The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1891-01-29

cursionists aboard, sank in the
Thames, and there was an awful sacri-
flee of life. A boatman from the
shore put out for the rescue, and he
had a big boat, and he got it so full it
would not hold another person, and
as he laid hold of the oars to pull for
| the shore, leaving hundreds of helpless
and drowning, he cried out, ooh, that
I had a bigger boat!" Thank God
am not thus limited, and that
I can promise room for all
in this gospel boat. Get in; get in!
And yet there is room. Room in the
heart of a pardoning God. Room in
heaven.
T also apply the word Of my text to
those who would like practical COM
fort. If any ever escape the struggle
of life have not found them: They
are not certainly among the prosper
Gus classes. In most cases it was q
struggle all the way up till they
reached the prosperity, and since they
have reached these heights there have
been perplexities, anxieties and crises
which We're almost enough to shatter
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would be hard to tell which have the
biggest fight in this world-the pros
perities or the universities, the conspic-
uities or the obscurities. just as
soon as you have enough success to
attract the attention OF others, the
envies and jealousies are let loose
from their kennel. The greatest crime
that you can commit in the estima-
ton Of others is to get on better than
they do. They think your addition is
their subtraction. Five hundred per-
sons start for a. certain goal of sue
cess; one reaches it and the other 400
are mad. 1t would take volumns to
hold the story of the wrongs, out
RACES and defamations that have
come upon you as q result OF your
success. The warm sun of prosperity
brings into life q sWamp-full of annoy
ing insects. On the other hand the
unfortunate classes have their strug-
livlihood any one who has nothing to
start with, and after while for a
family as well, and carry this on until
children are reared and educated and
+" 'ly started in the world, and to d.
THIS amid all the
RIvALRIEs OF BUSINESS
and the uncertainty of crops and the
fickleness of tariff legislation, with an
occasional labor strike and here and
there financial panic thrown in, is a
mighty thing to do, and there are hun
dreds and thousands such heroes and
heroines who live unsung and die I'M
honored. What we all need, whether
up or down in life or half way between,
is the infinite solace of the Christian
religion. And so we employ the word
"come!' 1t will take all eternity to
find out the number of business men
who have been strengthened by the
promises of God, and the people who
have been fed by the ravens when 9TH
er resources gave out, and the men
and women who, going into this bat
tie armed only with needle or saw, or
axe, or yardstick, or pen, or type, or
shovel, or shoe-last, have gained q
victory that made the heavens re-
sound. With all the resources of God
promised for every exigency, no one
will be left in the lurch.
Those of us who havefelt theconsol-
atory power of religion have right to
speak out of our experiences, and
say-"come!"
'But you say, "there are so many
things [ have to believe and SO many
things in the shape of a, creed that l
have to adopt that am kept back"
No; no, you need believe but two things
namely, that Jesus Christ came into
the world to save sinners and that
you are one of them. "But," you say,
81 do believe both of these things!'
Do you really, believe them with all
your hearth? eyes" Why, then, you
have passed from death into life. Why
then you are b son or daughter Of the
Lord Almighty. Why, then you are
an heir or an heiress of an inheritance
that will declare dividends from now
till long after the stars are dead. Hal
leluJah! Prince of God, why do you
not come and take your coronet?
Princess of the Lord Almighty, why do
you not mount your throne? Pass up
into the light. Your boat is anchor
ed why do you not 60 ashore? Just
plant your feet hard down and you will
teel under them the Rock of Ages chal-
lenge the universe for one instance in
which a man in the right spirit ap-
pealed for the salvation of the gospel
and did not get it. /, Man alivel! Ar.
you going to let all the years of your
life 90 away with you without your
having this great peace, this glorious
hope, this bright expectancy? Are
you going to let thepearl of great price
lie IN the dust at your feet because
you are too indolent or too proud to
stoop down and pick it up? Will you
wear the chain of evil habit when near
by you is the h ammer that could with
one stroke snap the shackle? Will
you stay in the prison of sin when
there is gospel key that could un-
lock your incarceration? No; no! AS
the one word. "Co me-" has some
times brought many souls to Christ,
will try the experiment of piling up in
to mountain and then send down in
an avalanche of power MANY of these