Orange County observer. [volume] (Hillsborough, N.C.) 1880-1918, 1897-03-04

brother, WHAT has that 10 do with you!
DON'T you realize that ;ae nan Hvao
waits 'o- another ceance after dea'a ,
wnen he has good chance tetor4. death
IS a stark fool! Hal not yoJ. better ,axe
the plank that II thrown ~ yoa how .
ana head Tor sao!e rather taaa sai, for
plank that may By invisible hands De thrown
to yen after you are deaf: d. as you please.
but as Tor myself. with pardon for ali ny
sins offered me now. AMI al the JOYS of time
and eternity offered re now. | ias.an.iv
take IN IN. rather than ran the risk o. sueh
other chance as wise Uen think they can peel
OF Or twist out q Scripture passage
that has for all the Chrisiiaa centuries
been interpreted another wag." Yoa say. Il
DO not like Princeton theology, or New
Haven theology, or Andove. theology. 10
not ask you Oh board either OF these great
men-of-war. their portfolios flied With he
great Siege guns OF ecclesiastical battle bu,
do ask you 10 take the one plank of the
gospel that you DO believe IL aud strike out
for the pearl strung beach ot heaven"
Says some other man, IL would attend 10 /
religion ii was quite sure abou, the doc
trine OF election and free agency. but tha; /
mixes me oil up. Those things used 4
bother me-. but | have no more perplexi,y /
about them. for | say - myself III 1 love /
Christ and live a good. honest. usefuru.e. /
| an elected 10 he saved ana IL | g. not /
love Christ and live hal liza | will ha +
damned, ani al the theological sem /
lnares OF the universe eanno. maze il |
any Different l founderei Il long while /
IN the sea OF sin anu doubt, ana II Was a. !
rough as the Mediterranean on the four |
teenth night. when they threw the gram /
overheard. b1t saw there was mercy fer n
sinner, and that plank | took, and have
been warming myself by the bright fire On
tho shore ever since
While am talking to another man about
his soul he tells me, Il do not become ii
IN | Il cs I.it -
any he'll at all" All. dom, YOU? Do ali the
people Of all beliefs ana no belief at all. OF
good morals and bad morals 20 jght 70 n
| happy heaven? De the holy ani ihe de-
| tauched have the same destination? Al mid
night, in hallway, the owner OF {.
house and burglar meet. They both
fire. and both are WOUNDED, but the
| burglar dies in five minutes. ana the owner
| OF the house lives "a week after. Viii the
| burglar be at the gate OF heaven. waiting,
when the house owner comes il? Viii the
debauchee and the libertine 20 rig in
among the families Of heaven? wonder If
Herod is playing on the banks Of the river
Of life with the children he massacred. |
| wonder il Charles Guiteau and John Wilkes
! Booth are up there shooting ut a mark. /
| do not now eontrovert IT, although l must
| say that for such miserable heaven
| have no admiration. Bat the Bible does
say, "Believo in periition and be saved
| Because all are saved. according to Your
| theory. that ought not 10 keep YOU from low
| ing and serving Christ. Do not refuse to
| come ashore because all the others. accord
| Ing to your theory, are going TO get shore
Youmay have a different theory about chem
| iStry. about astronomy. about the atmosphere
from that which others adopt. but you
not therefore hindered from action.
! Because your theory OF light is different
from others do not refuse to open your eyes.
| because your theory of air is diffeAant .ou
| theory about the stellar system is different
you do not refuse TO acknowledge the north
star. Why should the fact that your theolo-
gical theories are different hinder you from
acting upon what you know? II you have
not "A whole ship fastened in the theological!
drydocks 10 bring YOU TO wharfaSe, You have
at least plank. ''Some on brot,ea pieces
Of the ship"
"But I.dont believe in reviyals"" Then
go TO your room, and nil alone. with your
door locked give your heart to God. an /
join some church where the thermometer
never gets higher than fifty in the shade.
| 'But do not believe III haptisGnn Come
in without it ani settle that matter after
ward. "But there are SO many in
consistent Christians" Then come
in and show them BY good example
how professors should act. "B1t l don't
believe in -tha Oh Testament Then
: come in on the New :But / don't like The
, thew or Luke. Refusing TO come 10 Christ,
whom you admit to be the Saviour ot the
lost, because you cannot admit other things.
, you are like q man out there in that hc1itcr-
ranean tempest AMI to~se in tho II -.ita
) / breakers, refusing II came ashore until h,
can mend the pieces of the broken ship. /
, hear him say: 81 won't go III on aDy OF these
, planks until | know III what part Of the
; ship they belong. When caa re, the win J
lass in TIE right place, and the sails set, al 4
tnat keel piece whore II belongs and tia,
floor timber right, AMI the ropes antaneiet
/ viii 90 ashore. l am m Old sailor. an
know all about ships for forty years ana as
soon rs can re, the vessel aIoat n good
shape | will come in man drifting bv on
piece Of " ooa overnear- min. ana says: 10 /!
viii drown before you GET :hat shin r.
! constructed. Better DO - / an doing.
know nothing abou, ships. AMI never 81 "
one before | came on toari TINS. AMI can
not swim a stro1@. but l I L going ashore o.
this shivered timber" The man IL the
of1nc, while trying TO mend his snip, zoe,
down. The man who trusted - the flanG
| is saved. o.. my brother iet y0Gr smash ]
. up system Of theology 80 To the bottom.
. while you come in On sp.nierei spar
Some on broken pieces of the ship.
II you can believe nothing else, YIN Ger
tainly believe in vicarious suffering. for va
see il alnos. every daE in some shape In
steamship hnckero5 5cEe-. o. ;ns CEon well
line. running between Nv Orleans AMI Veg
. / YORK, was IN great storms. and the captas j
, and crew saw the schooner Vary d. Cran'
Ie-. .. philadelphia, IN distress. IN.
: weather cold. the wafes mountain high, ta-
first sie.- q. the steam -nIp ana four ra@n
pat ont Z q lifeooa. 70 save tn" crew q. tn
schooner. All rea-het the vessel an
tosei il on; % danger. the wind shifting
.Ga. the schooner wA= saved Bat tGe IF-
rcen o. the steamship c1snins 1ac&. tl4e3r
bos. -slze3. YET rign:ei ayata ant c2.-e
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