Orange County observer. [volume] (Hillsborough, N.C.) 1880-1918, 1892-10-08

Home on .ht to be n castle. 1t ought TO be
the residence Of everything royal. Kind
ness, love. peace, patience and forbearance
ought to be the princes residing there. ami
vet sometimes dissipation crAwls up into
that home. and the jealous eye comes up.
and the scene Of peace and plenty becomes
the scene Of domestic jargon and d~issonance.
You say, What il the matter with the
house." ! viii tell you what Is the matter
with it. A spider in the palace.
A well developed Christian character is a
grand thing 10 look at. You see some man
with great intellectual and spiritual pro-
portions. You say, How useful that man
must be"' But you find amid all his 'splen-
dor Of faculties there is some prejudice,
some whim, some evil habit that q great
.-nv people do not notice, but that you
have happened 10 notice, and it Is gradually
Npoiling that mans character-it is grad
ually going TO injure his entire influences.
Others may not see 1t, but you are anxious
III regard u his welfare, and now you dis
spider in the palace
again, my text teaches me that perseve-
rance Will mount into the kings palace. 1t
must lave seemed q long distance for that
ppiler t. climb in Solomon's splendid resi-
deuce, but It started at the very foot OF the
wal AMI went up over the panels OF Leba-
non cedar. higher AMI higher, until 1t stood
higher than the highest throne in all the Ma
tons-the throne Of solomon. AMI so God
has decreed it that many Of those who are
down in the dust of sin and dishonor shall
gradually attain to the Kings palace. We
see it IN worldly things.
Who is that banker in Philadelphia?
Why, he used to be the boy that held the
/ horses Of Stephen Girar1 while tie million
are went in 10 collect his dividends. Ark
( ,.ri.I+ +1t1- IN ar, from a iarhqr ShOD nm
til he gets into the palace OF invention.
S+xtus V tolls on up from the Office OF a
/ swIneherd until ne gets into the palace OF
Rome. Fletcher tolls on up from the most
insignificant family position until he gets
into the palace Of Christian eloquence. Ho-
garth. engraving pewter pots tor q living,
toll, on up until he reaches the palace OF
world renownei art.
The spider crawling up the wall of Solo,
mons palace was not worth looking after or
considering as compared with the fact that
we, who are worms OF the dust, may at last
ascend into the palace of the King Immor-
tai. by the grace Of God may We all reach
1t. On. heaven IS not a duh place. 1t IL
not q wornout mansion, with faded curtains
and outlandish chairs and cracked ware.
No, it is as fresh and fair and beautiful as
though it were completed but yesterday.
The kings Of the earth shall bring their honor
and glory into it.
49, NV pitp' II tdik otfl toL 1 gu ~
the real Juice Of the grape when He said that
we should drink new wine in our Fathers
kingdom, but not the intoxicating stuff OF
this worlds brewing. | do not say it is so:
but | have as much right for thinking it is
SO as you nave for thinking the other way.
At any rate, it will be a glorious banquet.
Hark the chariots rumbling in the distance,
| really believe the guests are coming now.
The gates swing open, the guests dismount.
the palace is filing, and all the chalices,
flashing with pearl and amethyst and car
buncle, are lifted to the lips OF the myriad
banqueters, while standing ia robes Of snowy
white they drink to the honor of our glori-
Gus King.
"Oh," you say. that is too grand a place
for you and me- No. it is not. If a spider,
according to the text, could crawl up on the
wall Of palace, shall not our poor
souls, through the blood of Christ. mount
up from the depths of their sin and shame.
and finally reach the palace of the eternal
King
Years ago, with lanterns and torches and
"A guide, we went Town in the Mammoth
cave Of Kentucky. You may walk
fourteen miles and see no sunlight. It
IS "a stupendous place. Some places the
roof of the cave is a hundred feet
high. The %grottoes filled with weird
echoes: cascades falling from invisible height
to invisible death. .S~talagmites rising I'D
from the floor of the cave; salactites de-
scending from the roof Of the cave, joining
each other and making pillars of the AL
mlghty's sculpturing. There are rosettes of
amethyst III halls of gypsum. AS the guide
carries his lantern ahead of you the shadows
have an q JTearance supernatural and spec
trial. The darkness Is fearful.
Two people. getting lost from their guide
only Tor a few hours, years ago, were de-
mented, and for years sat in their insanity.
You feel like holding your breath as you
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the h~ottoInless abyss The guide throws his
calcium light down into the caverns, and
the hight rolls and to>ses from rock to rock
AMI from depth to depth, making at every
plunge a new revelation of the awful power
that could have made such q place as that.
y SENSE of sutfOcatiOn comes upon you as
YOU think that you are two hundred and
fifty feet in a straight line from the summit
surface of the earth.
The guide after awhile takes you into what
called the star chamber" and then he
SAYS to YOU. "Sit5here:" and then he takes
TIN lantern and goes down under the rocks,
aIit it gets darker and darker until the
n}-ht is 50 thick that the hand an inch from
til" esq is undesirable. And then, by
klading one of the lanterns and placing it
IA a cleft OF the rock there. Is a reflection
cast on the dome OF the cave, and there are
stars coming out in constelIatlons-a bril-
iiant night heavens-and you ~involuntarily
/ tvclaim, Beautiful, beautiful"
Then he takes the lantern down in other
GeptGs of the cavern and wanders On and
wander off until he comes up from behind
the rock, gradually, and it seems like the
i dawn OF the morning until it gets brighter
and brighter. The guide is a skilled ven
trlloqust, and be initiates the voices of the
morning, and soon the gloom is all gone and
You stand congratulatlng yourself over the
wonderful spectacle.
ell, there are a great many people who
.auN down into the grave as a great cavern.
ley think 1t is a thousand miles subterran-
Gus, aui ali the echoes seem to be the voices
~ leS 2air, aud the cascades seem to be the
iatllnE tears that always fall, and the gloom
. ctFta seems coming uD IN S~talagmlte,
anu the gloom OF the eternal world seems
Gc~cen'ilnI IN the staEactitn, making pill
Iars Of ln.ie>cribable horror. The grave
= DO such place Us tnat u me, thank God!
tur divine guide takes us down into the
great ,avcrn,. and we have the lamp to our
ieet ana tbs light - our path. AMI all the
, III tn rltts of the rock are anthems
1.-THE taalnE waters are iountau"
.on. AMI after awhile We l0cg Ut
heholt' the cavern OF the tomb has become
a kings star chamber.