The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1897-07-22

it is gone. The Lord God came into
the counting room and said: Il have
allowed you to have all this pronerty
for ten, fifteen or twenty years and
you have not done justice to nv moor
children. When the beggar called ,1non
you, you bounded him off your steps.
when my suffering children apnealed
to you for help, you had no mercy. I
only asked for SO much, or so much but
you did not give it to me, and now I
will take it all'' ~
God asks of us one-seventh of orr
time in the way of Sabbath. Do YOU
suppose we can get an hour of that
time successfully away from it's true
object? No, no, God has demanded
one-seventh of your time. If you take
one hour of that time that is to be de-
voted to Gods service, and instead of
keeping his Sabbath, use it for the pur-
pose of writing up your accounts or
making worldly gains, God will get
that hour from you in some unexpected
way. God says to Jonah, you 20 to
Nineveh." He says, "No, won't. I'll
go to Tarshish." He starts for Tarshish,
The sea raves, the winds blow, and the
ship rocks. Come, We whales, and take
this passenger for Tarshish! No man
ever gets to Tarshish whom God tells
to go to Nineveh. The sea would not
carry him; it is Gods sea. The winds
would not watt him! they are Gods
winds. Let man attempt to do that
which God forbids him to do, or to go
ir%~ ,>1o 49, AL I
go, the natural world as we'll as God
is against him. The 1ightnings are
ready to strike him, the fires to burn
him, the sun to smite him, the waters
to drown him, and the earth to swal- !
low him. Those whose princely robes
are woven out of hearts strings; those
whose fine houses are built out of |
skulls; those whose springing fount-
aims are the tears of oppressed ma
tions-have they successfully cheated |
God? The last day will demonstrate
it will be found out on that day that |
God vindicates not only his goodness |
and his mercy, but his power to take |
care of his own rights and the rights
of his church, and the rights of his OPP
pressed children. Come, We martyred !
dead, awake! and come up from the
dungeons where folded darkness
hearsed you, and the chains like can
kers peeled loose the skin and wore
off the flesh, and ratified on the marrow
less bones. Come, We martyred dead,
from the stakes where you were
burned, where the arm uplifted for
mercy fell into the ashes,/ and the cry
Of pain was drowned in the swapping
of the fame and the bowling Of the
mob; from valleys of Piedmont and
smithfield Market, and London Tower,
and the Highlands of Scotland Gather
in great procession, and together clap
your bOny hands, and together stamp
your mouldy feet, and let the chains
that bound you to dungeons all clank
at once, and gather all the flames that
burned you in one uplifted arm of fire,
and plead for a judgment. Gather all
the tears We ever wept into a lake, and
gather all the signs We ever breathed
into tempest, until the heaven-pierc-
ing chain-clank, and the tempest-sigh,
and the thunder-groan, announce to
earth and hell and heaven a Judgment!
Oh, on that day God will vindicate the
cause of the troubled and the OBJ
pressed! 1t will be seen in that day
that though we may have robbed our
fellows, we never have successfully
robbed God Il
My Christian friends, as you 60 out
into the world, exhibit an open-hearted
Christian frankness. Do not be hypo-
critical in anything; you are never safe
f you are. At the most inopportune
the sheep will bleat and the
oxen below. Drive out the last Amale-
Kite of sin from your soul. Have no
mercy on Agag. Down with your sins:
down with your pride; down with your
I know you cannot achieve
his work by your own arm, but AL
mighty grace is sufficient-that which
saved Joseph in the pit; that which
delivered Daniel in the den; that which
shielded Shadrach in the fire; that
which cheered Paul in the shipwreck