The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1896-12-24
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4IIeleSS HearIn, on the broken chair
By GU would not have given a dollar5 for
az ne furniture in the house. But by
| the grace of God she is Il princess The
o 1|y'e OF the poor come there and
| ydlscllssa the case and say, It's a pau
per. They do not realize that God has
FURNISHED for her a crown, and that
after she has got through the fati guing
Journey from Tirzah to Shiloh and
from Shiloh back to Tirzah there Will
be a throne of royalty on which she
shall rest forever. Glory yelled. AZ
5fnence hidden. Eternal ia ptures hush
ed up. A queen in mask. "A princess
in disguise
hen you think of queen YOU do
not think of CT therine of Russia, or
Maria Theresa of Germany, or airy:
Queen of Scots. When you think Of a
queen You think Of a plain woman who
sat opposite your father at the table,
or walked with him down the path Of
| life arm iii etimes to the
Thanksgiving banquet, sometimes to
the grave, but always side by side,
soothing your little sorroWs and adj
justing your little quarrels, listening
to your evening prayer, toiling with.
the needle or at the spinning wheel,
and on cold nights tucking you up snug
and warm. And then on that dark day
when she lay a-dying. putting those
thin hands that had toiled for you so
long, putting them together in a dying
| prayer commencing you to that God in
| whom she lad taught you to trust.
Oh, she was the queen-she was the
queen! You cannot think Of her now
without having the deepest emotions
| of your soul stirred, and you feel as if
you could cry as though you were now
sitting in infancy on her lap, and il
you could call her back to speak your
name with the tenderness with which
she once spoke, you would be willing
now to throw yourself on the sod that
covers her grave, crying, Mother,
mother!' Ah she was the queen.
Your father knew it. You knew it.
She was the queen, but the queen 3 IN
disguise The world did not recognize
/ it. l
/ But htere was a grander Disgusting.
Che favorite Of a great house looked
out Of a window of his palace, and he
saw that the people were carrying
| heavy burdens. and that some OF
tEem were hubbling on crutclles, and
he saw some lying at the gate exhibit
| ing their sores, and then he heard their
! Lamentations and he said: 4 will just
put on the clothes Of those poor people
and will go down and see what their
SORROWS are, and will sympathize
with them. and I will be one Of them,
and will help them Well, the day
came for him to start, The lords OF the
land came to see him off. All who
| could sing Joined in the parting song.
| which shook the hills and woke up the
Shepherds The first few nights he had
| been sleeping with the hoStlerS and the
I camel-drivers, for no one knew there
was a king in town. He went among
7 the doctors of the law, astounding
thepo, for, without any doctors gown,
| he knew more law than the doctors.
! He fished with the fishermen. He
smote with his own hammer in the car
| penters shop. He ate raw corn out of
the field. He fried fish on the banks
| of the GeneSSaret. He was hoWled at
| by crazy people in the tombs. He was
splashed Of the surf of the sea. A pill
/ grim without any pillow.esA sick man
| without any medicament. A mourner
with no sympa thetic bosom on which
he could pour his tears. Disguise COM
Dlete. / know that occasionally his
divine royalty flashed out, as when in
the storm on Gallilee, as in the red
/ wine at the wedding banquet, as when
he freed the shackeled demOniac Of
/ Gadara. as when he turned a whole.
school Of fish into the net of the dis
! couraged boatmen, as when he throb-
/, bed life into the shriveled arm of the
paralytic; but for, the most, part he.
was in disguise. No one saw the kings
Jewels on his sandals. No one saw the
royal robe in his plain coat. No one
knew that the shelterless Christ owned
all the olive groves. and all the har-
vests which shook their gold on the.
hills of Palestine No one knew that
he who said, 81 thirst pored the Eu-.
pirates out of it's own channel. No
palm of his hand like dewdrop in the
| vase of a lily. No one knew that the
stars. and moons and suns, and galax-S
les and considerations that marched on
age after age, were, as compared with
his lifetime, the sparkle of a FREELY on
a summer night. No one knew that
the sun in midheaven was only the
shadow of his throne. No one knew
that his crown Of universal dominion
was covered up with a bunch Of tllorns.
OmnipOtence Sheathed in human
body Omniscience hidden in human
eye. Infinite love beating in a human
heart Everlasting harmonies SUBJ
dued into a human voice. Royalty en-
masque. Gfandeurs of heaven in
earthly disguise.
Ny subject also impresses me with
how people put5on masks. and how the
Lord tears them off. 1t was a terrible
moment in the history of this woman
of Iirzah when the prophet accosted
her, practically sa wing: Il know who
you are; you cannot cheat me; you,
cannot impose upon me; why feignest
thou thyself to be another? She had
a right to ask for the restora ton of
her son; she had no right to practice
4 that falsehO0d. It is never right to do
wrong. Sometimes you may be able
to conceal an affair; it is not necessary
to tell everything. There is natural
pressure to the lips which, seems to In
dicate that silence some times is right;
but, for doubled Ealing, for moral
shu ing, for counterfeit and for sham,
God has nothing but ana thema and ex
pOsure. He will tear off the lie. He
will rip up the empiricism. II He will
scatter the ambuscade There are peo-
pie who are just ready to be duped.
They believe in ghosts. They saw one
themselves once. They heard some
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