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

the garroters, the fire fiends, the dyna-
mitsrs, the shoplifters, the kleptomani-
acs, the programmes, the dipsomaniacs,
the smugglers, the kiduapers, the Jack
Sheppards, the Robert Macaires and
the Macbeths of villainy. The crimes of
Che world! Am | noe right in calling
them, when piled up together, noun
tain? But we cannot bring ourselves to
appreciate great heights except by COM
parison. Yon think Of Mount Washing.
ton as high, especially those of you who
assembled as Of old, on muleb back, or
more recently by rail train, 10 the Tip
top House. Oh, moi That is not high
for it is only ahnut 5000 feet whereas,
rising on this western hemisphere are
Chimborazo. 81, 900 feet high, and
Mount Sahrma, 23, 900 feet high, and
Mount Saroia, "a, 800 feet high. But
that is not the highest ain on the
western hen. isphere. The highest moun-
tain is the mountain Of crime, and is it
possible that this mountain, before our
Zerubbabel, can ever be made plain?
The Mountain of War.
There is also the mountain of war,
the most volcanic of all mountains-the
Vesuvius which, not content, like the
VesuviuS of Italy, with whelming two
cities, Herculaneum and Pompeii, has
covered with it's fiery scoria thousands
of cities and would like TO whelm all
the cities of both hemispheres. Give
this mountain full utterance, and it
xUOn 11 Wocbipo nd Noxxy
York and London as easily as house
holder, with his shovel at 70 O'Clock at
night, banks CRATE fire with ashes,
This mountain is pile of fortresses,
barricades and armories, the world s
artillery heaped, wheels above wheels,
column iads above colum biads, "A pound
ers above "a Founders, wrecked nations
above wrecked nations.
This mountain of war is not only
loaded to cannonade the earth, but it is
also "a cemetery, holding the corpses of
80, 600, 900 slain in the wars of Alexan-
der and Cyrus, 60, 600, 600 slain in Ro-
man wars $780, 600, 600 slain in war
with Turks and Saracens, and holding
about 50, 600, 900, 900 corpses, not mil
lion, but billion, which was the estimate
made by Edmund Burke more than
$50 years ago of those who had been
destroyed by war, so that you would
have to add many more millions now.
Twenty years ago careful author
estimated that about IA times the then
population OF the world had gone down
in battle or i'll hospital after battle. An,
this mountain of war is not like an or
binary mountain. 1t is like Kilauea,
one of the Sandwich Islands, which
holds the greatest volcano in all the
earth and concerning which l wrote
from the Sandwich Islands "a few years
ago:
"What Kissing, believing. tum.
bling, soaring force is Kilaueal Lake of
unquenchable fire, convolutions and
paroxysms of flame, elements of nature
in torture, torridity and luridity, con-
gregation of breads, molten horrors,
sulphurous abysms, swirling mystery or
all time, infinite turbulence, chimney
of perdition, wallowing terrors, 10 acres
of threats, gl0oms insufferable and Dan
tesque, caldron stirred by the cham
of the armies of Diabous, wrath of the
mountains in full bloom, shimmering
incandescence, pyrotechnics of the plan
ct, furnace blast of the ages, Kilaueav'
But, my friends, mightier, higher, vast
er, hotter, more raging is the volcanic
mountain Of war. 1t has been blazing
for hundreds of years, and will keep on
lo,,
hazard a prophecy. Can it be that its
fires will ever be put out? Can it be
that its roar will ever be sileIced? Can
it be that before our Zerubbabel that
blazing mountain will ever become a
plain?
Argus Eyed Abonination.
There is also the long range of noun
tains, longer than Appalachian range,
longer than Caucasian range, longer
than Sierra Nevada range-the piled up
opposition of bad literature, bad homes,
bad institutions, bad amusementA, bad
centuries, bad eligions-Paganism,
Hindooism, Buddhism, Mohammedan- |
ism and buttressed and enthroned god
lessness, devoted to ambition and lust |
anu ny uIa hCuuCub argus tgSu dLOulla- /
ton, as it stands with lifted fist and |
knocking lips, challenging Jehovah upon
the throne of the universe to strike if |
he dare. Oh, it is great mountain, a.
my text declares. There is no use in de-
nying it. The most authentic statistics
declare it. The sigus Of the times prove
it. All Christian workers realize it. 1t
is a NOM ain. The mountain can
never be brought down, says worldly
speculation. THE mountain can never
be made plain says small faith in the
churches. Well, let us see. Let us look
about for the implements we can lay
our hands on. Let us count the number
on our side who are willing to dig with
a shovel or lore tunnel or blast rock.
Let us see if there is any foreign help
that will come in TO re-enforce u.s. do
not want to make myself absurd by at
an impossibility. If it is only
one spade at the foot of Mont Blanc,
if it is only one arm, capable of lifting
but few pounds against mountain
that weighs 100, 900, 900 tons, let US
quit before we make ourselves the tray
esty and caricature of the universe. If
we are to undertake this job, first of all
we must have a competent engineer,