Orange County observer. [volume] (Hillsborough, N.C.) 1880-1918, 1896-06-06

Cross a different ferry from the zone where
you used to meet him les. Hs
ask for financial help. When you starIea
"fs. ne spoke a good word Tor you q. Ia, hIo
fortunes are collapsing. He put Ms name
on two OF your notes. Tell hin that you
have changed your mind about SUCH Things,
and that you never tndorse. After a"ni!o
his matters come to a dead hat. ana an -
slgnnent or suspension or sherilI ssals'aA@
place. You say:"He ought 10 have stopped
sooner. Just as I expected. he made TOO
big a splash in the world. Glad the balloon
has burst. Ha, ha!' Applause when IA
vent up. sibilant derision when ne ana
down. Men shall clap their hands at Dim
and has him out q lis place 50. hlsn ap
the eyes Of the %roeouck, which then. WIN
eyes blinded. goes tumblinG over the p-ec1-
pic@, the great antlers crashing on the rocks.
Now, compare some Of these soinSs out OF
life with the departure CT mea ani women
who in the drama Of life take the part that
God assigned them and then wen. away O
ored Of men and applaufed Of the Lord A.
mighty. tits about fifty years that III q
comparatively small apartment u tie cltva
newly married pair set up a home- TIE fr7t
guest invited to that residence was the LORD
Jesus Christ. and the Bible given the bride
on the day OF her esposual was the guide OF
that household. Days Of sunshine We're fol-
lowed by days Of shallow. Did You ever
know a nome that for fifty years had no v
~cissitude? The young woman VINO lett her
fathers house for her young husbands h0ue
started out with a parental benedtetion ana
good advice she will never forget. Her
mother said to her the day before the mar
rage. "Now. my child. you are going away
! from US. o. course. as long as your father
and | live you will feel that yon can come
to Us at any time. But your homo will be
elsewhere, From long experience I fnd 1t
- !Ekr ~ nrcn. Cod u j. x-nr h-ioht Witt
you now, my child. and you may think you
can get along without religion. but the day
will come when You will want God. and my
advice is, establish a family altar. and, II
nee1 be, conduct the worship yourself.
The counsel was taken, and that young wife
consecrate1 every room in tho house TO
God. :.
Teat5 passed On and there were III that
home hilarities, but they We're good and
heaithful. and sorrows. but they were COM
forted. Marriages as bright as orange bios
SONS could make them. and burrials in
which all hearts were riven. They have g
family lot in the cemetery. bat all tho place
is illuminated with stories Of resurrection
and reunion. The children Of the household
that lived have grown up. and they are all
Christians, the fathar and mother leading
the way and the children following. What
care the mother took of wardrobe and edu-
cation, character and manners! How hard
III S'-lt' AJ1C@ WI frtl NisC ttO lItNt "
10 household was unfortunate in business,
, she snWed until her fingers were numb aE0
bleeding at the tips. And what close calcu~
lation Of economies. and what ingenuity il
letting the garments Of the e,der children
Tor the younger and only God kept account
Of that mothers sideachos and headaches
and hear;aches AMI the tremulous prayers
by the side Of the sick child's cradle and by
the couch Of this one fully grown.
The npighbors often noticed how tired
she looked, and Old acquaintance
hardly knew her in tho street. But
without complaint she waited and toiled
AMI endured and accomplished al These
years. The children are cut III the World
an honor to themselves and their parents.
After awhile the mothers last sickness
comes. Children and grandchildren. sum-
monod from afar, come softly into the room
one by one. for she is too weak to see moro
than one at q time. She runs her dying
fingers lovingly through their hair and tells
them not to cry, and that she is going now,
but they will meet again in a little while in
a better world, and then kisses them goOdby
and says to each, God bless and keep you,
: my dear child" The day of the obsequies
comes, and the officiating clergyman tells
the story Of wifely and motherly endurance,
j, aud many hearts on earth and in heaven
!, echo the sentiment, and as she is. carried of
=. the stage OF this NOR, al life there are cries
,, Of Faithful unto death" ''She hath done
i. what she could" while overpowerinS all the
:. voices Of earth and heaven is the plaudit Of
: the God who watched her from first to last,
saying. "Well done, good and faithful SER
, want; thou hast been faithful over q few
things. | will make thee ruler over maDv
, things; enter thou intothe Joy of thy Lord!''
!, Bat what became of the father of that
y household? He started as a Young man in
\ business aud had a small income, and having
;. got "a little ahead sickness III the family
swept it all sway. He went through al! the
! business panlcs of forty years. met many
= losses. ana suffered many betrayals, but
kept right on trusting in God, whether bus
i, mess was good or poor, setting his .children
, a good example, and giving them the best OF
=, counsel. and never q prayer did he offer for
all tnose years but they We're mentioned in
+ 1t. He Is old now and realizes it caunot be
long before he must quit all these scenes.
! But nc is going to leave his children an in.
herltance OF prayer and Christian principle:
which All the detaicatiOns OF earth can nevei
touch. and as be goes out Of the world the
church Of God hlesses him and the poor rino
: his doorhell - see if he is any better. and
bis grave IS surrounded by a multi
tude who Went on foot and stood
there before the procession 81 c~2rria:e=cace
h up. and some say. "lhera Will ~ no one Il
taie his place and others saw, Who vii
lity me now and others remark, shall
: lie held IN everlasting renAmhraGcn." And
as the drama Of biz life closes. all the y0cif.
:, Grafton and braves and eneoras that eve,
: shook the amphithaaters OF earthly spec.acl,
! were tame and feehle compared win thu
Y long. loud thnn1lers OF approval that shall
: break from the cloud Of witnesses in tn,
plset up gallery Of the heavens. Choose Y,
between the life that shall clos. by hajne
hls-el IF the stage and the lie that shall
. close MD acclanatious supernal and arch
angelic.
or. rlen an women on the stage Of lfa
many Of you II the first act Of the drama
and Others in the second. an! soneof YOU il
tae thlrl. and q few in the fourth, AM her,
ani there one III the fifth. hnt ali of VOL be
y tween entrance an ezti. | quote II Won a
the ptrorat!Gn O. this Sr-u34 the most So.
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q relClouSlr hetafIi 70 Ourselves. bl. grand
Il vinllratory q the great ~Granati.t. Ictia.
. from bis last vii and testament:
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