Orange County observer. [volume] (Hillsborough, N.C.) 1880-1918, 1893-04-01

constellation. .hs interviewing wheels. AMI
honierois laws the weights and mighty
ssireing Pendulum, the stars in the great
dome Of night striking the midnight, and the
sun, with h-azen tongue. telling The hour ~
noon
The widest Comet hes q chain Of law that
it cannot break. The thistle down flying
bafore the schoolboy's breath is controlled
b. the same law that controls the sun AMI
the planets. TIE rose5ush in your window
Is governed by the same principe thai
governs the tree &c the universe On wh'cl
thr stars or, fiperirig fr.tits, aud On FtuEf
Goi viii one day put His hand AMI SHAKE
down the fruit>-a perfect universe. NJ
astronomy has ever proposed an amen
men-.
EG5i makes a Bible. it is q complete
Bible. Standing amid the dreadful AMI Re,
hght,uf truths you seem t. ~ IN she ''ias,.
% an crrhast.a vhera tie @aiii-1gs over
SIPS. AMI t:e rejoicjngs over pardon. anitt,
martial strains 6t victory inaks the chorus
! like an anthem Of t.eTnitv III. t0r.'
soens u vo3 the Ccaar 81 truth; "a est-r
wava - which Christ walks-sonetjnes in
Tho darkness Of prophecy. again in the
sp'eniors with whjch He WALKS on Gallo.
IL this boo; APOSTLE answers t. p-oQfet,
Paulto fsqieh Eoye'ation II Genests-glorl-
Gus lt-ht turning lniinight sorrow into tha
mi1n0,n jov. dispensing every fo-. hus4ln-
every tsmnest. TAKE this book; il is the kiss
OF fy)i lDJl the 500. y. iOS- man. teFtSC-
B.b'e. complete Bihlel No man has ever
proposed auv Improvement.
Got provided 9 Saviour. Re is a con;
pleta Observation-Disclosures divinity -n@
hrntnit' -ait1i II II. same person. He
st up the starry pillars 81 th9 universe AMI
The tower OF light. He plante the cA11rs
ana the heavenly Lebanon. He stc9cf on
f the rock III rivers % If, sin5inSe an !er
tn tre\s. singing IN Ter tn thro,Js. H.
quarrei the >arionyx AMI crystaRSnl the
Il. ~ - the heavenly wall. H pat down
tn Jasper for tha foundation an asppe 1p
the amethvst fot tee capital aili sNSan- The
!! -atps With Ire = pearls. n ore i1stadt
lie thought cuta universe. and yet He be-
came a c!il1 crying for His mother. feeling
alon The sides Of the 1nanger learning to
was.
nl3ilotence sheathe1 in tue muscle an
I'm OF n chiii's arm; onnisclence strung in
tie optic nerve of a child's eye: infinite
love b-atin- in q chiid's hearti a great Gnt
appearing il. the fern of Il child ! year Oh,
8 years old, IS years Old While all the
heav-ns wore ascribing to Him glory AMI
honor AMI power on earth, men said. WHO
il his fellow?' While all the heavenly
hosts, with foliel wing about their faces.
bowed down before Him crying. "doIy.
no y" on earth, they denounced Him as o
hlislnener and q sot. Booked in q boat on
Gennesaret, and yet He 1t is that undirket
thr lightning from the storm cloud and dis
ma>tc ~I,eoanon Of its forests aud holds the
five oceans on the tip Of His finger as She
! Leaf holds the raiudrop.
Oh. the complete Saviour, rubbing His
hani over the place where we have the pain,
Eretthc stars of heaven the adorning gems
Of His right hand. Holding us in His arms
when we take our last view Of our dead. Sit
ting down with us on the tombstone, and
while we plant roses there He planting con-
ISOLATION in our heart. every chapter a stalk,
every, verse a stem, every. word a rose. A
complete Saviour, a Complete Bible, q com
plete universe, a complete Jordanic passage.
EVERYTHING that God does is complete.
Again, l learn from this JorIAnlc passage
that between us and every Canaan of sue
cess and prosperity there is a river that
must be passed. "O1, how l would like
to have some Of those grapes on the other
siden' said some Of the ISraelites to Joshua.
"Well," says Joshua, why don't you cross
over and get themy' There is a river Of
difficulty between US and everything that is
worth knowing. That which costs nothing
Is worth nothing.
God didn't intend this world for an easy
parlor, through which we are to be drawn
in a rocking chair, but we are to work our
passage, climb mastS, fight battles, scale
mountains and ford rivers. God makes
everything valuable difficult to get at, for
the same reason that He put the gold down
in the mine and the pearl clear down in the
sea-to make us dig and dive for them. We
acknowledge this principle in worldly things;
oh, that we were only wise enough to ac-
knowledge it in religious things!
You have scores OF illustrations under
your own observation where men have had
the hardest lot and been trodden under foot,
and yet after awhile hadft easy. Now their
homes blossom and bloom with pictures,
and carpets that made foreign looms laugh
now embrace their feet; the summer winds
lift the tapestry about the window gorgeous
tony1rh fnr q 1NYrEfch c1Ylfons yVnrotSnnf
steeds paw and neigh at the door. their car
riages moving through the sea OF New York
life a very wave of splendor.
Who is itf Why, it is a boy who came to
New York with a dollar in his pocket and
all his estate slung over his shoulder in a
cotton handkerchief. All that silver on the
dancing span is p~etrified sweat drops; that
beautiful dress is the faded calico over
which God put His hando of perfection, turning
1t to Turkish satin or Italian silk; those dia-
monds are the tears which suffering froze as
they fell. Oh, there is a river of difficulty
between us and every earthly achievement.
You know that. You admit that.
You know this is 50 with regard to the
acquisition Of knowledge. The ancients
used to say that VULGAR struck Jupiter on
the head and the goddess Of wisdom jumped
out. illustrating the truth that WISDOM
of difficulty between Shakespeare, the boy,
holding the horse at the door of the London
theatre, and that Shakespeare, the great
~~dramatist, winning the applause OF all au-
diences by his tragedies. There was a river
between Benjamin Franklin, with a loaf OF
bread under his arm. walking the streets Of
Philadelphia, and that same Ben amin
Franklin, the philosopher. just outside of
Boston flying a kite in the thunderstorm.
An idler was cured OF his bad habit bv
looking through the window, night after
night, at a man who seemed sitting at his
desk turning off one sheet of writing after
another until almost the dawn OF the morn
ing. the mar sitting there writing until
morning was industrious Walter Scott: the
man who looked at him through the window
was Lockhart, his illustrlouS biograpaer
afterward. Lori Mansfield, pursued by the
press and by the popuia"e, because Of a GER
tain line o. duty, Went on 70 discharge the
duty, AMI wAlle the MOB were AROUND hin
demanding the :aklng u hls life he sho3s
his tst IN TIL iaca OF the MOB aui sai !
"Slrs, WIN o1-'> last en cones. x canr9.
come too soon IL Re fails m defense or lav
an. the liberty o. his country"
AM SO there IL my friends. 4 tue. a tu,-
sie, a trial, a push. an anxiety. through
"h.cA every man must so before ha come.
20 worldly success AMI worldly achievement