The united opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1881-1970, 1897-08-13

LOOK, look, lOOKl VINO Will 06lp MIN
now? Come, men of Jerusalem-ye
whose dead he brought to life, we whose
sick he healed-who will help HIM
Who will seize the weapons of the sol
diers? None to help. Having carried
such cross for us, shall we refuse tc
take our cross for him?
Shall Jesus bear the cross alone
And all the world 90 free2
| No; there's a cross for every one,
And there's cross for me.
You know the process of migrating.
You bore a hole into tree and put in
the branch of another tree. This tree
of the cross was hard and rough, but
into the holes where the nails went
there have been grated branches of the
tree of life that now bear fruit for all
nations. The original tree was bitter,
but the branches ingrafted were sweet,
and now all the nations pluck the fruit
and live forever.
Again, Christ was wonderful in his
victories.
First, over the forces of nature. The
sea is crystal sepulcher. 1t swallowed
the Central America, the President and
the Spanish Armada as easily as any
fly that ever foated OH it. The inland
lakes are fully as terrible in their
wrath, Galilee, when aroused in a
storm, is overwhelming, and yet that
sea crouched in his presence and licked
his feet. He knew all the waves and
winds. When he beckoned, they came.
When he frowned, they fled. The heel
of his foot made no indentation on the
solidified water. Medical science has
wrought great changes in rheumatic
limbs and diseased blood, but when
muscles are entirely withered no human
power can restore them, and when
limb is once dead it is dead. But here
is paraly tio-his hand lifeless Christ
says to him, "Stretch forth thy hand"
and he stretches it forth.
In the eye infirmary how many dis
eases of that delicate organ have been
cured? But Jesus says to one born
blind, "Be open, >" and the light of heav-
EN- rushes through gates that have never
before been opened. The frost or an ak
may kill tree, but Jesus smites one
dead with word
Chemistry can do many wonderful
things, but what chemist, at wedding,
when the refreshment gave out, could
change pail of water into cask of
wine?
What human voice could command a
school of fish? Yet here is a voice that
marshals the scaly tribes, until in the
place where they had let down the net
and pulled it up with no fish in it they
let it down again, and the disciples lay
hold and begin to pull, when, by reason
of the multitude of fish, the net brake.
Nature is his servant. The flowers
he twisted them into his sermons; the
winds-they were his lullaby when he
slept in the boat; the rain-it hung
glittering on the thick foliage of the
parables; the star of Bethlehem-it
sang Christmas carol over his birth;
the rocks-they beat a dirge at his
death. ---,.--
Behold his victory over the grave!
The hinges of the family vault become
very rusty because they are never
opened except to take another in. There
is knob on the outside of the sepul-
cher, but none on the inside. Here
comes the conqueror of death. He en-
tiers that realm and says, Daughter of
Jairos, sit up" and she sat up. To
Lazarus, Come fortn," and he came
forth. To the widows son he said,
"Get up from that bier" aud he goes
home with his mother. Then Jesus
snatched up the keys of death and
hung them to his girdle and cried until
all the graveyards of the earth heard
him: "Oh, death, I will be thy plague!
Oh. grave, l will be thy destructionp'
Christ's Coming Victories.
But Christ's victories have only just
begun This world is his, and he must
have it What is the matter in this
country? Why all these financial trou-
bles? There never will be permanent
prosperity in this land until Christ
rules it. This land was discovered for
Christ, and until our cities shall be
evangelical and north, south, east and
west shall acknowledge Christ as King
and Redeemer We cannot have perma-
nent prosperity. What is the matter
with Spain, with France, with all of
the nations? All the congresses of the
nations cannot bring quiet. When gov
not only theoretically but
acknowledge the Saviour of
the world. there will be peace every
where. In that day the sea will have
more ships than now, but there will
not he one IMAM of-war." The foun-
dries of the world viii jar with mightier
but there will be no mold
ing of bullets. Printing presses will fly
their cylinders with greater speed, but
there shall 90 forth no iniquitous trash.
In laws, in constitutions, ON exchange,
in scientific laboratory, ON earth as in
heaven, Christ shall be called wonder
full. Let that work of the worlds re-
generation begin in your heart, oh,
bearer! A Jesus so kind, Jesus so
good, a Jesus so loving-how can you
help but love him?
1t is a beautiful moment when two
persons who have pledged each other
heart and hand stand in church and
have the banns of marriage proclaimed.
Father and mother, brothers and sisters
stand around the altar. The minister of
Jesus gives the counsel, the ring is set,
9arth and heaven witness it, the organ
sounds and amid many congratulations