Orange County observer. [volume] (Hillsborough, N.C.) 1880-1918, 1896-02-15

was gone ami there was q maulei carcasz ty
me roadside, But. SAYS my text, NO lion
shail 20 there" wish ] could make YOU
ieel your entire security. tell you plainly
lcat one minute after d man has become q
chlid OF God he is IS safe as though 20 had
oeeh 1o.oW years Ia heaven. He may Slip:
ne may siide: he NAV stumble: but he can
not be destroyed. Kept by thegpowerofG5d
through faith unto complete salvation. Ever
iasfingly safe. The severest trial TO which
YOU can subject a Christian man is TO kill
him. and that is glory. IN other words. the
worst thing that can happen a child Of God
Is heaven. Tho body is only the old slippers
that he throws aside Just before putting On
the sandals Of light. His soul. you cannot
hurt 1t. No fires can consum it. No floods
can crown it. No devils can capture it.
Firm and unmoved are they
Who rest their souls on God;
Fixed as the ground where David stood.
Or where tie ark abod2
: His soul is safe. His reputation is safe.
Everything is safe. But" you say. sup
pose his store burns urI' Why, then. il
will be only a change Of investments from
earthly to heavenly securities. 'But," you
say, suppose his name goes down under
the hoof of scorn and eontenpt2" Ttename
will be so mueh brighter in glory 'Suppose
his phvaica, health faiis?:" God will pour
into him the Hoods Of everlasting health. and
it will not make any difference. Earthly
subtraction is heavenly addition. The tears
Of earth are the crystals OF heaven. As they
take rags and tatters and pat them through
the paper mill and they come out beautiful
Whfte sheets OF paper, 50 often the rags OF
earthly destitution, under the cylinders Of
death, come out. a white scroll upon which
shall be. written eternal emancipation. There
was one passage Of Scripture, The force of
| which l never understood untik one day at
Chamounix, with Mont Blanc on one side
and HOntanvert on the other, | opened my
Bible and read, As the mountains are
around about Jerusalem SO the Lord is
around about them that fear Him The
surroundings were ii ~omnipotent COM
mentary.
Still further, the road spoken Of IS a pleas
ant road. God gives a bond OF indemnity
against all evil to every man that treads it.
"AllthingS work together (-r good to those
who love God" No weapon formed against
them can prosper. That is the bond, signed.
sealed and delivered by the President Of the
whole universe. What is the use Of your
fretting, oh. child OF God, about food? BE
hold the fowls OF the air. Tor they SOW not.
neither do they reap, nOrs@dther into barns.
yet your Heavenly Father foedeth them"
And will He take care of the sparrow. will He
take care Of the raven, will He take care of
the hawk and let YOU die: What is the use
VI AotL .
the ~liliesfof the field. Shall He not much
more ctothe YOU. oh. ye of little faith?"
What is the use OF worrying for fear some
thing will happen to your home? He
biesseth tho habitation OF the Just" What is
the use of your frettinS lest you will be over
come Of temptations? God is faithful, who
will not suffer YOU to be tempted above that
We are able. but will with the temptation
also makes way to escape, that ye may be
able to bear it." Oh. this Kings highway!
Trees Of life on either side bending over I'M
til their branches interlock and drop mid
way their fruit and shade. Houses Of enter
talnment on either side the road for pOOrp pill
grims. Tables spread with a feast .of good
things and walls adorned with apples Of gold
in pictures of silver. I start out on this
Kings highway. and l find a harper and |
say, "What is your nance ih harper
makes no response. but leaves me To guess as
with his eyes toward heaven and his hand
upon the trembling strings this tune comes
ripping on the air: THE Lord is my light
and my salvation. Whom shall | fear? The
Lords the strength Of my life. OF whom
shall I be afraid:'
l go a little farther on the same road and
meet q trumpeter Of heaven. and | say,
Haven't YOU got sone music for q tired
pilgrim?" Aud wipinG his lip and taking :
long breath he puts hi, mouth tothe trumue'
and pours forth this strain: They shall
hunger no more, neither snail they thirst
any more, neither shall the sun light OF
them, nor any heat, for the Lamb which i
in the midst OF the throne shall lead them 4
living fountains OF water. and God shall
wipe away all tears from their eyes. | 60 6
little distance farther on the same road. ans
I meet a maiden Of Israel. She has no harp
bur she has cymbals. They look as if they
had rusted from sea spray. and | say to tnC
maiden OF Israel. "Have you 10, sons for {
tired pilgrirn?" And ike the clang Of vic
+-- , Il = -- ~ l.-r, Ia Il AZ. - o. Il ri n ". tn
ginsto discourse: Sing We - the Lord. 10
He hath t~riumpbeted slorioasiv. The hor9'
and the rider hath He thrown into the sea.
And thep | see a white ROBBED group. The,
! come bounding toward nae. and | say. w
are they? The happiest and the brightest
and the faircst in a.! heaven-who ar
, thew" And the answer comes, These ar
. they who came out OF great tribuIati2ns an
/ had their robes washed and made white II
the blood OF the Lamb
, pursue this subject only one step further
: What is the terminus! [ do not care hos
fine a road YOU put me on; | want 10 know
, where il comes out. Ny text declares. ''Th'
: redeemed Of the Lord come to Zion" Iol
I know what Zion was. That was the King
palace. It was a mountain fastness. 1t wa
i~mpregnable. And so heaven is the faStnes
of the universe. No howitzer has lon
. enough range to shell those towers. Let a,
/. the batteries OF earth and hell blaze away
they cannot break in those gates. Gibraita
. was taken: Sebas,opol was taken; Babvlo!
fell. but these walls Of heaven shall neve
+ surrender either t. human or satanic ~
-le.ement. The Lori God Almighty i tn
defense Of il. Great capital u me universe
Terminu. 81 the king highway.
Or. Dick said that. among Cher thing
!, he thought in heaven We won't study cne4
n i.trv and geometry AMI comic sections
i Soathey thought that ii heayea n w5aI
have tire pleasure 81 seeing 6h4Eeer an