Orange County observer. [volume] (Hillsborough, N.C.) 1880-1918, 1891-02-07

50. when we have nothing in the house, she
said Ny child. ,Gcd VIII pro~,ds. IhiTty
YEAR ne has already provided Tor Lac
through all my pain and heipiessness' anu
He will not leave me to starvea at last. he
viii send US help, though we do not see how
We have been waiting all the day Tor some
hing 10 come. but until we saw YOU we
kres not how it was to come Sucn things
toe world NAV call condolences, butsI call
them almighty deliverances. and. though
YOU do not hear Of them, they are occurring |
very hour Of every day and in all parts OF |
Christardom. |
But tie w3rd Come applied to those who
iced solace VIII amount to nothing unless 1t
be uttered By some one who has experienced
that soiace. That spreads the responsibility
If giving this Gospel call among a great |
many. Those who have lost property and
been consoled by religion in that trial are the
Cues to invite those who have failed m ons,-
ness. Those who have lost their health and
been consoled BY religion are the ones to in
vi,s tlcsG WHO are in poor health. Those
vino have had bereavements and Seen con-
/. eo,ed In those bereavemerts are ire ones 70
.vr1pathize with those who have lost father
or shothcr o. companion or child or friend:
What multitudes of US are alive To-Day, ana
ia good health, and buoyant IN this llie, VINO
would have been broken down or dead long
ago but for the sustaining and cheering heip
Of our holy religion. So we say Come"
| The we'll IS not dry. The buckets are not
rrry The supply is not exhausted. There
Is inst az much mercy and coincidence and
seoth;ng pcver IN God az before the first
praye was dug, or the first tear started, or
the first heart broken. o. tue hrst ACCIDENT
happened, or the first fortune vanished.
Those of us who have felt the conSolatory
power Of religion have a right to speak out
| of our own experiences, and say Come"
What dismal work Of confidence the
world makes when 1T attempts to condO:e'
The plaster they spread does not stick. 1he
broken bones under their bandage do mol
knit. A farmer was lost IN the SNOW storm
on a prairie of the far West, Night coming
on; end after be was almost frantic from not
knowing which way to go, h5 sleigh struck
a rut of another sleigh, aud he said, Il VIII
follow this rut, and it will take me out TO
safety" He FASTENED or rutl h heard the
bells Of the preceding horses, but. comma up,
he found that that man was also lost. and. ;0
IS the tendency OF those who are thus con-
fused in the forest or on the moors, they
We're both moving il a circle, and the runner
Of the one lost sleigh was following the run
ner Of the other lost sleigh round and round.
At last it occurred to them TO look at the
north star, which was peeping through the
night, and by the direction Of that star they
got home again. Those who follow the adj
vice of thus world ia time Of perplsxlty ara
lii a fearful round: for it Is one bewlldered
sou lOllOWlI 8 dIOlAHl UcH luz co SOul, dIitA
only those who have in such time got their
eye on the morning star of our Christian
faith can find their way out, or be strong
enough to lead others with an all persuasive
invitation.
But says some one, you CHRISTIAN peo-
pie keep telling ust to Come yet YOU do not
tell lis how to come" That charge shall not
be true on this occasion. Come believing.
Come repeating! Come praying! After all
that Sod has been doing for six thousand
years, sometimes through patriarchs and
sometimes through prophets. and at last
through the elimination of all tragedies on
Golgotha, can any one think that God will
not welcome your coming VIII u father at
vast outlay construct a mansion for his son,
and lay out parks white with statues, and
green with foliage, and all a-spsrkle with
fountains, and then not allow his son to i've
III the house or walk III the parks? Has God
built this house of Gospel mercy and will He
then refuse entrance to His children? Win a
Government at great expense build life say
ing stations all along the coast, and boats that
can hover unhurt like a petrol over the wild
est surge, and then when the lifeboat has
reached the wreck of a ship in the citing not
allow the drowning to seize the lifeline Or take
the boat for the shore in safety? Shall God
provide at the cost Of HIS only Sons assas-
sination escape for a sinking world, and then
turn a deaf ear to the cry that comes up frol i.
the breakers?
DAp " oaJ, lIC q e 81 lllttlf ttiltl2
have to believe, and SO many things in the
shape Of a creed that | have to adopt, that |
am kept back" No no! You need believe
but two things-namely, that Jesus Christ
came into the world to save sinners, and tina,
you are one of them. But" you say, Il dc
believe both of those things!r' Do you really
lelieve them with all your heart? Yes
Why, then, you have passed from death int
life Why, then, you are son or a daughter
Of the Lord Almighty. Why, then. you ar,
an heir or an heiress Of an inheritance thcj
will declare dividends from now until lo..
sof God, why do you not come and take YOU
coronet: Princess of the Lord Almighty
why do you not mount your throne? Pas:
up into the light. Your boat is anchored
feet hard down, and you will feel under then
the Rock Of Ages.
challenge the universe for one instance IL
which a man In the right spirit appealed fol
the salvation of the Gospel and did not 81
II. Man alive, are you going to let all the
years OF your life go away with you withou'
your having this great peace, this gloriou.
hope, tins bright expectancy? Are you go
ing TO let the pearl Of great price lie in tn,
dust at your feet because you are too ndo
lent or too proud to stoop down and pick i
up? viii you wear the chain Of evil habi
t when near by you is the hammer that coult
with one stroke snap the shacklep VIII yol
stay IN the prison OF sin when here is a Cos
pei key that could unlock your incarcera
don; No. no! As the one word "Come
has sometimes brought many souls to Christ
will try the experiment Of pilling up into
mountain and then sending down in an avail
anche Of power many Of these Gospe
Comes Come thou and all thy hous,
into the ark Come unto Me all We VIII,
labor aud are heavy laden and l will give you
rest" Come. for all things are now ready
"Fhe Spirit and the Bride say Come anc
and let him that heareth say Come and lie
him that is athirst Gomez
The stroke of one bell in a tower NAV b,
sweet, but a score of bells well tuned, anf
rightly lifted, and s%killfully swung in on,
great chime fill the heavens with must
almost celestial. And no one who has heare
the mighty chimes in the towers OF Amster
dam or Client or Copenhagen can forge,
them Now. it seems to me that in tbi,
Sabbath hour all heaven. is Ginning, and tn
voices Of departed friends and kindred rim.
Gown the SKY saying Come" The angel
VII" never fell, bending from sapphir,
thrones, are chanting Come Yea. all tn
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