The united opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1881-1970, 1896-12-18

70 ask for the restoration Of her son. She
had no right to practice that falsehood.
1t is never right to do wrong Some
times YOU may be able to conceal an af-
fair. 1t Ia not necessary to tell every
thing. There is natural pressure TO the
lips which seems 10 Indicate that silence
sometimes is rIgkt, bat for double deal
ing, for nor Il stuff AZ for count erfeit
and for sham (fod has nothing but
anathema and exposure. He Will tear or
the lie He will rip up the emplrlclsm.
He will scatter the ambnscade. There
are people who are just ready TO be
duped. They seem to be waiting to be
deceived. They believe in ghosts They
saw one themselves once. They heard
something strange in an unlnhablted
house. Going along the road one night,
something approached them in white
and crossed the road. They would think
it very disastrous to count the number
of carriages at funeral. They heard in
a neig hbor's house something that por-
tended death III the family. They say
it is sure sign of evil if bat fly into
a room on a summer night or they see
the moon over the left shoulder. They
would not for the world undertake any
enterprise on Friday, forgetful of the
fact that if they look over the calendar
of the world they will see that Friday
has been the most fortunate day IN all
the history Of the world.
AS near as can tell, looking over the
calendar OF the worlds history, more
grand, bright, beautiful things have
happened on Friday than any other day
of the week. They would not for the
world begin anything on Friday. They
would not for the world 60 back to
the house for anything after they
had once started Such people are
ready to be duped. Ignorance comes
along, perhaps i'll the disguise OF med
| ica science, and carries them captive,
for there are always some men who have
found some strange and mysterious weed
in some strange place and plucked 1t in
the moonshiue, and then they cover the
board fences with the advertisements OF
"elixir" and "panaceas and Indian
mixtures and "ineffable cataplasms"
and ''unfG ling di4,Ltcctants" and
"Iightning salves" and instantaneous
ointments, - enough to stun and scarify
and poultice and kill half the race.
They are all ready 10 be wrought upon
by such impositions. All, my friends,
do not be among such dupes. Do not act
the part of such persons us have been
describing. Stand back from all Chi
canery, from all imposition. They who
practice such imposition shall be exposed
in the day of Gods Indignation. They
may rear great fortunes, but their dap
pIe grays will be arrested on the road
some day, as was the ass by the angel
of God with drawn sword The light of
the last day will shine through all such
subterfuges and with voice louder
than that which accosted this imposition
OF the text: Come in, thou wife OF Jer-
oboam. Why feignest thou thy self to be
another" with voice louder than that
God will thunder down into midnight
| darkness and doom and death all two
faced men, aud all charlatans, and all
knaves, and all jockeys, and all swind-
lers. Behold how the people put on the
masks and behold how the Lord tears
them off
Fixed Providence.
My subject also impresses me with
how precise and accurate and particular
are Gods proyidences. just at the mo-
ment that woman entered the city the
child died. Just as it was prophesied,
so it turned out, so it always turns out.
The event occurs, the death takes place,
the nation is born, the despotism Is
overthrown at the appointed time GOD
drives the universe with stiff rein.
Events do not just happen SO. Things
do not go slipshod. In all the book OF
God S providences there is not one If. y
Gods providences are never caught III
dishabille. To God there are no surprls-
es. no disappQintments and no accidents.
The most insignificant event flung out
in the ages is the connecting link be-
tween two great chains-the chain OF
eternity past and the chain of eternity
to come.
| am no fatalist, but should be COM
pletely wretched if / d.d not feel that
an the affairs of my life are III Gods
hand, and all that pertains to me and
mine, just as certainly as all the affairs
| of this woman of the text, as this child
of the text, as this king Of the text, were
in Gods hand. You may ask me hun
/ dred questions / cannot answer, but
| shall until the day Of my death believe
| that am under the unerrlng care OF
] God and the heavens may fall, and the
world may burn, and the Judgment may
thunder, aud eternal ages may roll, but
not a hair snail fall from my head, not
SHADOW su..ll Grup on my path, not a
sorrow shall translx my heart without
being divIuciy rranged-arranged by a
loving, sympathetic Father. He bottles
our tears, ne catches our sorrows, and
to the on ban he VIII be- "a Father and
to the WHOM he wAl be a husband, and
to the ou,r..st he VIII be a home, aud to
the most i.I-traulg wretch that this day
oraw is up out q the ulich OF mis- abom-
inatim crying Ilr mlruy ue viii be an
all pariuBng God. Tie TJ,as snail turn
gray with age, AID tne forests shall be
unmOorcd IN tlc last hurricane, and the
sun shall .slUt ats Gs-y eyeId, and the
stars snail C..f lake ti..-taG les, ANA the
continents saa.I 20 ulWl Ike anchors