The united opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1881-1970, 1900-01-26

wear. That builder with contracts
made for the construction of haF a
dozen houses ard the owners impa-
tient for occupancy is not to be pitjed,
but give your sympathy to that me-
chanic in early acquaintance with
hammer and saw and bit and amid all
the limitations of journeyman.
Go forth to be busybody in other
mems matters, so far as you can help
ing them out, and help them on. The
world is full of instances of those who
spend their life in such alterations, but
there is one instance that overtoEs and
ecIipses all others. lie had lived in
pa.ace. Radiant ones waited upon him.
lie was charioted along streets yellow
with god, and stopped at gates glisten-
ing with pearls, and hosaRnaed by i'm
mortals coroneted and in snowy white.
Centuries gave him not pain. The
sun that rose on him never set. Els do
minions could not be enlarged, for they
had no boundaries, and uncontested
was His reign. Upon all that luster and
renown and environment of splendors
He turned His back and put down Els
crown at the foot of His throne, and on
bleak December night trod His way
down to a stone house in Bethlehem of
our world. Wrapped in what plain
shawl, and pursued with what enemies
on swift cameIs, and howled at with
what brigands, and thrust with what
sharp lances, and hidden in what sepul-
chral crypt, until the subsequent CEN
turtles have tried in vain to tell the story
by sculptured cross, and painted can
vas, and resounding doXotogies, and
domed cathedral, and redeemed ma
tons.
He could not see a woman doubled up
with rheumatism but lie touched her,
and inhamed muscles relaxed, and she
stood straight up. He could not meet
funeral of young man but he broke up
the procession and gave him back to his
widowed mother With spittle on the
tip of His finger He turned the mid
night of total blindness into the mid
noon of perfect sight. He could not see
a man down on his mattress helpless
with palsy without calling him up to
health and telling him to shoulder the
mattress and walk off. He could not
find a man tongue-tied but He gave him
immediate articulation. He could not
see a man with the puzzled and inquir-
ing look of the deaf without giving him
capacity to hear the march of life beat
ing on the drum of the ear. He could
not see crowd of hungry people but
He made enough good bread and a sur
plus that required all the baskets.
He scolded only twice that / remem-
Der, once at the hypocrites with elon-
gated visage and the other time when
sinful crowd had arraigned an unfor-
tunate woman, and the Lord with the
most superb sarcasm that was ever ut
tered, gave permission to anyone who
felt himself entirely commendable to
hurl the first missile. All for others.
His birth for others. His ministry for
others. His death for others. His as
cension for others. His enforcement
for others.
That spirit which leads one to be
busy for the betterment of others is go-
ing to Edenize the round earth. Tlr-r-'
spirit induced John Pound to establish
ragged schools" and Father Mathew
to become a temperance reformer and
Peter Cooper to establish his institute
and Slater to contribute his fund for
schools and Baroness Hirsch to leave
more than $1O0,0OO000 for the improve
ment of her race and Cornelius Wander
bilt to flood churches and charitable
institutions with his benevolence. And,
though our means be limited and our
opportunities circumscribCd, we can do .
the same thing on a small scale. "Other /
mems matters!" Be busybodies in i'm
proving them. With kind words. with |
earnest prayers, with self-sacritcing
deeds, with charging charities, let US
go forth on new mission.
And now my words are to the invis-
IDLE multitudes l reach week by week,
but yet will never see in this world, but |
whom | expect to meet at the bar Of .
God and hope to see in the blessed .
Heaven. The last word that Dwight l..
Moody, the great evangelist, said to me
at Plainfield, n. j., and he repeated the
message for me to others, was: Never
be tempted under any circumstances
to give up your weekly publication of
sermons throughout the world" That
solemn charge L will heed as long as
have strength to give them and the
newspaper types desire to take them.
Oh, We people back there in the Sheffield
mines of England and We in the sheep
pastures of Australia and We amid the
pictured terraces of New Zealand aid
ye among the cinnamon and color in
famed groves of Ceylon and We Ar
menians weeping over the graves of
murdered households in Asia Minor and
We amid the idolatries of Benares on
the Ganges and ye dwellers on the
banks of the Androscoggin and the
Alabama and the Mississippi and the
Oregon and the Shannon and the Rhine
and the Tiber and the Danube and the
Nile and the Euphrates and the Cas-
plan and Yellow seas; We of the four
cornerE of the earth who have greeted
me again and again, accept this point
blank offer of everything for nothing:
Of everything of pardon and comfort
and illumination and safety and
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