The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1897-03-18
year the average less than 81 hal their

+ Ter our children wore their summer
clothes. 4 And these men Of God ~ find
in different parts Of the land struggling
against annoyance and Eexasperations$
innumerable; Some OF them week
after week entertaining agents who
have maps or lightning rods to- SELL
and submitting themselves to all sty les
Of annoyance, and vet wit TOUT COM
plant and cheerful Of soul. How DO
you account for the fact that these life
insurance men tell US that ministers, as
class. live longer than any other? Il
is because OF the JOY Of their work; the
joy Of the harvest field, the Joy Of
greeting prodigals home to their Faith
er's house. oh, we are in sympathy
with all innocent hilarities. We can
enjoy hearty song and we can be m err
ry with the nerriest; but those. Of US
who have toiled in /. the service are
ready to testify that all these joys are
tame compared with the satisfaction Of
seeing men enter the kingdom Of Cod.
The great eras Of every ministry are
the outpourings Of the Holy Ghost, and
I thank God have seen sixteen Of
them. Thank God. thank God! I
Look, look! There is Christ. Cuyp
painted him for earthly galleries, and
Correggio and Tintoretto and Benja
West and Dore painted him for earthly
galleries, but all those pictures are,
eclipsed by this masterpiece Of heav en-.
/ Christ! Christ! There is Paul, the hero
of the Sanhedrim, and of Agrippa's
court room, and of Mars Hill, and Of
.Nero,s infamy, shaking his chained fist
in the very face of eeth-chattering
royalty Here is Joshua, the fighter Of
Bethoron and Gideon, the man that.
postponed shutdown. And here is Wash
tt, the profigacy of the Persian court
unable to remove her veil Of modesty
or rend it, or lift it. And along the
corridors of this picture gallery / find
other great heroes and heroines David
with his harp, and Miriam with the
cymbals, and Zechariah with the scroll,
and ST. John with the seven walls, and
the resurrection angel with the trum-s
pet. On further in the corridors, see
the faces of our loved ones, the cough
gone from the throat, the Wanness gone
from the cheek, the WEAKNESS gone
I from the limbs, the languor gone from
the eye. Let us go up and greet them.
Let us go up and embrace them. Let
US go up and live with them. We will!
| we will ass
Once more remark, that when the
! prodigal gets back the inhabitants Of
4 heaven keep festal. am very certain
i of it. If you have never seen a tele-
graph chart you have no idea how many
cities are connected together, and how
many lands. Nearly all the neighbor.;
hoods of the earth seem rce:culated,
and news flies from city to city, and
4 from continent to continent. But more
!. rapidly go the tidings from earth to
heaven, and when a prodigal returns
lit is announced before the throne, III
l God. And if these souls now present
should enter the kingdom there would
be some one in the heavenly kingdom
to say, That's my father, That's my
mother That's my son, '7''T That's the
one used to pray for, z That's the
one for whom Wept SO many tears,
and one soul would say, H osanna!
!. and another would say, "Hallelujah!"
Pleased with the news, the saints be-
In songs their tongues employ;
i Beyond the skies the tidings go,
And heaven is filled with JOY.
Nor angels can their joy contain,
But kindle with new fire;
a The sinner lost is found, they sing,
And strike the sounding Tyre.
4 From this hilltop catch glimpse
Of those hilltops where all sorrow and
8 signing shall be done away. Oh, that
. God would make that world to us a
reality. Faith in that world helped old
q DR.. Tying when he stood by the casket
Of his dead son whose arm had been
9 torn off in the threshing machine
8 death ensuing, and DR.. Tying, with in
finite composure, preached the funera!
. sermon of his own beloved son. Faith
/ in that world helped Martin Luther
IS without one tear to put away in dealt
his fayorite child. Faith in thai
q world helped the dying woman to SEE
Oh LuSt~ shy LAOt AOLGOAf}g w GAAAA 5kCACJ
L asked her what she supposed that let
! ter ..W' on the sky meant. oh, sht
J, said, don't y,u know? w stands To-
..Welcore.'@'' Oh, heaven swing oper
!, thy gates. Oh, heaven, roll upon Ii
some Of the sunshine anthems. Oh
!, heaven, flash upon US the vision Of thy
luster. An old writer tells US Of a shil
coming from India to France. The crew
! was made up Of French sailors who hat
Z been long from home, and as the shil
! came along the coast Of France, TIL,
! men skipped the deck with glee, ant
: they pointed to the spires Of TIL,
!. churches where they once worshipet
and to the hills where they had played
II in boyhood. But when the ship cam,
s. into port, and these sailors saw fathe
and mother and wife and loved ones o1
+ the wharf, they sprang ashore an,
: rushed up the banks into the city, an,
j the captain had to get another crew Il
|. bring the ship to her mornings S.