Orange County observer. [volume] (Hillsborough, N.C.) 1880-1918, 1892-12-17

mot l." saws some one stan ling back un-
der the galleries. Yes, VOW Not l." saws
some one who has not beth in church in
fifteen years before. Yes. you. Not l.
saws some one who has been for fifty years
filing 10 his life with all kinds of wicked.
ness. Yes. YOU. There are nlonopolies on
earth-monopolistic railroads and monopo-
listic telegraph companies and monopohstlc
grain dealers. but no m~onopoiles reiiSlon-
AL who want 20 be saved may be saved.
without money aud. without price, Sal
walton bv the Lord Jesus Christ for all the
people. OF course use common sense IN TINS
matter. You cannot expect To get TO
Charleston by taking the snip for Portlanf.
and you cannot get to heaven by gong IN
an opposite direction. Believe in the Lori
Jesus Christ and thou shalt be saved.
Through that one gate OF pardon AMI peace
all the race may go in.
But" saws some one, 40 you really
think | would be at home iii that slpernat
society il | should reach it, think you
would. know you would. | remember
that in the huskiny TINE thet3 was a great
equality OF fealing among the nelghbor>.
Ih-ra at one corn snoc q farmer woutl be
al work who owned two hunlral acres OF
ground. The man wlson he was talking
with al the mex cora soocz o"ne1 hut
thirty acres 0: ground, and perhaps all that
covered by a mortgage.
That evening. at tae close Of the huskinC
day, one man drove nome a roam span 50
frisky. so full Of life they %: their feet over
the traces. The other man walked home,.
Great difference i'll education, great dlti r
ence in worldly means but | nOt.ce1 at tue
husking time they all seemed to CD , y each
others society. They did not ask any man
how much property h ownei OF what his
education had baan. They all saemei to bt
happy together in tloae gooi times. AMI
SO it will be in heaven. Our Father VIII
gather Hi: children AROUND HIM, anu tie
paiyh hOrS Will come IN and tHa past VIII tE
rehaarsed. And soma one will tell OF VIC.
tory and we will all celebrate 1t. And SONS
one Will say Here is NY old father that |
put away with heartbreak Just LOOK a
him. He is as young as any OF us"
And some one will say: Here Is my dars-
ing child that | buried in Greenwood. AM
all the after years OF my life were shadoWed
with desolation- Just loolk- at her She
doesn't saem esif she had been sick a min
Ute Great sociality. Great neighborhoot
Kindness. Go in ami dine. What though
John Milton sit down on one side and John
Howard sit down on the other side? No en-.
barrassment. What thoush Charlotte
Elizabeth sit down on one side ana HANNAH
More sit down on the other side? No EN-
barrassnent. A monarch yourself, why bi
embarrassed among monarchsz A songstei
yourself, why be embarr asse1 among glorl
fed songsters2 Go in ana dine.
All the shocks OF corn coming in in thel
season. Oh, yes. in their season. Not ON
Of you having died too soon, or having d1ef
too late, or having iie1 at haphazard
Plante1 at just the right time. Plowed q
Just the right time. Cut down at just TIL,
right time. Husled at just the right time.
Garnered at just the right time. Coming
IN in your season. Oh, | wish that the tw.
billion bushels OF corn now in the fields O,
on their way to the seaboard might be s
typ, Of the grand yield Of honor and glor,
ana immortality when all the shocks com.
in.
20 not know how you are constituted,
but | am so constituted that there is nothing
that SO awakens "reminiscences in me as tn,
doors Of a cornfieid when [ cross it at thi
time Of year aft ar the corn has been cut an'
it stands in shocks. And 50 | have though
it might be practically useful tor us to-da,
to cross the cornfieid, and I have though
perhaps there might be soma remlniscenc
reused in our soul that might be ~salutar.
and might be saving. la Sweden a prim
donna, while her house in the city was be
ing repaired, took a house in the countr,
for temporary residence. and she brough
out her great array Of jewels to show
friend who wished to See them.
One night after displaying these jewels
and leaving them on the table, and all ha
friends had gone, and the servants had gon
one summer nlght-Sha sat thinking an.
looking into a mirror just in front of he
chair, when she saw in that mirror the fac
Of a robber looking in at the window be
hind her and gazing at those jewels. Sh
was in great fright, but sat still. an
hardly knowing why she dill SO she begal
to sing an old nursery song. her fears max
ing the pathos of the song more telling
Suddenly she noticed. while looking at til
mirror, that the robbers face had gon
from the window. and it did not come back
A few days after the prima donna receive,
a letter from the robber, saying. II hear,
that the jewels were to be out that night
and came to take them at whatever hazard
but when l heard you sing that nurser'
song with which my mother so often san
Inc TO sleep | could not stand it, and | fed
and | have resolved upon a new and homes
life"
Oh, my friends, there are jewels in peri
richer than those which lay upon that tabl
that night. They are the jewels of the i'm
mortal soul. Would God that some son
rolling up out Of the deserted nursery O
your childhood, or some song rolling up on
of the corn fields. III song of the husker
twenty or forty years ago. might turn al
our feet out Of the paths OIL sin into the path
OF Righteousness. Would God that thos
memories waited in on o1or or song NIGH
start Us this moment with swift feet towart
that blessed place where SO many OF GU
loved ones have already preceded IL as a
shock OF corn cometh in in his season.