Orange County observer. [volume] (Hillsborough, N.C.) 1880-1918, 1892-11-12

pose tE & new iIF@Gl1Dil others can FURNISH
the same goods at less price. Suppose a colt
spring Or a late autumn or the coming OF an
epidemic corners n man. AMI his notes c5ma
due and he cannot meet them, and his rent
must be paid and there is nothing with
to paw it. and the wages Of the employees are
due and there IS nothing with which 10 meet
that Obligation. and the bank y iii not dis
count, and the business friends TO whom BE-
goes for acconmo latlon are IN the sa11a
predicarnent, and be bears up an -u- IS
on, until after awhile CRASH goes III. Who'll
concern.
He stanis won ierin, an saying, Il DO
not see the meaning Of all this. | have done
the best I could. Col knows | would pay
nv debts if | coa'i. nut here | am hed~et il
AMI stopped" WHAT sa9uti that man d. IN
that cass-go % the Scriptures, AMI reai t1a
promise aoo1t all things workin together
for goo AMI kin lrei passa+eS2 That IS
wall. But he needs TO do something
beside r~eaiing ths Scriptures. He needs
TO look for the finger OF Got tina. Is
pointing toward bett4r treasures; that is
POINTING toward eternal release. that IS
urging him TO higher calm NJ human
finger cv-r pointed = the east CT west or
north or south 50 certainly as the iin2ertot
God is p J.nting that troubled man u higher
AMI better spiritual resources than he has
ever G joyei. There are men Of vast wealth
who ar as rich for heaven as they are for
inns World, Dit tilHF are cAtt!DLlDi>.
If a man grows in grace It Is generally
before he gets SloO. a0) u att=r he loss il.
If a man has plenty of railroad securities
ana has applied t, his banker for : .;
the lots he D0ugnt have gone W t4lty per
cent. in value, If he ha hari wors I, GO
the door Of his tiraproOs safe smut because
of a new roll Of securities he put in th-r.
just before locking W. at night: il h. b.
specu!ating into failing market or a rising
market AMI things take for him a right
turn, he Goes not grow n grace very mucl
that Wee. Do YOU know what made the
great revival of 1877, when more people
were converted to Goa probably than n
any year since Christ was born? It was the
detalcttions AMI bankruptcy tuat swept
American prosperity SO fat that 1t could fall
10 1atter.
l am Speaking Of whole souie1 IN IN. Such
men as are 50 broken by calamity that they
are hunnbled AMI fly to Col for relief. Man
who have no spirit and never expect any
thin9 are not much aft ,cse1 h. financial
changes. They are as apt to go into the
kingdom under one set of circumstances as
another. They are deadbaats wherever they
are. The only way to get rid Of them is to
lend them a dollar and You will never See
them again. | have tried that plan ana it
works we'll. But | am speaking Of the effect
Of misfortune On high spirited men Moth
ing but trial will turn such men from earth
to heaven. 1t is only through clou Is and
darkness and whirlwinl of disaster such a
man can see the finger of God.
A most interesting as well as a most use
full study is to watcn the pointing of the
finger OF God. In the seventeenth century
South Carolina was yielding rosin and tur-
pentine and tar as her chief productions.
But Thomas Smith noticed that the ground
near his house in Charleston was very much
like the places i'll Madagascar where he had
raised rice, and some OF the Madagascar rice
rpor ~o-r- 49, ~ .-tll $ta{
South Carolina was led to make rice her
chief production. Can you not see the finger
Of Goa in that incident?
Rev. John Fletcher, OF England. many
will know, was one Of the most useful min
listers Of the Gospel who ever preached. Be-
fore conversion he joined the army andhal
bought his ticket on the ship Tor South
America. The morning he was to sail some
one spilled on him a kettle of water, and he
was 50 scalded he could not 60. He was
very much disappointed, but the ship be was
going to sail on went out and was never
heard Of again. Who can doubt that God
was arranging the life of John Fletcher?
Was it merely accidental that Richard
Rodda, q Cornish miner, who was on his
knees praying, remainei unhurt, though
heavy stones fell before him and behind
him and on either side OF him and another
fell on the top of these so as TO make Il root
over him?
A missionary in Jamaica lost his way an |
in the night was wandering about, when a
FREELY flashed ana revealed a pr4cipice over
which in a moment more he would have been
dashed. F.: W. Robertson, the great
preacher OF Brighton, England, had his life
work decided by the barking Of his dog. a
%ne,5hbor, whose daughter was i'll, was dis
turbed by the barking Of that dog one night.
This brought the nei ghbor into ~con.nunica-
ton with Robertson. That &C Iuantauca
ship kept him from joining thu dragons AMI
going to India and spen ling his lite in mil
tary service, and reserved HIM for a pu' PIT
the influence of which for GoSpelization viii
resound for all time and all eternity.
Why did not Columbus sink when in early
manhood he was atoat six miles from the
beach with nothing to sustain him till he
could swim to land but a boats oar? | won
der if his preservation had anything to d
with America. Had the storm that dlverte>
the Maytiower from tbs mouth OF the Hut
son, for which it was Saliln5, and sent Il
ashore at Cape Cod. no divine supervisai
Does anarchy rule this world, or Col?
81. Felix escaped nlarcyrdom by crawlin!
through a hole III the wall across wnicn t4'
spiders Immediately aftarWurI wJve u web
His prosecutors saw the hole IN tlc wall, bu
the sol !er's weU put them OF td3 track. 4
boy was lost ty his drunken rather ant,coul'
not for years Tinl his way home. NetrIy
grown he went into a Fulton street praye
meeting ami askel for PRAYERS that be Nigh
lind his parents. Ills mother wcs III the room
and rose AMI rec ,niz.I her long lost son
Do you say chat thes- tnlngs '0niy happene
sou Tell that to tuose VINO Do not o-ilev.
in a God ami have no talth III the Biblt. u
not tell it TO ne.
SAID to an agei minister Of mucn 4xDeri
ence: All the events of my life seem t
have been dlvIueiv connected. % NOu sup
pose it Is so in a.! lives H. answered, Yes
but most people DO not notice tn
divine le~adils-N l stand <nere til