The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1895-06-13

him again." and the third suit OF
clothes was provided him. Thereafter
he came until he was converted, and
joined the church, and started for the
Gospel ministry, and became Il foreign
missionary, preaching and translatins
Scriptures. Who was the boy called
Bob? The illuStriOuS DR.. Robert Nor
rison, great on earth and greater in
heaven. Who his teacher was, l know
not, but she used the, opportunity
opened, and great has been her re-
ward. You may not be able to load an
Armstrong gun; you may not be able
to hurl Il HOtchkiss shell; you Iaay not
be able to shoulder a glittering mus
ket, but use anything you can lay your
hands on. Try a blacksmith's hammer,
or merchants yardsticl, or a ma
sons trOWel, or 4 carpenters plane, or
a housewives broom, or farmers OK
| goau. One of the surprises Of heaven
will be what grand results came from
how simple means. Matthias Joyce,
the vile man, became a great apostle
| Of righteousness, not from hearing
John Wesley preach, but from seeing
| him kiss little child on the pulpit
| stairs.
Again, my subject springs upon us
the thought that In calculating the
prospects of religious attempt.We must
take omnipOtence, and Omniscience
and omnipresence, and all the other at
tributes of God into the calculation.
Whom do you see on that plowed field
of my text? One nearer says, 81 see
Shamgar." Another nearer says, II
see six hundred Philistines." My
he's: Won hoyo ,niSSo1 tla oh;of NAY.
sonage on that battlefield of plowcd
ground. l also see Shamgar and six
hundred Philistines, but more than all,
and mightier than all, and more over
Whelming than all. l see God. Sham
gar with his unaided arm, however
muscular, and with that humble in
strument made fer agricultural par
poses, and never constructed for COM
bat, could not have wrought such vic
tory. 1t was Omnipotence above, and
beneath, and back of, and at the point
OF the OK goad. Before that battle was
over, the plowman realized this, and
Ill the six hundred I'hilistines realized
1T. and all who visited the battlefield
afterWard appreciated it. I want in
heaven to hear the story, for it can
never be fully told on earth-perhaDs
some day may be set apart for the re-
hearsal, while all heaven listens-the
story of how God blessed awkward
and humble instrumentalities. MANY
an evangelist has come into a town
given up to WOrldliness. The pastors
say to the evangelist, eve are glad
you have come, but it is a hard field.
and we feel sorry for you. The mem
bers OF our churches play progressive
euchre, and so to the theater, and bet
at the horse races, and gayety and
lashlon have taken possession of the
town. We have advertised your meet
lnSs' but are not very hopeful. God
bless YOU" This evangelist takes his
place on platform or pulpit He never
graduated at college, and there are be-
fore him twenty graduates of the best
universities. He never took one lesson
IN elOcutlOn- and there are before him
twenty trained orators. Many of the
iaules present are graduates Of the
nlShest female Seminares, and one
sup III grammar or one misprOnuncia-
tion, VIII result in suppressed giggle.
Ana the general chill that peryades
Tue mouse, the unpretending evangel-
lst opens his Bible and takes for his
text, Lord, that my eyes may be
opened" Opera glasses in the gallery
curlously scrutinizing the speaker. He
tells IN plain way the story of the
Dlnd man, tells two or three touching
anecdotes and the general chill gives
way before a strange warmth. A
classical nearer who took the first
honor at Yale, and who is q prince of
properties, finds his spectacles be-
coming dim with moisture SUGGEST
i've of tears. A worldly mother who
has been bringing up her sons and
| daughters in utter goodness puts her
handkerchief to her eyes and begins
| to weep. Highly educated men who
came to crticise and pick to pieces.
and find fault, how on their gold
headed canes. What is that sound un-
Ger the gallery? 1t is a sob, and sobs
are catching; and all along the wall.
and all up and down the audience.
there is deep emotion, SO that when at
the close of the service anxious souls
are invited to special seats, or the in
quiry room, they come up by scores
and kneel and repent and rise up par
| uOned; the whole town is shaken and
places of evil amusement are sparselv
attended, and rum holes lose their pat
rons, and the churches are thronged
and the whole community is cleansed
and elevated and rejoiced. What
power did the evangelist bring to bear
to capture that town for righteous
ness? Not one brilliant epigram did
he utter. Not one graceful gesture
did he make. Not one rhetorical eli.
max did he pile up. But there was
something about him that people had
not taken in the estimate when thew
prophesied the failure of that work
They had not taken into calculation
the omnipotence of the Holy Ghost
1t was not the flash of a Damascus
blade. 1t was God before and behind
and all around the ox-goad. Wher
people say that crime will triumph
and the world will never be converted
because of the seeming insufficienc,
OF the means employed, they coun
the six hundred armed Philistines OF
one side and Shamgar, the farmer
aWkWardly equipped, on the othe1
side, not realizing that the chariots O.
God are twenty thousand and that al
heaven, cherubic, seraphic, archan
gel1c, deific, is on what otherwis,
would be the weak side. Napoleon
the author of the saying, "God is O,
the side Of the heaviest artillery.
lived to find out his mistake; for a
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