The Princeton union., 1896-07-09

sItalian-top tables, and chased ice
II coolers, and IN the strychnine, and
1 the logWood, and the tartaric acid.
and the nux vomica, that go to make
up our pure American drinks. I
/ looked with wondering eyes on the
Heidelberg tun." It is the great
liquor vat Of Germany, which is said
4 to hold 800 hogsheads of wine, and
only three times in a hundred years
It has been filled. But, as stood and
looked at it, said to myself, s.That
IS nothing-So0 hogsheads. Why, our
|sAmerican vat holds 2,5OO,00O barrels
Of strong drinks, and We keep 200
/ 600 men with nothing to do but to
see that it is filled' Oh! to attack
this great monster of intemperance,
! and the kindred monsters of fraud
and uncleanness requires you to rally
all your Christian courage. Through
the press, through the pulpit, through
the platform, you must assault it..
Would to God that all our American
Christians would band together, not.
for crack-brained fanaticism, but for
holy Christian reform. ! think it was
in 1913 that there went out from
Lucknow India, under. the, sovereign,
the greatest hunting party that was
ever projected. There. We're 10000
armed men in that party: There We're,
camels and horses and Elephants On
some princes rode, and, royal ladies,
under exquisite housings, and 500
coolies waited upon the train, and the
desolate places Of India We're invaded
by this excursion, and the rhinoceros,
the deer and the elephant fell under
the stroke of sabre and bullet. After
awhile the party brought back trophies
worth 10000 rupees, having left the
wilderness Of India CHASTITY with the
slain bodies of wild beasts. Would
to God that instead of here and there
q straggler going out to. fight these
great monsters of iniquity in our
country, the million membership Of
our churches would band together
and hew in twain these great crimes
that make the, land frightful with
their roar, and are fattening upon the
bodies and souls Of immortal sin!
Who is ready for such a party as
that? Who will be mighty hunter
for the Lord?
remark, again, if you want to be
successful in spiritual archery, you
need not only bring down the game,
but bring it in. I think one of the
most beautiful pictures Of Thorwald-
sen is his "Autumn" 1t represents
sportsman coming home and stand
ing under a grapevine. He has a
staff over his shoulder, and on the
other end of that staff are hung q
rabbit and a brace of BIRDS. Every
hunter brings home the game. NO
one would think of bringing down a
reindeer or whipping up stream for
trout, and letting them lie in the
woods At eventide the camp adorned
with the treasures of the forest
beak, and fin, and antler. If you go
out to hunt for immortal souls, not
only bring them down under the
arrow of the Gospel, but bring them
into the church of God, the encamp-
ment we have pitched this side of
the Skies Fetch them in; do not let!
them lie out in the open field. They
need our prayers and sympathies and
help. That is the meaning of the
Church of God-help. O., We hunters
for the Lord, not only bring down
the game, but bring it in.
If Mithridates liked hunting so well
that for seven years he never went
indoors, what enthusiasm ought we
to have who are hunting for immortal
souls! If Domitianus practiced arch
cry until he could stand a boy down
in the Roman anphitheater, with al
then the king could shoot an arrow
between the fingers wit ous. W wouIdinS
them, to what drill and what practice
ought not We 10 subject ourselves ii
order tC become spir lual arcnsrs and
mighty hunters before the Lort.:.'
But let me say, You will never work
any better than you Tral. The OLD
archerS took the bow, Put ono end Of
il down beside Ctla foot, elevated the
CHER end. and it WAS the rrle that
the bow should " Just ,he size Of
the archer; if it were just his size, then
he would go ,n;o the l,;ttle with con-
1idence. Let me 81; tEat youc power,
to project good in h: wDr.d VIII cor
respond exactly to your own spiritual
stature. In other words, the first
thing in preparation for Christian
work is personal conservation.
OH for closer walk with God,
A calm and heavenly frame,
A light to shine upon theroad
That leads me to the lamb.
. am sure that there are some here
who at some time have been hit by
the Gospel arrow. You felt the wOund
of that conviction, and you plunged
into the world deeper; just as the,
stag, when the hounds are, after it,.
plunges into Scroon lake, expecting in3
that way to escape. Jesus Christ is,
on our track today, impenitent mani
not in wrath, but in mercy. @ yu
chased and painting. souls! here is, the
stream of Gods mercy and salvation,
where you may cool your thirst! Ston
that chase of sin to-day. By the red
fountain that leaped from tie heart
Of my Lord, I bid you, STOP. Is, therih
in all this house anyone who, can re-
fuse the offer that comes; from thl
heart Of the dying Son of GodA Why,
do you know that there are, in thl
banished world, souls that, for thak
offer you get today, woulM fling, the
crown of the universe ait your feet,
if they possessed it? But they went
out on, the mountains, the, stonml took
them, and they died..
4 There is in a forest in Germany a
place they call! the ..deer. leap1two
crags about eighteen feet apart, be-
tween them a fearful chasm. This
is called the 'sdeep leap" because once
a hunter was on the track of a deer;
1T came to one, Of these crags;, there
was no oSea no, FIR IN from tf1o r,11rS,li+ -