The united opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1881-1970, 1900-10-05

| your pain ana with voice tnat you VIII
never hear again, unless you join her
in the better country, told you 10 never
mind, for you would feel better by and
by, and by that dying couch where she
looked so pale and talked so slowly,
catching her breath between the words,
and you felt an awful loneliness com
ing over your soul By all that beg
you to come back and take the same
religion. 1t was good enough-for her.
It is good enough for you. Nay, |
have better plan than that. | plead
by all the wounds and tears and blood
and groans and agonies and death
throes of the Son of God, who APP
proaches you at this moment with torn
brow and lacerated hands and whipped
back, and saying: Come unto me, all
ye who are weary and heavy laden,
and l will give you rest"
Again, there is a field of usefulness
but little touched, occupied by those
who are astray in their habits. All
northern nations, like those of North
America and England and Scotland
that is, in the colder elm tes-are dew
astated by alcoholism. They take the
fire to keep up the warmth. In south
ern countries, like Arabia and Spain,
the blood is so warm they are not
tempted to fiery liquids. The great
Roman armies never drank anything
stronger than water tinged with vine
gar, but under our northern climate
the temptation to heating stimulants
is most mighty, and millions succumb.
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church drops him, the social circle
| drops him, good influences drop him,
we all drop him. OF all the men who
| get off the track but few ever get on
again. Near my summer residence
there is a life-saving station on the
beach. There are all the ropes and
rockets, the boats, the machinery for
getting people off shipwrecks. One
summer saw there Is or 20 men who
were breakfasting after having just es-
capped with their lives and nothing
more Up and down, our coasts are
built these useful structures, and the
mariners know it, and they feel that
if they are driven to the breakers there
will be apt from shore to come rescue.
The churches of God ought to be so
many life-saIng stations, not so
much to help those who are in smooth
waters, but those who have been ship
wrecked Come, let us run out the
lifeboats! And who will man them?
We do not preach enough to such
men; we have not enough faith in
their release. Alas, if when they
come to hear us we are laboriously
trying to show the difference between
sublapsarianism and supralapsarian-
ism, while they have hundred vipers
of remorse and despair coiling
around and biting their immortal spir-
its. The church is not chiefly for
goodish sort of men, whose proclivi-
ties are all right and who could get to
Heaven praying and singing in their
own homes. 1t is on the beach to
help the drowning. Those bad cases
are the cases that God likes to take
hold of. He can save Dig sinner as
well as a small sinner, and when a
man calls earnestly to God for help
he will go out to deliver such a one.
If it were necessary, God would GENE
down from the sky followed by az !
the artillery of Heaven and million
angels with drawn swords. Get 100 !
such redeemed men in your churches |
and nothing could stand before them,
for such men are generally warm |
hearted and enthusiastic. No formal
prayers then. No heartless singing
then. No cold conventionalisms then.
Destitute children of the street Of
fer a field of work comparatively I'M
occupied. The uncared for children
are in the majority in most of our
cities. When they grow up, if un-
reformed they will outvote your chill
dren, and they will govern your chill
dren. The whisky ring will hatch out
other whisky rings, and grog shops
will kill with their horrid stencil pub
lie sobriety unless the church of God
rises up with outstretched arms and
infolds this dying population in her
bosom. Public schools cannot do it.
Art cannot do it. Blackwells island
cannot do it. Almshouses cannot do
it. Jails canont do it. Church of God,
wake up to your magnificent missionl
You can do it! Get somewhere, some
how to work!
Inc Prusslan cavalry mount by put
ting their right foot into the STIR
rup, while the American cavalry
mount by putting their left foot into
the stirrup. l do not care how you
mount your war charger if you only
get into this battle for God and get
there soon, right stirrup or left STIR
rup or no stirrup at all. The unoccu-
pied fields are all around us, and why
should we build on another mans
foundation? l have heard of what
was called the LAUNDERING legion"
1t was in 179, part of the Roman
army to which some Christians be-
longed, and their prayers, it was said,
were answered by thunder and light
ming and hail and tempest, which
overthrow an invading army and
saved the empire. And l would to
God that our churches might be so
mighty in prayer and work that they
would become a laundering legion be-
fore which the forces of sin might be
routed and the gates of hell might
tremble. Launch the Gospel ship for
another voyage. Heave away now,