Orange County observer. [volume] (Hillsborough, N.C.) 1880-1918, 1896-12-10

evening to feed the n1u!titudes OF outsiders
starving fertne bread OF which ia man eat
be shall never againj hunger, Among those
kiear down the tpel would make more
pic conquesr IGN among those who now
nuch an 1e SO much that God can
teach {eip them. In those lower
Is arr Eendid fellows in the rough.
the M0eolack a reporter saw near New
City Half- He asked a boy to black
cots. The boy came up to his work
kinply SLOW and had just begun when
fe boy showed him aside and began the
and the reporter repfoved him as be-
bully. and the boy replied: "Oh, that's
:ht. l am going 10 dc it for i'm. You
5 been sick in the hospital more'n
l. 80 US boys turn in and give i'm q
D all the boys help him?" asked the
ter. YES. sir. When they amt got
ob themselves and Jim gets one they
in and help i'm, for he amt strong yet,
see" "Hov much percen,aSe does he
re your said the reporter. The boy re-
Piled: ~ don't keep none of it. amt nc
such sneak as that. All the boys give up
what they git on his job. Ed like TO catch
any Teller sneaking on u sick boy, l would
| The reporter gave him a twenty-five cent
piece aad said, you keep ten cents for
| yourself and give the rest to Jim" "Cant
do it, sir. It's his customer. Here, Jim"
Such big souls as that strew all the lower
depths Of the cities. and, get them converted
to God, this woaid be the last full century OF
the world's sin and but little work OF
levangelization woulh be left FOR the next
| century. Before this century expires let
there be a combined effort to save the great
| cities Of America AMI Great Britain and Of
would be for you.
+ ndying century, to bequeath to \the COM
-~n--.1
with a single sin Or burdenei with a single
sorrow. the blasphemy, the lawlessness, tho
atheism. the profiigacy and the woes of great
cities still unevangelized. What wrought to
see, o dying century, is a revival OF religion
that would wrap the continents in conflagra-
tions of religious aWakeniDg. and that would
make legislation and merchandise and all
styles Of worldly business wait awhile at the
telegraph Offices and the telephone Offices
because they are occupied with telling the
story of cities and Nations born in a day.
Nearly all the centuries closed with some
thing tremendous. Why may not this century
close III the salva1ion Of America? I do not
know whether our THEOLOGICAL frien Is, who
have studied the subject more than l have,
are right or wrong When they say Christ
will come in person to set up His Kingdom
in til S Worl |; but though we Won q be over
Hhetmci with our unWOrthiCesS l would like
to see Christ descend from heaven in one OF
the clouds Of this morning. and planting His
feet on this earth, which He came centuriel
/ ago to save. declare His reign Of love and
lApercy and salvation on eartn begun. And
nat more appropriate place. say it rev.
entia'ly-Sor such a divine lanilng than
, capital of a continent never cursed by
tytannies and supers!itions Of the Old
rid?
hat has this dying nineteenth century to
US before be goes? We all love to hear
uagenarians. octOSenarians, nOnaGenar-
and centenarians talk. We gather
Ind the armchair and listen till it is far
nto the night and never weary of hear
their experiences. But Lord Lynlhurst.
lightweight years of age, pouring into tho
B Of the House of Lords in a four hours
Dress the experiences Of a lifetime, and
bollonius, at 100 years Of age, recounting
is travels to thrilled listeners. and Charles
Macnlin, at LOT years of age, absorbing the
attention of his hearers, and Ralph Farnham
Of our country, at LOT years. telling the
. Prince of Wales the story Of Bunker Hill. can
= = create no such interest as this dying centen-
y arian If he will only speak.
4 Tell US, o nineteenth century, before
you go in a score Of sentences, some Of the
O things you have heard and seen. TIL
veteran turns upon us and says: II saw
Il Thomas Jefferson riding in unattended
= from Monticello, only a few steps from
where you stand, dismount from his horst
; and hitch the b-idle to a post, and on yon
4 der hill a the oath Of the presidential
4 office. I saw yonder capital ablaze will
wars incendiarism. I SAW tho puff of thu
first steam engine in America. I heard tn
- Sedan and Gettysburg. I was present a
), all the coronations Of the kings and queen
>, and emperors and expresses now in tn
worlds palaces. 1 have seen two billow
!, roll across this continent and from oceal
20 to ocean-a biIlow Of revival JOY in 1876
- and a billow Of blood in 1864. I have see
four generations of the human race marcl
across this world and disappear. I say
20 their cradles rocked and their graves dug
~, 1 have heard the wedding bells and tn
~, death knells of near a hundred years.
w have cIappsd my hands for millions Of Joy
and wrung them in millions of agonies.
= saw Macready and Edwin Forrest act an
Edward Payson pray. I heard the frs
Achime ct Longfellow's rhythms, and befo1
anyone else SAW therl l read the first line {
ancroft's history and the first verse {
wants "Thanatopsis'' and the first word
,tor Hugo's almost supernatural romance
card the music OF all the grand march'
1 the lament Of all the requiems that Il
b ten decades made the cathedral vii
rs shake. I have seen more moral an
itual victories than all OF my predece
put together. For all you Irho hear
d this valedictory I have ki1hled all II
nestle Aresides by which you ever sat ar
Used all the hailoos and roundelays III
srriments you have ever heard and u
lied all the pictured sunsets and star
auuVIS VI llo ultOulSul ACdtCuS lIdt "
i've ever gazed at. But ere l getake tn
Idmonition and benediction Of dying ce
fury. The longest life. like mine. mu
elose. Opportunities gone never come bac
as { could prove from nigh a hundred yea
Of observation. The eternity that will sOt
i, take me will soon take you. The wick,
Nc live not out half their days, es l have Sc
~ in 1O, 900 instances.
10 The only influence for making the wor
happy is an influence that [, tho nineteen
II century. inherited from the first century
the Christian era-:he Christ Of all the ce
- turtles. Be not deceived by the fact that
have lived 50 lon-. for a century is q lar
wheel that turns 100 smaller whee's, viii
-ho are the years. and each one OF those yes
at turns 365 smaller wheels, which are the da,
,th and each one Of the 365 days turns q small
,ba wheels. which are the hours. each one
tay = nDolo : - ~ 'a NC W
still smaller wheels, which are the seeon'
fnr And all Of this vast machinery is in perpetl