t is the happi
est place l have ever been in except my
own home.
The One Thing Needful.
I know there are some people who say
they are Christians who seem to get
along without any help from others, and
who culture solitary piety. They do not
want any ordinances. 1 do not belong
to that class. I cannot get along with
out them. There are so many things in
this world that take my attention from
God and Christ and heaven-tha want
all the helps of all the symbols and of |
all the Christian associations, and I
want around about me solid phalanx
of men who love God and keep his COM
maudments. Are there any here who
would like to enter into that associa- |
ton? Then by simple, childlike faith |
apply for admission into the visible |
church, and you will be received. No
questions asked about your past history
or present surroundings. Only one test
do you love Jesus?
Baptism does not amount to anything, |
say a great many people, but the Lord
Jesus declared, "He that believeth and
is baptized shall be saved" putting
baptism and faith side by side And an
apostle declares, Repent and be bap-
tized every one of you" lido not stickle
for any particular mode of baptism, but
I put great emphasis on the fact that
you ought to be baptized, yet no more
emphasis than the Lord Jesus Christ,
the Great Head Of the church, puts
upon it.
Some of You have been thinking on
this subject year after year. You have
found out that this world is poor por-
ton. You want to be Christians. You
have come almost into the kingdom Of
God, but there you stop. forgetful of the
fact that to be almost saved is not to be
saved at all. Oh, my brother, after hav-
ing come so near to the door of mercy,
If you turn back you will never come at
all After all Won have heard of the |