The Princeton union., 1892-05-19

MS the provision Of the kings table,
we must be willing to refuse them, ii
nothing be left us but plain pulse. Oh,
how we want the faith and courage 81
a Daniel and a Paul, but how we
dread the hot atmosphere OF trial, in
| which their grace ripened,
| Again let the story OF Daniel teach
us the beauty Of that youthful char.
acter which remains
UNBLEAIIsHED AND UPRIGHT
when away from home. Had Daniel,
on arriving in Babylon, plunged into
every excess, his friends in Jerusalem
would never have heard Of it. His
dissipation and renunciation of reli-
gion would not have cast one sorrow
on the family hearth where he had
lived or on the old family Bible which
he used to read. But, though far
away from home, he knew that Gods
eye watched him and that was enough.
1t IS not every young man who main
talns the same character when absent
that was maintained at home. I
probably address young men now,
distant from their fathers house, and
others swho, still under the parental
roof, look forward to time when
they will depart alone to conflict with
the world and among strangers be
called to build up characters for them
selves: Happy for you, oh young
man if you shall, like Joseph, be the
same when living with wicked Pharaoh
as with Dious Jacob, or Daniel as pure
IN Babylon as in Jerusalem. There
IS no passage in q mans life of more
thrilling interest than the day in which
he leaves home and goes off TO seek his
fortune. The father, through the in
terceding of metropolitan friends,
has secured the son a place in
some bank or store Or office School
mates on the night before his depar-,
ture come to take their farewell OF the
young adventurer. That morning he
takes q last walk around the old place.
and going past some loved spot, a sly
tear may start, but no one sees it.
The trunk is on the carriage, and after
a warm good-by, away they speed
over the hills. Set down amid excite
ments and among companions not
over scrupulous as to their words or
deeds, temptations troop around the
stranger. The morning comes, but no
family altar, and the Sabbath, but no
real quiet, and perhaps at the sane
tuary the faces are all strange and no
one cares whether he goes to church
or whether he does not go. Long win
ter evenings arrive, and how shall they
be spent? On his way home from his
place OF business he saw flaming pla-
cards announcing rare performances
and that this was positively the last
night: At the door Of his cherries
boarding house, no one greets him,
and the evening meal is insipid, for
no one cares whether he eats or does
not eat. The room in the third story
that evening seems doleful and repell-
| Ing. A book snatched from the stand
proves to be dull, for no sister is there
to look over with him. In despair
I HE RUsHEs OUT RECKLESS.
as to where he goes if only he can see
something that will make him stop
thinking That night may be the
turning point in his history. Once
within the fatal circle OF sin and the
soul has no power to repel it. Ont that
dark sea he is launched, where the
glearn OF joy is only the flash of the
pit and the roar OF laughter the creak-
ing OF the gates of the lost.
In many a country churchyard is
nowgthe grave of some youthful spirit
that went away 1.-the and bounding,
but came home diseased and crushed
and blasted to disgrace the sepulchre
OF his fathers. Yet this exodus must
be made. The Lord stretch forth his
arms for the deliverance of those
Daniels away down in Babylon.
Wherever your lot may be cast-in
far inland town or in some great sea-
port-maintain in your absence the
same principles of morals and relig-
ION which may have been instilled by,
parental solicitude. And while YOU;
may feel in your heart and life the
advantages Of early religious culture,
forget not those to whom you are
chiefly indebted. and pray that as age
comes upon them and the night Of
death begins to fall on their pathway.
the hope OF heaven may beam through
the darkness, lustrous and steady as
the evening star.