Orange County observer. [volume] (Hillsborough, N.C.) 1880-1918, 1897-09-02

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l-f.s n" also ask whether your trouble ha.
not 1een that you confoaniet Cbr5stiaoItv
Win the iacons -teut caayarta- ~ s0rna
"a2 Profess ~ i9u ar lawver. In your
fiD'"7-Ioh there are mean and dishonest
.lAeA. Is taat anything .calnst -ha law2
J - are q doctor. There ara ursk!lIei and
cohtenftihle nea IN your profession. Il
tldt anything against meifc!ae2 You gre
q n.srchant. There are thieves ani de-
rhH1rrs IN your business + that ANYTHING
against Merchandi7e2 Behold. then. the
Nh!alrA"@s of charging upou Christianity
y" WIrAtdnes7 of its disciples We admit
some ~ the charges araiil~tthose who pro-
iF-9 rcIigl@n. some of the most gigantic
-"lh4!e- "fth" present day have been car
red On hv members ofthr church.
There arr men standing r., the front -arl,
IN the churches who would not be trusted
Tor % without good collateral scc1fritv
Ihey leave their business disho1le4ties IN
~" Fest.bdIe of the GnGrcn a. -aey 4,o
and ST AZ the communion. Having con
clVIed the sacrament. they get VI wipe
the wine from their lips 70 out and take up
their -iAs where they left III. To serve the
4"*Ii y their regular work. TO serve God a
sort of laE spell. With = sunday eponct
they cxl-1t IT, VIE of from their business
slate All tn" past week ) Inconsistencies.
lpu have no NOR" right to take such q
You have - take the twisted irons and
SPLIT tlmfer- that He on the beach at C0nev
l-lahd rs 4 specimen OF an American ship.
i is time that We draw Il line between re
IIEion and the frailties ~ those who pro-
fe-- it,
no YOU not feel tlat the Hite. take it all
II all. i about the best bool1.that the vsnrld
has eFcr seem 20 vou know any book that
Ia n much in il: Do you not think. upon
the whole, that its Influence has been hcna-
ii@ent, com" 10 you with both hands ex-
tended toward you. In one hand 7 have
th" Blbl" and In the other hand have not h.
lnG. This Bible III one hand will surren-
der forever Just a. soon as III my Ot her hand
you can put a book that.i7 better
invite You back into the good old fash
toned religion Of your fathers to the God
whom they worshipe1 10 the Bible they
read. 70 the promises on which they leaned
tethr cross on which they hung their etcr-
nal expectations. You have not been happy
day since you swung of. Ou will not be
happy minute until vou swing back
Again, thfrs may be some who in the at
tempt aft"ra Christian life viii naT. t. run
against powerful passions and appotitoe
Perhaps il is a disposition to anger that
Eou have to contend against and I4erhaI,e
while ia n very serious mood. vOu hear Of
must swear or die ! know Il CtriStian
man who was once 50 cXaSIerat"i that he
said to q mean customer Il canuot swear
at YOU myself, for | am member Of the
church, hut if you viii 20 downstairs my
partner in business will swear at YOU" All
your good resolutions heretofore have been
/ torn to tatter1 by explosion Of temper.
Now, there Is no harm in getting mad if
you only get mad at sin. You need to
bride and saddle those hot breathed pas
sions and with them ride down Injustice
and wrong. There are a thousand things
III the world we ought to be mad at. There
Is no harm in .,etting redhct IL ycu only
bring to the forge that which needs ham
mering A man who has no power Of
| righteous Indignation is an imbccie. But
/ he sure it IS Il righteous Indignation and
not petulancy that blurs and unravels
and lcpleteS tho soul.
I There is a largo class Of persons iE mid
! llr life Who have still in them appetitcs
that We're aroused in early manhood. at a
/ time when thcv Irided themselves on be
4 i'm; .littIo fast /" ''high liver4 y free and
easy" hail fellows we'll met" They ar
+ now paving in compound interest for
troul.lr, they collected twenty wears ago.
some Of y0}l are trying t. escape, and YOU
wiu, vet very narrowly. "as with the skin
nf Your teeth" God and v5ur own soul
. only know what the struggle is. Omnlpo-
tent grace hn- pulled ont many a soul that
was deeper in the mire thanyou are. They
line the beach of heaven the mul+ifude
whom God has rescued from the thraH ot
suicidal habits If You this day turn back
ON the wrong ana start anew. God vii
help you. Oh the weakness of human
help, Men will sympathiz" fpr a while and
th"u turn you on. II you ask FIR their par
don, they will give it amt say they Will try
you again; but falling aNay again under
thu power uf tenrtation thev east vou
of forever Bat God fo-Eiyes -eyrnt,
times seven, Yea. seven hundred times
yea though this be the ten th0usaudtl