The united opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1881-1970, 1896-12-11

was. and none of them could guess
They know now; they have been out
there to see for thems elves.
What are our departed Christian
chemists doing? Following out their
own science, following out and follow
ing out forever. Since they died they
have solved 10, 900 questions which puz-
zled the earthly laboratory. They stand
on the other side of the thin wall OF
eIectricity-the thin wall that seems to
divide the physical from the spiritual
world; the thin wall of electricity, so
thin the wall that ever and anon it
seems to be almost broken through
broken through from one side by tele-
phonio and telegraphio apparatus, bro
ken through from the other side by
strange influences which men in their
ignorance call spiritualistio manifesto
tions. All that matter cleared mp. They
laughing at us as older brothers will
laugh at inexperienced brothers, as they
gee us with contracted brow experiment.
ing and experimenting, only wishing
they could show us the way to open all
the mysteries. Agassiz, standing amid
his student explorers down in Brazil,
coming across some great novelty in the
rocks, taking off his hat and saying:
Gentlemen, let us pray. We must have
divine illumination. We want wisdom
from the Creator to study these rocks
He made them. Let us pray. " Agasslh
going right on with his studies foreve
and forever
The Men of the Law.
But what are the men of the law
who in this world found their chief joy
in the legal profession, what are they
doing now? Studying law i'll universe
where every thing is controlled by law
from the flight of humming bird to
flight of world-law, not dry and hard
and drudging, but righteous and mag
nificent law, before which man and
cherub and seraph and archangel and
God himself bow. The chain of law
long enough to wind around the i'm
mensities and infinity and eternity.
Chain of law. What place to study
law, where all the links of the chain
are in the hand.
What are our departed Christian
friends who in this world had their joy
in the healing art doing now? Busy at
their old business No sickness in heav-
en-, but plenty of sickness on earth,
pleuty of wounds in the different parts
of Gods dominion to be healed and tC
be medicated. Those glorified souls
coming down, not in lazy DOCTORS gig,
but with lightning locomotion. You
cannot understand why that patient got
well after all the skillful doctors had
said he must die. Perhaps Abercrom bic
touched him-Abercromb who, after
many years doctoring the bodies ano
the souls of people i'll Scotland, went uT
to God in 1914. Perhapa Abercrombit
touched him. l should not wonder il
nv old friend DR.. John Brown, who
died in Edinburgh-John Brown, the
author of Crab and His Friends;
John Brown, who was as humble q
! Christian as he was skillful physician.
and world renowned author should
not wonder if he had been back again
and again to see some CT his old pa
tients. Those who had their joy II
healing the sickness and the woes q
earth, gone up to heaven are come forth
again for benignant medlcament.
Grander sooiality.
But what are our friends who fourc
their chief JOY i'll conversation and l.
sociality doing now? In brighter con
versation there and in grander social
ty. What place to visitin where your
next door neighbors are kings anc
queens, you yourselves kingly anC
queenly! If they want to know more
particularly about the first paradl Sc,
they have only to go over and ask AID
Am. If they want to know how the sal
and the moon halted, they have only tt
90 over and ask Joshua. If they wan
to know how the storm pelted Sodom
they have only to go over and ask Lot
If they want to know more about the
arrogance of Hannah, they have only tt
90 over and ask Mordecai If they wan
to know how the Red sea boiled wheI
it was cloven, they have only to go ovel
and ask Moses. If they want to know
the particulars about the Bethlehem
advent, they have only to 60 over ant
ask the serenading angels who stoot
that Christmas night in the balconies
of crystal. If they want to know more
of the particulars of the crucitixion
they have only to 90 over and ask VIII,
were personal spectators while th'
mountains crouched and the heavens
got black in the face at the spectacle
If they want to. know more about thu
sufferings of the Scotch covenanters
they have only to go over and ask An
drew Melville. If they want to know
more about the old time revivals, they
have only to go over to ask Whitefiel'
and Wesley and Livingston anC
Fletcher and Nettleton and Finney.
Oh, what place to visit inl If eter
nity were one minute shorter, it woul(
/! not be long enough for such sociality
Think of our friends who III this worlt
were passionately fond of flowers turn
ed into paradise. Think of our friend
who were very fond of raising superb
fruit turned into the orchard wher'
: each tree has l2 kinds of fruit at ono
and bearing the fruit all the year round
, What are our departed Christian friend
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