The united opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1881-1970, 1898-09-09
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| Smartlng out OF the eyes. From 1T we
rise III the morning and it is new
world, and if we, like David, serve our
generation we will at life's close have
most desirable and refreshing sleep. In
It will vanish our last fatigue of body,
our last worriment of mind, our last
sorrow of soul. To the Christians body
that was hot with raging fevers, so that
the attendants must by sheer force keep
ON the blankets, it will be the cool
sleep. To those who are thin blooded
and shivering with agues it will be the
warm sleep. To those who because of
physical disorders were terrified with
night visions it will be the dreamless
sleep. To nurses and doctors and moth
ers who were Weakened almost every
hour of the night by those to whom
they ministered or over whom they
watched it will be the undisturbed
sleep. To those who couA not get to
bed till late at night and must rise
early in the morning and before getting
rested it will be the long sleep
Away With Gloom.
Away with all your gloomy talk
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have served our generation, it will not
be putting out into the breakers; it will
not be the fight with the king of ter
rors; it will be going to sleep. A
friend, writing me from Illinois, says
that Rev DR.. Wingate president of
Wake Forest college, North Carolina,
after most useful life, found his last
laxy hi c that
in his last moments he seemed to be
personally talking with Christ as friend
with friend, saying: "Oh, how delight
full it isl l knew you would be with me
when the time came, and I knew it
would be sweet, but did not know it
wOulG be as sweet as it is. " The fact
was he had served his generation in the
gospel ministry, and by the will of God
he fell asleep. When in Africa Maj
wara, the servant, looked into the tent
of David Livingstone and found him on
his knees, he stepped back, not wishing
to disturb him i'll prayer, and some time
after went III and found him in the
same posture and stepped back again,
but after awhile went in and touched
him, and, To- the great traveller had
finished his last journey, and he had
died in the grandest and mightiest pos
ture a man ever takes-on his knees.
He had served his generation by I'M
rolling the scroll of a continent, and by
the will of God fell on sleep. In the
museum of Greenwich, England, there
is a fragment of book that was found
in the arctic regions, amid the relics of
Sir John Franklin, who had persisted
amid the snow and ice, and tho leaf of
that piece of book was turned down
at the words, "When thou passest
through the waters, 1 will be with
thee" Having served his generation in
the cause of science and discovery, by
the will of God he fell on sleep,
Why will you keep uSall so nervous
talking about that which is only dor
mitory and a pillowed slumber, cano-
pied by angels wings? Sleep! Transport
ing sleepl And what glorious awaken
ing! You and have sometimes been
thoroughly bewildered after long and
fatiguing journey We have stopped at
friends house for the night, and after
hours of complete Inconsistencies we
have opened our eyes, the high risen
sun full i'll our faces, and before we
could fully collect our faculties have
said, "Where am l, whose house is
this and whose are these gardens:"
And then it has flashed upon us in glad
reality.
Blissfui Awakening.
And | should not wonder if after we
have served our generation and by the
will of God have fallen on sleep, the
deep sleep the restful sleep, we should
awaken in blissfui bewilderment and
for little while say: "Where am l?
What palace is this? Why, this looks
like heaven 1t is. 1t is Why, there is
building grander than all the castles
of earth heaved into a mountain of
splendor-that must be the palace of .
Jesus. And look there at those walks .
lined with foliage more beautiful than .
anything | ever saw before, and see
those who are walking down those aisles .
of verdure. From what have heard of .
them those two arm and arm must be
Noses and Joshua, him Of Mount Sinai
and him of the halting sun over Gideon,
and those two walking arm in arm
must be John and Paul, the one so
gentle and the other so mighty.
But l must not look any longer
those gardens of beauty, but examine
this building in which 1 have just
awakened. | look out o? the window
this way and that and up and down, and
| find it is mansion of immense size
in which l am stopping. All it's win
dows of agate and its colonades of por-
phyry and aIabaster Why, | wonder if
this is not the house of many man.
sions, of which used to read? 1t is. 1t
is. There must be many of my kindred
and friends in this very mansion. Hark
Whose are those voices? Whose are
those bounding feet? l open the door
and see, and, 10, they are coming through
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