Orange County observer. [volume] (Hillsborough, N.C.) 1880-1918, 1884-07-26
4 SUNDAY SERMON.
XII A1!fE vAItE or .I>FRO~iT,
AND IfEIEAi.ITN.
Ie" Striking Nate. Fse,a He~ehet' sun
day Talk.

day Talk.
'iiat WA the Wall stree. Of tfe.c
days, said Mr. Ecccler as he read his
text Sunday. commenting upon lie
passage, And he f'Il among thieves. ;"
The sermon treated of the relative value
osr,enero-lt3 AMI lhcra(sy, NJ Beech
| or said III h.s sermon:
ut is II gL, for one TO Jsel tlae niuenro
If nation, O; family, % profession al of
social circles. but it is wfong IL neglect
all ontsile Of it, az If the claims of h,-
manitv on us were confined in the ratio
of the nearness of persons to us.
'Of all facile graces in Christian
expo no, in religiouaexperience, there
is no grace like that Of hating. 1t is
called justice sometimes standing for
the right; it is called proper discrimi-
nation OF character and conduct; it is
called all sorts Of things; but the Lord
knows and the devil knows that it is
right down good hating that is exercised
by calling themselves Christians.
"The good Samaritan is admired by
all sects and races-and occasionally IS.
initiated"
IA habit Of generosity is like oil on
machinery. and makes life smooth; and
there is more in it to teach man to
love man than in all the preaching in the
world"
"There are thousand things that
might gradually be better for the inter
pretation Of truth in It's larger sphere;
but, after all, an act of kindness brings
Gods angels nearer to man than almost
any other form of teaching."
u recollect that the most painful
times in my life, and the least profitable,
were when folks were talking religion to
me. Oh ! did dread a pious man who
was always talking religion, and l made
up my mind that il 7 ever got pions
which / never cxpccted---that would
never bore people with religion. There
isn't man, woman or child that can say
ever talked shop to them personally,
Of my ,p,v1 :-'T5sns' 4-.i'.r ~ 'e7'~ NV.
~, .,nted to talk it. never push
religion on anybody"
"L!iieraiity endcayors to do more
than transient kindnesa. 1t is study.
ing how to do kindness in sucA way
tat it shall be wholesale ono and not
a retail one. It looks along the line Of
probabilities and secs where miscliefs
will be likely to occur, or where benefits
will be likely to l,e appreciated or need
ed and undertakes, by organization, to
extend a kindness down through the
generations,
'{!elcrosity works Ivy sight, Iihcral,iy
works by faith, and, like ourselves, they
work better when they have both sight
and faith.
ut is good to relieve one orphan, bat
It il better to establish an restitution
that will relieve ten thousand, it is a
much higher manifestation of trne love
and benevolence.
"Irt not llherality cheat generosity,
let not generosity scofl at liberaiity; let
| item go 1lilO hu hiiidiitC tHC WIN i'4t
other"
Don't do your good through commit
tees If YOU can do it personally; the fact
If the River is better than the thing
given often; but if you can do some
thing through committee besides what
you do personally do that
1T is the sclfshncss of riches tia: IL
lis bane: it il the laying up for one
self INT he that with constant, propel
regard for Lis own household, yet has al
ambition 10 go beyeua :iat, and hy hh
life and ii i TO make men on every H't'
Of h,n happy. how heroic : such MAJ
and such j ifc T.
The nan who lives for himself VI.
n .ve lie iTivitsrr Of being his o"'
r!oa-nec when lie dies.
CTncrI.g~.-Onc q o1lr pnftisa' f"f
tors wa- na, hong &c nach plen~''i VI
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