The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1890-08-21

thntfor especial grief there Is especial deliy.
serence, give you two or three passages;
try them on; take that which best Ats your
5soul HON the Lord loveth he chasten-
eth, B" All things work together for good
to those who love God. Weeping may en-
dura Tor night, but JOY comethin the morn
Ing, know there are those who, when
they try to comfort people, always bring
the same stale sentiment about the useful
nees at trial. Instead o bringing up a new
plAgUer Tor new wound. and fresh mama
for fresh hung r, they rummage their haver-
sack TO find some crumb OF old consolation,
when from horizon to horizon, the ground
is white with the new-fallen mama OF Gods
help not five minutes old
But after l4, 600 consecutive days of fall
Ing mannar-Sundays excepted-the mama
ceased. Some Of them were glad oft. You
know they had complained to their leader,
and wondered thatthey had to eat mama in
stead OF onions. Now the fare Is changed.
Those people in TINT army under 40 years
OF age had never seen corn field and now,
when they hear the leaves rustling and the
tassels waving and the pillows Of green flow
ing over the plain as the wind touched them,
IT must have been q new and lively sensation.
"CornI cried the old man as he opened an ear.
Corn! cried the children, as they counted
the shining grains. "Cornl' shouted the
vanguard Of the host, as they burst open the
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| granaries that have been left in the possess
sion OF the victorious lsraelites Then the
fire was kindled, and the ears Of corn were
thrust into it, and fresh and crisp and ten.
der we're devoured Of the hungry vctors; and
bread was prepared, and many things that
can pc made out OF -four regaled the appe-t
/ titles that had been sharpened by the long
march. sAnd the mama ceased on the
morrow after they had eaten of the old corn
of the land. =
Blessed be God, we stand in inst such a
field to-day, the luxuriant grain coming
above aa the girdle, the air full Of the odors Of
the ripe old corn of the gospel Canaan.
SMOh!' you say, the fare is too plain.
Then I remember you will soon get tired of
i a FUNGI III diet. While j was in Paris, i liked
Tor while the rare and exquisite cookery;
but l soon wished was home again and had
| the plain fare Of my native land. So it is 9
4 fact that we soon weary of the sirups and
the custards and the whipped foam OF fanci-
fnl reig ionists, and we cry. Give US plain
bread made out at the old corn of the gospel
Canaan This is the only food that can
que!l the souls hunger.
here are men here who hardly know what
i is the matter with them. They have tried
to get together a fortune and larger account
at the bank, and to get investments yielding
larger percentages. They are trying to
4 satisfy their soul with dict Oflnortgages
and stocks. There are others here who have
1 been trying to get famous and have sue
ceededd to greater or less extent; and they
have been trying to satisfy their soul with the
/ chopped feed oi3magazines and newspapers.
All these men are no more happy now than
\ before they made the first Thousand dollars;
no more happy now than when for the first
i time they saw their names favorably mem
i toned. They cannot analyze ordefine their
feelings; but will tell them what is the mat
4 ter-they are hungry for the old corn of the
4 gospel. That you must have, or be pinched,
i and wan, and wasted, and hollow-eyed, and
i shrlYeled up with an eternity OF famine.
The infdel scientists ofthis day are offering
a us different kind ofsoulfoo but they are, of
all men, the most miserable, Ihave known
4 many of them; but have never known any
OF them who came within a thousand miles
i Of being happy. The great John Stuart
& Mill provided for himself q new kind of pOr-
ridge; but yet, when he came to die, he &C
kno wledges that his philosophy never gave
him nm any comfort in the days Of bereavment,
and in roundabout way be admits that
4 his life vas a failure. So lis with allinfdel
scien fists. They are TRYING to live on teles-
copes and crucibles and protoplasms,
1 and they charge US with can't, not realizing
that there is no such intolerable cant in all
the world as this perpetual talk we are hear
4 ing about positive philosophy" and 1.-THE
absolute" and '.the great to be- and ''the
4 everlasting no, and the higher unity"
and s.the latent potentialities," and .the
cathedral q. the immensities:: have been
Il translating what these men have been writ
Il ing, and have been translating what they
4 have been doing, and / will tell you what it
j ell means-it means that they want to kill
4 God! And my only wander is that God has
& not killed them, have, in other days,
4 tasted of their corrections, and ! come back
4 and tell you to.day that there is no nutrl-
4 ment, OF life or health in anything but the
81 oenS mol hat 1n I hv hatc rno a n
] that Christ is the bread OF life. and taking
q Him, you live and live forever.
But, you say, corn is OF but little pratlca!
i use unless it is threshed and ground and
baked. 81 answer, this gospel corr has gone
through that process.
i When on calvary all the hoois OF human
4 scorn came down on the heart OF Christ and
4 al the fails ofsatanic fury beat him long and
fast, was not the corn threshed? When the u
4 mills DIS indignation against SIN canght
Christ between the upper and neither rollers,
was not the corn ground? When Jesus de-
scended into hell, and the t1amessof the lost