The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1897-05-13

Many will respond IN ntributions Oh
money, and. the barns and corn cribs
of the entire United States will pour
forth their treasures Of food. When,
that ship is laden till it can carry no
more. we will ask Him who holds the
winds in his fist and plants his trtum-
plant foot on stormy waves to let moth
Ing but good happen to the ship till It
anchors in Bengal or Arabian waters.
They who help by. contributions Of
money or. breadstuffs toward filling
that relief ship will flavor their own
food for their lifetime with appetizing
qualities, and insure their own welfare
through the promise Of him who said,
Blessed is he that considereth the
poor; the Lord will deliver him in time
of trouble"
And now bethink myself OF some
thing | never thought Of before. I had
noticed that the circle is Gods favor
tie figure, and upon that subject adj
dressed you some time ago, but it did
not occur to me until now that the Cos
pei seems to be moving in circle. IT
started in Asia, Bethlehem, an Asiatic
village; Jordan. an Asiatic river; CAL
vary, an Asiatic mountain. Then this
Gospel moved on to Europe; witness
the chapels and churches and cathed-
rails and Christian universities of that
continent. Then it crossed to Amer
lea. It has prayed and preached and
sung Its way across our continent It
has crossed to Asia, taking the Sand
Wlch Islands In its way, and now in all
the great cities on the coast of China
people are singing stRock of Ages and
There Is Fountain Filled with
Blood" for you must know. that not
only have the Scriptures been trans
lated into these Asiatic tongues, but
also the evangelical hymns. My mis-
s1onary brother, John, translated some
of them into Chinese, and Mr.. Glad
stone gave me a copy of the hymn,
Jesus, Lover Of My Soul" which he
shlmself&had translated into Greek. The
Christ who it seems spent sixteen or
eighteen years of his life in India is
there now in spirit, converting and
saving the people by hundreds of thou
sands, and the Gospel will move right
on through Asia until the story of the
Savlour's birth will anew be made
known in Bethlehem, and the story Of a
Saylour's sacrifice be told anew on and
around Calvary, and the story of Saw
tours Ascension be told anew on the
shoulder of Mt. Olivet. And then dc
i you not see the circle will be complete:
The glorious circle, the circle Of the
earth? This old planet, gashed will
earthquake and scorched with conla
grafton and torn with revolutions, viii
be girdled with churches, with schools
with universities, with millennial fes
tlv1tles How cheering and how inspir
ing the thought that we are, whether
giving temporal or spiritual relief
working on the segment of such.
circle. And that the Christly mission
which started in Asia will keep on 1T
way until it goes clear around to tn,
place where it started! Then the eartl
will have demonstrated that for which
/ 1t, was created, and as soon as a worlt
4 has completed its mission it dies. Par
OF the heavens is a cemetery ofJdea,
worlds. Our world built to demon
strate to the worlds which have beef
loyal to God the awful results of dis
loyalty, so that none of them may eve
attempt it say our world. hayin,
| finished its mission, may them 90 on
OF existence. The central fires of TIL
world which are burning out rapid,
toward the crust, may have reache,
the surface by that time and the Bibl
prophecy be fulfilled, which declare
| that the earth and all things that ar
therein shall be burned up.
! May the 10th, 1869, was a memorable
day, for then was laid the last til
which connected the two rail track
which united the Atlantic and Pacifi
Oceans. The Central Pacific Railroa
was built from California eastward
The Union Pacific Railroad was bull
westward They were within arm
reach of meeting, only one more piec
, of the rail track to put down. A grea
audience assembled, mid-continent +
: see the last tie laid The locomotive
of the Eastern and Western train
stood painting on the tracks close bJ
Grafton explained the occasion. an
prayer solemnized it and must
enchanted it.. The tie was mad
of polished laurel wood. boun
Il with silver. n bands, and thre
Espikes were used gold Sspikt
; presented by California; ssi]
yer spike, presented by Nevada an
an iron spike, presented by Arizon:
! When, all heads uncovered and =
J hearts thrilling with emotion, the han
mer struck the last spike into its Mac,
the cannon doomed it amid the Re
| sounding mountain echoes and the tele
graphic instruments clicked to All M
!, lions that the deed was done. M
friends, if the laying of the last tie tha
bound the East and the West Of an
: continent together was such a resound
ing occasion, what will it be when II
last tie. of the track of Gospel inf,
ences, reaching clear around the worl,
: shall be laid amid the anthems of 4
nations? The spikes will be the pnlc
en- and silver spikes fashioned o,,+ -