Orange County observer. [volume] (Hillsborough, N.C.) 1880-1918, 1897-09-02
how shall vou nndt-e .o- reN-4,-s :

now eraIl you HLd TINE !0r rfHC7r-e CO..
enplation when you ar dri.c.1 .rc.o SUI
rise to sunset aud have been for five years
going behind IN business ana ara frequent
y DUNE! ~ credito-a whom you cannot
pay. ar: when from Monday morning until
Saturday night you ara sdodging bills that
you cannot Tneet2 You walk day BY day in
uncertai,es .as that have kept your brain on
fire for the last three wears. Some With
less business troubles than you have gone
crazy. Tae clerk has heard noise IN the
back counting -ooEn and gone II and found
the chief nan II the firm raving maniac
or the wife has heard, the bang OF a pistol
III the back pa-lor and gone in, stumbling
over the dead body Of her husbands
suicide. There are men pursued. hgraseed
trodten down and scalpei Of business per-
plexities and which way 10 turn next they
do not know. Now God will not be hard on
you. He knows what obstacles are In the
way u Your being Christiau and your
tirst effort In the right direction He will
crown with success. X 20 not let satan with
cotton bales, and kegs, and hogshea,4s, and
counters, and stocks Of unstable goods,
bieoi. rP yv,-- ray e~-~ cn*1n- ~
all your energies. Tighten the girdle about
your loins. Take al agonizing look into
the face of God, and then say, Here goes
one grand effort for life eternal" and then
bound away for heaven. escaping "aS with
the skin Of your teeth"
In the last day II will be found that
Hugh LatImer, and John Knox, and Huss
and Ridley were not the greatest martyrs,
but Christian men who went up incorrupt
from the contaminations and perplexities
Of Pennsylvania avenue, Broad street. State
street and Third street. On earth they
yvcrt. called brokers or stock iobbers, or re-
teilers. or importers. but IN heaven Chris
tian heroes. No fagots were heaped about
their feet; no inqutsition demanded from
than recantation; no soldier aimed pike
at their heart. but they had mental tor
ture compared with which all physical
consuming is as the breath of spring
morning. :
find in the community a large class OF
men who have been 50 cheated, SO lied
about, 50 outrageOuslv wronged, that they
have lost their faith in everything. In
world where everything seems SO topsy
turvy they 10 not see how there can be any
God They are COMPOUNDED and trenzied
ana miSanthropic. Elaborate arguments
to prove to them the truth Of Christianity
or the truth Of anything else touch them
nowhere. Hear me, all such men. I preach
10 voU no rounded PERIODS, no ornamental
discourse. but put my hand on your shoul.
der and invite you into the peace Of the
Gospel Here is a rock on which you may
stand firm though the waves dash against
il harder than the Atlantic, pitching its
-rrf clear above Eddvstone lighthouse.
Do not charge upon God all these troubles
10 God God stuck to the world. hut the
Garth seceled from His government. and
hence all these outrages and all these
woes. God is good. For many hundreds
of years He has been coaxing the world to
como back to Him. but the more He has
coaxed the more violent have men been in
their resistance and they have stepped
back and stepped back until they have
dropped into ruin.
Try this God ye who have had the blood
hounds after YOU and who have thought
that God had forgotten you. Try Him and
see if He will not help. Try Him and see II
Hs will will not ssTa ne nry yoagq M aaa 81
have no bloom so sweet as the Towering OF
Christ's affections The sun hath no
warmth compared with the glow Of His
heart The waters have refreshment
like the fountain that VIII slake the thirst
Of thv soul. At the moment the reindeer
stands with his lip and nostril thrust in the
! cool mountain torrent. the hunter may be
coming through the thicket. Without crack
ling q stick under his foot. He comes close
hvtha stag, aims his gun, draws the trig-
ger and the poor thing rears In its death
! agony and falls backward its antiers crash
I inl, on the rocks .SBut the painting hart that
| drinks from the water brooks OF Gods
/ promise shall never be fatally wounded and
, shall never die.
This world is 4 poor portion Of your soul
7 O business man, An eastern king had
craven on his tomb two fingers. represented
as sounding on each other with snap, and
mn Ter them the motto, can is not worth
that" ApHius Crlius hanged himself be
cause his steward informed him that he
4 had onlv $50 900 sterling left All Of this
I world : riches make but q small inheritance
for soul Rohespierre attempted TO wiz
tn" applause Of the world, but when he wa:
| diving a woman came rushing through th'
;-,, M,rr .tf
kindred descend To hell covered with thu
curses Il every mother in Francer MANY
who have expected the plaudits Of the worl(
4 har" died under its anathen. maranatha
oh tinI your pence in God Make on
strong pull for heaven. No halfway worl
viii 3oit. There sometimes comes tim
N -hiphoari when everything must b.
sacrificed II save the Passengers. Iht
cargo i nothing. the rigging nothing. Th'
captain lut7 the trumpet TO his lips ant
shouts Cut away the mast" S>re Of vol
have been tossed and driven. and YOU have
in vour etYort o keep the world. well niGl
lost your soul. Until you have decided
this matter 1t everything else 20. over
board with al those other anxieties an
burdens. YOU Will have to drop the sail
= your pride and cut away the mast. Wit
on" earnest cry for help put your cause int
he hand II Him who helped Paul ont 0
III, treakers II Ielita. and who above tn
~h-ill blast # the wrathiest tempest tha
ever hlackene.! the sky or shook the ocean
can hear the tantest mploration for mercy
I shall close this sermon feeling tha
some OF vou who have considered you
casa as hopeless will take heart again, an
tAat with Blood rei earnestnes-, such a
yau have never experienced before. 20
VIII start FIR the good land ~ the gospel
a. lasc Z look back. saying: what
crs AZ risk I ran' Amos. lost. but saved
jG-t Ct through. and no mora Escape
~ ths sksn . nv .aeth =
1900 C-ERoKEEs TO MARCH.
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