Orange County observer. [volume] (Hillsborough, N.C.) 1880-1918, 1893-07-01

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| s~ervants and she Is q sloven. Though ahe
/ was very careful about her appearance IL
| you presence once. now she Is careless. be-
cause she said her fortune Is made. Your
trial is a hard school lesson You cannot
| learn, and you have hi..en your finger mails
| until they are q sishs ~ heheli Everybody
| has some ~sexation CT annoyance o- trlai.
| and he or she thsaks it Is th. one least
adapted. Anything but tais," all say.
Anything hut this"
Oh, my l1earer. are you Lot ashamei 10 II
| com planning all this time against God? Who
| manages the affairs 81 this world anyhow?
| Is il an infinite Modoc. or a Sitting Bull saw
| age. or an cmnipoten, Mana Sahibf No, il
is tnn na~-t nnrtCifti a.i ~sI5tio15 atd .Ea
| Being In all the universe. You cannot teach
| ~Omnipotenre anything. You have fre'te3
and worried almost enough. Do you Mt
| think 50? Some Of you ara making your
| selves ridiculous in TIE sight Of the angels.
| Here l. Il iiaTal architect. and he draws out
. fhe plan Of a ship Of many thousand tons.
| Many Workmen are engaged on II for a long
whi!c. The ship isdone. and some day, with
the flags up and the air gorgeous with hunt
| tag. that vessel Is launched for southampton.
| It that time a lai six years OF age cones
running Town the dock with Stoy boat which.
he has made with his own laekknife. AMI he
saws Here, my boat Is better than yours
Just look at .hia jibhonn ind the.e weather
! cross Jack hsaees.' aid fe droEHs HE !ittlo
| boat beside the great ship, aadthere IS q roaE
| Uf laughter on tho docks.
All. my friends. that great ship is you life
as GOD planned it-vast, niiIicn tonned.
| ocean destined, eternity bound. That little
| boat is your life IS YOU are trying To hew il
| ont and fashion II and iaunchit. All, do not
try 10 ha q rival Of the great Jehovah. God
X always right, and in nine eases out of ten
YOU are wrong. H. sends Iusttbe hartsh1ps.
Just the bankruptcies. just the cross that it
| - E.ut for a tn Y - Ia En0u-- Srfyat kind
81 @rain YOU are. and He seni-the right kind
Of tnrashing machine. It Will he a rod or
stan or iron wheel ipst according az ven a'e
tit"hes or ctimmin or corn.
Again, my subject teaches lis that God
| kegs trial on us until we let go The farmer
shouts whoa - to his horses as soon as the
grain has dropped from the stalk. The far
mer comes with his fork and losses UP the
straw. and he sees that the straw has let 20
the grain and the grain is thoroughly
thraehed. SO God. Smiling rod and turn
ing wheel both cease as soon as We let. 90.
We hold on to this world with its pleasures
and riches and emoluments. and our knuckles
ur4S o nrIufy SET tfat 1t seetns AS II we couia
hold on forever, God comes along with
sotar thrashing trouble and beats II. loose.
We started unier the delusion that this was
a great world. We learned out Of our geoC-
raphy that it was SO many thousand miles
in diameter and SO many thousand miles in
circumference, and We said. "Oh, my, what
Il world - Troubles came in after life. and
this trouble sliced of one part of the world.
and that trouble sliced off another part Of the
world, and it has got to BE a smaller world.
and III some Of your estimations a very in
significant world. and it is depreciatjng all
the time as a spiritual property. Ten per
cent. of, fifty per cent. off, and there are
those here who would not give ten cents for
this world-for the entire WOrl,l-as a soul
possession.
We thought that friendship was a grand
thing. Inschool we used to write compost
tions about friendship, and perhaps we
made our graduating speech on commence
ment day on friendship. Oh, it was a charmed
thing. But does it mean as much 10 you as
1t used to? You have gone on in life. and
one friend has betrayed you, and another
friend has misinterpreted you. and another
friend has neglected you, and friendship
comes now sometimes to mean to you merely
another ak to grind!
So with money. We thought If q mar had
a competency he was safe for all the future,
but we have learned that a mortgage may be
defeated by an unknown previous incum-
hrance that signing your name on the back
of a note may be your business death war
rant that a new tariff may change the cur
rent of trade that a man may be rich to-day
and poor tomorrow. And God. by all these
misfortunes, is trying to loosen our grip, but
still we hold on. God smites us with a staff,
but We hold on. and He strikes us with a
rod. but we hold on. And Hesends over us
the iron wheel of misfortune. but we hold on.
There are men who keep their grip on this
world until the last moment VINO suggest to
me the condition and conduct of the poor In
dian in the boat In the Niagara rapids com
ing on toward the fall. S~eeincthat he could
not escape. a moment or two before he got
to the verge of the plunge be lifted a wine
bottle and drank it off and then tossed the
bottle into the air. So there are men who
clutch the world. and they 90 Town through
the rapids of temptation and sin. and they
hold on TO the very last moment OF life. drink
ing to their eternal darnnation as they go
over and go down.
Oh. let go, Let go The best fortunes are
In heaven. There are no absconding cashiers
from that bank. no failing in promises to paw.
Set your affections On things above, not on
thing on the earth. Let go, depend upon
it that God will keep upon you the staff. or
the rod, or the iron wheel until YOU do let 90.
Another thing my text teaches us is that
Christian sorrow is going to have Il sure
terminus. My text says: Bread corn is
bruised because he will not be ever thrashing
1t. Blessed be God for that. Pound away.
q fail. Turn on, o wheel? Your work will
soon be done. II will not he ever thrash
ing 1t Now the Christian has almost as
much use IL the organ for the stop tremulant
as he has for he trumpet. But after awhile
he will put the last dirge into the portfolio
forever. So mu"h Of Us as is wheat will be
separated from 80 much rs is chat, and there
Will be no need OF pounding.
They never cry in heaven because they
have nothing To cry about. There are no
tears OF bereavement. for you shall have your
friends all round about You. There are no
tears OF poverty because each one sits at the
Kings table and has his own chariot of sal
walton and free access to the wardrobe where
princes get their array. Notears of sickness,
Tor there ara no p~neumonias ON the air. and
no malarial exhaiations from the rolling
river OF life, and no crutch for the lame limb.
and no splint for the broken arm. but the
pulses tarohbing withthe health Of the eternal
God In a climate like our June before the
blossoms fail. or our gorgeous October be-
fore the leaves scatter.
In that land the souls will talk over the
different modes ofthrashing. Oh. the story
OF the stall that struck til. ftche~. and the
roo that heat the cuEnulin. and the iron
wheelthaI Went over the corn Daniel Will
describe the lions. AMI Jonah ieyiath.ns
and paol the eluwood whips with which
n" vas >ccur-et. and Ey. vii tell how
ar"ua;11 Elem was the day sh. left !. and
John i.0EerS will tell II TIE smart Of flame
AMI Elijah of the tltry team that wb...lat
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