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


spairing e. monarch RI piled, Nothing
but draw down the blind SO that l can
not be stared at. " In this gospel cam
paign we have plenty to draw down the
blinds In God name, / say, pull up
the blinds and let the morning sun Of
the coming victory shire upon us. What
we want in this campaign for God is
the self abnegation and courage of the
men of Sir Colin Campbell, who, as
Lord Bishop Cowie of New Zealand,
once chaplain of his army, told me, said
to the troops: Men, no retreat from this
place. Die right here And they shout
ed: eyes, Sir Colin. We will do it. :"
And they did
Temporary defeats ought not to dis
hearten. What is Bunker Hill monu.
ment? Monument of defeat But from
ence started for its grandest achieve
ment, and all the defeats of the cause Of
God are incipient victory.
Thy saints In all this glorious war
Shall conquer, though they die.
They see the triumph from afar
And seize it with their eye
And now, standing as / do in this
national capital, let me say that what
we want in the senate and house of rep
resentatives and the supreme court is
pentecostal blessing that will shake the
continent with divine mercy. There re-
Gently came into my hands the records
of two congressional prayer meetings, on
the rolls of which were the names of
the most eminent senators and repre-
sentatives who then controlled the des-
TIMES of this republic-the one con-
gressional prayer meeting i'll 1857 and
the other in 1865. The record is in the
handwriting of the philanthropist, Will
liam E. Dodge, then a member of con-
gress. There are now more Christian
men i'll the national legislature than
ever before. Why will they not band TO-
gether III a religious movement which
before the Inauguration Of the next
president shall enthrone Christ in the
hearts Of this nation? They have the
brain, they have the eloquence, they
have the influence. God grant them the
grace sufficient Who in congressional
circles will establish the oapitoline
prayer meeting in 1897? Let the even
ing of the last decade of this century be
irradiated with such a religious splen-
dor There are the opportunities for a
national and international CHARGE all
bridled and saddled Where are the
riders to mount them?
A Quick Flight.
Tho Irr CVoo6 Whom
once the reins are gathered into the
hands of the soldierly horseman, and
the spurs are struck into the TANKS, you
hear the rataplan of the hoofs. ''Veloc-
ity" is the word that describes the
movement, acceleration, momentum,
and what we want in getting into the
kingdom of God is celebrity. You see the
years are so swift, and the weeks are SO
swift, and the days are so swift, and
the hours are so swift, and the minutes
are so swift, we need to be swift. EnI.-
lack of this appropriate speed many do
not get into heaven at all. Here we
are in the last Sabbath of the year. Did
you ever know a twelvemonth quicker
to be gone? The goldenrod of one au-
tumn speaks to the goldenrod of the
next autumn, and the crocus of one
springtime to the crocus of another
springtime, and the snowbanks Of ad-
Joining years almost reach each other in
unbroken curve. We are in too much
hurry about most things. Business men
i'll too much hurry rush into specula-
tions that ruin them and ruin Others
People move from place to place in too
great haste, and they wear out their
nerves and weaken the hearts action.
But the only thing in which they are
afraid of being too hasty is the matter
of the souls salvation. Yet did any one
ever get damaged by too quick repent
ance or too quick pardon or too quick
emancipation? The Bible recommends
hardness, deliberation and snaillike
movement in some things, as when it
enjoins US to be slow to speak and slow
to wrath and slow to do evil, but it
tells US, "The kings business reQuireth
haste, " and that our days are as the
flight Of a weaver's shuttle and ejacu
lates: Escape for thy life. Look not
behind thee. Neither stay thou in all
the plain" Other cavalry troops may
fall back, but mounted years never re-
treat. They are always going ahead, not
on an easy canter, but at full run. Other
regiments hear the command of Haiti
and pitch their tents for the night. The
regiments of the years never hear the
command of "Haltl' and never pitch
tent for the night.
The century leads on its troop of 100
years, and the year leads on its troop of
865 days, and the day leads on its troop
of "a hours, and the hour leads ON its
troop of 60 minutes, and all are dashing
out of sight. Perhaps there are two
years in which we are most interested |
our first and our last. Held up in our
mothers arms, we watched the flight .
of the first With wondering eyes we .
all watch the coming Of the last. The |
name of that advancing year we cannot .
call. 1t may be in the nineties of this .
century, it may be in the tens or twen-
ties or thirties of the next century, but
it is coming at full gallop.
How to Meet 1t.
With what mood will we meet it? In
jocosity, as did Thomas Hood i'll his last
moment, saying, Il am dying out of
charity to the undertaken, who wishes