The united opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1881-1970, 1897-07-16

J 3 Christian. He says: IT will drive out
all the Amalekites of sin from my heart.
: Here is jealousy-down goes that Anal
: ekite. Here is neutrality-suspicious. goes
; that Amalekite," and what slaughter
J he makes among his sins, striking right
and leftl What is that out yonder, lift
ing up his head? 1t is Agag-it is world
J illness. 1t is an old sin be cannot bear tc
strike down. 1t is darling transgres-
sion he cannot afford to sacrifice. Oh,
my brethren, l appeal for entire conse-
Grafton. Some of the Presby terians call
it the "higher life" The. Methodists,
I believe. call it perfection. " do not
care what you call it, without holi-
ness no man shall see the Lord" I
know men who are living with their
soul in Perpetual communion with
Christ and day by day are walking
within sight of heaven. How do I know?
They tell me SO. believe them. They
would not lie about it. Why cannot we
all have this conservation? Why slay
some of the sins in our soul and leave
others to bleat and below for our ex-
posure and condemnation? Christ will
not stay in the same house with Agag.
You must give up Agag Or give up
Christ Jesus says, "All of that heart
or none. " Saul slew the poorest of the
sheep and the meanest of the oxen and
kept some of the finest and the latest,
and there are Christians who have slain
the most unpopular of their transgres-
sions and saved those which are most
respectable. 1t will not do. Eternal
war against all the Amalekites-no mer-
cy for Agag!
learn further from this subject that
it is vain to try to defraud God. Here
Saul thought he had cheated God out
of those sheep and oxen, but he lost
his crown, he lost his empire. You can
not cheat God out of single cent
Here is man who has made 3d. 900
in fraud Before he dies every dollar of
it will be gone, or it will give him VIC
lent unrest. Here is Christian who
has been largely prospered. He has not
given to God the proportion that is due
in charities and benevolences. God
comes to the reckoning, and he takes it
all away from you. How often it has
been that Christian men have had
large estate and it is gone. The Lord
God came into the counting room and
said: 81 have allowed you to have all
this property for 10, 10 or 20 years, and
you have not done justice to my poor
children. When the beggar called upon
you, you bounded him off your steps;
when my suffering children appealed to
you for help, you had no mercy. l only
asked for so much or so much, but you
did not give it to me, and now will
take it all. :"
The Safe Course.
God asks of us one-seventh of our time
In the way of Sabbath. Do you suppose
we can get an hour of that time success
fully away from its true object? No, no.
God has demanded one-seventh of your
time. If you take one hour of that time
that is to be devoted to Gods service |
and instead of keeping his Sabbath use
it for the purpose of writing up your
accounts or making worldly gains, God |
will get that hour from you in some I'M
expected way. God says to Jonah, lyon,
go to Nineveh. He says: mo- I
won't. I'll go to Tarshish. F." He starts
for Tarshish. The sea raves, the winds
blow and the ship rocks. Come, ye
whales, and take this passenger for Tar
shishl No man ever gets to Tarshish
whom God tells to go to Nineveh. The
sea would not carry him; it is Gods
sea. The winds would not watt him;
they are Gods winds. Let a man at
tempt to do that which God forbids him
to do or to 80 into place where God
tells him not to go, the natural world
as well as God is against him. The
are ready to strike him, the
fires to burn him, the sun to smite him,
the waters to drown him, and the earth
to swallow him. Those whose princely
robes are woven out of heartstrings,
those whose fine houses are built out of
skulls, those whose springing fountains
are the tears of oppressed nations, have
they successfully cheated God?
The last day will demonstrates. 1t
will be found out ON that day that God
vindicated not only his goodness and
his mercy, but his power to take care of
his own rights and the rights of his
church and the rights of his oppressed
children. Come, We martyred dead,
awake and come up from the dungeons
where folded darkness hearsed you and
the chains like cankers peeled loose the
skin and wore off the flesh and ratified
on the marrowless bones. Come, We mar
tyred dead, from the stakes where you
were burned, where the arm uplifted
for mercy fell into the ashes and the
cry of pain was drowned in the snap
ping of the fame and the bowling of
the mob; from valleys of Piedmont and
Smithfield market and London Tower
and the highlands of Scotland. Cattle.
in great procession and together clap
your bony hands, and together stamp
your moldy feet and let the chains that {
bound You to dungeons all clank at {
once and gather all the flames that
burned you in one uplifted arm of fire
and plead for judgment. Gather ali !
the tears ye ever wept into lake and {
gather all the signs We ever breathed
INTO tempest until the heaven piercing '
,hain clank and the tempest sigh and
he thunder groan announce to earth :
md hell and heaven judgment. Oh, (