The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1898-12-08

have, very soon, q railroad bridge
across Behring Strait, those thirty-six
miles OF water, not deep, and they are
spotted with islands capa BILE Of holding
the piers OF great bridge. And what
with America and Asia thus connected,
and 'a111 Siberian railway and railr road
nov: now projected for the len III Of Afrl-#
ca, and Palestine and Persia, and India
and China, and Burmah intersected
with railroad tracks, all Of which will
pc done before the new century is
grown up, the way will be-
open to the quick civilization
and evangelization of the whole world
The old map we used to study in our
8boyhood days is dusty, and on the top,
shelf, or amid the rubbish Of the gar
ret; and SO will the present map Of
the world. however gilded and beauti-
fully bound, be treated, and an entire
" new map will be put into the infan-
tile hand of the coming century.
The work Of this century has been.
to get ready. All the earth is now
Tree to the gospel except two little
spots, one in Asia and one in Africa,
while at the beginning of the century
there stood the Chinese wall, and there
Hamed the fires, and there glittered the
swords that forbade entrance to many
islands and large reaches of continent.
B'o(rneslan cruelties and Fiji island
cannlbalism have given away, and all
. the gates Of all the continents are
swung open with a clang that has been
a positive and glorious invitation for
christianity to enter. Telegraph. tele-
phone and monograph are to be conse-
Grated to gospel dissemination, and in
stead OF the voice that gains the atten-
ton OF few hundred or few thou
sand people within the church walls,
the telegraph will thrill the glad It'd
lngs and the telephone will utter them
to many millions. Oh, the infinite adj
vantage that the twentieth century
has over what the nineteenth century
had at the starting!
do not believe there is in all this
mousse temperance pledge, and you
would have to take out a torn letter
envelope or a loose scrap Of paper for
the inebriate's signature. I found out
afterward that there was one such
temperance pledge in the audience, but.
only one that I could hear of. Do not
leave to politics that which can be
done now in ten thousand reformatory
meetings all over the country. The
two great political parties, Republic
an and Democratic, will put prohib-
ltory plank in the platform the same
day that Satan joins the church and
turns perdition into camp meeting.
Both parties want the votes of the
traftickers in liquid death, and if you
wait for the ballot box to do the work,
1lrst you will have local option, and
then you will have high license, and
then frst-rate law passed; to be re-
voked by the next legislature.
On, save the young man of today,
and greet the coming century with a
tidal wave of national redemption! Do
not put upon the cradle of the TWEEN
t1eth century a mountain of demiiohns,
and beer barrels, and rum jugs. and
put to its infant lips wretchedness. dis
ease, murder, and abandonment in So,
luton. Aye, reform that army of in.
ebriates. "Ah," you say, ''it cannot
be done" That shows that you will
be of no use in the work. 60, We OF
little faith Away back in early
times, President Davies of Princeton
college, one day found man in utter
despair because of the thrall of strong
drink. The president said to him:
"Sir, be of good cheer; you can be saw
ed. Sign the pledge" "Ah," said the
despairing victim, II have often sign
ed the pledge, but I have always brok-
en- my pledge" But" said the presi-
dent, 81 will be your strength to keep
the pledge. I will be your friend, and.
with loving arm around you, will
hold you up. When your appetite
burns, and you feel that you must
crafty it, come to my house; sit down
with me in the study, or with the fam
lily in the parlor, and will be shield
to you. All that can do for you with
| my books my sympathy, my expert
eHce, my society, my love, AF money,
will do You shall forget your appe-
title and master it, A look of hope
gloWed on the poor mans face, and he.
replied: "sir, will you do all that ?''2
Surely / will" Then I will over
come" He signed the pledge and kept
it. That plan of President Davies, which
saved one man, tried on large scale.
will save million men.
Alexander the Great made an impe-
| rial banquet at Babylon, and though
he had been drinking the health Of
guests all one night and all next fay.
the second night he had twenty guests
and he drank the health Of each sep
arately. Then calling for the cup of
! Hercules, the giant, a monster cup,
he filled and drained it twice, to show
his endurance; but, as he finished last
draught from the cup Of Hercules. the
giant, he dropped in fit, from which
he never recovered. Alexander, who
had conquered Sardis, and conquered
Hias ia lea M and conquered Asia,
and conquered the world. could not
conquer himself: and there is a thraat-