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

scarcely opens but you hear military
demonstration. David cried out, The
cbariots of God are 30, 000l" Elisha
saw the mountains filled with celestial
cavalry. ST. John SAID, "Ihe armies
which are in heaven followed him on
white horses :" Now, when those who
had the military spirit on earth sanctl-
fed entered glory, l suppose they right
away enlisted in some heavenly cam
paign. They volunteered right away,
There must needs be in heaven soldiers
with a soldierly spirit. There are grand
parade days, when the King reviews the
troops, There must be armed escort
sent out to bring up from earth to
heaven those who were more than con-
ouerors There must be crusades ever
being fitted out for some part OF Gods
dominion-battles, bloodless, groanless
paiuless-aDgels of evil to be fought
down and fought out, other rebellious
worlds to be conquered, worlds to be
mt to the torch, worlds to be saved,
worlds to be sunk, worlds to be hoist
ed. Besides that, in our own world there
are battles for the right and against the
wrong W0tTG 20 IDlot hH'O 'A-O 'So'Sh
ly military. That is what keeps us
Christian reformers 50 buoyant SO few
good men against so many bad men; so
few churches against SO many grog-
shops; so many pure printing presses
against so many polluted printing press
es, and yet we are buoyant and coura'
peous. because, while we know that tn,
armies of evil in the world are larger
in numbers than the army OF truth,
there are celestial cohorts in the air
fighting on our side.
I have not so much faith i'll the army
on the ground as / have in the army IN
the air. o God, open our eyes that
we may see them-the military spirits
that went up from earth to JON the
military spirits before the throne-Josh
ma and Caleb and Gideon and David
and Samson and the hundreds OF Chris
tian warriors who on earth fought with
fleshly arm, and now, having gone up
ON high, are coming down the hills OF
heaven ready to fight anoug the lnvlsl-
bles. Our departed Christian friends
who had the military spirit III them
sanctified are in the celestial army
! Whether belonging to the artillery, OF
the cavalry, or the infantry, l know not
only know that they have started GU,
for fleet service and courageous service
and everlasting service. Perhaps they
NAV come this way to fight on our side
and drive sin and meanness and satan
from all our hearts. YOnder they are
coming, coming. Did you hear them as
they swept by?
Everlasting Metaphysics.
But what are our mathematical
friends to do in the next world! they
found their joy and delight in mathe-
MATES. There was more poetry to them
in Euclid tnan in John Milton. They
were as passlonately fond of mathemat-
les as Plato, VINO wrote over his door,
"Let no one enter here who is not ac-
uuainted with geometry" What are
they doing now? They are busy with
figures yet. No place in all the universe
like heaven for figures Numbers Inn
mite, distances infinite, calculations IN
finite; if they want them, arithmetlos
and algebras and geometrles and trlg-
onometries for all eternity. What fields
of space to be surveyed! What magnl-
tudes to measured What diameters, what
circumference, what triangles, what
uuaternions, what epicyclolds, what
parallelograms, what CONC sections
The didactlc DR.. Dick said he really
thought that the redeemed i'll heaven
spent some of their time with the high
er branches Of mathematics So OF oul
transferred and transported metaphysl
clans. What are they DONG now! Study
ing the human mind, only under better
circumstances than they used to study
it, They used to study the mind sheath
ed in the d.ll human body. Now, the
spirit unsheathed-now they are study
ing the sword outside the scabbard
Have you any doubt about what Sll
William Hamilton is doing in heaven
or what Jonathan Edwards is doing IL
heaven, or the multitudes on earth Wh(
had passion for metaphysics sanctltet
by the grace of God? No difficulty il
guessing. Metaphysics, glorious meta
physics, everlasting metaphysics.
What are our departed Christian
friends who are explorers doing now
Exploring yet, but with lightning 10
comotion, with vision microscopic ant
telescope at the same time. A CONT
nent at "a glance, u world in second
planetary system i'll a day. ChriStial
John Franklin, no more i'll disabled Ere
bus pushing toward the north pole
Christian ue Long, no more trying Il
free blockaded Jeanette from the ice
Christian Livingstone, no more aml'
African malarias, trying to make reve
lation of a dark continent, but all o
them in the twinkling of an eye taking
in that which was once unapproachable
a, Mont Blanc scaled without alpenstock
, the coral depths of the ocean explore'
! without a diving bell, the mountain
, unbarred ana opened without Sir Hum
phrey Davy's safety lamp.
The Library of the Universe.
What are oar departed friends VIII
, found their chief joy i'll study dom
now? Studying yet, but, instead of
few Thousand volumes on a few shelves
+ all the volumes of the universe opel
hefore fine ., - peolOplc Orul hOlOglc