The united opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1881-1970, 1897-01-22

gins to mount, and my enthusiasm IS
all a1ame, and the words Of my text
this moment just fl my lips and ex'
press the triumph Of my soul, and cry
on. -. no ar tbun, o great mountainT
/ BufCea Zeru SOahel thou shalt becoma d
plain.
! The Mountain Of Sin.
MY gDar:ences til the shovel are
that N0u cannot do mach by one push
/ q hut jmplrn Mt, and thNt after you
| have lpen diggI3g with it an hour what
you have accomplished seems very lit
| tie, but just go along by the place where
| they a,e building railroad through a
mountain and see what "a great work
| 1000 shoyals can do aud know that
while there are 1000 sbuvels at work
on this siue of the mountain there
are 1000 shovlls busy Gu tho other
side, unu all | have to do is to manage
my own particul r shovel. 1t cheers me
to think that against this old mountain
of sin there. are hundreds of thousands
and millions of shovels this moment
busy, and We are all at work under the
one engineer who came down from his
throne in heaven to oversee and help
the removal of that mountain, and who
has contracted to have it done. l have
seen the c0utract and he is well paid
for it. The compensation promised by
the throne Cf heaven is, " will give
thee the hodthcn for thine Inheritance
and the uttPrnlost parts of the earth for
thy possession " The reason so many of
us are idle is that we want bigger
shovel or we would like to manage some
great hydraulic engine. No. brother.
Stick to your shovel. Dig away in your
Sabbath classes. Dig away in your mis-
sions. Dig away i'll your homes. Dig
away in your pulpits. Do the v ork next
to you. L not spend 100 much time
looking at the great size of the noun
tains or It tie way others use their
shovels, All that you Can accomplish to-
ward the removing of tnat mountain
will tie with your own particu lar shovel.
Remember !ittle David, wiGh Saul's
helmet on him, d.Cp...Ag clear down
over his ears even unlO has shoulders.
But when he got i'll his hand the boy S
sling, how we'll lie used it! If you do
not understand Gre. X, do not attempt
to tell the people wat the text is in
the oriEinaL II y. Il To not understand
Lati.., attpr pit no drafts upon Latinity.
You VINO Y i,llt t. Iitlp in the removal
of the lIcuLiain hell on to your shovel.
Much tilac has been lost by the fact
that many If the sharpest shovels, in-
ctoa1 Of l,i 4.pl frr no &c
the mountain, have been used in fight
ing each DINER.
Old and New School Shovels.
The great Presbyterian church was
nightly hiEdGred ~ the fight that for
years went Oh betWCeu Gid school SHOW
els and new schGo! shoyeis, and it was
not until the nee ding Of the general as
sembly at PitlsuIrg 80 or 40 years ago
that many good men made up their
minds that ehovels are n05 made to fight
with, bul to dig with. Many of the old
Sieologiaus went around with bandaged
foreheads which had not been struck by
the swords in the battle for God. but by
the shovels ct ecclesiastical i:Lbroglio.
They had IL special admiration for that
psalm of David hich said, BLESSED be
the Lord which teacheth my hands to
war and my fingers to fight. So alGo
the Methodisl church had battle Of
shovels over the questions Of lay dele
cations and Wonanly repre- sentation. /
am glad to say that most of the ecclesi-
astlcal pug Ilsts III all denominations
are dead ahd that they had big fu-
neralS. But there are so many shove!s
now nightly engaged that no statistics
can count item, tell you the noun
tain is coming down. 1t is coming down
rapidly. 1t will AL come down. There
are those who hear or read THESE words
who Will gaze upon its complete pros
tration for what is the use of my keep
ing lack any longer the full statement
layed through lawful sermonic strategy,
the TACT that he Lord God Almighty,
in the full play ct his omnipotence,
will accomplish this supernal work. II
God can bnlid II mountain, l guess he
can remove mountain. After God has
given full opportunity for the shovels
he will come i'll with his thunderbolts.
W. ho'S iPAAHtu tiC L'iSa VI tu6 buIuD
OF God. | tell you now of the lion.
Here is thought that l have never
seen prUjeclrd, i;lid yet it is the most
cheering Of All considerations and plain
ly Scriptural, the thought that as at tie
opening of the gospel di1, .ensation i'll
the Christly and Johauian and Pauline
days the machinery Cf the natural
world was bought into service, the
shadow of eollpses and ne agitation OF
tempests put 10 sleep TN
der the voice of uivinc lullaby, iron
bolts Of prisons shUNed back ny invisible
muscle, klnuiing OF flame on heads Of
ny Instantaneous pharmacy
blasted VISION given full eyesight, and
the dead returned from the eternal
world, mingllng amid earthly scenes,
so it viii be again.
Return Of the Supernatural.
As | read NY Bible, these supernat-
lrals are 10 return Again the eclIpses,
as at the destruction of Jerusalem, will
put red wing under the moon and black
wing under the sun, and the mountain
will shake with agne OF excitement and
hospital cots be emptied as their pa
ients hound into sudden health and
he gospel OF mercy emphasized by most