The united opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1881-1970, 1898-06-03
Thou lovely source of true delight
Whom l, unseen, ADORE
Unyeil thy beauties to my sight,
Thnt | may love thee more.

None TO Llelps
remark also in regard to this first
bird mentioned in the text that it was
defenseless bird. When the eagle is
assaulted, with it's iron beak 1t strikes
like a bolt against its adversary Inns
was a dove or a sparrow, we do not
know lust which. Take the dove or pl-
geon in your hand, and the pecking OF
it's beak on your hand makes you laugh
at the feebleness Of its assault. Ihe
reindeer, after it is down, may fell you
with it's antlers. The OK, after you think
it is dead, may break your leg III lts
death struggle. The harpooned whale,
in it's last agony, may crush you Ill tne
coil of the unwinding rope. But this
was a dove or a sparrow-perfectly
harmless, perfectly defenseless--type OF
him who said, II have trod the VINE
press alone, and there was none to
help" None to help! The murderers
have it all their own way. Where was
the soldier in the Roman regiment who
swung his sword in the defense OF the
divine martyr? Did they put one drop
Of oil Oh his gashed feet? Was there one
in all that crowd manly and generous
enough to stand up for him? Were the
miscreants at the cross any more inter
fered with in their work of spiking him
fast than the carpenter in his shop drly-
ing a nail through pine board! The
women cried, but there was no balm i'll
their tears None to help, none to help!
o nv Lord Jesus, none to help! The
wave of anguish came up to the arch of
his feet, came up to his knee, floated
70 his waist, rose to his chin, swept to
his temples yet none to help. Ten thou
sand times 10, 900 angels in the sky,
ready at command to plunge into the
bloody ARRAY and strike back the hosts
of darkness, yet none to help, none to
help!
Oh, this dove of the text, in its last
moment, clutched not with angry talons.
1t plunged not a savage beak. 1t was
Gove-helpless, defenseless. None to
help! None to help!
AS after a severe storm in the morn
ing you go out and find birds dead on
the snow, so this dead bird OF the text
makes me think of that awful storm
that swept the earth on crucifxion day,
when the wrath of God and the malice
Of man and the fury Of devils wrestled
beneath the three crosses. AS we sang
just now:
Well might the sun in darkness hide
And shut his glOries in,
When Christ the mighty Maker, died
For man. the creatures sin.
Blood Atonement.
But come now to speak of this Sec
ond bird of the text. We must not let
that fly away until we have examined
it, The priest took the second bird, tied
it to the hyssop branch, and then plung-
ed it in the blood of the first bird. All,
that is my soul, plunged for cleasing III
the Saviour's blood. There is not enough
water in the Atlantic and Pacific oceans
to wash away our smallest sin. Sin is
such an outrage on Gods universe that
nothing but blood can atone for 1t. You
know the life is in the blood, and as
the life had been forfeited nothing
could buy it back but blood. What was
it that was sprinkled Oh the doorposts
when the destroying angel went through
the land? Blood. What was it that
went streaming from the altar OF an
Gent sacrifice? Blood. What was II
that the priest carried into the holy OF
holes, making intercession for the peo'
pie? Blood. What was it that Jesus
sweat in the garden of Gethsemane'
Great drops of blood. What does the
wine in the sacramental cup signify
Blood. What makes the robes Of the
righteous in heaven so fair? They are
washed in the blood Of the Lamb. Wha
is it that cleanses all our pollution
The blood of Jesus Christ, that cleansetf
from all sin.
/ hear somebody saying, II do no
like such a sanguinary religion as that. ,
Do YOU think it is very wise for the pa
tent to tell the doctor, Il don't lil1
the medicine you have given me?' l
ne wants to be cured, he had better TAX
! the medicine My Lord God has Offered
us balm, and it is very foolish for u
to say, Il don't like that balm. w
had better take it and be saved. Blu
YOU do not oppose the shedding Of bloo'
in other directions and for other ends
If hundred thousand men 60 out t.
/, battle for their country and have to la,
down their lives for free institutions i
,, there anything ignoble about that? Nc
you say, GLORIOUS sacrifice rather.
And is there anything ignoble in tn
= idea that the Lord Jesus Christ by tn
shedding of his blood delivered not onl
one land but all lands and all ages fro1
= bondage, introducing men by million
i and millions into the liberty of the SOL
: of God? Is there anything ignoble abor
= that?
AS this second bird of the text We
plunged in the blood of the first bird {
, we must be washed in the blood {
u Christ or go polluted forever.
Let the water and the blood,
% From thy side healing flood,
= Be of sin the double cure,
a Save from earth and make me pure.
e Sin Is Slavery.
|. l notice now that as soon as this secoI
10 bird was dipped in the blood of the fir
s. bird the priest unloosened it and it wi
IT free-free of wing and free of foot.
:, could whet its beak ON any tree branC
It it chose. 1t could peck the grapes
q any vineyard it chose. 1t was free
!. TYNE of our souls after we have washt