The Princeton union., 1892-09-29

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Christian eloquence. Hogarth, en-
craving, pewter pots for a living, tolls
on until he reaches the palace Of world
renowned art. And God hath de-
clded that though you may be weak
OF arm, and slow of tongue, and be
struck through with q great many
mental and mortal deficits, by his al
mlgnty grace you shall yet arrive in
the kl,ng's palace-not such g. one as
IS spoken of in the text-not one of
marble-not one adorned with pill
lars OF alabaster and thrones of
ivory, and flagons OF FURNISHED gold
put palace in which God is the king
ana the angels of Heaven are CUP
bearers. The spider crawling up the
wall or Solomon's palace was not
worth looking after or con-
the fact that We, who "aSa are
worms OF the dust, may at last as
cend into the palace OF the King I'M
mortal: By the grace of God may we
all reach it.
PALACE MEANS
splendor of apartments. Now, I do
not know where heaven is, and I do
not know how it looks, but, if our
bodies are to be ..resurrected in the
last day, | think heaven must have
q material splendor as we'll as q spirit
ual grandeur. Oh, what grandeur of
apartments when that Divine Hand
which plunges the sea into blue and
the foliage into green, and sets the
sunset on fire, shall gather all the
beautiful colors of the earth around
his throne, and when that arm which
lifted the pillars of Alpine rock, and
bent the arch of the sky, shall raise
before our soul the eternal architec-
ture, and that hand which hung with
loops of fire the curtains of morning
shall prepare the upholstery of our
king gly residence!
A palace means splendor cfbanquet.
There will be no common ware on
that table. There will be no unskill-
ed musicians at that entertainment.
There will be no scanty supply of
fruit or beverage. There have
BEEN BANQUETs SPREAD
that cost a million of dollars each;
but who can tell the untold wealth of
that banquet? lido not know whether
Johns description of it is literal or
tigurative: A great many wise people
tell me it is figurative; but prove it.
do not know but that it may be lit
eral. do not know but that there
may be real fruits plucked from the
tree of life. do not know but that
Christ referred to the real juice of the
grape when he said that we
should drink new wine in our
Fathers Kingdom, but not the in
toxicating stuff of this worlds brew
ing. l do not say it is so; but l have
as much right for thinkingit so asyou
have for thinking the other way. At
any rate it will be a glorious ban
quet. Hark! the chariots rumbling
in the distance. I really believe the
guests are coming now. The gates
swing open, the guests dismount, the
palace is filling, and all the chalices
flashing with pearl and amethyst and
carbuncle are lifted to the lips of the
myriad banqueters, while standing in
robes of snowy white they drink to
the honor of our glorious King. "Oh,"
you say, "that is too grand a place
for you and me-" No, it is not. If a.
spider, according to the text, would
crawl up on the wall of Solomon's
palace, shall not our poor souls,
through the blood of Christ, mount
up from the depths OF their sin and
shame and finally reach the palace of
the eternal King? "Where sin
abounded, grace shall much more
abound, that whereas sin reigned unto
death, even so may grace reign through
Righteousness unto eternal life BY
Jesus Christ, our Lord" One flash
OF that coming glory
OBL1TERATES THE SEPULCHRE.
Well, there are Il great many people
who look down into the grave as g.
great cavern. They think it is q thous-
and miles subterraneous, and all the
echoes seem to be the voices of des-
pair, and the cascades seem to be the
falling tears that always fall, and the
gloom of earth seems coming up in
stalagmite, and the gloom of the eternal
world seems descending in the stalac-
tite, making pillars of indescribable
horror. The grave is no such place
to me, thank God! Our Divine Guide
takes us down into the great caverns,
and we have the lamp to our feet and
the light to our path and all the ech-
oes in the riffs ofthe rock are anthems,
and all the falling waters are fount-
aims of salvation: and, after while
we look up and behold! the cavern of
the tomb has become u kings star
chamber. And, while we are looking
at the pomp Of it, an everlasting
morning seems to arise, and all the
tears OF earth crystalline into stalag-
mite, rising up in O. pillar on the one
side and all the plOries of heaven
seem to be descending in q stalactite.
making a pillar on the other side, and
you rush against the gate that swings
between the two pillars, and as that
gate flashes open, you find it is one of
the twelve gates which are twelve
pearls. Blessed be God, that through
the Gospel, the mammoth cave OF the
sepulchre has become the illumined
star chamber Of the King! Oh, the
palaces! i! The eternal palaces! The
Kings palaces! ...
Some Odities OF the Calendar.