The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1897-12-02
and heart and sympathy and under the
benediction and perpetual presence Of

benediction and perpetual presence Of
Christian minister.
That sermon Of the future will be an
everyday sermon, going right down in
to every mans life. and it will teach
him to vote, how to bargain, how to
plough, how to do any work he is call
ed to, how to WELD trowel and pen and
pencil and yardstick and plane And
1t will teach women how to preside
over their households, and how to ed
ucate their children, and how to imi-
tate Miriam and Esther and Vashti,
and Eunice, the mother of Timothy;
and Mary, the mother of Christ; and
those women who on Northern and
Southern battlefelds were mistaken by
the wounded for angels of mercy fresh
from the throne Of God.
Do you exhort IN -meeting?,
Be short and be spirited. Do you teach
in Bible class? Though you have to
study every night, be interesting. Do
you accOst people on the subject of re-
ligion in their homes or in public
places? Study adroitness and use COM
mon sense. The most graceful, the
most beautiful thing on earth in the re-
ligion of Jesus Christ, and if you awk-
wardly present it, it is defamation. we
must do our work rapidly and we must
do it effectively Soon our time for
work will be gone. A dying Christian
took out his watch and gave it to
friend and said: Take that watch,
have no more use for it; time is ended
for me; eternity begins" o my friends,
| when our watch has licked away for
us for the last moment, and our clock
has struck for us the last hour, may
it be found We did our work we'll, that
we did it in the very best way; and
whether we preached the Gospel IN
pulpits, or taught Sabbath classes, or
administered to the sick as physicians,
or bargained as merchants, or pleaded
the law as attorneys, or were busy as
artisans, or as husbandmen, or as me-
chanics, or were like Martha: called to
give meal to hungry Christ, or like
Hannah to make a coat for prophet.
or like Deborah to rouse the courage
of some timid Barak in the Lords con-
f1ict, we did our work in such way
that it will stand the test Of the judy
ment. And in the long procession OF
the redeemed that march round the
throne, may it be found there are
many there brought to God through
our fundamentally and in whose res
cue we are exultant. But, O you un-
saved! wait not for that coming SER
mon. It may come after your obse-
quies. 1t may come after the stone
cutter has chiseled our name on the
slab fifty years before. Do not wait
for a great steamer of the Cunard OF
White Star line to take you off tbs
wreck, but hail the first craft with
however low a mast, and however
, small a bulk, and however poor rud
der, and however weak captain. Bet
ter a disabled schooner that comes VI
in time than a full-rigged brig tina
comes up after you have sunken. In
stead of waiting for that coming ser
mont may be twenty, fifty years OF
take this plain invitations of a ma
who, to have given you spiritual eye
sight, would be glad to be called tn
spittle by the hand OF Chrlst put on TN
$ eyes of a blind man, and who woul
e consider the highest compliment c
l this service, if at the close five hun
S dred men should start from these door
i saying, "Whether he be sinner or M
L I know not This one thing I know
u whereas I was blind, now ! see.
|. Swifter than shadows over the plail
t quicker than birds in their autumns
e flight, hastier than eagles to their pre-.
r HE you to sympathetic Christ. TIL
i orchestras of heaven have alread
y strung their instruments to celebra'
d your rescue. 80.
And many were the voices around tt
throne;
- Rejoice, foe the Lord brings back b
- own. .-..
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