Orange County observer. [volume] (Hillsborough, N.C.) 1880-1918, 1896-09-17
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you yOufSeI1 were IN a tRHt uuoiuo"D~e
and the Lord delivered you: Tell him = put
his trust in Christ. Tell him that Jesus
Christ stands beside every busines4 maj In
his perplexities. Tell him Of the sxeee
promises OF Gods comforting gracP. That
man is dying for the lack OF just lone kind
word. Go tomorrow and utter SHAT q
saving. omnipotent, kind word. Hero IS
soul that has been swamped IN sn ~
wants to find the light of the Gospel. BE
feels like a shipwrecked mariner looking
out over the beach. watching for a sail
against the sky. o. bear down on him.
Tell him that the Lord waits to be gracious
to him, that though he has boon q great SIN.
ner, there is q great Saviour provided. Toll
him that though his sins are as scarlet, they
crimson, they shall be as wool. That MAJ
Is dying forever for tho lack OF one Kim
word.
O, that We might Ia our lamilies and In
our churches try the foroe OF indness 0
! can never DIVE men, women or children into
the kingdom OF God. A March northeaster
will bring out moro honeysuckles than fret
fulness and scoIding will bring out Christian
grace. I wish that in ali our religious work
We might be saturated with the spirit OF
kindness. Missing that. We miss . great
deal Of usefulness. There Is no need OF
coming out before men and laundering to
them the law unless at tho same time you
pINdcu 10 tU0m IL oOop0Isf n AZ
dying for lack of kindness.
These young people want It Just a. much
as the old. The old people sometimes seem
to think they have a monopoly Of the rheu-
matisms, and tho neuralgias. and the head
aches, and tho physical disorders OF the
world; but I tell you there arc no worse
heartaches than arc felt by some OF these
the work is done by the young? Raphael
died at thi-ty-seven, Rfchelieu at thirty-one;
Gustavus Adolphus died at thirty-eight; In
nocent III. came to his mi9htiest influence
at thirtv-seven; Cortez conquered Mexico at
thirty: Don John won Lepanto at twenty
ty-four; and l have noticed mid all classes
OF men that some OF tho ~severest battles and
the toughest work some before thirty.
Therefore we must have our sermons and
our exhortations In prayer meeting all sym
pathetic with the young. And so with these
people further on in life. What do these
doctors and lawyers and merchants and me-
chanics care about the distractions Of re-
ligion? What they want is help to bear the
whimsicalities OF patients, tho browbeating
OF legal opponents, the unfairneas of GUS
toners, who have plenty of fault1ndin9 Tor
every imperfection OF handiwork, but no
praise for twenty excellences. What does
that brain-racked, hand-blistered man care
for Swingle's "Dootrine of Original Sin" or
AdS ottA % " IL Co
we'll go to a nan who has tho pleurisy and
put on his side a plaster made out of Dr..
PARIS Treatise on Medical Jurisprudence"
In all our sermons there must be help for
every one somewhere. You go into an apo
thecary store; you see Others being waited
on; we do not complain because we do not
Immediately get the medicine; we know our
turn will come after a while. And 80, while
all parts of the sermon may not be appro-
pirate to our case, If we went prayerfully,
before the sermon Is through We shall have
the divine prescription. I say to these young
men who are going to preach the Gospel,
these theological students-Isay to them, We
want in our sermonssnot moro metaphysics,
nor more imagination, nor more logic, nor
more profundity. What we want In our SER
mons and Christian exhortations is more
sympathy. When Father Taylor preached in
the Sailors Bethel At Boston. the jack tars
felt that they had help for their duties amor
the ratlines and the forecastles. When
Richard Weaver preached to the operatives
in Oldham, England, all the working men
felt that they had more grace for the spins
dies. When DR.. South preached to Kings
and Princes and Processes, all the mighty
men and women who heard him felt prepare
ton for their high station.
Do you not know that this simple story OF
q Saviour's kindness is to redeem all Ma
tions? The hard heart OF this worlds OBJ.
duracy is to be broken before that story.
There Is in Antwerp, Belgium, one Of the
most remarkable pictures l ever saw. It il
"The Descent Of Christ from the Cross
1t is one of Rubens's pictures. No man cal
stand and look at that descent from the
Cross" as Rubens pictured it, without hav
ing his eyes flooded with tears, II he have any
sensibility at all. It is an overmasterine
picture -one that stuns you and staggert
you and haunts your dreams. One afternoon
a man stood in that cathedral looking at Ru'
bens's descent from the Gross" He wa.
all absorbed in that scene of a Saviour's sui.
ferings, when tho ~janitor came In and said
1T is time to close up the cathedral for thu
night. l wish you would depart" Tn,
pilgrim, looking at that descent from til
Cross" turned around to the janitor and
said: "No, no.; not yet. Wait until they get
Him down." Oh, it is the story Of a Saviour
suffering kindness that is to capture the
world. When the bones OF that great behe
moth of antiquity which has trampled al
Nations shall be broken and shattered, Il
will be found out that the work was no
done by the hammer Of the iconoclast, or b.
the sword of the %conquerer, or by the torcl
of persecution, but by the plain, simple
overwhelming force OF "the soft tOngue tina
breaketh the bone"
Kindnessl We all need more Of it in oul
hearts, our words and our behavior. Tn
chief characteristic Of our Lord was kind
ness. A gentleman in England died. Leaving
his fortune by will TO two sons. The Sol
that stayed at home destroyed the father
will and pretended that the brother who wa
absent was dead and buried. The absen
brother, after awhile, returned and elaine,
his part OF the property. judges and juror
were to be bribed to say that the returne
, brother and son vas no son at all. but a
impostor. The trial came on. Sir Matthew
Hale. the pride OF the English court roof
and for twenty years the pride OF ~jurispru
d-nce, heard that that injustice was abou
; to be practiced. He put OF his official robe
I He put on the garb OF a miller. He went t
: the village whore that trial was to tax
place. He entered the court room. II
somehow got impaneled as one Of the juror
y The brides came around, and the man CAV
' ten pieces OF gold to the other jurors, but q
4. this was only a poor miller, the briber CAV
TO him only five pieces OF gold. A yer iit
was brought in rejecting theright Of this r.
turned brother. He was to have no share
"a the inheritance. "Hold! nv lord" said ii
miller. "Hold! we are not all agreed on tn
h verdict. These other men have received I.
" pieces Of gold In bribery and l have receive
> only lve.""Whoa are you? Where do you con
- from?' said the judge on the bench. The r
n Spouse was: II am from Westminster Ha
" my name is Matthew Hale, Lord Chief Ju
a tice Of the Kings bench. on Of that plac
~ thou William And SO the injustice "
baked. and SO the young man got his /