The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1897-04-29

oft and feel the thrill Of the Christly
brotherhood Not supposing the man
to be Caesar, not supposing him to be
Socrates, but 'supposing him to be the
| gardener"
Oh, that is what helped Joseph
Wedgwood, toiling amid the heat and
the dust Of the potteries, until he could
make for Queen Charlotte the first
royal table service of English manu-
facture. That was what helped James
| Watt, scoffed at and caricatured, until
he could put on wheels the thunderbolt
OF power which roars by day and night
in every furnace of the locomotive en-
gines Of America. That is what helped
Hugh Miller toiling amid the quarries
OF Cromarty, until every rock became
to him a volume of the worlds biog-
raphy, and he found the footsteps OF
the Creator in the old red sandstone.
Oh, the world wants Christ for the
office, Christ for the Kitchen a Christ
for the shop, Christ for the banking
house, Christ for the garden. while
spading and planting and irrigating
the territory. Oh, of course, we want
to see Christ at last in royal robe and
bediamoned, celestial equestrian
mounting the white horse, but from
this Easter of 1897 to our last Easter on
earth we most need to see Christ as
Mary Magdalen saw him at the day
break, "supposing him to be gar
dener." .$
Another thing which the church and
the world have not noticed in regard
to the resurrection of Christ is that he
made his first post-mortem appearance
to one who had been the seven-deviled
Mary Magdalen. One would have sup-
posed he would have made his first
posthumous appearance to woman
who had always been illustrious for
goodness. There are sanity women
who have always been sanity, sanity
in girlhood, sanity in infancy, always
sanity. In nearly all our families
there have been sanity aunts. In my
:, family circle it was aunt Phebe; in
yours sanity aunt Martha or SANITY
aunt Ruth. One always sanity. But
not so with the one spoken of in the
| text.
While you are not to confound her
with the repugnant courtesan who had
made her long locks do the work of
towel at Christ's footwashing, you are
: not to forget that she was exercised OF
seven devils. What capital OF de-
: nonology she must have been. What
a chorus of all diabolism. Seven devils
two for the eyes, and two for the
hands, and two for the feet, and one for
the tongue Seven devils. Yet all
these are extirpated, and now she is as
good as once she was bad, and Christ
3 honors her with the first postum
nous appearance? What doth that
e mean? It z~.sss =.
: There is a man Standardization
of avarice, devil of pride, devil of hate
4 devil OF Incidence, devil of falsehood
Q devil of strong drink, devil of impurl-
= ty. God can take them all away, sew.
e en-, or seventy. rode over the new
: cantilever bridge that spans Niagara
a bridge 900 feet long, $50 feet O
n chasm from bluff to bluff. I passed
o over it without anxiety. Why? Be
h cause twenty-five locomotives ant
}! twenty-five cars laden with gravel hat
$ tested the bridge, thousands of people
i standing on the Canadian side, thous
# ands standing on the American side tt
n applaud the achievement. And how
q ever long the train of our immortal in
It terests may be we are to remembe
= that Gods bridge of mercy spannin,
g the chasm of sin has been fully testel
e Ivy the awful tonnage of all the pardone,
le sin of all ages, church militant stand
l. ing on one bank, church triumphan
y standing on the other bank. Oh,
r. was to the seven-deviled Mary tina
,r Christ made His first post-morteo ap
Is pearance.
g There is another thing that the worl
c. and the church have not observed i
a. regard to this resurrection and that il
70 it was the morning twilight.
w. If the chronometer had been invent
-, ed and Mary had as good watch a
w. some OF the Marys of our time hav,
- she would have found it was abou
-, half-past 5 o'clock a. m. Matthew say
- it was in the dawn. Mark says it wa
:. :. early in the morning; John says it wa
Wu1l0 II Was ycI udlh. LII Otu6T WOcQ
80 it was twilight. That was the o'cloc
=, at which Mary Magdalen mistook Chri.
49, for the gardener. What does tn;
e1 mean? 1t means there are shadow
VI over the grave untitled, shadows
st mystery that are lowering. Mar
- stopped down and tried to look to IL
other end Of the crypt. She gave by
ak teric cutlery. She could not see to tt
I'D other end of the crypt Neither can ye
m- see to the other end of the grave
lp- your dead. Neither can we see to Il
pe other end of our grave. Oh, if the
cd We're shadows over the family plot
AZ longing to Joseph of Arimathea, is
OF strange that there should be son
MS shadows over our family lot? East
ply dawn, not Easter noon.
)ut Shadow of unanswered question
Ut, Why were they taken away from u
rty why were they ever given to us if tn
ry- were to be taken so soon? why we
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