The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1897-04-08

ton Of American Independence, and
the song Of Robert Burns, entitled, "a
Mans a Man for a. That" were only
the long continued reverberation of
what was said and done twenty cen
turtles before in that little Kingdom
that the powers of Europe are now inn
posing upon. Greece having again and
again shown that ten men in the right
are stronger than hundred men in
the wrong, the heroics Of Leonidas and
Aristides and Themistocles will not
cease their mission until the last man
on earth is as free as God made him.
There is not on either side Of the At
lantic today republic that cannot
truthfully employ the words Of the text
and say. II am debtor to the Greeks"
But there is better way to pay
them, and that is by their personal
salvation, which will never come to
them through books or through learned
presentation, because in literature and
intellectual realms they are masters.
They can out-argue, out-quote, out
dogmatize you. Not through the gate
of the head, but through the gate of the
heart, you may capture them. When
men of learning and might are brought
to God they are brought by
simples story of what religion can
do for soul. They have lost children
Oh, tell them how Christ comforted
you when you lost your bright boy or
blue-eyed girl. They have found life
a struggle. Oh, tell them how Christ
| has helped you all the way through.
| They are in bewilderment. Oh, tell
them with how many hands Of Joy
heaven beckons you upward. when
Greek meets Greek, then comes the
tug of war; but when warm hearted
Christian meets man who needs par
don and sympathy and comfort and
eternal life, then comes victory. If you
can, by some incident of self-sacrifice,
bring to such scholarly men and wom
en- what Christ has done for their eter-
nal rescue, you may bring them in.
Where Demosthenic eloquence and Ho-
meric imagery would fail, a kindly
heart-throb may succeed. A gentleman
of this city sends me the statement of
what occurred few days ago among
the mines of British Columbia. It seems
that Frank Conson and Jem Smith
were down in the narrow shaft of a
mine. They had loaded an iron bucket
with coal, and Jim Hemsworth, stand
ing above ground, was hauling the
bucket up by windlass, when the wind
lass broke and the loaded bucket was
descending upon the two miners. Then
Jim Hemsworth, seeing what must be
certain death to the miners beneath,
threw himself against the cogs of the
whirling windlass, and though his
flesh was torn and his bones were
broken, he stopped the whirling wind
lass and arrested the descending bucket
and saved the lives of the two miners
beneath. The superintendent of the
mine flew to the rescue and blocked the
: machinery. When Jim Hemsworth's
bleeding and broken body was put on
litter and carried homeward and
some one exclaimed: "Jim, this Is aw-
t full" he replied: ooh, what's the. DIFF.
ference so long as / saved the boysn
What an illustration is was Of SUFFERING
for others, and what text from which
r to illustrate the behavior of our Christ
: limping and lacerated and broken AMI
, torn and crushed in the work of stop
: ping the descending ruin that woult
J have destroyed our souls! Try such {
!, scene of vicarious suffering as this or
that man capable of overthrowing al
your arguments for the truth, and b,
will sit down and weep. Draw your IL
! Illustrations from the classics, and it il
. to him an old story, but Leyden Jar.
and electric batteries and telescopes
! and Greek drama will all surrender t,
= the story of Jim Hemsworth's, sob
, what's the difference so long as savet
p the boys?" s4
Then if your illustration of Christ
= tself-sacrifice, drawn from some scene o
1 today land your story of what Christ 1la
done for you does not quite fetch hin
into the right way, just say to- him
:, professor -Doctor-Judge! Why wa
. it that Paul declared he was debto
to the Greeks?" Ask your learne
:, friend to take his Greek Testamen
: and translate for you, in his own way
:, from Greek into English, the splendi
;, peroration of Paul's sermon on Mar
> Hill, under the power of which tn
= scholarly Dionysius surrendered, name
r ly: "The times of this ignorance Co
r winked at; but now commandeth al
q men everywhere to repent: because h
q hath appointed day in the which h
: will judge the world in Righteousness.
d by that man whom he hath ordained
), whereof he hath given assurance unit
& all men, in that he hath raised hi1
e from the dead" By the time he ha
If got through the translation from til
1t Greek think you will see his lip trem
BILE and there will come pallor on hi
a face like the pallor on the sky at day
II break. BY the eternal salvation
le that scholar, that great thinker, thu
II splendid man, you will have don
If something to help pay your indebted
if ness to the Greeks. And now to ca
,e the Father, God the Son, and God tt
,rs Holy Ghost, be honor and glory, an
ii dominion and victory and song wor]