The united opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1881-1970, 1901-08-16

You get little worried lot iear tnae
some time you will come to want, DO
YOU? Your children and grandchil-
dren some times speak little sharpto
YOU because of your ailments. Inc
Lord will not speak sharp. DO you
think YOU will come to want? What
do YOU think the Lord is? Are his
oranaries empty? VIII He feed the
raven and the rabbit and the non In
the desert, and forget you? Why, nat
uralists tell us that the porpoise VIII
not forsake its wounded and sick mate.
And do YOU suppose the Lord OF Heaven
and earth has not as much sympathy
as the fish of the sea? But you say:
81 am so near worn out, and am OF
no use to God any more" think the
Lord knows whether you are of any
more use or not If you were OF no
more use, He would have taken you
before this Do you think GOD has Tor
gotten you because He has taken care
of you 70 or so years? He thinks more
of you to-day than He ever dlo, De-
cause you think more of him. May
the God of Abraham and Isaac and Ja-
cob and Paul the aged be your God Tor
ever! But gather all the promises to-
day in a group and ask the shepherds
to drive their foSks of lambs and sheep
up to the sparkling supply. Behold
happy is the man whom God correct
eth" Though He cause grief, yet will
He have compassion" "Many are the
Affections of the righteous, but the
Lord delivereth him out OF them ALL
weeping may endure for night, but
ioy cometh in the morning" l am
determined that no one shall go out OF
this house uncontrolled. 9onder Is
a timid and shrinking soul who seems
TO hide away from the consultations
am uttering as a child with a sore
hand hides away from the physician
lest he touch the wound too roughly,
and the mother has to go and compel
the little patient to come out and see
the physician. So 1 come to your
timid and shrinking soul to-day and
compel you to come out in the pres
ence of the Divine Physician. He will
not hurt you. He has been healing
wounds for many years, and lie will
give you gentle and omnipotent medi-
cament.
But people when they have trouble,
90 anywhere rather than to God. De
Quincy took opium to get rid Of his
troubles. Charles Lamb took to
punch. Theodore Hook took TO some
thing stronger. Edwin Forrest took
to theatrical dissipa ton. And men
have run all around the earth, hoping
in the quick transit to get away from
their misfortunes. 1t has been dead
failure. There is only one well that
can Stake the thirst of an afflicted
spirit, and that is the deep and mex
haustible well of the Gospel.
But some one in the audience says:
Notwithstanding all you have said
this morning, l find no alienation for
my troubles" Well, am not through
yet. I have left the most potent con-
sideration for the last. I am going
to soothe you with the thought of
Heaven. However talkative we may
be, there will come time when the
stoutest and most empha tic interroga-
ton will evoke from us no answer. AS
soon as we have closed our lips for
the final silence no power on earth
can break that taciturnity. But where,
o Christian, will be your spirit7 In
a scene of infinite gladness. The
spring morning of Heaven waving it's
blossoms in the bright air. Victors
fresh from battle showing their scars.
The rain of earthly sorrow struck
through with the RAINBOW of eternal
n ND N la Il
the redeemed, Paul and Silas, Latimer
and Ripley, Isaiah and jeremiah, Pay
son and John Milton, Gabriel and Mi
chael the archangel. Long line of
choristers reaching across the hills.
Seas of joy dashing to the white beach.
Conquerors marching from gate to
gate. You among them. Oh, what
a great flock God will gather around
the celestial well. No stone on the
wells mouth while the Shepherd wa
ters the sheep. There Jacob will rec
ognize Rachel the shepherdess. And
standing on one side of the well of
eternal rapture your children, and
standing on the other side Of eternal
rapture your Christian ancestry. You
will be bounded on all sides by joy
SO keen and grand that no other world
has ever been permitted to expe-
rience it. Out of that one deep we'll
of Heaven the Shepherd will dip re-
union for the bereaved, wealth for the
poor, health for the sick, rest for the
weary. And then all the flock of the
Lords sheep will lie down in the green
pastures, and world without end we
will praise the Lord that on this sum-
mer Sabbeth morning we were per-
United to study the story of Jacob and
Rachel at the we'll