Orange County observer. [volume] (Hillsborough, N.C.) 1880-1918, 1880-11-20
Religious and Moral.
THOUGHTS FOR THE THOUGHTFUL.

be had to the end of our being, and
not less wide if regard be had to our
1t ever misses the mark
and the epi aph might be written over
every sinner who seeks pleasure at the
price of righteousness, Thou fool. y
Aiernnder Mdciuren.
What the world calls beautiful mus
ic, its operas, cantatas and the like, is
as different and inferior to the music /
that the Christian sings, if music be the !
bubbling up of living JOY in the heart,
as the thunder and lightning of the
theatre is inferior to the rolling Of Gods
chariot in summer sky.-P. S. Hen
son.
largely thou givest, gracious Lord;
Largely thy gifts should be restored.
Freely thou givest and thy-word
IL, Freely give
He only who fOrgets to hoard
Has learned to live.
JOHN KEBLE.
If thy thoughts should, like the Ia
borious bee, go over the world from
flower to flower, from creature to crea-
ture, they would bring thee no honey
or sweetness home, save what they
gathered from their relations to eterni-
ty.-RicH<trd Batter.
The sins Of youth are the shadows of
old age
REMEMBER THY MOTHER.
Lead thy mother tenderly
Down lit4s steep decline:
Once her a I'm thy support.
Now sheleans on thine,
See upon her loving face,
Those deep lines OF care;
Think it Was her toll for thee
Left thaIrecord there.
>Neer forge her treless watch
Kept by day and night;
TAX 4 from her step the grace
From her eye, the light.
Cherish we'll her faithful heart:
Which through weary years
Echoed with its sympathy
All thy smiles and tears,
Thank God for thy mothers love
Guard the priceless boon:
For the bitter parting hour
Cometh all too soon.
When thy grateful tenderness
Loses power to save,
Earth will hold no dearer spot
Than thy mothers grave.
The characters of Christians differ.
1t is the peculiarity of the life of the
| Saviour to impart different gifts, and a
different selection of gifts to different
| believers, so that while all have fam
lily likeness to the Master, yet they are
] not like to like but " like in differ
ence. .'-CHurics Butcher, d. u.
LITTLE MINISTRIES.
l \ single word is a little thing
But a soul may be dying before your eyes
For lack OF the comfort word may bt ing,
With its welcome help and sweet surprise.
A kindly look costs nothing at all.
But heart may be starving for just one
glance
That shall show by the eyelid's tender fall
The help ofa plying countenante
It is easy enough TO bend the
To catch some tale OF sore distress:
But men may be fainting beside u here.
For longing to share tieir wearine>s.
1 ntSe Slils nor sliNt nor eOtu may DuE.
Nor the wealth OF the richst OF men be,tow
But the comfort OF word, or ear. eye.
fhe poorest may offer wherever he 90.
If sin hal not brought death into the
world, and Christ TO the cross, W,
should never have known SO much oi
the goodness of God as we do.-Rer I
Adunss.
Get at the root of things. The gold
mines fScripture are not in the toI
soil, you must open shaft; the prcc
ious diamonds of experience are moi
picked up in the roadway; their secret
places are far down. Get down ia,t
the vitality the solidity. the veraciiy
the divinity of the word OF God. ana
seek TO possess it with the inward work
of the spirit.
What an insult is offered to G,d to
come before him, and by an appearance
OF devotion TO call forth his attention
when in reality We have nothing to Il,
with him. What trifiing with divin.
things 1t impairs conscience and
dcalens moral sen>li,iiity. 1t render.
the means OF grace unimpre>sive by ia
milliarty, and provoke> God 10 with
) draw the influence essential to theil
success. = p.'pa. joy.
Passing along the street the othei
J day We thought We had found yer.