The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1892-12-08

John Howard sit down on the other
side9No embarrassment. What though.
Charlotte Elizabeth sit down on one.
side and Hannah More sit down on.
the other side? No embarrassment.
a monarch yourself, why be embarras-
sed among monarchs? A songster your
self, why be embarrassed among:
glorified songstels? Go in and dine.
COMING IN IN SEASON.
All the shocks of corn are coming in
IN their season. Oh, yes, in their sea-
son. Not one OF you having died too
soon, or having died too late, or hay-
Ing died at haphazard. Planted at
Just the right time, ploWed at lust the
right time. Cut down at just the right
time. Husked at just the right time.
Garnered ut just the right time. Com.
ing in in your season. Oh, I wish that
the two billion bushels Of corn now in
the fields or on their way to the sea-.
board might be a type of the grand
yield of honor and glory and immor-
tally, when all the shocks come in.
! do not know how you are consti-
tuted, but am so constituted that
there is nothing that so awakens re-
miniscences in me as the odors of
corn field when [ cross it at the time
OF year after the corn has been cut
and 1T stands in shocks. And so I
have thought it might be practically
useful for us to-day to cross the
corn field, and I have thought, per-
haps, there might be some reminis-
cence reused in our soul that might be
salutary and might be saving. In
n r,nivp, II Il. -
house in the city was being repaired,
took house in the country for tenn
porary residence, and she brought out
Ter great array of jewels to show a.
friend who wished to see them. One
night, after displaying these Jewels,
and leaving them on the table, and ali
her friends had gone, and the servants
mad gone-one summer night-she sat
thinking and looking into a mirror
just in front of her chair,
when she saw in that mirror.
the face Of robber looking in at the
window behind her and gazing at
those jewels. She was in great fright,
but sat still, and hardly knowing
why she did so she began to sing an.
old nursery song, her fears making the,
pathos OF the song more telling.
Suddenly she noticed, while looking at
the mirror, That the robbers face had
gone from the window, and it did not
come back. A few days after,
the prima donna received letter
from the robber saying: II heard
that the jewels were to be out.
that night, and I came to take them
at whatever hazard; but when Iheard
you sing that nursery song with which,
my mother SO often sang me to sleep,
| could not stand it and 1 fled, and [
have resolved upon new and honest
life" 0, my friends, there are Jewels
in peril richer than those which lay
upon that table that night. They are.
Jewels of the immortal soul. Would
God that some song rolling up out of
the deserted nursery of your child
hood, or some song rolling up out of:
the corn fields, the song OF the huskers.,
twenty or forty years ago, mightiturn
all our feet out of the paths OF sin in
to the paths OF righteousness, Would
God that those memories waited in
on odor or song might start up this
moment with swift feet toward that :.
blessed place where SO. many OF our
loved ones have already preceded MS,
cas- a shock OF corn cometh in in his;
season." ST.. .,,--. .- -.