Orange County observer. [volume] (Hillsborough, N.C.) 1880-1918, 1891-07-04
the sufferers by the accident, and in that

the sufferers by the accident, and in that
drawer. easily opened, are bandages and
splints for the lack of which fifty people
are diving outside the drug store. Before [
apply this thought every one sees its appli-
| cation. Here is this old world, and it IS OFT
track: Sin and sorrow have eoliided with
it. The groan OF agony is fourteen hun
dred million roiced. God has opened for
relief and cure a great sanitarium. a great
house of mercy, and all its shelves are
fllei With baisafns, with cathoilcons, with
halp-g!orious help, tremendous help. help
50 easily administered that YOU need not get
upon any step ladder to reach II. on can
! reach it on YOUR knees and tlcn hand It 70
all the suffering. and the SHINING, aud the
diving. Comfort for all the troubled Par
don for all the guilty, Peace for all the dy-
ingf But while the world is needing the r.
lief ana perishing for lack Of il, what of the
church, Why. it is full Of fighting doctor.
Du the top shelf are some Old bottles, which
, several hundred years ago Calvin or Armin
ms. or the MEMBER Of the synod OF bort. or
the formers of the Slcene creed filled WITH
holy mixtures. and until We get a revision u
these old bottles aud ti1t out whether W.
must take a teaSpoOntul OF tablespoonful.
and whether before or after meals. let the
nations suffer and groan and die. Save the
hotties by ali means, if you cannot save any
thing els.
j Now. what part shall You ami | take 10
F.! this controversy wtlicL fills all ttlri>teniorl
with clangor, NV advic- is, take 10 part
IN time OF riot all mayors OF cities AVIS
good citizens To stay at home or III then
! places of business, atll III this tame Vi relig
iols riot | advise Won 10 - atout your re1r
lar worl, for God. leave th- bottles Oh tits
higher shelves for others to fight ABOUT, AMI
take the two bottles on the shelf wtthii
easy reach, the two bottles "hlch are ali
this diving world needs; the one filled with a
potion which is for the cleansing Of al SIN,
the other filled with Il potion which Is for
the soothing Of all suffering. Two Gospel
bottles Christ mixed them out OF His OWN
tears and blood. In them is no human
admixture. Spend 40 time on the
mysteries You, a man only five or
six feet high. ought not To try t. wade
an ocean a thousand feet deep. My own
experience has been vivid. | devoted the
most of my time for Years III trying u ul-
derstand Gods eternal DEGREES, and | was de
terminel u find out why the Lord let Sill
come into the world, aud | ST out l. explore
TIE doctrine If the Trinity, and with a yari-
stick to measure the throne OF the Infinite.
As With all my predecessors, the attempt was
a dead failure. For the last thirty years [
have not spent two minutes in studying the
rontroverted points of theology. and if | live
thirty years longer | VIII not spend the thou
sandth part of a second III such exploration.
| know two things. and these will devote
all the years OF my lie Ill prOclainIing -ttol
VIII through Jesus Christ pardon >,n, and
He VIII toihfort trouble.
Creeds have their uses, but JUS now the
church is creeled 10 death. The Young men
entering the ministry are going to be
launched III the thickest fog that ever set
tied on the coasts. As ] am tal1 that in all
our services students Of Prin AMI I'm
ION and Drew and other Theological SEMI
narie> are present, and rs these words will
come to thousands of young ~ II who are
soon to enter the ministry. let me say to
such and through them to their associates.
keep out Of the bewildering, beiittline. de-
stfoying and angry controversies abroad.
The questions our doctors of divinity are
trying to settle will not be settled until the
day after the day Of Judgment: 1t is such a
poor econom OF time to spend yta1 and
years III trying to fathom the unfathom.able,
when in five minutes il heaven re will know
all we want to know. Wait till We get our
throne. Wait till the light Of eternity
flashes upon our newly assembled
spirits. 1t is useless for ants on different
sides of a mole hill to try to discuss the COM
p~arative heights of Mount Blanc and Nhnt
" ashington. Let me say to all Young men
about to enter the ministry that soon the
greatest novelty in the world will be the un-
auulterated religion of Jesus Christ. Preach
that and you will have a crowd. The world
is sick to reorganization with the modern
quay III ChEAoh III udS tell
swinging off from the old Gospel, but it will
swing back, and by the time you young men
so into the pulpits the cry win be coming up
from all the millions of mankind, Give US
the bread of life; no sweetened bread, no
bread with slckly raisins stuck here and
there into it, but old-fashioned bread as God
our mother mixed and baked it,"
Now, what Is the simple fact that YOU in
the pew and Sabbath-school class and re
tormatory association and we in the pnlpits
h yn + n Haat HutfbT vo &c f1Sc, Tl,oA n II L.
somewhere. and it matters not where, but
somewhere, provided a great heaven, great
for quietness for those who want quiet: great
for vast assemblage for those who like null
tltudes; great for architecture for those who
like architecture: great for beautiful land
>cape for those who like beautiful landscape
great for music for those who like music;
great Tor professions for those who
like armies on white horses, and great
for anything that one especially desires in
such a rapturous dominion; and through the
dolngs OF one who was born about
five miles south of Jerusalem and died
about ten minutes walk from its east
ern gate all may enter that great heaven
, for the earnest and heartfelt asking. Is
t that all? That is all. What, then. is your
t work and mine? Our work is to persuade
people to face that way and start thither-
"ard and finally go i'll. But has not reli-
gton something to do with this world as we'll
l as the next? Oh, yes; but do you not see
'io1 1 liC pcoEIc tai AOT heaven on CQeii
9 way there they will do all the good they can:
They will at the very start of the Journey
J, get 50 much of the spirit of CHRIST, which Is
| a spirit of kindness and SELF sacrifice and
generosity and burden bearing and helpful
ness, that every step they take will resound
with good deeds. Oh, get your religion of
, of stills Get it down out of the high tow.
ers! Get 1t on a level with the wants anc
: woes of our poor human race! Get it out OF
5 the dusty theological books that few peopl'
: read, and put it in their hearts and lives
, Good thing is it to profess religion whel
' yen JON the church. but" every day, some
a how, we ought to profess religion.
5 \ peculiar patchwork quilt was, durinc
t the Civil Var, made by a lady and sent t
/, the hospitals at the front. She had a boy il
L the army. and was naturally interested il
the welfare Of soldiers. : But what a patch
. work quht She sent Tn every block Of I'll.
q quit was passage of Scripture or a vers
| 81 q hymn. The months and yearsof tn
o war Went by. On that quiit many wounde
o