The united opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1881-1970, 1899-09-29

folly!
What right has any man or woman to
detace the temple of the Holy Ghost ?
What is tho ear? II is the whispering
gallery of the soul. What is the eye? 1t
is the observatory God constructed, its
telescope sweeping the heavens. What
is the hand? An instrument so wonder
full that, when the earl of Bridgewater
bequeathed in his will $4,000 for
treatises to be written on the wisdom,
power and goodness of God, Sir Charles
Bell, the great English anatomist and
surgeon, found his greatest illustration
in the construction of the human hand,
devoting his whole book to that subject.
So wonderful are these bodies that God
names his own attributes after different
parts of them. His omniscience-it is
Gods eye; His omnipresence-it is
Gods ear; His omnipotence - it is
night heavens-it is the work of Gods
fingers; His life-giving power-it is
the breath of the Almighty; his domin-
ion-"the government shall be upon his
shoulder"
But" you say professors of religion
have fallen, professors of religion have
got drunk, professors of religion have
misappropriatedt trust funds, professors
of religion have absconded." Yes, but
they threw away their religion before
they did their morality. If man on a
White Star line steamer, bound for
Liverpool, in mid-Atlantic jumps over
board and is drowned, is that anything
against the White Star lines capacity
| to take the man across the ocean? And
if man jumps over the gunwale of his
religion and goes down never to rise,
is that any reason for your believing
that religion has no capacity to take
the man clear through? In the one
case, if he had kept to the steamer,
his body would have been saved; in
the other case, if he had kept to his re-
| ligion, his morals would have been
saved.
There are aged people who would
have been dead rs years ago but for the
defenses and the equipoise of religion.
You have no more natural resistance
than hundreds of people who lie in
the cemeteries to-day slain by their own
vices. The doctors made their case as
kind and pleasant as they could, and it
was called congestion of the brain or
something else, but the snakes and the
bluefiies that seemed to crawl over the
pillow in the sight of the delirious pa
tient showed what was the matter with
him. You, the aged Christian man,
walked along by that unhappy one I'M
til you came to the golden pillar of q
Christian life. You went to the right,
he went to the left. That is all the
difference between you. If this reli-
gion is protest against all forms of
dissipation, then it is an illustrious
friend of longevity. with long life
will satisfy Him.
Suppose you had a supernatural
neighbor who came in and said: "Sir,
want you to call on me in every ext
gency. | am your fast friend. 1 could
fall back on $20,000,000. l can foresee
panic ten years. l hold the controll-
ing stock in 30 of the best monetary in
situations of New York. Whenever you
are in trouble call on me, and | will
help you. You can have my money,
and you can have my influence. Here
is my hand in pledge for it," How
much would you worry about business?
Why, you would say: III do the best
| can, and then I'll depend on my
friends generosity for the rest"
Now, more than that is promised to
every Christian business man. God
says to him: 81 own New York and
London and St. Petersburg and Picking,
and Australia and California are mine.
l can foresee a panic hundred years.
l have all the resources of the universe,
and l am your fast friend. When ycu
get in business trouble or any other
trouble, call on me, and | will
help. Here is my hand in pledge of
omnipotent deliverance." How much
should that man worry? Not much.
What lion will dare to put his paw on
that Daniel? Is there not rest in this? |
is there not an eternal vacation in this? |
Oh" you say, here is a man who
asked God for a blessing in a certain
enterprise, and he lost $4,000 in it. Ex-
plain that"
| will. Yonder is factory, and one
wheel is going north, ard the other
wheel is going south, and one wheel
plays laterally, and the other plays YER
tically. l go to the manufacturer and
L say: 80 manufacturer, your ma
chinery is contradiction! Why do
you not make all the wheels go one
way?" Well" he says, 81 made them
go in opposite directions on purpose,
and they produce the right result. You
go downstairs and examine the car
pets we are turning out in this estab-
hshment, and you will See" l go down
on the other floor, and I see the car
pets, and l am obliged to confess that,
though the wheels in that factory go in
directions, they turn out
beautiful result, and while am stand
ing there looking at the exquisite fab
ric an old Scripture passage comes into
my mind: "All things work together
for good to them who love Cod" Is
there not a tonic in that? Is there not
in that?
Suppose a man is all the time wor-
ried about his reputation? One man