Orange County observer. [volume] (Hillsborough, N.C.) 1880-1918, 1891-12-19

a fountain in which it may wash: a ladder
by which it may climb; q song OF enaies
triumph that it may sing, a crown OF un-
fading light that it may wear. Christ came
70 save it-came with a cross on His back;
came with spikes in His feet: came when no
one else would come, TO do a work which no
one else would do. See how suited TO mans
condition is what God has done for him.
Man is a sinner; here is a pardon. he has
lost Gods image: Christ retrace5 It. ne Is
helpless: Almighty grace is profere1. he Is
a lost wanderer; Jesus brings him home be
is blind, and at one touch Of Him who cured
Bartimeus, eternal glories stream into his
soul. Jesus l sing Thy grace! Cure OF worst
disease, Hammer to smite of heaviest
chain. Light for thickest darkness. Grace
divine. Devils scott at It and men REJECT II,
but heaven celebrates it!
wish YOU good cheer for the national
health. Pestilence, that in other years has
come to drive out its thousand hesrses TO
Greenwood and Laurel Hill, has not visited
our nation. 1t is a glorious thing to be
well, How strange that we should keep our
health when one breath from a marsh or the
sting Of an insect or the slipping Of a foot or
the falling OF a tree branch might fatally
assault our life. Regularly the lungs work,
and their motion seems to be a spirit within
us painting after its immortality. Our sight
falls not, though the air is SO full Of objects
which by one touch could break out the
souls window. What ship, after a years
tossing on the sea, could come IN with so
little damage as ourselves, though we arrive
after a years voyage to-day
| wish you good cneer for the national har-
vest. Reaping machines never sWathed
thicker rye and corn huskers peg never ripped
out fuller ear, AMI NOW poles never bent
down under sweeter hay, AMI windmill
copper never shook out larger wheat. Long
trains of white covered wagons have brought
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The gamers are full, the storehouses are
overcrowded, the canals are blocked with
freights pressing down to markets. The cars
rumble all through the darkness and whistle
up the hagman at dead Of night to let the
western harvests come down to feed the
mouths Of the great cities. A race of kings
has taken possession Of this land-King Cot.
ton, King Corn, King Wheat, King Rice,
King Grass, King Coal.
wish you good cheer for civil and relig-
ious liberty. No official spy watches our en-
trance here, nor does an armed soldier inter
fere with the honest utterance of truth. We
stand here to-day with our arms free to
work and orr ton0naS free to sneak This
Bible-lt is all unclasped. This pulpit-there
is no chain around about it. There is no
swapping OF musketry in the street. Blessed
be God that to-day we are free men, with the
prospect and determination of always being
free. No established religion-Jew and Gen.
tile, Arminian and Calvinist, Trinitarian and
Unitarian, Protestant and Roman Catholic
on the same footing.
If persecution should come against the
most unpopular of all the sects, l believe
that all other denominations would band to-
gether and arm themselves, and heart would
be stout. and blood would be- free, and the
right Of men to worship God according to
the dictates of their consciences would be
contested at the point of thu bayoAet, and
with blood flowing up to the bits of the
horses brides.
For mercies temporal and spiritual let
consecrated lives be offered. Wherever Gors
light shines and Gods rain descznds and
Gods mercy broods let the thanksgiving
arise.