The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1896-11-19

picion because OF the circumst stances Of
his nativity, and he, chased by a Her
odic mania out of His native land, to
live a while under the shadow of the
sphinx and pyramid Of Gihez, after.
ward cOnfounded the LII. IS of j cru
salem, then stopping the paroxysm OF
tempest and of madmen. His path,
5streWn with slain dropsies and catelep
sizes and Opthalmias. TRANSPORTED ON
one mountain, preaching on another
mountain, dying on another mountain.
and ascending from another mountain
the greatest, the loyeliest, the might
est, the kindest, the most self-sacrific-
ing, most beautiful Being whose feet
ever touched the earth. Tell US, We des-
erts who heard our Savior's prayer;
tell us, We seas that drenched him with
your surf; tell us, We multitudes who
heard Him preach on deck, on beach.
on hillside; tell us, Goigotha, who heard
the stroke of the hammer on the spike
heads, and the dying groan in that
midnight that dropped on midnoon, did
anyone like Jesus have this passion for
souls?
81 But, breaking right in upon me, is
the question: How can we get some
thing Of this Pauline and Christly
longing for saved immortalities? &
answer. By better approaching the
prOlongatiOn of the souls existence.
compared with everything physical and
material. How l hope the surgeon will
successfully remove the cataract from
that mans eye! It is such a sad thing
to be blind. Let us pray while the doc
tor Is busy with the delicate operation
But for how long time will he be able
TO give his patient eyesight? Well, If
the patient is forty years DID, he will
add to his happiness perhaps fifty years
of eyesight, and that will bring the
man to ninety years. ard it is not prob
able that he will live longer than that.
or that he will live so long. But what
IS good eyesight for fifty years more as
compared with clear vision for the soul
Tor a billion of centuries? 1 hope the
effort to drive back the typhoid fever
from yonder home will be successful.
God help the doctors.
We will wait in great anxiety until
the fires of that fever are extinguished,
ana When the man rises from his Pill
low and walks out, with what heal.ti-
ness will we welcome him into the
fresh air and the church and the bust
ness circles. He is thirty years of age,
and if he shall live sixty years more,
that will make him ninety But what
are sixty years more of earthly yieor
compared with the souls health for 4
quadrilliOn millenniums millennium.
as YOU know, a thousand years? This
world, since fitted up for mans resi-
dence. has existed for about six thou,
sand years. How much longer will it
exist? We will suppose it shall last as
much longer,which is very doubtful.
mat will make it's existence twelve.
thousand years.
But what are or will be twelve thou
sand years, compared with the eternij
tV preceding those years and the eterni4
ty following them? Time, as Compared
to eternity, like the. drop of the night
dew shaken from the tip Of a grass
blade by the cows hoof on its way
atield this morning as compared with
Mediterranean and Ara bian and Attain
tic and Pacific watery dominions Z,
a stranger desired to purchase al
farm, but the owner would not sell it
would only let it. The stranger hired
it by lease for only one crop, but he
soWed acorns, and to mature that crop
three hundred years was necessary.
That was a practiced deception, but Il
deceive you not when I tell YOU that
the crop of the soul takes hold Of UNI
told ages. Is
| see the author of my text seated ins
the house of Gaius, who entertained
Him at Corinth, not far from the over
hanging fortress of Aero Corinthus,
~ meditating on the longevity Of the
soul, and getting more and more agi-
tated about it's value and the awful
risk some Of his kindred were running
concerning it, and he writes this letter
containing the text which Chrysostom
admired so much he had it read to
him twice a week, and among other
things, he says those daring and start
ling words of my text: II could wish
that myself were acCursed from Christ
for my brethren, my kinsmen, accord
ing to the flesh"