The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1895-12-12

discouraged, and they rushed up to
the general and said to him: Don't
you see we have a few forces, and
they have SO many more?" and the,
soldiers were affrighted at the small
ness of their number and the greatness
of the enemy. Ambiguous, their COM
mander. Strengthened himself up, and
said, with indignation and vehemence:
How many do you reckon me to be?'
And when we see the vast armies ar
rayed against the cause Of sobriety
1t may sometimes be very discourage
ing, but ask you in making up your
estimate OF the forces Of righteousness
II ask you how many do you reckon
the Lord God Almighty to be? He is
our commander. The Lord Of Hosts
is his name. l have the best authori-
ty for saying that the chariots Of God
are 10000, and the mountains are full
of them.
Have you any doubt about the need
of the Christian religion to purify
and make decent American politics?
At every yearly or quadrennial cleo
ton we have in this country great
Observation-Disclosures of lies,
and they are run day and night, and
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equipped and ready for full sailing.
Large lies and small lies. Lies pri-
waite and lies public and lies prurient
Lies cut bias and lies cut diagonal.
Long-limbed lies, and lies with double
back action. Lies complimentary and
lies defamatory. Lies that some peo-
believe and lies that nobody believes
with h11r 1yn
scales like crocOdiles, and necks as
antelope's. and stlngs like adders.
Lies raw and scalloped and PANIED
and stewed. Crawling lies and jump
tachment screws and ruff1ers and
b1aiders and ready-wound bobbins.
Lies by Christian people who never
by people who always lie, but beat
Who shall have this hemisphere,
Christ or Satan? Who shall have the
shore of her inland seas, the silver
ADDS, the telescopes Of her observa-
tories, the brain of her universities,
the wheat of her prairies, the rice
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beaches-the one reaching from Baf-
fms Bay to Terra del Fuego, and the
other from Boring Straits to Cape
Horn-and all the moral and temporal
and spiritual and everlasting interests
Of population vast beyond all human
computation? Who shall have the
hemisphere? You and I will decide
that, Of help to decide it, by consci-
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maintenance of Christian institutions,
by support of great philanthropies, by
putting body, mind and soul on the
right side Of all moral, religious and
national movements.
One Of the seven wonders Of the
world was the white marble watch
tower of Pharos Of Egypt, Sostratus,
the architect and sculptor, after build
ing that watch-tower, cut his name on
it. Then he covered it with plaster,
and to please the king, he put the
monarch's name on the outside Of
the plastering; and the storms beat
and the seas dashed their fury, and
they washed off the plastering, and
they washed it out, and they washed
it down, but the name of Soltratus
was deep cut in the imperishable rock
So across the face of this nation there
have been a great many names writ
ten, across our finances, across our
religions, names worthy of remem-
brance, names written on the architec-
ture of our churches and our schools
and our asylums and our homes Of
mercy; but God is the architect of
this continent, and he was the sculp.
tor of all it's grandeurs; and long afte:'
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tempests of centu@;es-an other names
shall be obliterated, the divine sigma
ture and divine name will be brighter
by, and the world shall see that the
God who made this continent has re-
deemed it by his grace from all it's
sorrows and from all it's crimes.
Have you faith in such thing as
that? After all the chariots have
been unwheeled, and after all the war
chargers have been crippled, the char
lots which Elisha saw on the morning
Of his peril will roll on in triumph,
followed by all the armies of heaven
on white horses. God could do it
without us, but he will not. The weak
est of us, the faintest of us, the small
est-brained of us, shall have a part in
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name, like the name Of Sostratus, cut
| in imperishable rock and conspicuous
for centuries, but we shall be remem
bered in better place than that,
even in the heart. of him who came
to redeem us and to redeem the world,
and our names will be seen close to
the signature of his wound, for, as to-
day he throws out his arms to us, he
says: Behold, I have craven thee
on the palms of my hand" ,.-s
BY the mightiest Of all agencies, the
potency Of prayer, l beg you seek our
national welfare. Some time ago there
were 100000 letters in the dead-letter
post office in this city-letters that lost
their way-but not one prayer ever
directed to heart Of God miscarried.
The way is all clear for the ascent of
your supplications heavenward in be-
half of this nation. Before the postal
communication was so easy, and long
ago, on a rock 100 feet high, on the
coast of England, there was a barrel
fastened to a post, and in great letters
on the side Of the rock, so it could
be seen far out at sea, were the words
''POst Office: and when ShiDS came