Orange County observer. [volume] (Hillsborough, N.C.) 1880-1918, 1891-10-24

cake care o: themselves, human life is pro-
ionged- But 10 yon realize what, after all.
is the b-aTltT OF our earthly STATE In the
times when people lived seven AMI eight
hundroi years, the patriarch jacob sail that
his years were teF.
Looking at the lie Of the youngest person
IL this ASSEMBLY, and slpposing be lived %
lie q nonageuarIon. how short the tins end
soon gone. while banked up in front o. us IS
an eternity $ vast that arithmetic has no.
figures ecoush TO e-pressi IL. lon 9Th or height.
For a happy eternity you were born unless
you run yourself against the divine iEten-
tons II staining IN your presence my eye
should tai upon the feeblest soul here IS that
soul viii appear when the world lets it W.
and heaven entrances il, | suUpoSs | would
be 50 overp3"eTed that / should drop down
is one dead.
You have examined the family Bible all
explored toe family records, and you may
1aFe taguerreotypss OF soma OF tie kindred
OF previous generations, you have had pho
toZraols taken Of what Won werc n hovhoyf
or slr.h0ot. All what You were teu years
later, and il is ver5 int -~res.ing TO any one
70 he able tolooz back upon pictures of what
| &c vas ten Or twenty or thirty years ago:
but have yol ever had a picture taken OF
what you may b. ant what YOU will be if
yol sect after God an | feai the Spirits re-
generating power Where shall / plant the
'amera - taEe tue picture: | plant it on
| tn, platform. l direct it toward YOU. Sit
- RI "a III 2tl. flIiC L L0hS tiJ
It saall Be- an instantaneous picture. There
| have ii. It is done. You can see the pic
| tur- in its imperfect state an1 &c. some idea
of what Il will be wnen thoroughly de-
ve.oDed
There IS your resurrecsed body, 50 bril-
| liant ttat the monday sun is a patch OF mid
! night compared with it. There is YOUR soul,
50 pure that al tie forces Of diaboilsm could
not spot II with Al icIperfection. There IS
your beng, 50 mighty and SO swift that
+lipAf from 643v-, fn MarpI1rv or MnrE Or
Jupiter eni back again to heaven would not
weary You, and q world on each shoulder
Would no1 crush You. An eye that snall
never shei : teav- An energy that shall
never feel a fati -ue. A brow that shall
nev@: taro5 w:ta pain. You are young
again, though YOU died OF decrepitude.
You are we'll again. though YOU coughei OF
shlvtret yourself into the tomb Your
every day associates are the apostles AMI
prophets, AMI martyrs. ana most exalted
sous, masculine or feminine. OF all the cen,
turies. The Archangel to you no EN-.
barrassneut. God Himself your pre-
sent ami everlasting joy; That is
an instantaneous picture or what You NAV
be. and what ! an sure some of you will be. II
you realize that it is al imperfect picture,
my apology is what the apostle John said.
1T doth not yet appear what We shall be
TO this end was | born II l did not
think 50 | would BE- overwhelmed with
melancholy.
The world does very well for a little while,
eighty, or q hundred or a hundred and fifty
year, and l think that human longevity
may Yet De improved up to that proionga-
ton, Tor now there is so little room between
cur eratle and our grave we cannot accom-,
pllsa niucn, but who would want to dwell
III this world Tor all eternity Some think
this earth will finally be turned into a
heaven. Perhaps it may. but it would
have to UNDERGO radical repairs. and hrorgh
examinations and eyolutioas and revolutions
acfI tra pCf0rr1a tionS iDtiDitn 70 Tuaka it de-
for eternal residence.
All the east winds would have to become
west winds, aud all the winters changed t.
sprlnctiies, and the volcanoes extingulshel,
ana tie oceans chained to Uheir beds, and
the epidemics forbidden entrance, and the
world 50 fixed up that l think it would take
mere to repair this old world than to make
an entirely new one. But l must say l do
not care where heaven is it we eau only get
there, whether q gardeniZel America, or al
enpara1issd Europ., OF a world central to
the whole universe. 80 this end was 1
born Ii each one Of us could say that w
would 90 with faces shining and hop,s ez-
hjlarant amid earth's worst Inisiortuues AMI
trials. only "a little while and then the
rapture. Onlv II little while and then the
reunion. Only 4 little while AMI then the
transformation.
III tue seventeenth century all Eurooe was
threatened with II wave OF Asiatic barbarls:n,
ana Vienna was especially besiese1. The
-.siiS tI.ft hAo SoAAO lIIA AASe, oAA Dtb1AiH
could save the city from being overwhelmed
unless the king OF Poland, John Sobieski. to
whom shey had sent for help, should, with
his array, cutno down for the relief; AMI
from every roof and tower the inhabitants
of Vienna watched and walte1 ana hoped,
until on the morning of September IL tae
rising sun threw an unusual and un-
pa~1llelet briIllancy. It was the reflection
OF the swords and shields AMI heim.tS OF
john SobiesAi ami his army coming dowI
xr. +I. I:lts 70 rtn- ..Ecra. a,3 fnQf i3I
rot Only Vienna. but Europ-, was saVet.
Ani se7 you NOT, oh, ye souls, besie5el
witl sin aud sorrow. that light breaks
Ii, the swords, ana the shields, AMI
thu ie:uiets Of divine rescue batiel III t1e
rising sun or heavenly de!iverauc.s Let
everything else go rather than let heaven go.
What a strange thing it must be to feel ones
self born to an earthly crown, but yOu h1V-
been born for a throne on Wnlfi you may
r-i4l alter tle las. monarch oferi Ia. ei:tn
ele!i nave gone 10 dust.
invite YOU to stare now for your own
coronation. To come in AMI take the title
,!esis T. Your everlasting inheritance
through an inpaSSiOned prayer take heaven
ami ali of its raptures. What a poor farthlns
Is all !Il4t this world can offer you compare l
With p:T-.on here ant life ltnrnorIa! beyond
ta4 Stlrs. uula5> his side OF than there be
a pl."e t4rr4 enough aud beautiful enough
and grand enough 10" all the ran>onieI
Nnerever II b-, il what world, whether nelI
>, ~ u "a away. IN this o. some ptnc.' con
Stri!tti9l. hail home o. iigdt utIt love and
% lines through tn ADMIN mercy OF
Christ, tnas We all get there.