Orange County observer. [volume] (Hillsborough, N.C.) 1880-1918, 1892-05-14
REV. DR.. TALMAGiE
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TIE E0OkLYN DININE'S Sun
DAY SERMON.

David and Jeremiah AMI Ez skel aud Micah
end Solomon Of the text shovel that some
time ttey had been out on a hunting ex-
petition. Spear. lances. sworis and nets
were employed in this service. A deep pit
fall would be 1igyed. In the center Of II
there was some ralsri ground with a pole On
which a lamb would be fastene l.. AMI the
Wild beast not seeing the pitfaii. nut only
seeing the lamb womb plunge for its prey
AMI dash down, itself captured BirIs wer.
caught IN gins pr pierced with arrows. The
hunter n olaen time had two miSsions-one
70 Gear the laniof fercci rs beasts, an the
other u obtain meat for themselves and
their f%afniiie-. The occupation AMI habit Of
hunters ar q favorite Bible siniie. David
SAID lie was hunted BY his enemy ike a par.
fridge upon the mountain. Ny text is a
Luntlng srene.
A sportsman ,arrayel in a -arD appr0ori-
ate To III. Wlii cha-. lets slip tue bloc J.
thirsty hounds from their kennels, AMI
mounting his Let horse, with Il halloo and
the yeli OF the grey hound pack they are
off and away. through brak- and dell, over
marsh AMI moor. across cnasms waert a
misstep would hurl hors4 aud rider t. death.
p.ungIng into nirc up.to the launches or IN.
10 swift streams up u the bit, till the gam.
Is tracked by tripping foam ana blood, AMI
the antlero era Oh the rocks, and the
hunter has gust time To ~ IN at the death.
: I. j = ~! III i4dStP All peril Oh lho
chase, my tex. rrlreseats this sportsman as
beng too ludOlent To dress the game and
prepare it for food. te lets it lie in the
dooryar! Of his home ami become a portion
for verrnin and leaks Of prey. Thus by one
master stroke solomon gives a picture of
laz:ness, when i.e says, The slothful man
roastetn not that which h. too1 in hunting"
The most Of hunters iav. the game they
shot or entrapped coo Ell the same evening
or the next day, but not 50 with this laggarl
Of the text. Too lazy to rip off the hide.
Toe lazy to kindle the fire and put the grid.
IRON on the Goals.
The first picture | ever bou ,ht was an en-.
craving Of Thorwaldsen'5 ".Autu nu." The
clusters OF grapes are ripe On the vine of the
homestead, and the returned hounds, pant
ing from til" chase, are LYNX on the doorsiil
aud the hunter Is uns lOuliering tne game.
while the housewife is about to take a
portion OF il ana prepare It Tor the evening
meal. nllks the person of the text, she
was enough Industrious to roast that W!iicl
had been taken in hunting. But the world
has had many a specimen since Solonnon's
time Of thOse whose iaS-itude and improvi
dence amt ab>uriity were depicted III my
text. Tie most Of those who nave
made a dead failure Of life can look back
and gee q time when a great opportunity
opened, but they did not know it.
They We're not as wise as George Stephen
son, he father ot railways" who, when ut
sixt"e4 years OF age h received an appoint
mellt t. work 1T e pumping engine for
twelve shililngs a week. cried out: Now, [
am Il nlede man tor life" Col gives to most
mtn at least ohseoot opportunity. Agreat
Greclan general was met by Il group Of beg
gars, and he aid to them: If YOU want
beasts TO plo" your LAM | will lend you
some. Ii you want land / will give you
SOM II YOU want seed to SOW your land.
| "illsee that You get it. But | will encour-
age none in iiItness.' SO God gives to most
people an opportunity OF extrication from
depressed circumstances. As if to create
IN Us a hatred for mlolcnce. Col has
made those animals which are slug
glsh TO appear loatslSome i'll our eyes,
while those which are fleet and active he
has clothed with attractiveness.,
The tortoise, the sloth, the snail, the croco-
die repel Us, while the leer and the gazelie
are as pleasing rs they are fleet, and from
the swift wings of innumerable birds TO |
has spared no purple or gold or jet or Grim
son or snowy wilderness. Besides all this the
Bible is constantly assaulting the vice OF
laZiness. Solomon seems to order the idler
out of his sight as hey ond all human instruc-
ton when he says, Go to the ant, thou slug
gard; consider her ways and be wise And
Paul seems to drive hun up from his dining
table before he gets <throush with the first
course of food with tue assertion, III any
Will not work, neither shall be eat
Now. what are the causes OF faZinoSS and
what are its evil results? | knew a man who
was never up to time. It seemed impossible
Tor him to meet an engagement. When he
was to be married be missed the train. His
watch seemed to take on the habits of its
owner, and was always too slow. He had a
constitutional lethargy for which he did not
seem resi- onsihle. 50 Incidence often arises
from the natural temperament. | do not
know but there Is a constitutional tendency
to this vice III every man. owever active
you may generally be, have You not on some
warm spring day felt a toucA or this feeling
on YOU. although YOU may nave shaken toff
as YOU would a reptile. But some are So
powerfully euptei to this Nv their bodily
constitution that all the work OF the If lite
has e.n accnunl.hei win this latEar,v
hanoino ON their hacn or trr,liuy ON thelr
heel-
Ynu sometimes, .n,ld il IN childho,l
The child moplng and loncin. within door,
while his brothers and sister, arr at play, ol
If he ioin them he is behind in evrry race
ani beaten in every game. His nerves, III,
muscles. his ZONES are snitten vita thi-
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