The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1897-10-28
who made laws to restrain intemper-

who made laws to restrain intemper-
ance, the consecreated platform ora
tors who thrilled the generations that
are gone, with righteousness, temper |
ance, and judgment to come"-Albert
Barnes and John B. Cough were there |
to greet him, and golden-tongued pa
triarch Stephen H. Tying was there,
and John W. Hawkins, the founder OF
the much derided and gloriously use
full "Washingtonian Movement" was
there, and John Stems and Commo-
dore Foote, and DR.. Marsh and Gov
,ernor Briggs and Eliphalet Mott, and
my lovely friend Alfred Colquitt, the
Christian Senator, and hundreds of
those who labored for the overthrow
of the drunkenness that yet curses the
earth, were there to meet him and es-
cort him to his throne and shout at
his coronation.
God let him live on for near CEN
fury, to show what good habits and
cheerfulness and faith in the final tri-
umph of all that is good, can do for a
man in this world, and to add to the
number of those who would be on the
other side to attend his entrance. But
he will come back again! YES" say
some of you, with Martha, about Laza-
rus to Jesus, II know he will rise at
the Resurrection of the last day.. All!
do not mean that. .Ministering spir-
it's are all the time coming and going
between earth and heaven-the Bible
teaches lt-and do you suppose the old
hero just assembled will not come down
and help us in the battle that still
goes on? He will. Into the hearts of
| discouraged reformers he will come to
speak good cheer. When legislators
are deciding how they can best stop
the rum traffic of America by legal
enactment, he will help them vote for
the right and rise up undismayed from
temporary defeat. In this battle will
Neal Dow be until the last victory is
gained and the smoke of the last dis
tillery has curled on the air, and the
last tear of despoiled homesteads shall
be wiped away. 0 departed homage
marian! After you have taken a good
rest from your struggle of seventy act
|
fight, and bring with you a host of the
old Christian warriors who once
mingled in the fray.
In this battle the visible troops are
not so mighty as the invisible. The
gospel campaign began with the SUI
pernatural-the midnight chant thai
woke the shepherds, the hushed sea
the eyesight given where the patien
had been without the optic nerve, thu
sun obliterated from the noonda!
heavens, the law Of gravitation loosinl
it's grip as Christ assembled; and a.
the gospel campaign began with tn
supernatural, it will close with the SUI
pernatural; and the winds and tn
waves and the lightnings and tn
: earthquakes will come in on the RICH
+ side and against the wrong side: an
, our assembled champions will return
whether the world sees them or doe
not see them. I do not think that thos
+ great souls departed are going to d
q nothing hereafter but sing psalms an
play harps, and breathe frankincens
v and walk seas of glass mingled wit
8 fire. The mission they fulfilled viii
:, in the body will be eclipsed by the
:, post-mortem mission, with faculti&
i quickened and velocities multiplied
J. and it may have been to that our d,
s ing reformer referred when he said,
e long to be free" There may be bigg'
It words than this to be redeemed, ar
d more gigantic denominations to be owe
It thrown than this world ever saw; al
l. the discipline gotten here may only
,e preliminary drill for. campaign
le some other world, and perhaps son
n other constellation. But the crown
lie heroes and heroines, because of the
n, grander achievements in great
[e spheres, will not forget this old wor
ee where they prayed and suffered al
in triumphed. Church militant a.
le Church triumphant but two divisio
Is of the same army-right wing a
TX left wing. ~ .s-s*