The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1896-07-23

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is:i strong enough to resist that cry,
For Christ's sake. If a little child
should kneel behind Gods throne and
should say, For Christ's sake, y the
great Jehovah would turn around on
His throne to look and listen No
prayer eyer gets to, heaven but for
Christ's sake. No soul is ever com.
forted but for Christ's sake.
The world will never be redeemed
but for Christ's sake. Our name, how
ever illustrious it may be among men,
before God stands only for an incon-
sistency and sin; but there is a name,
a potent name, that we may put upon.
5Oul. lips as a sacrament, and upon our.
forehead as a crown, and that is the
name of Jesus, our divine Jonathan,
| who stripped himself Of his robe and
put on our rags and gave us his sword
and took our broken reed, so that now
whether we are well or sick, whether
we are living or dying, ii we speak
that name it moves heaven to the cen
ter and God says: LET the poor soul!
come in. Carry him up into the!
thTone-rOOm OF the palace. Though he
may have been in exile though sin
may have crippled him on the other
side, and sorrow may have crippled
him OH the other side, and he is lame
| in both his feet, bring him up into the
| palace, for want to show him ever
| lasting Kindness for JonatEan'S sake
Again: Mephibosheth, in my text,
stands for the disabled human soul
lifted to the kings table. TWAS more
| difficult in those days even than it is
now for common men to get into a
royal dining roo n. The subjects might
have come around the rail of the pal
ace and might have seen the lights
kindled, and might have heard the
clash of the knives and the rattle Of.
| the golden goblets, but not get in.
Stout men with stout feet could not
| get in once in all their lives to one
banquet, vet poor Mephihosheth goes
in, lives there and is every day at the
| table. Oh, what q getting-up in the
world it was for poor Mephibosheth!
| WE'LL though you and may be Woe
fully famed with sin, for our divine,
| Jonathan's sake, hope we will al! get
in to dine with the king.
| Before dining we must be introduced.
| IT you are invited to a company Of
| persons where there are distinguished
| people present, you are introduced.
'"rhis is the S, Eator." This is the
! governor '"This is the president"
Before we sit down at the kings table
in heaven l think we will want to be
| introduced. Oh, what a time that
| will be, when you and [, by the grace
! of God. get into heaven. and are intro
duced to the mighty spirits there and
some one will say: ."This is Joshua"
''This is Paul" t"This is Noses"
':This is John Knox ''rhis is John
| Milton" ''This is Martin Luther
''This is George Whitfield Oh, shall
| we have. any strength left after such
Il round of celestial introduction? Yea.
| We shall be pctentates ourselves.
| Then we shall sit down at the kings
| table with the sons and daughters Of
! God. and one will whisper across the
table to us and say: ''Behold. what
manner of love the Father hath be-
slowed upon us, that we should be
called the sons of Godv' And some
! one at the table will say: GLOW long
will it last? All ether banquets at
! which I sat ended: How long will this
lastY' And Paul will answer, fFor-
| everv And Joshua will say, "Forcy-
| er!'' And John Knox will say ''For.
! ever!'. And George Whitfield will say,
''Foreverr' sa =. s@
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| be old wine; it will be very old wine;
it will be the oldest wine Of heaven; it
| will be the wine that was trodden out
| from the red clusters Oh the day when
| Jesus trod the wine press alone. Wine
| already more than eighteen centuries
| old. And no one will deride us as to
| what we were in this world. No one
! will bring up our imperfections here,
our sins here. All our earthly imper
! fections completely covered up and
hidden. Mephib .sheth's feet under the
| table. Kingly fare. Kingly vesture.
Klngly Companionship. We shall reign
| forever and ever. I think that, BAN
| Duet will mean more to those who had
it hard il this world than to those who
| had it easy. That banquet in Davids
| palace meant more to Mephibosheth
| than to anyone else, because he had
been poor and crippled and despised
| and rejected. And that man who, in
this world, is blind. will better appre-
| ciate the light Of heaven than we, who
i'll this world, had good eyesight. And
that man who, in this world was deaf.
will better appreciate the music of
| heaven than we who. in this world.
had good hearing And those will
have higher appreciation of the easy
locomotion of that land who, in this
world, were ACCOMPLISHMENTS.
o my soul, what magnificent Cos
| pei! 1t takes man so low down and
raises him so high! What a gospel!
/ Come now, who wants to be banquet
en- and empalaced? AS when WILDER
force. trying to get the Emancipation
bill through the British parliament,
and the British isles We're anxious to
hear of the passage of that emancipa-
ton bill. " hen vessel was coming
into port, and the captain of the yes
sci knew that the people We're SO anx-
ious to get the tidings, he stepped out
on the PROV of the ship and shouted
to the people. long before he got up TO
the dock: ''Freew and they cried it..
and they shouted it, and they sang it
through the land, free! free!' So,
to-day, would like to sound the news
of your present and your eternal
emancipation, until the angels of God
lowering in the air, and watchmen on
4 the battlements, and bellmen in the
town cry it, shout it, sing it, ring. it.
! Free! free! I come now as the mes
senger Of the palace to invite Mephibo-
i Shath tn coma I'M r am here tO-(fsay