The Durham daily globe. (Durham, N.C.) 1889-1894, 1889-10-15

and the dry alders crackle as the pant
ing hart breaks throcgh to the water
brooks, and the dark night of the soul
begins to grow gray with the morn
ing, yea to purple, yea to fame, from
horizon to horizon. The batteries of
temptation silenced. Troubles that
fought against us captured and made
TO tight on our side. Not as a result of
any toll or trouble on our part, but
only as a result of Looking unto
Jesus" But what do you mean by
Looking unto Jesus?'" some one in
mean by faith?" | mean believing.
What do you mean by b~eIieving!"
L mean this: If you promise to do a
certain thing for me, and | have con-
fidence IN your veracity-if you say
you will give me such a thing and /
need it very much, | come in conf
hence tina you are an honest man and
will do what you say. Now, the Lord
Jesus Christ says: you are IN need of
pardon and life and heaven, you car
have them if you come and get them"
o say: Il can't come and ask first.
| am afraid you won't give it to me-"
Then you are unbelieving. But you
say: II will come and ask. | know,
Lord Jesus, thou art in earnest about
this matter. | come asking for par
don. Thou hast promised to give it to
me, thou wilt give it to me, thou hast
given it to me-" That is faith. Do you
see it yet? oh" says some one, Il
can't understand it." No man ever
did, without divine help. Faith is the
gift of God. You say: That throws
the responsibility off my shoulders"
No. Faith is the gift of God, but it
comes IN answer to prayer.
All over glorious is my Lord,
He must be loved and yet adored;
His worth if all the nations knew,
Sure the whole earth would love Him, too
LOOKING TO JESUS"
| remark again, that we must look
to Jesus as an example. Now, a mere
copylst, you know, is always a failure.
If a painter go to a portfolio or a gal
lery of art, however exquisite, to get
his idea of the natural world from
these pictures, he will not succeed as
we'll as the artist who starts out and
dashes the dew from the grass and
sees the morning just as God built it
in the clouds, or poured it upon the
mountain, or kindled it upon the sea.
People wondered why Turner, the ia
nous English painter, succeeded 80
we'll IN ~sketchlng a storm upon the
ocean,. 1t remained a wonder until it
was found out that several times he
had been dashed to the deck in the
midst of a tempest and then looked
out upon the wrath of the sea, and
coming home to his studio, he pic
tured the tempest. Il is not the copy
ist who succeeds, but the man who
c%onfrOnts the natural world. So if a
man i'll literary composition resolves
that he will initiate the smoothness of
Addison, or the rugged vigor Of Car
lyle, or the Weirdness of Spenser, or
the epigrammatic style of Ralph
Waldo Emerson, he will not succeed
as we'll as hat man who cultures his
WI natural style. What is true in
this respect is true IN respect to char
acter. There were men who were fas-
cinated with Lord Byron. He was
lame and wore a very large collar.
Then there were tens of thousands of
men who resolved that they would be
just like Lord Byron, and they limped
and wore large collars, but they did
not have any of his genius. You can-
not successfully copy a man whether
he is bad or good. You may take the
very best man hat ever lived and try
and live like him, and you will make
afailure. There never was a better
man than Edward Payson. Many
have read his biography, not under
they thought they were growing in
grace because they were growing like
him in depression of spirit. There
were men to copy Cowper, the poet,
a glorious man, but sometimes atHict-
ed with melancholy almost to insan-
ity. The copyists got CoWper's faults
but none OF his virtues.
There never was but one Being fit
to copy. a few centuries ago he
came out through humble surround
ings, and with a gait and manner and
behavior different from anything the
world had seem. Among all classes
of people he was a perfect model.
Among fishermen, he showed how
fisherman should act. Among tax
gathers, he showed how taxgathers
should act. Among lawyers, he
showed how lawyers should act.
Among farmers, he showed how far
mers should act. Among rulers, he
showed how rulers should act. Critics
tried to find in his conversation o
sermons something unwise OF unkind
or inaccurate; but they never found
it. They watched him, oh how they
watched him! He never went into a
house but they knew it, and they
knew how long he stayed, and when
he anne out, and whether he had
wine for dinner. SANDER twisted her
whips and wagged her poisoned
tongue and set her traps, but could
not catch him. Little children rushed
out to get from him a kiss, and old
men tottered out to the street corner
to see him pass.
Do you want an illustration of de-
votion, behold him whole nights in
prayer. Do you want an example OF
suffering, see his path across Palestine
tracked with blood. Doyou wantanex-
ample of patience, see him abused and
never giving one sharp retort. Doyou
want an example of industry, see him
without one idle moment, Do you
want a specimen of sacrifice, look at
his life of self denial, hisdeath of igno-
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