The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1897-01-28

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ture in torture: torridity and luridity:
congregation Of breads: molten hor-
rors: sulphurous abysms: swirling
mystery of all time: infinite turbu-
lence: chimney Of perdition: walloW-
ing terrors: fifteen acres OF threats:
glooms insufferable and Dantesque:s
cauldron stirred by the champion witch
OF Pandemonium: campfire Of the
armies OF Diabolus: wrath of the noun
talns in full bloom: shimmering In
candescence: pyrotechnics OF the
planet: furnace blast Of the ages:
kllauea !! But, my friends, nightler,
higher, vaster, hotter, more raging Is
| the volcanic Mountain of War. It has
been blazing for hundreds Of years,
and will keep on blazing until, until,
but | dare not hazard a prophecy.
!. Can It be that its fires will ever be
put out? Can it be that its roar Will
/ ever be silenced? Can it be that before
| our lerubbabel that blazing mountain
VIII ever become plain?
sometimes a general begins battle
/ before he is ready, because the enemy
forces it on him. The general says.
! me enemy are pushing us, and so :
open battle We are not sufficient to
| cope with them, but I hope the re-
serve forces will come up in time.
Inc battle RACES, and the general looks
through his field glass at the troops,
but ever and anon he sweeps his field
glass backward and upward toward the
NIL, to see if the reserve forces are
coming. Hard pushed are WEI says
| the general. 81 do wish those REIN
1orcements would come up. After
awhile the columns of the advancing
cavalry are seen tossing on the ridge
OF the hill, and then the flash of swords,
and then the long lines of mounted
troops, their horses in full gallop, and
the general says, Cali is well. Hold
out, my men, little longer. Let the
sergeants ride along the lines and cheer
| the men and tell them reinforcements
are coming" And now the rumbling Of
the batteries and gun carriages is dis
| tlnctly heard, and soon they are in
line, and at the first roar of the newly
arrived artillery the enemy, a little
Whlle before so jubilant, fall back in
wild retreat, their way strewn with
canteens and knapsacks and ammuni-A
ton, that the defeated may be unhind-
cred in their flight That is just the
| way now. In this great battle against
| sin and crime and moral death the enc
my seem too much for us. More grog-
shops than churches. More bad men
than good men, and they come up with
| bravado and the force of great num-
bers. They have opened battle upon
us before we are, in our own strength,
ready to meet them, and great are the
dlscouragements. But steady, therei
Hold on! Reinforcements are coming.
Through the glass of inspiration I
look, and see the flash of the sword of
him who hath on his vesture and on
his thigh name written King of
kings and Lord of lords" All heaven
is on our side and is coming to the
| rescue. I hear the rumbling of the
Kings artillery, louder than any thun-
der that ever shook the earth, and with
every roll of the ponderous wheels our
courage augments, and when these re-
Inducements from heaven get into
| line with the forces of God already on
earth, all the armies of unrighteous-
| ness will see that their hour of doom
| has come, and will waver and fall back
and take flight and nothing be left of
them save here and there, strewn by
the wayside, an agnostic's pen or
| broken decanter or a torn playbill of
| a debasing amusement or a blasphem-
| Gus paragraph, or leper's SCALE or a
| dragons tooth, to show they ever ex-
listed. Let there be cheering all along
| the lines of Christian workers, over
the fact that what the shovels fail to
do will be accomplished by the thun-
der-bolts who art thou, o great
mountain? before Zerubbabel thou
shalt become a plain
The mountains look on Marathon,
And Marathon looks on the sea,
Shrine of the mighty can it be
That this is all remains of thee!