The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1890-11-20

side in Palestine makes me think of? It is
no unusual scene. Right here in these three
elites by the American sea coast. there nre Il
Thousand this moment worse than that.
Mothers watching boys that the rum snloon,
that annex OF hell has gbbeted in q living
they cannot break The father may go to
sleep after waiting until II o'clock at night
ior the ruined boy to come home, and giving
it up lie may say: Mother come to bed;
there's no use sitting up any longer" But
the mother will not go to bed. 1t is 1
o'clock in the morning. lis 1:3O. It is 2
o'clock. 1t is $50, when he comes stagger-
ing through the hall. Do you shy that
young man is still alive? No; he is dead.
Dead to his fathers entrenties Dead to his
mothers prayers. Dead to the family altar
where he was reared. Dead to all the noble
ambitions that once inspired him. Twice
dead; only q corpse OF what he once
was. Gbbctel before God and man and
angels and devils. Chained in death that
will notloosen it's cold grasp. His father is
asleep, his brothers are asleep. his sisters are
asleep but his mother is watching him
watching him in the night. After he has
gone to bed and fallen into q drunken sleep,
his mother will go up to his room and see
that he is properly covered, and before she
turns out the light. will put n kiss upon
his boated lips. Mother, why don't you
go to bed?" ''Ah!' she says, II cannot go
to bed I am Rizpah watching the slain'5
And what are the political parties OF this
country doing for such cases? They are
taking care not to hurt the feelings Of the
jackals and the buzzards that roost on the
shelves of the grog-shops, and boot above
the dead. am o ten asked to what political
party 1 belong, and I now declare my
opinion of the political parties of to-day
n0h 10 Nov, tLoo IL
only consolation in regard to them is, that
they have been putrefed until they have no
more power to rot Oh, that comparative
tame scene upon which Rizpah looked! She
looked upon only seven of the sluin. Amer
lean motherhood and American wfehood
this moment are looking upon 70 OF
the slain, upon 700 of the slain, upon TO-
900 of the slain. Woe! Woe! Woe! My on
ly consolation on this subject is that 10 reign
capitalists are buying up the American brew
cries. The present owners see that the doom
OF that business is coming, as surely as
that God is not dead. They are unloading
upon foreign capitalists and when we can
people living on the other side of the sea,
our political parties will cease to be afraid
OF the liquor traffic, and at their conventions
nominating presidential candidates will put
in their platform plank as big as the big,
gest plank of the biggest ocean steamer, say
IL
have been, and always will be, opposed to
alcoholism
But | must spur on our Arab steed, and
here we come in sight of Beeroth said to be
the place where Joseph and Mary missed
the boy, Jesus on the way from Jerusalem
national festival. 'Where is my child
Jesus?'' says Joseph. Among the thousands
that are returning from Jerusalem they
thought that certainly He was walking on
in the crowd. They described Him, saying
He is - years old, and of light complexion
and blue eyes; A lost child! Great excite
ment in all the crowd. Nothing so stirs
10 ]ks as the news that child is lost. shall
not forget the scene when in a great out
door meeting, l was preaching and some
one stepped on the platform and said that q
child was lost. We went on with the religi-
GUS service, but all our minds were on the
lost child. After a while man brought
on the platform a beautiful little tot that
looked like a piece of heaven dropped down,
and said: Here is that child.'' And l for
got all that was preaching about and lift
ing the child to my shoulder said Here is
the lost child, the mother will come and get
her right away, or l will take her home, and
add her to my own brood!' And some
cried, and some shouted, and amid all the
crowd l instantly detected the mother
Everybody had to get out of her way or be
walked over. Hats we're nothing, and
shoulders were nothing, and heads were
nothing in her pathway, and realized some.
thing Of what must have been Mary's anxiety
when.she lost Jesus. and what her gladness as
when she found her boy in the temple OF
Jerusalem talking with those old ministers
Of religion, Shammu, Hillel and Betrah
bear down on you to-day with mighty
comfort. Mary and Joseph said: "Whcre
is our Jesus?n and you say, Where is John?
Well, should not wonder fyou found him
after awhile. Where? In the same place
where Joseph and Mary found her boy-in
the temple. What do mean by that? I
mean: you do your duty toward God and to-
ward your child and you will find him after
while in the kingdom of Christ. Will you
say Il do not have any way OF influencing
my child" answer you have the most
tremendous line of influence open right be
lore you. AS you write letter, and there
! are two or three routes by which it may go,
but you wantit to go the quickest route and
you put on it ''via Southampton or via
San Fransisco," or 'via Marseiles:" put on
your wishes aboutyour child via the throne
of God" How long will such q good wish
take to get to its destination? Not quite so
long rs the milIionth part Of second. I
|, will prove it. The promise is Before they
call l will answer" That means at your
the blessing will come, and il the prayer be
made at 10 O'Clock at night, it will be an
swered five minutes before 10. "Beforc they
call will answer"
Well, you say, am clear discouraged
about my son, and am getting on in years,
and fear l will not live to see him con-
verified. Perhaps not, nevertheless l think
you will find him in the temple, the heavenly
temple. There has not been an hour in
! heaven the last 100 years when parents in
glory had not had announced to them the
salvation Of their children whom they left
in this world profigate. We often have to
say, Il forgot but God has never yet once
said II forgot" 1t may be after the grass
OF 30 summers have greened the top of your
grave, that your son may be found in the
earthly temple. 1t may be so years from
now when, some morning, the towers are
chimeing the mathis of the glorified in
heaven you shall find him in the higher
temple which has mo need Of candle or of
sun, for the Lord God and the Lamb are the
light thereof" Cheer up, Christian father
and mother! Cheer up! Where Joseph and
Mary found their boy you will find yours
in the temple. You see, God could not
| afford to do otherwise. One of the things
He has positively promised IN the Bible is
that He will answer earnest and believing
prayer. Failing to do that, He would wreck
| His own throne, and the foundations of His
/ palace would give way, and the bank OF
| heaven would suspend payment and the
dark word ''repudiation,' would be written
across the sky and the Eternal Government