The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1892-03-10

and to see the royalty Of Christ, and
TN, the wealth OF this banquet, and the
lllxurlance OF his attendants, and the
loneliness OF his face and theioy OF his
service, ne exclains with PRAYERS. with
tears, with signs, with trillmnhs.
'"Ihe half-the half was not told mep'
1T IS TIE OLD STORY,
Everybody tells it. Isaiah told s.
John told it, Paul told il. EzekieI
told it, Luther told it, Calvin told +
John Milton told it-everybody tells
it; and yet-and yet when the mid.
night shall fly the hills, and Christ
shall marshal his great army. and
China. dashing her idols into the cast
shall hear the voice of God and wheel
into line; and India, destroying her
Juggernaut and snatching up her little
children from the Ganges, shall hear
the voice Of God and wheel into line:
and vine-covered Italy, and all the
nations of the earth shall hear the
voice of God and fall into line: then
the church which has been toiling and
struggling through the centuries, robed
and garlanded like a. bride adorned
tor her husband, shall put aside her
veil and look up into the face of her
Lord and King and say: "The half
the half was not told mel" E##
Well, there is coming q greater sur
prise to every Christian-a greater
surprise than anything ! have de-
plcted. Heaven is an old story. Ev-
erybody talks about it. There ia
hardly hymn in the hymn book that
does not refer to it. Children read
about it IN Sabbath school book.
Aged men put on their spectacles to
study it. We say it is harbor from
the storm. We call it our home. We
say 1T Is a. house of many mansions.
we weave together all sweet, beauti-
full, delicate,
EXHILARANT WORDS;
we weave them into letters, and then
we spell it. out in rose and lily and
amaranth. And yet that place is 60
ing to be surprise to the most intel
llgent Christian. Like the Queen of
Sheba, the report has come to US from
tar country, and many OF us have
started. 1t is a desert march but we
urge on the camel. What though our
feet be blistered on the way? We are
Fastening to the palace. We take all
our loves and hopes and Christian
ambition, as frankincense and myrrh
and cassia to the great King. We
must not halt. The night is coming
on and it is not safe out here in the
desert. Urge on the camels. see the
domes against the sky, and the houses
of Lebanon, and the temples and the
gardens. See the fountains dance in
the sun and the gates flash as they
open to let in the poor pilgrims. ~
Send the word up to the palace that
we are coming, and that we are weary
OF the march of the desert. The King
will come and say: "Welcome to the
palace; battle in these waters, incline
on these banks. Take this cinnamon
and frankincense and myrrh and put
it upon a censor and swing it before
the altar" And yet, my friends, when
heaven bursts upon us it will be a.
greater surprise than that-Jesus on
the throne and we made like him! All
our Christian friends surrounding US
in glory! All our sorrows and tears
and sins gone by forever! The thous-
ands and thousands, the one hundred
and forty and four thousand, theg great
multitudes that no man can number.
will cry, world without end: "The half
the half was not told usp'