The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1902-06-05

OOrn 70 De King, and SO there are a
thousand things you must not say, a
thousand things you must not do, and
thousand places you must not 60, for
you were born to be kings and queens
with God. You must lay this white
stone into the corner OF your life if you
would enjoy your life; you must be
pure in heart, for the pure in heart
shall see God. .,z-.. &C. .>...... p
The third stone is industry and upon
it would engrave one of the most
significant sayings of Jesus, my
Father worketh hitherto, and work. -
DR.. Hills has said IF a state could
put all its idlers into prison nearly all
OF it's problems would be instantly
solved" A hard working farmer had
sent his son to college for years and
had been sending him money year af-
ter year and now the son came home.
His hair was long, he wore his pants
rolled up, and he smoked a cigarette
and had vacant stare. And when
his father thought that now he would
have real help in his old days and
found nothing but idleness you will
pardon him for saying in the words of
Aaron II have put in my gold and 10
there came forth this calf.' I pray
you, young men and women that if you
have learned nothing else, that at
least you may have learned the sacred
ness of labor. All honest work is
sacred. In Athens no gentlemen
worked; slaves worked but not the
| citizen. Therefore Athens is only a
name. The same conditions existed in
the Middle Ages, and this idleness re-
suited in the feudal system and ended
in France in the awful French revolu-
ton. Indeed, it was the false concep-
tion of work that ruined the South.
In the cotton belt only the slaves
worked and We're ignorant. In the
North the common people worked and
were Intelligent. Suddenly the South
collapsed like an egg shell, while the
North, the working states, come out of
the war with more wealth and strength
then they had when they went into the
conflict.
How can it be secular for the car
penter to plane wood if it is sacred for
God to grow the pine and the oak?
How can it be secular for miners to
dig for iron and silver or gold when it
is sacred for God to stow these things
in the earth? How can it be secular
for the farmer to SOW and to cultivate
and to harvest when it is sacred for
God to put the life into the seed, to
wheel the clouds around that they
may give rain and to cause the sun to
shine with its life giving power?
The last stone to be laid is prayer
Without it your building would be
weak, and in time would become one
sided like the leaning tower of Pisa.
1t leans because on one side there was
something lacking in the foundation.
There is no time in your life when
God is so near you as now. Remember
1t was young man who said of the
commandments, ''All these things
have I kept from my youth up, what
lack I yet?" And it was to this young
man that Jesus said Follow me"
And again it was this young man who
went away because the demand was
too great. But it was an old man so
the legend tells US that came back
Years afterwards and took his stand
at the place of his interview and stood
| there with uncovered head from the
rising of the sun to the going down of
the same. With a far-away look he
seemed straining his eyes for one who
had passed forever from his sight.
With broken heart and expectant look
he stood for the inEitation that would
come no more forever. 1.-The fool has
said in his heart there is no God," and
this is the only sensible thing the fool
ever did say. God is wise How can
the fool know wisdom?
Character is a building not made
with hands. Units construction there
is not heard the sound of a hammer.
nor any other noise, and yet it is surely
and steadily growing. Little by little
the materials for the great structure
are gathered. Every thought is a nail,
every deed a stone, every habit a
pillar. Always remember that the soul
is temple not made with hands, so it
is also not for time alone, but it is to
be ''eternal in the heavens
And thus let us lay the corner stones
of our character. This stone over here
shall stand as guard, and say only
the true, the honest and just things
shall enter into the building. This
one shall declare that no unclean
thought, or book, or picture, or person
shall find its way into this structure.
Industry will gather the materials and