The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1896-10-15
TALMH|'eE's SERMON.
Rejoice because your names are
written in heaven Luke x, 20.

ing, like the science of acoustics, is in
a very unsatisfactory state. While
constructing church. and told by
some architects that the voice would
! not be heard in building shaped like
that proposed, came in much anxiety.
TO this city and consulted with Prof.
Joseph Henry Of the Smithsonian in
stitution about the law Of acoustics.
He said: SEQ ahead and build your
church in the shape proposed and |
led the laws of sound perhaps more
than any man of my time, and have
come so far as this: Two auditoriums
may seem to be exactly alike, and in
one the acoustics may be good and in
the other bad In the same unsatis
factory stage is chirography, although
many declare they have reduced it to
a science. There are those who say
they can read character by handwrit-
ing. 1t is said that the way one writes
the letter ''r' decides his egotism or
modesty, and the way one writes the
letter co. decides the height and the
depth of his emotion. 1t is declared
cramped hand means cramped ma
tture, and an easy, flowing hand
facile and liberal spirit; but if there
be anything in this science, there must
be some rules not yet announced for
some of the boldest and most agrees
siye men have a delicate and small
penmanship, while some Of the most
!. timid sign their names with the height
and width and scope of the name Of
John Hancock on the immortal docu-
ment. Some of the cleanest in person
thought present their blotted and spat-
tered page, and some of the toughest
put before us an immaculate chirogra-
ply. Not our character, but the copy
plate set before us in our schoolboy
days, decides the general style of our
handwriting. So also there is a fash
ion in penmanship, and for one decade
the letters are exaggerated, and in the
next minifed; now erect and now
aslant, now heavy and now fine. An
autograph album is always surprise,
: and you find the penmanship, contra
diets the character of the writer's But
while the chirography Of the earth is
uncertain, our blessed Lord in our
text presents the chirography celestial
When addressing the seventy disciples
standing before him, he said: RE
joice because your names are written
in heaven" ."
OF course the Bible, for the most
part, when speaking Of the heavenly
world, speaks fguratively while talk
ing about hooks and about trumpets
and about wings and about gates and
Aabout golden pavcments and about or
chards with twelve crops of fruit-one
crop each month--and about the white
horses Of heavens cavalry; but we do
well to follow out these inspired met
aphors and reap from them courage
and sublime expectation and consoia-
ton aud victory. We are told that in
the heavenly library there is a Book
Of Life. Perhaps there are many vol
umes in 1t. When we say a book we
mean all Writtenaby the author on that
heavenly, volumes are nor the splen-
dor of their binding, nor the number
Of their pages, nor whether, they are
pictorialized with some exciting scenes
of this world I only know that the
words have not been impressed by
type, but written out by some hand
and that all those who, like the sew
enty disciples to whom the text was
3 spoken repent and trust the Lord for
their eternal salvation, surely have
their names written in heaven. It may
not be the same name that we carried
on earth. We may, through the incon-
siderateness Of parents have a name
that is uncouth, or that was afterward
dishonored by one after whom we were
called. / do not know that the seventy
entrances Of the names Of the seventy
disciples correspond with the record
in the genealogical table. 1t may not
be the name by which we were called
s,1.t1, Inf ho
which heaven will know us, and we
will have it announced to us as we
pass in, and we will know it so GER
tainly that we will not have to he call
ed twice by it, as in the Bible times
the Lord called some people twice by
name, saul! Saul! Samuel! Samuel!'
Martha! Marthar'
When you come up and look for
your name in the mighty tones of
eternity and you are so happy as to
find it there, you will notice that the
penmanship is Christ's, and that the
letters were written with a trembling
hand. Not trembling with old age, for
he had only passed three decades when
he expired. It was soon after the
tllirtieth anniversary Of his birthday.
Look over all the business accounts
you kept or the letters you wrote at
2& lulIly years VI age, anu IL you We're
ordinarily strong and well, then there
was no tremor in the chirography.
Why the tremor in the hand that wrote
your name in heaven? Oh, it was a
compression Of more troubles than
ever smote any one else, and all Of
them troubles assumed for others.
Christ was prematurely old. He had
been exposed to all the weathers Of
n Palestine. He had slept out of doors,
now in the night dew and now in the
tempest. He had been soaked in the
surf of Lake Galilee. Pillows for 9th
ers, but He had not where to lay His
head. Hungry, He could not even get
a fig on which to breakfast; or have
you missed the pathos Of that verse,
E. in the morning, as He returned unto
the city, he hungered, and when he
saw a fig tree in the way, He came to
it and found nothing thereon Oh, He
was hungry Christ, and nothing
makes the hand tremble worse than
hunger, for it pulls upon the stomach,
. and the stomach pulls upon the brain,
3 and the brain pulls upon the nerves,
and the agitated nerves makes the
e hand quake. On the top of all this ex-