The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1897-05-13

OF the entire United States will pour
forth their treasures Of food. When
that ship is laden till 1t can carry no
more. we will ask Him who holds the
winds in his fist and plants his trium-
phant foot on stormy waves to let moth
Ing but good happen to: the ship till It
anchors in Bengal or Arabian waters.
they who help by. contributions OF
money money or breadstuffs toward filing
that relief ship will. flavor their own
food for their lifetime with appetizing
qualities, and insure their own welfare
through the promise Of him who said,
Blessed is he that considereth the
poor; the Lord will deliver him in time
of trouble,'' e. IS SIC
And now bethink myself OF some
thing never thought Of before. I had
noticed that the circle is Gods favor
lite figure, and upon that subject / adj
dressed you some time ago, but it did
not occur to me until now that the Cos
pei seems to be moving in circle. It'll
started in Asia, Bethlehem. an Asiatic
village; Jordan. an Asiatic river; Cal
vary, an Asiatic mountain. Then this
Gospel moved on to Europe; witness
the chapels and churches and cathed-
rails and Christian universities of that
continent. Then it crossed to Amer
lea. It has prayed and preached and
sung its way across our continent. It
has crossed to Asia, taking the, Sand
witch Islands In its way, and now in all
the great cities on the coast of China
people are singing Crock of Ages, and
There Is a Fountain Filled with
Blood" for you must know that not
only have the Scriptures been trans
lated into these Asiatic tongues, but
also the evangelical hymns. My mis-
slonary brother, John, translated some
OF them into Chinese, and Mr.. Glad
stone gave me a copy of the hymn,
Jesus, Lover of My SOUP which he
sh1mselfshad translated into Greek. The
Christ who it seems spent sixteen or
eighteen years of his life in india is
tnere now in spirit, converting and
saving the people by hundreds of thou
sands, and the Gospel will move right
on through Asia until the story of the
Sav1our's birth will anew be made
known in Bethlehem, and the story Of a
Savlour's sacrifice be told anew on and
around Calvary, and the story of Saw
tours Ascension be told anew on the
shoulder of Mt. Olivet. And then do
you not see the circle will be complete?
The glorious circle, the circle Of the
earth? This old planet, gashed with
earthquake and scorched with confia-
grafton and torn with revolutions, will
be girdled with churches, with schools,
with universities, with millennial fes-
tlvities How cheering and how inspir-
Ing the thought that we are, whether
giving temporal or spiritual relief.
working on the segment of such a
circle. And that the Christly mission
which started in Asia will keep on it's
way until it goes clear around to the
place where it started! Then the earth
will have demonstrated that for which
1t was created, and as soon as a world
mas completed its mission it dies. Part
OF the heavens is a cemetery of.tdead
worlds. Our world built to demon
strate to the worlds which have been
loyal to God the awful results of dis
loyalty, so that none of them may ever
attempt it say our world. having
nnlshed its mission, may them 20 out
or existence. The central fires of the
world which are burning out rapidly
toward the crust, may have reached
the surface by that time and the Bible
prophecy be fulfilled, which declares
that the earth and all things that are
therein shall be burned up.
May the 10th, 1869, was a memorable
day, for then was laid the last tie
which connected the two rail tracks
which united the Atlantic and Pacific
Oceans. The Central Pacific Railroad
was built from California eastward
The Union Pacific Railroad was built
westward. They were within arms
reach of meeting, only one more niece
of the rail track to put down. A great
audience assembled, mid-continent to
see the last tie laid. The locomotives
of the Eastern and Western trains
stood painting on the tracks close bv.
Grafton explained the occasion. and
prayer solemnized it and music
enchanted it. The tie was made
of polished laurel wood. bound
with silver. bands, and three
Ispikes were used-a gold spike
presented by California; a ssi]4
yer spike, presented by Nevada and
an iron spike, presented by Arizona
When, all heads uncovered and All
hearts thrilling with emotion, the ham
mer struck the last spike into its Mace
the cannon doomed it amid the 70.
sounding mountain echoes and the tele-
graphic instruments clicked to Al, na-
lions that the deed was done Nv
friends, if the laying of the last Tie that
bound the East and the West Of ono
continent together was such a resound-
ing occasion, what will it be when tbe
last tie of the track of Gospel infln-
ences, reaching clear around the world
shall be laid amid the anthems Of All
nations? The spikes will be the gold
en- and silver spikes fashioned ant IF
the Christian generosity of the henois-
pheres. The last hammer stroke that
completes the work will be heard nv al