The united opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1881-1970, 1897-08-20


broken oar 10 work with. Unless AL
mighty God help them they will go un-
der.
All, when told you to take care of
yourself you misunderstood me if you
/ thought | meant you are to depend upon
human resolution, which may be dis
solved in the foam of the wine cup or
may be blown out with the first gust of
temptation. Here is the helmet, tbs
sword of the Lord God Almighty.
Clothe yourself in that panoply, and
you shall not be put to confusion. Sin
pays we'll neither in this world nor the
next, but right thinking aud right be-
lieving and right acting will take you
in safety through this life and in trans
port through the nlxt.
never shall forget prayer l heard
young man make some | 8 years ago.
1t was very short prayer, but it was
tremendous prayer: 80 Lord, help us |!
We find it so very easy to do wrong and
SO hard to do right Lord, help us 70
That prayer, warrant you, reached the
ear of God and reached his heart. And
there are 100 men who have found out
Il 900 young men, perhaps, who have
found out-that very thing. 1t is so very
easy to do wrong and so hard tt do
right.
got letter one day, only one para
graph, which | shall read:
Having moved around somewhat I
have run across many young men Of in
%o1. wi ctriu ofSor fbat
will-o'- wisp-fortune-- of one
of these would speak. He was a young
Englishman of 90 or "a years, who
came to New York, where he had no &C
quaintances, with barely sufficient to
keep him couple of weeks. He had
been tenderly reared, perhaps | should
say too tenderly, and was not used to
earning his living and found it ex-
tremely difficult to get any position that
he was capable of filling. After many
vain efforts in this direction he found
himself on a Sunday evening in Brook
Ign, near your church, with about So
left of his small capital. Providence
seemed to lead him to your door, and
he determined to go in and hear you.
He told me his going to hear you
that night was undoubtedly the turning
point in his life, for when he went into
your church he felt desperate, but while
listening to your discourse his better
nature got the mastery. l truly believe
from what this young man told me that
your sounding the depths Of his heart
that night alone brought him back to his
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Great Reality.
That is the echo of multitudes. l am
not preaching an abstraction, but a
great reality o friendless young man,
o prodigal young man, o broken
hearted young man, discouraged young
man, wounded young man, | commend
to you Christ this day, the best friend
a man ever had He meets you this
morning. Despise not that emotion ris-
ing in your soul; it is divinely lifted.
Look into the face of Christ Lift one
prayer to your fathers God, to your
mothers God, and this morning get the
pardoning blessing. Now, while
speak, you are at the forks of the road
and this is the right road, and that is
the wrong road, and see you start on
the right road.
One Sabbath morning at the close of
the service | saw gold watch of the
world renowned and deeply lamented
violinist Ole Bull. You remember he
died in his island home off the coast of
Norway. That gold watch he had
wound up day after day through his
last illness, and then he said to his COM
panion, "Now. want to wind this
watch as long as l can, and then when
am gone l want you to keep it wound
up until it goes to my friend, DR.. Dore-
mus, in New York, and then he will
keep it wound up until his life is done,
and then l want the watch to go to his
young son, my especial favorite.
The great musician who more than
any other artist had made the violin
speak, and sing, and weep, and laugh,
and triumph-for it seemed when he
drew the bow across the strings as if
all earth and heaven shivered in de-
lighted sympathy-the great musician,
in room looking off upon the sea. and
surrounded by his favorite instruments
VI huSlC, OlOsSu MS eyes Ill uSu0u
While all the world was mourning at
his departure l6 crowded steamers fell
into line of funeral procession to carry
his body to the mainland. There were
so, 900 of his countrymen gathered in
an amphitheater of the hills waiting to
hear the eulogium, and it was said
when the great orator of the day with
stentorian voice began to speak the 60,
900 people on the hillsides burst into
tears. Oh, that was the close of a life /
that had done so much to make the I
world happyl But have to tell you,
young man, if you live right and die .
right, that was tame scene compared .
with that which will greet you when .
from the galleries of heaven the 144,-
900 shall accord with Christ in crying,
well done, thou good and faithful
And the influences that on
Earth you put in motion will go down
from generation to generation, the in
huences you wound up handed to your
and their influences wound
up and handed to their children, until
watch and clock are no more needed to
mark the progress, because time itself