The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1890-12-25


morocco and an arm chair upholstered like
throne, and an EN- broidered ottoman upon
which to put his $50 CATERS, and they lay
upon his table the best ivory cignr-holder
you can import from BRUSSELS. and having
standing outside his door prancing span
mat won the prize at the horse fair and
leave him estate enough to make him indie.
pendent OF all struggle, and what will be-
come OF him? If he do not die early ofin.
nn'tlon or dissipation, he will live useless
me- and die an unlamented death and go
into n fools eternity
=, But what has been the history OF most OF
the great cednrs in merchandise in art, in law,
III medicine in craftsmanship, in Christian
usefulness? John get up and milk the cows;
It's late; it's half past five in the morning
sp'lt an armtnl of wood on your way out so
that VIC can build the fires for break asst
Put your bare feet on the cold oicloth, and
break The ice in your pitcher be ore you
can wash. Yes it has been showing and
drifting again last night, and We will have to
break the roads, The boys educational
advantages. long oak plank without any
back to it. in country school houses, and
stove throwing out more smoke than heat
PRESSING on from one hardship to another.
Alter while position on salary O: wages
small enough to keep life. but keep it at it's
lowest ebb. Starting in occupation or bust
ness with prosperous men trying to fight
you back at every step But after a good
u )
mites Widening. and then by some sudden
turn you ore triumphant. You are master o.
me situation and defiant OF nll earth and
nell. Lebanon cedar! John on on his
way up to the throne of the worlds sacred
poesy. must sell his copyright of Paradise
Lost for $72 in three payments. And vii
liam Shakspere on his way up to DO knowl.
edged the greatest dramat fist Of all ages must
hold horses at the door of the London thea
ter for a siXpence, and Homer must struggle
through total blindness to mortality, and
John Bunyan must cheer himself on the way
up BY making flute out of his prison stool,
and Canova the sculptor must toll on
through orphannge, modelling lion in but.
ter before he could cut his statues in marble
And the great Stephenson must watch COWS
IN the field for u lew pennies and then become
a stoker, and afterward mend clocks before
he puts the locomotive on it's track and calls
forth plaudts from parliaments, and medals
from kings. Abel Stevens is picked up q
neglected child ofthestreet. and rises through
his consecrated genius to be one o: the most
1liustrlous clergymen and historians of the
century. And Bishop James OF the same
church in boyhood worked his passage from
Ireland to America, and up to q usefulness,
where, in the bishopric, he was second to no
one who ever adored it.
Thirty years from now the foremost men
in all occupations and professions will be
those who are this hour in awful struggle of
name So in spiritual lie it takes a course
OF bereavements. prosecutions, scknesses.
and losses to develop stalwart Christian
character: l got letter few days ago say
ing: 81 have hardly seen Il we'll dry since I
was born, and l could not write my own
very poor, but am, by the grace ofGod, the
hapPiest man in Chicago" The Bible speaks
OF the SHOWS of Lebanon, and at this season
OF the year the snow there must be tremend-
ons. The deepest snow ever seen in America
would be insignificant compared with he
m!ldest winter 81, OF SHOWS on those Lebanon
mountains The cedars catch the skyful of
crystals on their brow and on their long
arms. Piled up in great hefts are those
SHOWS. enough to crush other trees to the
ground, splitting the branches from the
trunk and leaving them rent and torn never
to rise But what do the codars care Tor
these SHOWS on Lebanon? They look up to
the winter skies and say: ''Snow on!
Empty the white heavens upon u.s.
and when this storm is passed. let
other professions of tempest try to bury US
in their fury. We have for 500 winters been
accustomed to this, and for the next 500
winters we will cheerfuly take oil you have
to send, for that is the way we develop our
strength, and that is the way we serve God,
and teach oil ages how to endure and con-
quer SO 1 say: Good cheer to all people
who are showed under. Put your faith in
6od and you will come out gloriously.
Others may be stunted growths or weak
jumpers on the lower levels of spirituality
put YOU are going to be Lebanon cedars. At
last 1t will be said of such as YOU: ::These
are they who came out of great tribulation
and had their robes washed and made white
in the blood of the Lamb
But while crossing over these mountains
OF Lebanon l bethink myself of what an ex
citing scene it must be when one of these
ceoars does toll. 1T does not go down like
other trees with slight crackle that hardly
makes the woodsman look up or n hawk
tlutter from neigh boring bough When a
cedar falls it IS the great event In the cclon.
dar OF the mountains The axemen 7v
The wild beasts stink to their dcns The par
tridges swoop to the valley for escare. The
nelghborlng trees go down under the awful
weight OF the descending monarch The
rocks are moved out Of their places. and
the earth trembles as from miles around all
rnvines send back their sympathetic echoes
Crash! Crash! Crash! So when the great
cedars or worldly Christian influence
fall it is something terrific. Within
the past few years how many mighty
ana overlapping men have gone down
moral disaster. The moral world, the re]io.
eous world the political world. the CONNER
clal world are quaking with the fall of 1,eh
anon cedars 1t is aw nj. We are compelled
to cry out with Zechariah the prophet.
hoWl III trees lot the cedar is fa1leni'
Some o. the smaller trees are glad of +
When some great dealer in stocks goes down
the small dealers clap their hands and sov
GOOD Ior him!" When graat political
leader goes down the small politicians
clap their hands and say Just as ex-
pected!' When a great minister of RELIGION
fails. many little ministers laugh up their
sleeves and think themselves somehow ad.
vantaged. All, beloved brethren, no one
makes anything out OF moral shipwreck.
Not a willow Ivy the rivers OF Damascus not
sycamore on the plains OF Jericho, not an
olive tree in all Palestine is helped bv the
fall Of Il Lebanon cedar. Better weep and
pray and trpmble and listen to Paul's advice
to the Galatians when he says, Consider
thyself lest thou also be tempted" No man
is sale until lie is dead, unless he is divineIy
PROTECTED. A greater thinker than Lord
Francis Bacon the world never saw. and he
has changed the worlds mode of thinking
for all time, his Novum Organum, miracle
Of Literature. With $4,000 salary and
estates worth millions, and from the highest
judicial bench of the world, he goes down
under the power of bribery and confessed
his crime and was sentenced to the Tower
and the scorn of centuries. Howl fir tree for
the cedar is fallen!