Orange County observer. [volume] (Hillsborough, N.C.) 1880-1918, 1889-03-02

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afford It. but | have Seen them struggle on
with salaries Of five and SIX hundred dollars
a year-the average less than tnao
their struggle vel dePiesei .
in a letter: Thank you for your las. remit
lance: until it anne we had not any meat IN
our house for one year; aud ali last winter.
although = was a severe winter. our cnlIiren
wore their summer clothes And these men
0: God / find in different paris Il the land.
struggling against noyan and e1asl+FG
tions innumeraolc. some # them week after
week entertaining agents who have maps
to sell. and submitting themselves 10 All
.tylas Of ANNOYANCE. AMI vet without com
pant, AMI cheerful Of soul. How DO YOU
account for the IA : that these lie insurance
men tell Us that Iuin s,ers as a cas- axe
lonser than any others II Is because II tnA
oy OF their eors. the 3ov of the harvest
field, tbs IOy Of greeting prodigais home =
their Fathers hous-
We are IN sympathy With al ipncceAf
ailart!es. We can en- 10y 4 hearty song. ani
We can lie I3eIrF with tn- Iilerrle-t bCV
hose of Us who have tolled II the service are
ready to TESTIFY that all these Joys are tame
compared with the satisfaction OF seeIuG men
inter the Kingdom Of God The great eras
u every minister are the outpourlngs Of tie
Holy Ghost, and thank GOD | have seen
eighteen Of them. Thank God. thant toi
~. notice a 50 when the proilgal come,
back ali earnest Christians rejoice. II YOU
stood OH NonLauk Point and there was a
hurricane at s=a. ana 1t was blowing toward
the shore. and q vessel crashed INTO the rocks
,ni you say peoute get ashore III the NE
coats AMI the very .ast man cot on the ro-hS
Ii eatelv. YOU could Iot control your JOY.
AMI i L 4 g.at time when the Church Oh
rod sres u-l who are tossed Oh the ocean OF
heir sins pant Their 1eet on the rock C4rlsc
| Jesus
On, when prod gals come home Just hear
! hos CHRIST. ans sang just hear those Chris
tians pray. 1t is IiOt a atereoty ped suppLca-
ton We have heard over and over again for
twenty years, but a putting OF the case IN
he hands of TO With an Unfortunate plead
ung. 20 long prayers. Men never pray at
treat length unless they have nothing TO
say and tii-lr hearts are nard and Old. All
the PRAYERS in the blOie That were
were short prayers: tod lie merclful 10 me
a sluner. Lord. that NAV receive my
SIGHT Lord. save me or perish. The
longest PRAYER, ~Soionons prayer at the
dedication of the Temple, less than eight
minutes in length. according to The ordinary
rate Of enunclatlon-
And just hear them pray now that the
prollg4ls Hre coming nome. .ust se7 them
shake bands. No putting forth OF the tour
tips Of the fingers IN a fcrniai way, but a
! hearty GRASP, where the muscles OF the heart
sem 10 cielch thu fingers Of one hand around
tue other And then see those Christian
faces. how lllum!net they are. And see that
old man get up and With tie same voice that
he sang fifty years ago II tue Old country
nle-tln, house, ~ "Now lord, lettest lbuu
Thy sSrNant depart IN peace, Tor mine eyes
have seen Thy salvation. There vas Il man
OF Keith who was hurlel into prison IN tIme
of persecution, ana oile day he got otf III
shackles and he came and stood by the prison
1oor, and when the jatler was opening the
door, with one stroke he struck down the
man who had incarceratel hll- Passing
along the streets of London, he wondered
where his family was. He did not dare
to ask lest he excite suspicion, but,
passing along a little way from the
PRISON. he saw a Keith tankard, a cup that
belonged to the family from generation to
generation he saw It in a window. his
family, hoping that some day he Wunld get
c, ar, Cane and llvcd as near as they could
to the prison house, and they set that Keith
tankerd III the window. hoping he would see
1t. aud he caine along and saw it, AMI
knocked at tue door, and went III,
and the long absent family We're all
together again. Oh, if yOr would start
for the kingdom Of God to-day, | think some
Of YOU wo,fki lind nearly all your friends ard
and nearly all your families around the holy
tankard of the holy conlmunion-fathers.
[ mothers, brothers, sisters around that sacred
tankard which commentaries the love of
Jesus Christ oar Lord. Oh. 1t viii be a great
communion day when your whole family sits
around the sa-red tankard. One on earth,
one in heaven.
Y. Once mora | remark, that when the
prodigal gets back the Inhabitants of heaven
keep festival. | an very certain of it.
If YOU have never seem a telegTaphir
chart, YOU have no ilea how many cities are
connected together AMI how MANY lands.
Nearly al the neIghhorhoods OF the earth
Seem artlculated, and news flies from city 20
CITY, and from continent to continent.
But more rapidly go the tldings from
earth to heaven. and when a prOdigal
returns it is announced before the throne Of
God. And if THOSE souls tn S morning should
enter the kingdom there would pe some one
in the heavenly kingdom to say: '1hat my
father" that's my mother, that's my
son. that's my daughter.' sthatS my
friend, that the one used to pray for
that the one for whom wept 50 MANY
tears, and one s III would say. "Haslnna"
and another soul would say, "Halieiu an
Pleased with the news the saints bsiow
IN songs their tongues employ;
Beyond the skies the tdlng- -.
And heaven : filed witt iOy.
'Nor angels can their 10Y contain,
sal kfutle with new fire:
Tie aiuuer lnat j. found. fhev SING.
And strike the s0undln. lyro.
At the banquet of Lucullus sat Cicero the
orator. at the Macedon an fe,tal sat Ih4t,,
the Conqueror, at the t1reclan han net sat
Socrates the philosopher: but at our Fathers
tihla SIT all the returned proilgal>. rlora
than conguer0r>. The table IS so wide Is
aVeS reach across seas and across land
Is guests are the redeemed of earth ant