Orange County observer. [volume] (Hillsborough, N.C.) 1880-1918, 1891-05-23
ing like Macaulay when he wrote: sIf | had

ing like Macaulay when he wrote: sIf / had
another month OF such days as l have been
spending | would be impatient to get down
into ny little narrow crib In the ground like
a weary factory child" And there have
been times in your life when you wished you
could get out Of this life. You have said,
oh, how sweet to my lips would be the dust
Of the valley and wish you could pull over
you IN your last slumbar the ccyerlet Of
green grass and daisies. You have said:
+ t'Oh, how beautifully quiet it must be in the
tomb. / wish / was there" l see all around /.
about me widowhood and orphanage and
chlid.essness; sadness, disappointment. per-
plexty. II I could ask all those TO rise in
this audience who nave felt no sorrow and
been bufeted by no disappointnent-if 1
could ask all such to rise. how many would
risey Not enc.
A widowed mother with her little child
went Vest, hoping to get better wages there,
and she was taken SICK and died. The over
seer. Of the poor got her body and put it III a
box, ana put At In a wagon, and starteddown
the street toward the cemetery at full trot.
The little child-the only child-ran after it
through the streets, bareheaded. crying,
BRING me- back my mother! bring me back
my mother!' And it was said that as the
people looked o and saw her crying aftsr
that which lay in the box in the wagon-all
she loved ID earth-it Is said the whole VIII
lage was in tears. And that is what a great
many OF you are doing-chasing the dead.
Dear Lord, is there no appeasement for all
this sorrow that / see about me? Yes. the
thought OF resurrection and reunion far be-
yond this scene OF struggle and tears. They
shall hunger no more. neither thirst any
more, neither shah the sun light on them,
nor any heat; for the Lamb which is in the
midst of the throne,shall lead them to living
fountains of water, and God shall wipe away
all tears from their eyes"
Across the couches OF your sick and across
the graves Of your dead I fling this shower
Of sweet spices. Queen. Balkis, driving up
to the pillared portico of the house Of cedar,
carried nc such pungency OF perfume as ex-
hales to-day from the Lords garden! It is
peace. 1t is sweetness. 1t is comfort! 1t is
infinite satisfaction, this Gospel I commend
TO you. Some one could not understand why
an old German Christian scholar used to be
always SO calm and happy and hopeful when
be had SO many trials and sicknesses aud
ailments. A man secreted himself III the
house. He said, Il mean to watch this old
scholar and Christian;'' and he SAY the Ola.
Christian man go to his room and sit down
on the chair beside the stand and open the !
Bible and begin to read. He read on and
on, chapter after chapter, hour after hour,
until his face was all aglow with the It'd
ings from heaven, and when <the clock
struck twelve he arose and shut his Bible,
and said: blessed Lord, we are on the
SaiIie Olu teIMS SGt. GOOl uiSut. oOOu
night
Oh, you sin parched and you trouble
pounded, here is comfort, here Is satisfaction.
Will you come and get it? l cannot tell You
what the Lord offers you hereafter 50 well
as can tell you now. 1t doth not yet ap.
pear what we shall be- Have you read OF
the Tai Mahal in India, in some respects the
most majestic building OH earth? Twenty
thousand men We're twenty years in building
it. 1t cost about sixteen millions or dollars.
The walls are of marble, inlaid with carie-
liam from Bagdad, and turquois from Thibet.
and jasper from the Punjaub, and amethyst
from Persia, and all manner of precious
stones. A traveller says that 1t seems to hint
like the shining Of an enchanted castle OF
FURNISHED silver. The walls are two hun
dred and forty-five feet high, and from the
top of these springs a dome thirty more feet
high, that dome containing the most won
derful echo the world has ever known, SO that
ever and anon travellers standing below with
flutes and drums and harps are testing that
echo, and the sounds from below strike up,
and then come down, as it were, the voices
of angels all around about the building.
There is around it a garden of tamarind and
banyan and palm and all the floral glorles OF
the ransacked earth.
, But that is only 81 tomb of Il dead empress,
and it Is tame compared with the grandeurs
which God has builded for your living and
immortal spirit. Oh, home OF the blessed
1ouA1dACAOAo VI SolA' lthCS "a NiNCCiJ
Capsuones Of praise. Aud d dome i'll which
there are echoing and re-echoing the hallelu
lahs OF the ages. And around about tina
mansion is a garoen-the garden of God
and all the Sprlnglng fountains are the bot
tied tears of the church in the wilderness
and all the crimson of flowers Is the deep hu'
that was caught up from the carnage q
earthly martyrdoms, and the fragrance Il
the prayer OF all the saints, and the aroma
puts into utter forgetfulness the cassia, anl
the spikenard, and the franklncense, aud thu
world renowned spices which the Queer
Balkis, of Abyssinia, flung at the feet Q
King Solomon.
When shall these eyes thy heaven built walls
And pearly gates behold.
Thy bulwarks, with salvation strong.
t And streets OF shining gold:
Through obduracy on our part, an
through the rejection of that Christ VII
!, makes heaven possible, | wonder if any u Il
. will miss that spectacle? 1 fear. | feal
= The queen of the south viii rise up III JUDI
' ment against this generation and condem
: it, because she came from the utterlIlo!
parts Of the earth to hear the wisdom o. SO
, ONION, and behold, Ii greater than ScloElo
!, is here! May God grant that through you
own practical experience you may find tia
religions ways are ways of pleasantness. an
:, that all her paths are satns OF peace-thati
3 is perfume now and perfume forever. An
: there was an abunoanet u s.i"e; 'neith'
, was there any such SPICE "a the Queen
l SLeba gave to King solomon
Exhuming a Buried Roman tity%
] Near Reading. England, the Roman
. British town Of SIichestcr is rapid
! being unearthed. Walls, gates, streets
: baths and private houses have been lai
/. bare; pottery. implements and. CON
: galore have been collected. Some g
! the e%dge-tools ,pe still fairly keen. .