The united opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1881-1970, 1900-02-23

| your stomach with wine logWoodeC
and strychnined, walking with thiI
shoes to make your feet look delicate
| pinched at the waist until you arr
nigh cut in two, and neither par
worth anything, groaning about sicl
headache and palpitation of the heart
which you think came from God
when they came from your own folly
What right has any man or woman
to deface the temple of the Holy
Ghost? What is the ear? Why. it il
the whispering gallery of the human
soul. What is the eye? 1t is the OBJ
servatory God constructed, its tele
scope sweeping the heavens. So won
derful are these bodies that God
names his own attributes after diff
ferent parts of them. His omniscience
it is Gods eye. His omnipresence-
it is Gods ear. His omnipotence-it
is Gods arm. The upholstery of the
midnight heavens-it is the work OF
Gods fingers. His life-giving power
it is the breath of the Almighty. His
dominion-'the government shall be
upon his shoulder" body so divine
ly honored and so divinely constructed
let us be careful not to abuse it.
When it becomes a Christian duty
to take care of your health, is not the
whole tendency toward longevity? Ii
/ toss my watch about recklessly and
drop it on the pavement and wind II
up any time of day or night | hap
pen to think of it and often let it run
down while you are careful with your
watch and never abuse it and wind il
up just at the same hour every night
and put it in a place where it will
not suffer from the violent changes OF
atmosphere, which watch will last the
longer? Common sense answers
Now, the human body is Gods watch
You see the face of the watch, but the
beating of the heart is the ticking OF
the watch. Oh, be careful and do not
let it run down!
There are aged people who would
have been dead 25 years ago but for
the defenses and the equipoise of re-
ligion. You have no more natural re-
sistance than hundreds of people who
llC III ullC lO-hdyS slain w
their own vices. The doctors made
their case as kind and pleasant as
they could, and it was called conges-
ton of the brain or something else,
but the snakes and the blue flies that
Eeemed to crawl over the pillow in the
sight of the delirious patient showed
what was the matter with him. You,
the aged Christian man, walked along
by that unhappy one until you came
to the golden pillar of the Christian
life. You went to the right; he went
to the left. That is all the difference
between you. Oh. if this religion is
a protest against all forms of dissipa
ton, then it is an illustrious friend OF
with long life will sat
isfy 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; could
fall back on $20,000,000; l can fore
see panic ten years; | hold the con.
trolling stock in 30 of the best none.
tary institutions of this country;
whenever you are in any 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
of it, How much would you worry
about business? Why, you would say:
"Tll do the best l 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; | can foresee a panic a
thousand years; | have all the re.
sources of the universe; and | am
your fast friend; when you get in
business trouble or any other trouble,
call on me and l will help you; 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 Dan
iel? Is there not rest in this? Is
there not an eternal vacation in this?
ooh" you say, here is a man who
asked God for blessing in certain
and he lost $1,000 in it.
Explain that" | will Yonder is
factory, and one wheel is going north,
md the other wheel is going south,
md one Wheel plays laterally and the
other plays vertically. | go to the
and | say: 80 manu-.
acturer, your machinery is a contra.
LECTION. Why do you not make all the
wheels go one way?" We'll" he says,
! make them to go in opposite direc-
ions on purpose, and they produce
he right result. You go downstairs
nd examine the carpets we are turn
ng out in this establishment, and you '
will see" | go down on the other
Loor, and 1 see the carpets, and am I
obliged to confess that, though the !
wheels in that factory go in opposite !
irections, they turn out a beautiful {
esult, and while l am standing there {
boxing at the exquisite fabric an old 7
scripture passage comes into my 9
lind: "All things work together for c
cod to them who love God" Is there
OF rest in that? Is there not tonic i
n that? Is there not longevity in '
hat? Q
SuDDOse man is all tho ti,,,o u |