The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1891-07-23

Bengal II year without a single con-
version; yet in all those lands there
are multitudes OF Christians to-day.
Again, | remark that 1--WE arewit-
nresses" Of the
GOSPEL S POWER TO COMFORT.
When a man has trouble the world
comes in and says: Now get your
mind off this; go out and breathe the
fresh air; plunge deeper into business.
What poor advice Get your mind off
It! when everything is upturned with
the bereavement, and everything re-
MINDS you of what you have lost.
Get your mind off it! They might as
well advise you to stop thinking, and
you cannot stop thinking in that
direction. Take a walk in the fresh
all! Why, along that very street
Or that very road, she once ac-
companied you. Out OF that grass
plot she plucked flowers, or into that
show-window she looked fascinated,
saying, "Come see the pictures" Go
deeper into business. Why, she was
associated with all your business am
bltion, and since she has gone you
have no ambition left. Oh, this is
clumsy world when it tries to comfort
broken heart! 1 can build a Corliss
engine, I can paint a Raphael's "Ma-
donna," l can play a Beethoven's
Symphony as easily as this world
can comfort a broken heart. Andy
you have been comforted. How was
1t done? Did Christ come to you and
say: "Get your mind off this, 60 out
and breathe the fresh air; plunge deep
er into business?' No: There was a
minute when he came to you-perhaps
IN the watches of the night, perhaps in
your place of business, perhaps along
the strickland he breathed some
thing into your soul that gave peace,
rest, infinite quiet, SO that you could
take out the photograph of the de-
parted one and look into the eyes and
the face of the dear one and say: "It
is all right; she is better off; Iwould
not call her back. Lord, I thank thee
that thou has comforted my poor
heart.''
Again, REMARK that we are wit
nesses OF the fact that religion has
POWER TO GIVE COMPOsURE
In the last moment. .....
Here are people who say, ~ saw q
Christian brother die, and he triumph
3D." And some one else, "saw Chris
tain sister die, and she triumphed,"
Some one else will say, II saw a
Christian daughter die, and she
triumphed.' Come all We who have
seen the last moments of Christian,
and give testimony in this cause on
trial. Uncover your heads, put your
hand on the old family Bible, from
which they used to read the promises,
and promise in the presence OF high
heaven that you will tell the truth,
and nothing but the truth. With
what you have seen with your own
eyes and from what you have heard
with your own ears is there power in
this gospel to 1--WE calmness and
triumph in the last exigency? The re-
Spouse comes from all sides, from
young and old and middle-aged
eve are witnesses''
You see, my friends I have not put
before you an abstraction or a
chimera, or anything like guess-work.
I present you amdavits of the best
men and women, living and dead.
1.-Two witnesses in court will establish
q fact. Here are not two witnesses,
but millions of witnesses on earth and
in heaven testifying that there is
power in this religion to convert the
soul, to give comfort in trouble and
to afford composure in the last
hour.