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

in his last moment, "See with what ease
a Christian can die" Or like that OF
George Whitefeld, who felt that he had
said all that he could of Christ, declar-
ing in his last moment, 81 shall die ST.
lent" Or like that If Mrs. Schimmel-
pennicl, who said in her last moment
"Do you nos hear the voices? And the
children s are the loudest. Or like that
of Dragonnatti, saying in his last mo-
ment "Stand aside! | see my father
and my mother coming to kiss me-.
Or as did the dying Rill who, having
few evenings before sat on bench in
London mission, was seen to have
tears Of contrition rolling down her
cheek, and who, departing from the
room, had put il her hand by Chris
tian woman Bible, with the passage
marked, 1.-The blood Of Jesus Christ
cleanseth from all sin. " Though having
promised to be at the next meeting, she
did not come The Christian woman
who gave her the Bible was visiting the
hospital and the nurse said to her: II
wish you had been here little while
ago. We had young woman who had
been run over by wagon. Poor thing
she was fearfully crushed and died al
most at once. She had Bible in her
hand, with your name in it, and she
said when she Was brought in: Thank
God, l found Christ as my Saviour last
night! The blood of Jesus Christ, his
son, Cleanseth us from all sin. Oh,
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world, the years cannot gallop past too
rapidly. If it were possible for the CELL
turtles to take the speed of the years, and
the years the speed of the days, and the
days the speed of the hours, they could
do us no harm. The shorter our life the
longer our heaven. The sooner we get
out of the perils Of this life, if our work
be done, the better. No man is safe till
he il dead. Better men than we have
been WRECKED, and at all ages. Lord
and Lady Ma ler " ere on horseback on
a road in India Lord Napier suddenly
said to ady Napier, ride on and fetch
assistance and do not ask me why" She
sped on and wGs soon out Of sight. The
fact was tigers eyes glared on them
from the thicket, and he did not dare to
tell her, lest, &Erighted, she fall in tie
danger and perhaps lose her life. From
all sides of us, Oh this road of life, there
are perils glaring on us, from tigers of
temptation, and tigers Of accident, and
tigers of DEATH and the sooner we get
out of the perils of this life the better
Let 1897 take the place of 1896. and
1898 the place Of 1897, and our souls
will be landed where there shall be
nothing to hurt or destroy in all Gods
holy mount - 90 No lion shall be there,
nor any ravenous beast shall go up
thereon. 1t shall rot be found there,
but the redeemed shall walk there. And
the ransomed of the Lord shall return
and come to Zion, with songs and ever
lasting JOY upon their heads. They shall
obtain joy and gladness, and sorrow and
signing shall flee away "
- a Grand spectacle.
Oh, will it not be grand when from
the windows and doors of the "house
Of many mansions we look out and see
passing along the golden beulevards of
heaven the white horse cavalry that st
John describes in Revelation? John
Wesley said he thought horses had souls,
but take the story in Revelation as fig
urative or literal, you must admit that
none but cavalry horses are mentioned
as being i'll heaven, John xix, IA, 1.-The
armies which were in heaven followed
him upon white horses. You see, they
are mounted troops. Their leader is in
deep crimson attire. His vesture, we
are told. is clipped in blood, mot blood
of human slaughter, as many other con-
querors have their attire, but his own
blood, blood of CruCitiXion agony, the
blood by which he redeemed you ana
me. That deep red of garment is in Wv
id contrast with the snowy white charg-
er on which our Lord is seated. And no
saved sinner can gaze on that red and
that white without remembering that
though his sins were once red like Grim
son they have become whittier than snow.
Oh, those celestial cavalcades whom our
Conqueror in scarlet shall lead on
through the streets of heavenl Wide
streets, hundreds of mounted troops
abreast, long streets, thousands in sight
followed by coming thousands through
the long day of heaven which hath no
setting sun. Mind you, only the cavalry
are in that shining procession, those
who did work outside the forts, those
who dared all things for God, those who
had in them the spirit of holy dash. We
who did easy work may look ut that
procession, but will not be part of it.
There they pass, the eq1estrians and
equestriennes of heaven, regiments of
evangelists, of tract distributors, of
street preachers, of salvation armies,
of once half starved hCme missionaries
ON the frontiers. of those who did in
service for Christ and never
had their name in the newspapers but
once, and that in the notice of their
own obsequies-a notice not acCompa- /
MED by the request, "Send no flowers,
for there was no danger that there
would be IA profusion of flowers.
As from the windows and doors of the .
house of many mansions W. look on .
the passing spectacle some of us will I
wish that on earth we had had less sal |
airy and more hardship less comfort and /
more exposure, less caution and more /
courage, less shelter aud more storm,
less smooth sailing and more cyclone, /