The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1897-03-04

you if you will come and enlist under
the bannev of our Victor Emmanuel,
and follow him through thick and thin,
and fight his battles, and endure his
sacrifices, you will find after awhile
that he has changed your heart from
a jungle of sthorny scepticisms into a |
garden all aEloom with luxuriant JOY
that you have never dreamt Of. From
a tangled Caprera Of sadness into a |
paradise Of God.
do not know how your theological
system went to pieces. It may be that |
your parents started you with only
one plank, ald you believe little or
nothing. Or they may have been too
rigid and severe in religious discipline, 4
and cracked you over the head with
a psalm book. It may be that some
partner in business who was a member
of an evangelical church played on you
q trick that Disguised you with re-
ligion. It may be that you have assoc
ciates who have talked against Chris
tianity in your presence until you are
all at sea-" and you dwell more on
things that you do not believe than on
things YOU do believe. You are in one
respect like Lord Nelson, when a sig
nal was lifted that he wished to dis
regard, and he put his sea glass to his
blind eye and said: IT really do not
see the signal" Oh, my hearer, put
this feld-glass Of the Gospel no longer
to your blind eye, and say, cannot
see, but put it to your other eye, the
eye of faith, and you will see Christ,
and he is all you need to see.
Il you can believe nothing else, you
certainly believe in vicarious suffer-
Ing, for you Sc it almost every day in
some shape. The steamship Knicker-
booker, Of the Cromwell line, running
between New Orleans and New York,
was IN great storms, and the captain
and crew saw the schooner Mary D.
Cranmer, Of Philadelphia, in distress.
The weather cold, the waves mountain
high, the first officer of the steam
ship and four men put out in a life
boat to save the crew Of the schooner,
and reached the vessel and towed it
out Of danger, the wind shifting so that
the schooner was saved. But the five
men OF The steamship coming back,
their boat capsized, yet righted again
and came on, the sailors coated with
ice. The boat capsized again, and three
times upset and was righted, and a
line thrown the poor fellows, but their
hands were frozen so they could not
grasp 1t, and great wave rolled over
them, and they went down, never to
rise again till the sea gives up its
dead. Appreciate that heroism and
self-sacrifice Of the brave fellows all
who can, and can we moi appreciate
4 the Christ who put out into a more
biting cold and into a more overwhelm-
ing surge, to bring us out of infinite
i peril into everlasting safety? The
wave Of human hate rolled over him
from one side and the wave Of hellish
1 fury rolled over him on the other side
1 Oh, the thickness of the night and the
thunder OF he tempest into which
Il Christ plunged for our rescue!
s You admit you are all broken np. one
decade Of your life gone by, two del
cades, three decades, four decades, a
half-century, perhaps three-quarters
of a century gone. The hour hand and
the minute hand of your clock Of life
are almost parallel, and soon it will
be twelve and your day ended. Clear
q discouraged are you? admit it is a
sad thing to give all our lives that
are worth anything to sin and the
. devil, and then at last make God a
present If f1rst-rate corpse. But the
past you cannot recover Get on board
that old ship you never will. Have
you only one more year left, one more
month, one more week, one more day
one more hour-come in on that Per.
haps if you get to heaven God may lie,
you 60 out on some great mission tc
some other world, where you can some.
what atone for your lack of service il
} this.
/ From many deathbed have seer
the hands thrown up in deploratior
something like this: my life has beer
t wasted. I had good mental facultie!
) and fine social position and great OBJ
) portunity, but through worldliness ant
8 neglect all has gone to waste save thes,
: few remaining hours. ! now accept o
) Christ and shall enter heaven through
. his mercy; but alas, alas! that when
t might have entered the haven Of eter
I nal rest with full cargo, and beel
' greeted by the waving hands Of q null
$ titude in whose salvation had born
!, blessed part, must confess I nov
j. enter the hartor Of heaven on broker
Q pieces Of the ship"
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) The Porcupine's Quilts.
t The current opinion that a porcu
i pine throws its quilts at an enemy i
3 not supported by facts, says tn
j: Portland Oregonian: The spines q
t the porcupine are very loosely attach
n ed to the body and are very sharp
J, as sharp as needle. At almost TIL
n slightest touch they penetrate the nos
), Of a dog or the clothing or flesh of
d person touching the porcupine, an
e stick there, coming away from the an
i NAL without any pull being required