The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1896-10-15

summer afternoon and heard him tell
1 the story OF his life. He had for many
4 years been troubled with insomnia and
i was q very poor sleeper, and he always
/ had the window curtain of his room llp
i SO as to see the first intimation Of sun:
4 rise. When he was breathing his last,
N the morning hour, in his home in
the sM as s. chusetts village, the nurse
j thought that the light of the rising SIN
was too strong for him, and SO pulled
4 the window curtain down. The last
thing the Quaker poet did was to wave
a his hand to have the curtain up. He
wanted to depart in the full gush Of
4 the morning. And thought it might
i be helpful and inspiring to all Chris
tan souls to have more light about
the future, and so pull up the cur
4 tain ~ the glorious sunrise Of my text
and say Rejoice that your names are
written in heaven. Bring on your
i doXologies! Pull up all the curtains Of
4 bright expectations! Yea! hoist the
window itself, and let the perfume Of
the. morning. m glories'' Of the Kings
garden come in, and the music Of harps
all a-tremble with symphonies. and the
sound Of the surf Of seas dashing to the
foot Of the throne Of God and the
4 Lamb.
but there is only one word on all
this subject of divine chirography in
4 heaven that confuses me, and that is
the small adverb which ST. John adds
4 when he quotes the text in Revelation
and speaks Of some whose names are
4 not written in the Book Of Life of the
Lamb slain" Oh, that awful adverb
mott By full submission to Christ
the Lord have the way all cleared
between you and the sublime registra-
ton Of your name this moment. Why
not look up and see that they are all
ready TO put your name among the
bllssful mortals? There is the mighty
volume; it is wide open. There is the
/ pen; it is from the wing of the Angel
OF the New Coyenant.'' There is the
ink; it is red ink from Calvarean sac
rl1ice. And there is the Divine Scribe:
the glorious Lord who wrote your faith
er,s name there, your mothers name
there and your child's name there.
and who is ready to write your name
there. Will you consent that he do
it? Before I say Amen to this ser
vice, ask him to do it. I wait mo-
ment for the tremendous action of your
will, for it is only an action Of your
will. Here some one says, Lord Jesus,
with pen plucked from angelic wing,
and dipped in the red ink of Golgotha,
write there either that which is now my
earthly name or that which shall be my
heavenly name i pause a second
longer that all may consent. The
pen Of the Divine Scribe is in the fin
gers and is lifted and is lowered, and
| it touches the shining page, and the
word is traced in trembling and bold
and unmistakable letters He has put
it down in the right place.
IT'S done! The great TRANSACTIONS done.
l am my Lords, and he is NINE
And if there be in all this assembly
a hopeless case, so-called hopeless by
yourself and Others I take the respon-
sibility of saying that there is a place
in that Book where your name would
exactly fit in and - beautiful and
you can, quicker l. y [ can clap my
hands together have it there A re-
ligious meeting was thrown open and
all those who could testify Of the CON
vertinge grace Of God were asked to
speak. Silence reigned a moment, and
then a man, covered with the marks
i of dissipation, arose and said:esE.s;You
can see from my looks what / have
been. but | am now a saved man.
When / left home thousand miles
from here had so disgraced my faith
ers name that said, AS you are going
away, I have only two things to ask
OF you, first that you will never come
home again, and next you will change
your name [ promised. [ have not
heard my real name for years. I went
the whole round of sin, until there was
no lower depth to fathom. But I am,
by the grace of God, a changed man.
| wrote home, asking forgiveness for
my wayWardness, and here are two
letters, one from father and another
from my sister. My mother died Of a
broken heart But these two letters
ask me to come home, and boys Z
start tomorrow morning." The fact
was that his name was written in hea-
4 ven where I pray God all Of our
names may be written, though so I'M
worthy are the best of us, and all of
us. If you have ever been in the thick
woods and heard rhe sound of village
bells you know the sound is hindered
) and muft1ed by the foliage, though
somewhat sweet, but as you come to
the edge Of the woods the sounds be-
come clearer and more charming, and
when you step out from the deep shad-
ows into the sunlight you hear the full,
round, mellifluous ringing of the bells
Oh! We, down in the thick shadows Of
unbelief. and who hear only the faint
/ notes Of this Gospel bell, come out
into the clear sunlight of pardon and
peace, and hear the full chime Of eter-
nal harmonies from all the towers of
i heaven. Oh! Come out Of the woods!
/ Forage Plants
The department of agriculture has
just issued a bulletin by Prof. r. Lam
son Scribner, chief of the division Of
agrostology, giving descriptive list
& of fodder and forage plants, exclusive
e of grasses. The scientific names of
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