The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1897-04-15
would find monument with the word

would find monument with the word
Walter" inscribed upon It, and 2
wreath Of fresh flowers around the
name. think there was not an hour
IN twenty years, winter or summer,
when there was not wreath Of fresh
flowers around Walters name. But
the Christian mother who sent those
flowers there, having no child LETT,
Sabbath afternoons mothered ten or
twenty Of the lost ones Of the street.
That is beautiful. That is what call
busy and triumphant sadness. Here
IS man who has lost his property
He does not go to hard drinking. He
does not destroy his own life. He
comes and says, Harness me for
Christian work. My moneys gone. =
nave no treasures on earth. want
treasures in heaven. I have voice
and heart to serve God. :" You say
that that man has failed. He has not
failed-he has triumphed!
on, wish I could persuade all the
people who have any kind of trouble
never to give up. I wish they would
look at the midnight rider of the text,
and that the four hoofs of that beast
on which Nehemiah rode might cut to
pieces all your discouragements, and
hardshlps, and trials. Give up! Who
IS going to give up, when on the bosom
OF God he can have all his troubles
hushed? Give up! Never think of
giving up. Are you borne down with
| poverty? A little child was found
| holding her dead mothers hand in
the darkness of tenement house, and
some one coming in, the little girl
looked up, while holding her dead
mothers hand. and said, ooh. do
Wish that God had made more light
for poor folks" My dear, God will be
your light, God will be your shelter,
COO will be your home. Are you
borne down with the bereavements of
life? Is the house lonely now that the
child is gone? Do not give up. Think
OF what the old sexton said when the
minister asked him why he put so
much care on the little graves, in the
cemetery-so much more care than on
the larger graves, and the old sexton
said, Sir, you know that of such is
the kingdom of heaven and think
the Savior is pleased when he sees
SO much white clover growing around
these little graves But when the
minister pressed the old sexton for a
more satisfactory answer, the old sex
ton said, "Sir, about these larger
graves, l don't know who are the
Lords saints and who are not; but
you know, sir, it is clean different with
the BARNS" Oh, if you have had that
keen, tender, indescribable sorrow that
comes from the loss of child, do not
give up. The old sexton was right. 1t
is all we'll with the BARNS. Or, if you
have sinned, if you have sinned griev-
ously-sinned until you have been cast
out by the Church, sinned until you
nave been cast out by society, do not
give up. Perhaps there may be in this
house one that could truthfully utter
the lamentation of another:
Once was pure as the snow, but I
Fell like a snowflake, from heaven to
Fell, to be trampled as filth in the
street
Fell, to be scoffed at, spit on and
beat; Z
Praying, cursing, wishing to die,
Selling my soul to whoever would buy.
Dealing in shame for morsel of
bread, f.
Hating the living and fearing the
dead. {.
Do not give up. One like unto the
Son of God comes to you today, say
ing, go and sin no more;;'' while he
cries out to your assailants, "Let him
that is without sin cast the first stone
at her." Oh! there is no reason why
anyone in this house, by reason Of any
trouble or sin, should give up.
Are you foreigner, and in strange
land? Nehemiah was an exile. Are
you penniless? Nehemiah was poor.
Are you homesick? Nehemiah was
homesick. Are you broken-hearted?
Nehemiah was broken-hearted. But
just see him in the text, riding along
the sacrileged grave of his father, and
by the dragon we'll, and through the
fish gate, and by the kings pool, in
and out, in and out, the moonlight
falling on the broken masonry, which
throws a long shadow at which the
horse SHES, and at the same time that
moonlight kindling up the features OF
this man till you see not only the
mark of sad Renaissance, but the cour-
age and hope, the enthusiasm of a man
who knows that Jerusalem will be re-
builded. pick you up today, out OF
your sins and out Of your sorrow, and
I put you against the warm heart OF
Christ. "The eternal God is thy ref
uge, and underneath are the everlast.
ing arms
Proved Treasure.