The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1892-11-03
pect anything are not much affected
by financial changes. They are as
apt to go into the kingdom under one
set OF circumstances as another. They

SET OF circumstances as another. They
are
DEAD BEATS WHEREVER THEY ARE.
The only way to get rid of them is to
lend Them @ dollar and you will never
see them again. I have tried that
plan and it works we'll. But Nam
speaking OF the effect OF misfortune on
hlgh-spirited men. Nothing but trial
will turn such men from earth to
heaven. 1t is only through clouds
and darkness and whirlwind of disas-
ter such 8 man can see the finger of
God. =
A most interesting, as we'll as g.
most useful study, is to watch the
pointing of the finger OF God.
A missionary in Jamaica lost his
way, and IN the night was wandering
about, when a FREELY flashed and re-
vealed precipice over which in q mo-
ment more he would have been dash
ed. w. E. Robertson, the great
preacher, of Brighton, Eng, had his
Network decided by the barking of
his dog. A neighbor whose daughter
was ill, was disturbed by the barkine
OF that dog, one night. This brought
TS A'S'e.ADoA AZ COAIhuulCdUlOu WIFI
Robertson. That acquaintanceship
kept him from joining the dragons
and going to India and spending his
lite in military service, and reserved
for him a pulpit, the influence of which
Tor gospelization will resound for all
time and all eternity.
Why dad not Columbus sink
when in early manhood he was afloat
six miles from the beach with nothing
to sustain him till he could swim to
land but a boats oar? L wonder if
his preservation had anything to do
with America? Had the storm that
diverted the Mayfower from the
mouth of the Hudson for which it
was sailing, and sent it ashore at
Cape Cod, no divine supervision?
Does anarchy rule this world, or God?
Nations also would do we'll to watch
for the finger OF God What does the
cholera scare in America mean? Some
say 1T means that the plague will
sweep our land next summer. do
not believe a word of it. There will
be no cholera here next summer.
Four or five summers ago there were
those who said it would surely be
here the following summer because it
was on the way. But it did not come.
The sanitary precautions established
here will make next summer unusually
healthful. Cholera never starts from
where it stopped the season before,
but always star y in the filth OF Asia,
and It 1T starts next sum-
mer, it will start there again
1T will not start from New York
quarantine. But it is evident to me
that the finger OF God is in this cholera
scare, and that He is pointing this
nation to something higher and better.
1 rejoice that there are MANY en-
couraging signs for our nation, and
one is that this presidential campaign
has 49,
LESS MALIGNITY AND ABUSE
than any presidential campaign since
we have been a nation Turn over
to the pictorial sheets of the presi-
Dental excitements all the way back
and see what contumely Washington
and Jefferson and Madison and Mon
roe and Jackson went through. Now
see the almost entire absence Of that.
The political orators I notice this
year are apt to begin by eulogizing
the honesty and good intentions of the
opposing candidate, and say that he
is better than his party. Instead OF
vitrol, camomile flowers That we
seem to have escaped the degradation
OF the usual quadrennia] biIlingsgate
is an encouraging fact. Perhaps this
betterment may have somewhat re-
suited from the sadness lowering
over the home of one of the candidates,
a sadness in which the whole nation
sympathizes. Perhaps we have been
50 absorbed in paying honors to
Christopher Columbus that we
have forgotten to anathematize the
prominent men OF the present. No
man in this country is fully honored
until he is dead.
But, notice that this finger of God
almost always and in almost every
thing points forward and not back
ward. All the way through the Bible,
the lamb and pigeon on the altar: the
pillar of fire poised above the wider
ness, peace Offering, sin Offering, tres
pass Offering, fingers OF Joseph and
Isaac and Joshua and David and
Isaiah and Micah and Ezekiel, all to-
gether made the one finger Of God
pointing to the human, the divine,
the gracious, the glorious, the omnipo-
tent, the gentle, the pardoning and
suffering and atoning Christ. And
now the same finger of God is point
ing the world upward to the same
Redeemer and forward to the time of
His universal domination.
My friends, I do not know how we
are going to stand i'll mean the full
thrush ofthat splendor. Last sum-
mer saw Moscow, in some respects
the most splendid city under the sun.
The emperor afterward asked me if I
had seen it, for Moscow is the pride
of Russia. I told him yes and that
bad seen Moscow burn. 1 will tell you
what meant. After examining 900
brass canons which were picked out
of the snow after Napoleon retreated
from Moscow, each cannon deeply
cut with the letter On" l assembled a
tower of some $50 feet, just before
sunset, and on each platform there
were bells, large and small and I
climbed up among the bells and then
as l reached the top, all the bells I'M
derneath me- hepan to ring and thew