The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1898-07-07
TALMAGE'S SERMON.
"A GLORIOUS REST" LAST
SUNDAYS SUBJECT.
From the Text of Micah, Chapter If,
Verse 10, as Follows: "Arise Ye and
Depart, for This Is Not Your Rest
Drumbeat Of the Prophet. ---


their oppressed and sinful condition;
but it may just as properly be uttered
now as then. Bells, by long exposure
and much ringing, lose their clearness
CT tone; but this rousing bell Of the
gospel strikes in as clear tone as
when it first rang on the air. -s
AS far as l can see, your great want
and mine is rest. From the time We
enter life, great many yexations and
aanoyances take after us. We have our
ko1ldays and our seasons of recreation
and quiet, but where is the man in this
world who has found entire rest? The
TACT is that God did not make this
world to rest in. A ship might as we'll
go down off Cape Hatteras to find
smooth water as man in this world to
lind quiet. From the way that God
mas strewn the thorns, and hung the
clouds, and sharpened the tusks; from
the colds that distress us and the heats
that smite us, and the pleurisies that
STAB us, and the fevers that consume
us, know that he did not make this
world as place to loiter in. God does
everything successfully; and this world
would be very different world if it
were intended for us to lounge in. 1t
does right we'll for a few years. In
deed, it is magnificent! Nothing but
nave mixed this beverage of water or
hung up these brackets of stars, or
trained these voices of rill and bird,
and Ccean-so that God has but to lift
his hand, and the whole world breaks
forth into orchestra. But after all, it
is only the splendors of kings high
way, over which we are to march on to
eternal conquests.
You and have seen men who tried
to rest here. They builded themselves
great stores. They gathered around
them patronage of merchant princes.
The voice of their bid shook the
money markets. They had stock in the
most Successful railroads, and in safe
deposit vaults great rolls of govern
ment securities. They had emblazoned
carriages, high-mettled steeds, foot
men, plate that COMPOUNDED lords and
senator's who sat at their table, tapestry
on which foated the richest designs of
foreign looms, splendor of canvas on
the wall, exquisiteness of music rising
among pedestals of bronze, and drop
ping, soft as light, on snow of sculp-
ture. Here let them rest. Put back
the embroidered curtain, and shake up
the pillow of down. Turn out the
lights. 1t Is II o'clock at night. Let
slumber drop upon the eyelids, and the
air float through the half-opened lat
ylce, drowsy with midsummer perfume.
Ptand back. all care, anxiety, and trou-
BILE! But no! they will not stand back.
They rattle the lattice. They look I'M
der the canopy. With rough touch
they startle his pulses. They cry out
at II o'clock at night, Awake, man;
how can you sleep when things are so
uncertain? What about those stocks?
Hark to the tap Of that fre-bell; it is
your district How, If you should die
soon? Awake. man! Think of it!
Who will get your property when you
are gone? What will they do with 1t?
Wake up! Riches sometimes take
wings. How if you should get poor?
Wake up" Rising on one elbow, the
man Of fortune looks out into the dark
ness of the room, and wipes the damp
ness from his forehead and says, Alas!
For all this scene Of wealth and mag
nifcence-no rest"
The very world that now applauds
will soon hiss. That world said of the
great Webster, What statesman!
What wonderful exposition of the con-
stitution! A man fit for any position! :"
That same world said, after a while,
Down with him! He is an office-seek-
er. He is sot. He is a libertine.
Away with him." And there Is no
peace for the man until he lays down
his broken heart in the grave at Marsh
field. While Charles Matthews was
performing in London, before immense
audiences, one day WORKOUT and
gloomy man came into doctors shop
saying, Doctor, what can you do for
me?" The doctor examined his case
and said, my advice is that you go and
see Charles Matthew'S" ALAS! Alas!"
said the man, II myself am Charles
Matthew's" Jeffrey thought that if be
could only be Judge, that would be the
making of him; got to be judge, and
cursed the day in which he was born
Alexander wanted to submerge the
world with his greatness; submerged
1t, and then drank himself to death be-
cause he could not stand the trouble
Burns thought he would give every
thing II he could win the favor of courts
and princes; won it, and amid the
shouts of great entertainment. when
poets, orators and duchesses were ador.
=. ing his genius. wished that he could
creep back into the obscurity in which
he dwelt on the day when he wrote OF
the ssaj e..
Daisy, wee modest, crimson-tipped
flower" - .@'
Napoleon wanted to make all Europe
tremble at his power; made it tremble
then died, his entire military achieve
ments dwindling down to a pair OF
military boots which he insisted on
having on his feet when dying. Al
Versailles saw picture of Napoleon
in his triumphs. went into another
room and saw bust of Napoleon as