Orange County observer. [volume] (Hillsborough, N.C.) 1880-1918, 1890-12-06

own music. with hands to fight your Own
battles There Is Only one being 10 the uni
verse whose advice you need and that Is God.
Have YOUR own well and the Lord Will fill il.
Dig II II need be through two hundred feet
II solid rock. Dig IL with your pen. or dig
II with your yard stick. Or dig il with your
shovel. or dig il with vour Bible.
III NY small WAY never accomplished
ANYTHING for God or the church. or the world,
or my family, or myself. except in contradic-
ton 10 human advice and in obedience TO
ulvlEe counsel. Gcd knows everything. and
what Is the use OF going Tor advice u human
beings ndo know - little that no one but the
all seeing God can realize how little 1t is |
suppose that when Jacob began 10 dig this
we'll on which We are sitting this noontlde
people gathered around and said, w hat q
useless expense You are going to; when roll,
Ing down from youder Mount GeriZlnI and
down from yonder Mount Ebal and our
yonder IN the valley IS plenty OF water"
oh, replied JACOB, that is all true, but
suppose my %ueighbors should get angered
against me and cut off my supply Of mount
ain beverage, what would / do, and what
would my family do, and what would my
rotks and herds do: Forward, ye brigade Of
plckaxes and crowbars, and 60 down into the
depths Of these rocks and make me lndepend>
.nt II ALI except Him who fills the bottle. Of
tn clouds. | must have my own we'll"
Noung mali drop cigars and cigarettes
N'
nnd build your own house, and have your
.~n wardrob- aud be your own capitalist
Why, l have only five hundred dollars in
come a year" says some one. Then spend
four hundred dollars OF it in living, and ten
per cent. OF it, or fifty dollars, III benevo-
leuce, and tue other fifty in beginning u
dig Your own well. Or if you have a thou
sand dollars a year spend eight hundred
dollars OF it in living, ten per cent, or one
hlAeired dollars, in benevolence, and the re-
maiuing one hundred in beginning to dig your
own we'll. The largest bird that ever flew
through the air was Matched out OF one egg,
and the greatest estate was brooded cut OF
che dollar.
/ suppose when Jacob began to dig this
Well. on whose curb We are now seated this
DECEMBER noon,lt was q dry season then rs
nov, and some one comes up and says:
Now Jacob, suppose you get the we'll fifty
feet deep or two hundred feet deep AMI there
should be no water to I'LL it, would you not
feel sliiym People PAS passing S along the road ID
Mount Ebal near by would laugh and say;
That is Jacobs well. a great hole in the
rocA. illustrating the mans folly" Jacob
replied: There never has been u we'll in
Palestine or any other country that onco
thoroughly dug was not sooner OF later filled
tiom the clouds, AMI this will be no excep-
hon
FOR months after jacob had completed The
well people went by, and out of respect for
the deluded Old man put their hand over
1lielr mouth To hide d sucker, and the we'll
renamed as dry as the bottom Of a kettle
that had been hanging over the fire for three
hours, But one day the sun was drawing
water and the wind got round to the east
aud il began TO drlzkle, and then great drops
spia.heu all over the yell curb, and the
heavens opened Their reservoir and the rainy
season poured its floods for six weeks, and
there came maidens to the we'll with empty
pals and carried them away full, and the
taLueis thrust their mouths into the troughs
and were satisfied. aud TIE water was in the
well three feet deep, and fifty feet deep, and
two hundred feet deep, and all the bedoulns
o! the neighborhoOd and all tue passersby
realized that jacob was wise III having ms
= own we'll. My nearer. it is yopr part to dig
NUur own We'll, and il is Gods part to fill 1t.
lun 10 Your part and He Will do His part.
: Much is said about good luck but PEG.
| PIE "ho are Industrious and - denying al
} must always have good luck. You can at
!, ford 10 be laughed at because Of your appli.
{ cation and economy for when YOU get you,
t Web dag aud filled II will be your turn tt
. laugh
: Bat look up from this famous we'll AM
! SEE two mountains and the plain between
thsm. on which was gathered the largest
7 religious audience that ever assembled OF
1 earth, about five hundred thousand people
. Mount Gerlzlm, about eight hundred fee
: high. on one side, and on the other Noun
' D. 1Si' A. ~ iiit4 hdAASh Wax -hohlAt " ~
5 my aud the latter called the Mount 0
tursing. At Joshua's .ommand SIX tribe
: stood on Mount Gerizim and read tn
9 blessings for keeping the law, and 81.
tribes stood on Mount Ebal reading tn
CURSES ior ureaKlng the law, While the nv,
! hundred thousand people on the plain erie,
\ Amen with an emphasis that must hav1
!. made the earth trenbie. u do not bellet
V that, says some one, for those mountail
tops ure two miles apart, and how could
4 \thn la hon ri from, ron 70 ny.SF To q cyy
o lsthat while the tops are two miles apart
K the bases Of the mountains are only half
p mile apart, and the tribes stood on the side.
!, nt the mountains. and the air is SO clear ant
Q the acoustic qualities of tins great natura
aInphitheatre 50 perfect that voices can b
distinctly heard from msuntain to mount
am. as has been demonstrated by traveller
t fifty times in the last tifty wears.
: an YOU imagine anything more thriilin,
t anu sublime and overwhelming than wha
= tranSplrei on those two mountain SIDES. an
III the plain between. when the respousiv
10 service went on and thousands of voices o.
L Mount GerIzlm cried. BLESSED shalt thou b
T In the city, and blessed shalt thou be in Tia
/ fields. blessed shall be thy basket and tn
; store, and then from Mount Ebal. thousand
't u voices responded, crying: Cursed be b
that renloveth his nelghborss iandmarh
q Cursed be he that maketh the blind to war
* der out of the way, and then there rolled Il
from all the spaces between the mountain
- tha - az "tt nlllAL Tx AtNout vi "a l
* cloSe their prayers and the glorlied of heave
/ finish their doxologles, Amen Amen
II that scene only 70 be surpassed by I'll
e times which are coming, when the church,
le aud the academies of music and the aud
IS forums OF earth. no longer large enough I
- hold the worShipers of God; the parks, tt
Y mountain sides. the great natural amphith,
At atresof the valleys, shall be filled with TIA
N outp"uring populations OK the earth al
la mountain shall reply 10 mountain. as Mour
Is Gelizim TO Mount Fbai. and all tue peopl
between shall ascrihe Riches ami honor an
- lloiN aud dominion and victory to God III
Lamb. and there shall arise an amen like Ia
booming Of the heavens mlngllng with III
tuuEder of the seas.
\, Ol and on We ride. until now WI hay
"a Come 10 Shiloh, II dead city on a hill su
ut ioahCed by rocks, sheep. goats, olive garden
!.
rr an vineyards Here good Eli fell ba ekwar
lie and broke his neck. and lay dead at the nev
ut flonIhA bad boys, Phineas and Hophni. al
IN life : not worth living alter ones cliidre
ad ha>e turned out badly. and more fortuna
"s> Eli, instantly expiring under such Il
lid iLss. than those parents who. their childrs
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