Orange County observer. [volume] (Hillsborough, N.C.) 1880-1918, 1896-11-19

years. Why, then. do they stay in -,
lands OF intolerable heat and cobras And
raging fevers, the thermometer someanes
playing at 100 and 40 degrees of oppres1.a
ness. IL. 900 miles from homa. because eab.
unhealthy climate and the prevailingEn-
moraiit.es OF those regions com PEELED tonnd
their children to England or Scotlan. Or
America. probably never to see them AIN?
o blessed Christ. Can it be anything n \
passion for souls? Il is easy 70 under.1nd
all this frequent depreciation Of foreign 1is-
sionarles when You know that they anali /,
opposed 10 the opium traffic. aud that der !
Ieres with commerce. AMI then the misfpn- |
aries are moral. and thar is an oTcIA 70 /
many OF the merchandising all Of them but |
many OF them-who. absent from all sona /
restraint, are 30 immoral that We can aag.
only faint aliu1ion TO the EonStrosiiv OF
their denominations. Oh. would like Il ba
at the gate Of heaven when those missHbn-
aries go in to see how thev will have the
pick Of coronets and thrones and manapn,
Oh the best streets Of heaven. We who hive
had easy pulpits and loving congregations.
entering heaven. viii. in NY opinion. have
70 take our turn and wait for the Christian
workers who. amid physical sufferings AMI
mental privation AMI environment o.
s4ual0r, have lone their work. and on the
principle tina. in proportion as one has been
seif-sacrileinc and suffering for Christi
sake on earth will be their celestial prefer
Inent.
Who is that young woman on the worst.
street in Washington. New York or London.
Bible in hand and a little package in which
are snail vial9 OF medicines. AMI another
bundle in which are biscuits? How dare she
risk herself among those "roughs.h AMI
where IS she going! She is one Of the queens
OF heaven hunting up the sick and hungry:
and before night she will have read Christ's.
LET not your heart be troubled in eight or
ten places, and counted out from those walls
! tho RIGHT number of frenS fn a CD main and
given food TO a family that would otherwise
have hal nothing to eat to-day. and taken
the measure OF a dead child that saa may
! prepare for ii a shoulder every act OF
kindness for the body accompanied with a
benediction .or the soul. Yoa sea nothing
but the filthy street along which she walks
and the ricketY stairs up which she climbs,
but she is accompanied by an unseen cohOrt
Of angel, with drawn swords to defend her.
and with garlanis twisted for her victories
all up aud down the tenement house dis
tricts. L tell you there was not SO much
excitement when Anne Boleyn, on her
way to her coronation, found the Thames
stirred ty fifty Gilded barges, with bril-
liant flags, in which hung small bells
rung by each motion Of the wind, noble
men standing in scarlet, and wharf spread
with cloth Of gold. AMI all the g%atevays
surmounted by huzzaing admirers, and the
streets hung with crimson velvet, and trum-
pets and cannon sounding the jubilee, and
Anne. dressed in surcoat OF silver tissue, and
brow cleaning with a circlet Of rubies, and
amid fountains that poured Rhenish wine
passed IN to Westminster Hall and rode in
on a caparisoned palfry, its hoofs Gathering
on the classic floor. and. dismounting,
passed into Westminster Abbey. and between
the choir and high altar was GRO Hned queen
amid organs and chOirs chanting the ''Ta
Deum"-I say there was not, much in all
that glory which dazzles the eyes of history
when it is compared with the heavenly re-
ception which that mini5terins spirit Of the
back alley shafl receive when sac goes up to
coronation. When she goes in. what wei
come on the river of life, its banks Of pearl
lined with ~splendors seraphic and in temples
Of eternal worship, whose music Is COM
manded by swing OF archangelic scepter and
before thrones where st those who have
reignnd ii thousand years but have just
begun their dominion. Poor Anne Boleyn,
in two years after that pageant, lost life and
throne by one stroke Of headsman, but those
who on earth have a divine passion for souls
shall never lose their thrones. They shall
reign forever and ever
But. after all, the best way to cult vate
that divine passion for souls is to work for
their salvation. Under God save one, and
you will want right away to save two. Save
two, and you will van to save ten. Save
ten, and you 1yill want to save twenty. Save
twenty. and you will want to save . Hundred.
Save a hundred, and you will want to save
everybody. And what is the use Of talking
about 1t when the place to begin is here and
the time is now? And while you pray I will
in one minute tell all there is of it. Full
pardon for the worst man or earth if he viii
believe in Christ, whose blood can instantly
wash away the foulest crimes. Full comfort
for the most narrowing distress that ever
crushed n human being. At your first
moment OF belief, a process by which the
whole universe of God will turn cleai
=, around for your eternal advantage For the
. mere asking, if the asking be in earnest, and
you throw everything into that asking, CON.
7 plete solace and helpfulness for the few
years of this life, and then a wide opeT
heaven which you can reach in less time
= than it takes ne to pronounce that imperia
!, word, flashing with all the JOY that an in
finite God knows how 10 estow-heaven.
l In this world God never does His bast. He
. can hang on the horizon granler mornings
!, than have ever yet been kindied, and rain
). bow the SKY with richer colors than have
!, ever been arched. and attune the oceans tt
J.. more majestic doxologies than have ever ye
been attained; but as near rs can tell. anC
/ speak it reverentiy. hcayen is the place
e where God has done His best. He can bulk
g no greater Joys. lift no miChtier splendors
y roll no hotter anthems. march no more i'm
posing professions. build no greater palaces
aud spread out and interjoin and wave n
9 more transporting nagniicence. [ thinl
9 heaven is the best heaven Goican construct
- anu / l. III SoIiN - Nv cFIiOdS GShtb-
How do you like the offer? Do you really
2 think it is worth accepting? II 50. pray 10
Il il. Geknot up from that pew where you ar
y sitting. nor move one inch from where yOl
are standing, before You get n full title 70
" il, written in the blood Of the Son OF God
a who would have all men come to life presen
* and life everlasting.
y II you have been in military life. you know
? what soldiers call the Ion: roll All tn
drums beat it because the enemy is approach
: ing. and all the troops must immediatel
II get into line. What scurrNIns around tn
. camp and putting of the arms through tn
% straps Of the knapsacs. and sayin: good-b
- TO comrades you may never meet again
IS Some Of YOU Germans or Frenchmen ma
Z: have heard that long roll just before Sedar
oI Some Of sou Italians may have heard tina
le long roll Just before Bergano. Some oil yo'
70 Northern and Southern men may have hear
N II just before the battle OF the Wilderness
You know its stirring and solemn mean
~ ing. and so | sound the lon: roll to-day.
Sc be II this old gospel drum that has for eel
le turies been calling thousands to tax
g their places in line for this battle. on or
* side Of whica are all the forces beati1c 1T
al Oh the other side All ihc forces Gemonia
Here the long roll c.i'. who is on Il
z: Lords side" .Qui yourselves ike men
ey In solemn column mar.h for col aod happ
X ness an heaven 81 ola am T that t !,