The united opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1881-1970, 1898-04-29

ness, from hanging gardens toward ice
bergs. And one would not be very mucn
surprised if spirit Of God sent torth
from heaven toward our world should
be slow to come. But how strange 1t is
that we dread going out toward that
world when going is from December TO-
ward June, from the snow ~ earthly
storm to the snow OF Edonie BLOSSOM
from the arctics of trouble toward the
tropics # etecnal joy
Oh, what an ado about dying we
get so attached to the malarlal marsh
in which we live that we are afraid to
90 up and live on the hilltop. We are
alarmed because vacation Is coming
Eternal sunlight and best programme
of celestial MINISTRIES and hallelulah no
inducement. Let us stay here and keep
cold and igDSrant and weak DO not IN
troduce us to Elijah and John Milton
and BourdalOue. Keep our feet on the
sharp oobblestones Of earth instead Oh
planting them on the bank Of amaranth
in heaven. Give US this small Island Oh
leprous world instead ct the lmmen
stiles of splendor and delight Keep our
hands full of nettles, and our shoulder
under the burden, and our neck III the
yoke, and hopples on our ankles, ana
handcuffs Oh our wrists. Dear Lord,
we seem to say, "keGp US down here
where we have to suffer instead OF let
ting us up where we might live and
reign and rejoice.
Death Is True Life.
am amazed at myself and at your.
self for this infatuation under which
we all rest. Men you would suppose
would get frightened at having to stay
/ in this world instead Of getting fright
eDed at having to go toward heaven. L
congratulate anybody who has right
to die. By that mean through sickness
Won cannot avert or through accident
YOU cannot avOid-yOur work cOnsum-
mated "Where did they bury Lily?'
said one little child to another. ooh, "
she replied, "they buried her in the
ground. " "What! In the cold grounds"
ooh, no, no, rot in the cold ground,
but in the warm ground, where ugly
seeds become beautiful flowers. "
"But, p" says some one, sit, pains me
so much to think that l must lose the
body with which my soul has so long
companioned. " You do not lose it. You
no more lose your body by death than
you lose your watch when you send it
to have it repaired or your jewel when
Won send it to have it reset or the faded
picture when you send it to have it
touched up or the photograph of friend
when you have it put in new locket.
You do not lose your body. Paul will
90 to Rome to get his, Payson will go
to Portland to get his, President Ed
wards will go to Princeton to get his,
George Goodman will go to the bottom
of the a tIantic to get his, and we will
90 to the village churchyards and the
city cemeteries to get ours, and when
we have our perfect spirit reJoined to
our perfect body, then we will be the
kind of men and women that the resur-
rection morning will make possible.
So you see you have not made out any
doleful story yet. What have you proved
about death? What is the case you nave
I made out! You have made out just this
that death allows US to have perfect
body, free of all aches united forever
with a perfect soul free from all sim
Correct your theology What does it all
mean? Why, it means that moving day
is coming, and that you are going to
quit cramped apartments and be man
stoned forever. The horse that stands
at the gate will not be the one lathered
and despatched, carrying bad news, but
it will be the horse that st John saw
in Apocalyptic vision-the white horse
on which the King comes to the ban
quet. The ground around the palace
will quake with the tires and hoots OF
celestial equipage, and those Christians
who in this world lost their friends and
lost their property and lost their health
and lost their life will find out that
God was always kind and that all
things worked together for their good
and that those were the wisest people
on earth who made the best of every
thing. See you not now the bright light
in the clouds: