The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1892-10-13

! church, for they know that we are
trying to take them. II YOU can
throw you line out into the world
where they are not expecting you they
Will pc captured. Is it fair to take
men by such stratagem? Yes. I
would like to cheat 5000 souls into
the kingdom.
! THE WHOLE POLICY
OF the Church of God is to be changed.
Instead of chiefly looking after the few
who have become Christians, our
CHIEF efforts will be those outside. If
after man is converted he cannot
take care OF himself, I am not going
to take care OF him. If he thinks
that | am going to stand and pat him
on the back, and feed him out of an
elegant spoon, and watch him so that
ne does not get into draught of
! Worldliness, he is much mistaken. We
nave IN our churches a. great mass OF
helpless, lnane professors, who are
dong nothing for themselves or for
others, who want us to stop and
nurse them! They are so troubled
with doubt as to whether they are
Christians or not. The doubt is settl-
ed. They are not Christians. The
best we can dc with these fish is to
throw them back into the stream and
60 alter them again with the Gospel
net.
FOR THE UNFORGIvEN.
Inc text is appropriate to the un-
forgiven: Every sinner would come
to God if he thought that he might
come just as he is. People talk as
though the pardon OF God were a mar
row river like the Kennebec or the
Thames, and that their sin draws too
much water to enter it. No; it is not
a river, nor bay, but a sea. should
like to persuade you to launch out in
to the great deep Of Gods mercy.
The Bibles promises join hands, and
the circle they will make compass all
your sins, and all your temptations,
and all your sorrows. The round ta-
bic of King Arthur and his knights
had room for only 13 banqueters, but
the round table of God supply is
large enough for all the present in
habltants of earth and heaven to sit
at, andf for the still mightier popula-
lions that are yet to be.
10 not sail cOastWise along your
old habits and old sins. Keep clear
OF the shore. Go out where the water
IS deepest Oh, for the mid-sea of Gods
mercy! "Be it known unto you, men
and brethren, that through this man
IS preached unto you forgiveness of
slns.' preach it with as much con-
fidence to the 8O-year-old cransgressor
as to the maiden. Though your sins
were blood-red, they shall be snow
white. The more ragged the prodigal,
the more compassionate the father.
Do you say that you are too bad?
The hlghwater mark Of Gods pardon
is higher than
ALL YOUR TRANSGRESSIONs.
s"The blood of Jesus Christ cleanseth
from all SIM" Do you say that your
heart is hard? Suppose it were ten
times harder. Do you say that your
lniquity is long continued? Suppose
it were ten times longer. Do YOU saw
that your crimes are black? Suppose
that they were ten times blacker. Is
there any lion that this Samson can
not slay? Is there any fortress that
this Conquerer cannot take? Is there
any sin this Redeemer cannot pardon?
1t is said. that when Cnarlemagnes
most was overpowered by the three
armies OF the Saracens in the pass OF
Roncesvalles, his warrior, Roland, in
terrible earnestness, seized a trumpet,
and blew it with such terrific strength
that the opposing army reeled back
with terror; but at the third blast Of
the trumpet it broke in two. Tsee
your soul fiercely assailed by all the
powers OF earth and hell. put the
mlghtier trumpet OF the Gospel to
my lips, and [ blow it three times.
Blast the frst-"W whatsoever will,
let him come" Blast the second
"Seek ye the Lord while he may be
found. Blast the third-''Now is the
accepted time; now is the day of sal
vation." Does not the host of your
sins fall back? But the trumpet does
not, like that Of Roland, breakin two.
AS it was handed down to us from the
lips OF our fathers, we hand it down
to the lips of our children, and tell
them to sound it when we are dead,
that all the generations of men may
know that our God is a pardoning
Coda sympathetic Coda loving
God; and that more to him than the
anthems OF Heaven, more to him
than the throne on which he sits, more
to him than are the temples of celes-
tial worship, is the Joy Of seeing the
wanderer putting his hand on the
door-latch of his Fathers house.
Hear it, all We nationsl Bread for the
worst hunger. Medicine for the worst
sickness. Light for the thickest dark
ness. Harbor for the worst storm.
Drinking From Lad'ys Shoe.
About town a century ago it was no
uncommon practice on the part of the
'fat men" to drink bumpers to the
health of a lady out of her shoe. The
Earl OF Cork, in an amusing paner in the