Orange County observer. [volume] (Hillsborough, N.C.) 1880-1918, 1897-04-08
NEW SERIES--VOL. XVI. NO. II.

and by snail windows that do not let In the
full sunlight. You pass them every day In
your streets without any rcccSnttton- The
world calls them ''bookworus" or "Ds.
Dryasduss," ou, II there hAd bean no book
worms or dry doctors OF Law and science and
lypsic angel They are the Greeks OF our
country and time, aad your ooilgatioa &C.
them Il infinite
Bu. there is q better way TO pay them. and
that Il by their personal salvation. which
Will never come TO them through books or
through learned presentation. because n
literature and intellectual realms they Are
mAsters Tney can ousarRue outQuose, out.
dogma,iEe you. Not through the Safs OF ths
head, but through the gate OF tho heart, ycn
may capture them. When nen OF learning
and might are brought to God. they Ars
brought BY inpless story OF what religion
can do for soul They have lost ehiidroe-
On. tell them how Christ con'orted yun
when you lost your bright boy or blue sysd
girl, They have found life , stxu94.A
Oh, tell them how Christ has helped yo0 ~
the way through. They nre In hewtldse-
ment oh, tell them With how many hands
OF Joy heaven beckons you upward. "Wheu
Greek meets Greek. then comes the tug OF
war" but when q warm hearted Christian
meets a man who needs pardon and sym
paihy aud comfort AMI eternal life then
comes victory. you can, by some incidcns
OF self sacrifice, bring 10 such scholarly mes
and women what Christ has done for their
eternal rescue. you may bring them In
Where so9pspss ssst, ana hS9Mst
succeed. A gentleman OF this city sends me
tho statement OF what occurred lew days
400 among the mines OF British Columbia
Il seems that Frank Conson and Je'n
Smith were down in the narrow fnAH
Of mine They had loaded An iron
bucket with coal. and Jim Hcmswo.th.
the buoke. up by windlass. when tns
windlass broke, and the loaded hucket Vas
descending upon the two miners. Ihen jim
Hemsw crth, seeing what must pe certain
death TO the miners beneath. threw himself
against the cogs az the whirling wtndiass.
| and. though his flesh was torn and his bones
were broken. he stopped the whirinR vino.
lsss and arrest ed the descending bucket ana
saved the lives o. the miners teneafb. Inc
superintendent OF the mine flew to the res
| cue and blocked the machinery When Jim
| Hensworths bleeding and broken BODY was
,one one exclaimed. Jim. this is awful
| ne replied. 'Oh. what's tho difference 80
long as saved the boys!'
What an illustration II was OF suffering Tor
/ hers and what text from when 20 Illus
,rate tn. behavior OF our Christ. amping
| and laceratet and broken and torn ana
| crushed In the work OF topping the descend
ing ruin that would have destroyed our
| ,onls, Trvsuch s~.ene OF vlcarious suffering
"a this on that man capable OF overthrowing
all your arguments for the truth. and he VIII
lit down and weep. Draw your illustrations
from the cinssics, and 1t is 10 him an OLD
rory. but Leyden Jars and electric batteries
| and telescopes aud Greek drama will all sur
| render to the story OF Jim Hemsworth's 'Oh.
what's the difference So long US l saved shs
boys?'
Then. IL your illustration OF Chrlst's sei'-
sacrifice, drawn from SONS scene OF to-day
aud YOUR story OF what Christ has done Tor
you DO not quite fetch him into the right
| wav Just say to him, "rrofessnr doctor
Judge, why WAS II that Paul declared he wa
a debtor to the Greeks" And ask your
learned friend to take the Greek Testament
and translate for you. In his own way. from
Greek into English. the splendid peroration
Of Paul's- sermon on Mars hill. un'
der tho power OF which the scholarly
| Dionysius surrendered - namely. "Ths
times OF this ignorance God winked at
but nov commandeth all men everywhere
TO repent. because Ho hath appointed day
| in which He will judge the world 10 right
| eousness, by that man whom he hath OK
daned, whereof Ha hath given assurnncl
unto all men In that He hath raised hin
| from the dead" I3y the time he has 60
through the translation from the Greek
think you will see his lip tremble. and ther'
will como pallor on his face like the pallo
| on the sky ut daybreak. By tho cterna
salvation OF that scholar. that great thinker
that splendid man. you will have done some
| thing to help pay your fndebtedness 10 I'M
| Greska And now TO God the Father. 0ot
| the Son and God the Holy Ghost be homo
and glory ani dominion and victory an'
| song world without end. Amen