Orange County observer. [volume] (Hillsborough, N.C.) 1880-1918, 1896-05-16
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Ali these palaces Of sin will become palaces
OF righteousness. They will come into the
possession Of those strong Tor virtue and
strong for God. He shall divide the spoli
with the strong. +.
China and Africa, the two richest portions
OF the earth by reason of metals and rare
woods and 1nexhaustible produciveness. are
not yes divided up among the good because
they are not ready to be divided. Wait until
all the doors that Livingstone opened IN
Africa shall be entered. and Bishop Taylor,
with his sand Of self supporting MISSION
aries. have done their work, and the Ashanfis
and Senegambians shall know Christ as we'll
as you know Him, and there shall be on the
banks of the Nile and the Niger a higher CIV
ilizatlon than Is now to De 1ouno On the
banks OF the Potomac or the Hudson. then
Christ will divide up that continent among
His friends. Wait until China. which is halt
as large as all Europe. shall have developed
her capacities for rice and tea and sugar
among edibies. and her amethyst and sap
phire ard topaz and opal and jasper and
porphyry among precious stones. and her
rosewood and ebony and camphor and var
nish trees among precious woods, n
turned up from her depths a half dozen
Pennsylvania of coal and iron. and twenty
Nevadas OF silver. and fifty Callfornias OF
gold, and her 500 900. 900 Of people shall be
evangelical. Then the Lord will divide it
up among the good.
II my text be not a deception. but the
eternal truth. then the time Is coming Wnen
all the farms will be owned by Christian
farmers. and all the commerce controlled By
Christian merchants. and all the authority
held by Christian. officials, and all the ships
commanded by Christian captains. and all
the universities Under the Instruction OF
Christian professors; Christian kings, Chris
tiar presidents, Christian governors. Chris
tan mayors. Christian common council. Yet.
what a securing out. What an upturnlng.
What a demolition! What a resurrection
must precede this new apportionment!
1 do not underrate the enemy. julius
Caesar got his greatest victories by fully esti-
mating the vastness Of his foes and prepared
his men fer their greatest triumph by saying.
"To-niorrow King Juba will be- here with
30, 900 horses, 100, 900 skirmishers and 800
elephants" | do not underrate the vast
forces Of sin and death, but do you know
who commands us? Johovahiireh. And the
reserve corps behind US are all the armies OF
heaven and earth. with hurricane and thun-
derbolt. The good work OF the worlds re-
dem ption is going on every minute. Never
90 many splendid men and glorious women
on the side Of right as to-day. Never so
many good people as now. Diogenes has
been spoken Of as IL wise man because he
went w4tfl a lantern at MONDAY, saying he
WAS looking for an honest man. If he had
turned his lantern toward himself, he might
have discovered Il crank. Honest men by
the 10. 600, Through the series
Of Su~nday-school lessons the next generation
all through Christendon are going to be
wiser than any generation since the world
stood. The kingdom is coming. God can
do it. No housewife With a chamois cloth
ever polished a silver teaspoon with more
ease than Christ will rub off from this world
the ;acnish and briphtsn it w till it glow5
like heaven. and the1 th5 glorious appor-
tionmenr. for my text is REINFORCED by a
score Of other texts, when it says of Christ.
II shall divide the spoil with the strong"
"But.' you say. this is plea SAINT to think
Of Tor others, but before that time l shall
have passed ,p into another existence aud l
shall get no advantage from that new ap-
pointment." Ali. you have only driven me
70 the other more exciting and transporting
consideration. and that is that Christ is go.
ing to divide up heaven in the same way.
There are old estates in the celestial world
that have been in the possession of the in
habitantS for thousands of year,, and they
shall remain as they are. There are Old
family mansions in heaven filled with whoe
generations of kindred, and they shall neva
be driven CIT. Many Of the victors from
earth Lave already got their palaces. ant
they are pointed out to those newly arrived.
Soon after our getting there we will ask to
be shown the apostolic residences. and ask
where does Pau live and John, and shown
the patriarchal residences, and shall say,
"Where does Abraham live or jacob" and
shown the martyr residences and say,
Where does John Huss live and Ridley?"
We will want to see the boulevards. where
the chariOts Of conquerorS roll I will want
to see the garden where the princes walk.
We will want to. see Music row, where Han
del and Haydn and Mozart and Charles Yves.
ley and Thomas Hastings and Bradbury
have their homes, out of their windows, ever
and anon. rolling some snatch of an earthly
OratOrlo or hvtnn transported with the COM
poser. We will want to see Revival ter
ace. where Whitefield and Nettleton and
Da--1, n~l ~i,~ IY.l - ~.
ncv ard other giants of soul reaping are
resting from their almost supernatural la
pors, their doors thronged with converts
just arrived, coming to report themselves.
But brilliant as the sunset Il like the
leaves for number are the celestial homes
yet 10 be awarded when Christ to YOU anl
millions of others shall divide the SPOIL
What do you want there? You shah have il
Az orchard? There it is-twelve manner O
fruits. and trutt every month. Do you wan,
river scenery? Take your choice on the
banks Of the river. in longer, wider. deepel
roll than Danube or Amazon or Mississippi
ii mingled in one, and emptvins into the sea
, Of S.ass. mingled with fire. Do YOU wan
your kindred back again.: Go out and NEE
your father and mother. without the staff o.
!. the stoop. and your children in a dance Of i'm
mortal glee. Doyou want a throne, Selec,
: it from the million FURNISHED elevations. Dc
You want a CROWN Pick it out of tina
mountain Of diamonded coronets. Do 70.
+ want your old church friends OF eartl
: around you? Begin to hum an old reviva
! tune. and they will flock from all quarters t.
revet With you in sacred "reminiscences. AL
the ea-th for those who are here on earth a
The time If continental and planetary dis
+. ,rlbutiou and all the heavens for those VIII,
are tnerc.
That heavenly distribution Of spoils will
he a surprise to many. Here enters heaye,
, the soul of a man who lookup a great dea
of room in the church on earth, but sacrifice
: little. and among his good works selfshnes
u was evident. He just crowds through tn
Z. shining gate, but it's . very tight squeeze
: 50 that the doorkeeper has to pull hard t
9 get him in, and thi~ mAn expects halt {
; heaven for his sharr of trophies, and b
| would like q nonor Wy OF a4 ttp splende
;. ;. and 70 purchase lois n the Suburbs. 80 tha
= he could get advantage OF the growth OF tn
; city. Well. little by little he gets grace {
heart. JUS enough 10 get him through, an,
), 10 him IS given 4 secondhand crown whic
g one Of the saints wore at the start. but e,
, changed for q brighter one az he went O
: from glory 10 glory. Aid he is put in a
old house ole" Occupied by an angel VII
was nurie1 oft NJ heaven at the time {