The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1896-12-24
IALN oE's SERMON.

Kings hess XIV IVY 8. S g
4 In the palace Of wicked. Ieroboam
here is a sick child, very sick child.
i Medicines have failed; skill is exhaust
ed ~ Dung A bijah, the prince, has
4 n wed long enough to become very pop
4 slllar, and yet he must die unless some
i Hfai aid be afforded. Death
comes up the broad stairs of the palace
and swings back the door of the sick
4 8a'eoms OF royalty, and stands looking at
the wing prince With the dart up-
4 lifted. Wicked Jeroboam knows that
4 ne has no right to ask anything of the
4 Lord in the way Of kindness. He
I knows that his pra yers would not be
answered, and so hessends his wife on
the delicate and tender mission to the
prophet Of the Lord in Shiloh. Put
4 ting aside her royal attire she puts
Oh the garb Of a peasant woman and
starts on the road. Instead of carry
ing gold and gems, as she might have
carried from the palace, she carries
only those gifts which seem to indi-
l cate that she belongs to the peasantry
\ "a few loaves of bread and a few
crac ll 6 and a cruise of honey. Yon-
der she goes, hooded and yelled, the
greatest lady in all the kingdom, vet
Il passing unobserYed. No one that
meets her on the highway has any
Il idea that she is the first lady in ali the
land. She is a queen in disguise The
i factEls that WhensPeter the Great was
4 Working in the dry docks Of Saardam
Il the sailors hat and the shipwright's
i axEgaye him no more thorough disguise
4 than the garb of the peasant woman
4 gave to the queen Of Tirzah But the
prophet Of the Lord saw the deceit.
4 Although his physical eyesiglt had
failed he was diyinely Illuminated, and
\ at one glance looked through the impo-
J! siticn. and he cried out, Come in. thou
! wife of Jeroboam. Why feignest thou
thyself to. be another? 1 have evil
tidings for thee. Get thee back. to thy
4 house. and when thy feet touch the
gate. of the city the child shall die. 2
1 She had a right to ask for the recovery
4 of her son; she had no right to practice
1 an imposition. Broken hearted now.
she started on the way, the tears fall
i ing on the dust of the road all the way
4 from Shiloh to Tirzah Broken hearted
4 now, she is not careful any more to
4 hide her queenly gait and manner
4 I1'ue to the prophecy, the moment her
!. feet touch the gate of the city the
child dies. AS she goes in the soul of
] the child goes out. The cry in the pal
ace is joined by the lamenta tons Of a
4 nation and as they carry good Abijah
to his grave the air is filed with the
Voice of eulogy of an afflicted king
i dom.
4 It is for no insignificant purpose that
present you the thrilling story of the
text. In the first place, / learn that
Wickedness involves others, trying to
make them it's dupes, it's allies and its
scapegoats. Jeroboam proposed to
hocdWink the Lords prophet. How did
he do it? Did lie go and do the work
himself? No. He sent his wife to do
it. Hers the peril Of exposure, hers
the fatigue of the way, hers the execu-
j ton of the plot. His nothing In
EQUITY is a brag, but it is a great cow
ard. 1t lays the plan, gets some one
else to execute it-puts down the gum
powder train, gets some one else to
touch it off-contriyes mischief, gets
some one else to work it; starts lie,
/ gets some one else to circulate it. In
4 nearly all the great crimes of the
1 ned the arson the murder, the theft,
the fraud, go free, while those who
were decOyed and cheated and hood
! winked into the conspiracy c1ank the
chain and mount the gallows. Aaron
Burr. with heart filled with impurity
and ambition, plots for the overthrow
Of the United States government and
i GETS off with few threats and little
censure, while Blennerhassett, the
learned Blennerhessett. the sweet
i tempered Rlennerhessett, is decoyed by
| him from the orchards and the labora-
/ tories, and the gardens, and the home
on the bank of the Ohio river, and his
/ fortunes are scattered, and he is
thrown into prison, and his family,
broug up in luxury, is turned QUITO
/ die. Accountable Aaron Burr has it
comparatively easy; sweet-tempered
Rlennerhassett has it hard Benedict
i Arnold proposed to sell out the forts Of
l the United States, to surrender the
Revolutionary army and to destroy the
4 United States government. He gets off
4 with his pockets full Of pounds sterl-
ing, while Maj. Andre, the brave and
brilliant. is decoyed into the conspir-.
acy, and suffers OH the gibbet on the
banks of the Hudson; so that even the
litera ture-the marble tablature that.
commemorated that event has been
blasted by midnight desperadoes. Ben
edict Arnold has it easy; Maj. Andre
has it hard. II have noticed that nine
tenths of those who suffer for crimes
are merely the satellites Of some great
villains. Ignominious fraud is a Jug
1 gler which by sleight-of hand and Leg
erdemain makes the gold that it stole