The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1892-03-24

world wants. Economic in eyery-
thing but sleep. William H. Seward,
uhe renowned secretary of state, in
the midst of his overmastering tolls
!onged Tor the capacity to rest, writ
ing IN his memorandum book: II
have never found but one invaluable
recelpe Tor having a good nights rest,
ana that is to have been restless and
sleepless the night before" One of
Our natural sins is robbery of sleep.
walter Scott was so urgent about this
duty, OF slumber that, when arriving
at a hotel where there was noroomto
sleep In, except that in which there
was a corpse, inquired if the deceased
had died Of a contagious disease and
when assured that he had not, took
theother bed il the room and fell into
protoundest slumber. Those of small
endurance most certainly require rest
n even the giant needs an iron bed
stead.
Notice, furthermore, that Gods
people on the way to Canaan need
not be surprised if they confront some
sort OF q giant. Had not the Israel
ltlsh host had trouble enough al
ready? No! Red Sea not enough.
Water famine not enough. OPPOSE
ton by enemies of ordinary stature
not enough. They must meet Og, tho
giant tof the iron bedstead. Not one
OF you but meets a giant who would
ike to hew you in twain. Higher than
eleven feet this Og darkens the sky
and the rattle Of his buckler stuns
the ear But, you IRE going to get the
victory, as did the Israelites.
Brethren, 1 have made up nv mind
that we will have to fight all the way
up to the promised land. I used to
think that after a while I would get
into a time where it would be
SMOOTH AND EASY,
but the time does not come, and it
will never come in this world. By the
time King Og is used up so that he
cannot get into his iron bedstead,
some other giant Of opposition looms
up to dispute our way. Let us stop
looking for an easy time and make it
thirty years OF war, or sixty years.
war, or a hundred years war, if we
live SO long.
Do you know the name of the big
gest giant that you a possibly meet
and you will meet him? He is not
IL feet high, but 100 feet high. His
bedstead is as long as the continent.
His name is Doubt. His common food
is infdel books and sceptical lectures
and ministers who donot know wheth-
er the Bible is inspired at all or in
spired in spots, and Christians who
are more infdel than Christian. You
will never reach the promised land I'M
less you Stay that giant. Kill Doubt
or Doubt will kill you.
Another impression from my SUBJ
!ect. The march OF the church cannot
be impeded by gigantic opposition.
That lsraelitish host led on by Moses
was the church, and when Og, the
giant, him of the iron bedstead, came
out against him with another host-a
fresh host against one that seemed
worn out-things must have looked
bad for. Israel. No account is given
of THE bedstead of Moses, except that
one in which he first slept-the cradle
of aquatic vegetation on the Nile,
where the wife Of ~Chenephres, the king,
found the floating babe and, having
no child of her own: adopted him.
Moses of ordinary size against Og of
extraordinary dimensions, Besides
that
OG WAS BACKED UP
by go fortified cities. Moses was
backed up seemingly by nothing but
the desert that had worm him and his
army into a group of undisciplined
and exhausted ~stragglers. But the
Israelites triumphed. If you spell the
name OF Og backward youturn it into
the word "Go," and Og was turned
backward and made to go. With Og's
downfall all the so cities surrendered.
Nothing wasleft ofthe giant except his
iron bedstead, which was kept in a
museum at Rabbath to show how tall
and stout he once was. So shall the
last giant otopposition in the church's
march succumb.
Whatever your work and wherever
your work for God-forward! You in
your way and I in my way. With
holy pluck fight on with something Of
the strength of Thomas Troubridge,
who at Hermann had one leg shot of,
and the foot of the other leg and when
they proposed to carry him off the
field, replied: "No I do not move I'M
til the battle is won." Whatever be
the rocking OF the Church or State,
have the calmness of the sged
woman in an earthquake that
frightened everybody else, and
who, when asked if she was not
afraid, said: "No, I am glad that I
have a God who can shake the world"
Whether your work be to teach a
Sabbath class, or nurse an invalid, or
reform q wanderer, or print a tract,
or train q household, or bear the
q~uerulousness of senility, or cheer the
disheartened or lead a soul to Christ
know that by fidelity you may help
hasten the time when the world shall be
showed under with white lily and in
carnadined with red rose. And now,
I bargain with you that we will come
back some day from our superstellar
abode, to see how the world looks
when it shall be fully emparadised-
it's last tear wept, it's last wound heal
ed, it's last shacle broken, it's. last de-
sert gardenized. it's last giant of in
iquity decapitated. And when we
land, may it be somewhere near this
spot of earth where we have together
toiled and struggled for the kingdom
Of God, and may it be about this
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