Orange County observer. [volume] (Hillsborough, N.C.) 1880-1918, 1898-04-21
OUR WEEKLY SERMONS.
PREPARED ESPECIALLY FOR
THE FAMILY FIRESIDE.
Ihe Rev. George II. HepwortI'. Sunday
Discourse in the New York Herald IL
Entitled "Heresy''-Dr. r. Dewitt Tall
mage breaches on the Evil of Gambling

Discourse in the New York Herald IL
Entitled "Heresy''-Dr. T. Dewitt Tall
mage breaches on the Evil of Gambling
TExr, My heart shall not rerroacl no
60 loa. a. | live. job, xvii. s.
/ IS Very important that your hear o-
cons ,.en"e shall not accuse YOU. lalr /
happiness docs not depend On anybody |
elee,s conscience Or heart. but IN sour own.
God gave you a conscience with the COM
mand that you should follow IL beheSt-.
and when you get into the other word tAat I
conscience Will be your ju ice. IL other 7
word- God viii not judge you but you VIII /
Judge yourself.
Il i Your conscience that makes you an /!
Individual. which spiritually isolates you. /
ara is approval i worth more than the |
aprro yal Of All the world beside. You can
not e. far wrong il you always do wha. y00
thinh is right. You KAY ask advice, bu-
voQ should decide for yourself what il IS
best - DO. and then 30 IL whether people
blame r praise. II every one We're 70 fol-
low this rule we should have a larC,. difler-
! ence Of opinion among men. but ABOVE Il a
/ divine harmony Of purpose. When the
! millennium comes We shah not al. think
alike, neither shall We allow any one to ID
! our thinking, for Is. but shall think !pr
: ourselves until thinking changes to con
viction. Then we shall follow our conyic-
tion@ as we follow the flag Of our country,
/ and hold to them and be true TO them and
81 win the smile of God.
What YOU need most Of all is TO ne your
best truost and noblest self For that
| eEt vou came into the world. and unless
you accomplish that end your life will be-
essentially failure and the requirements
oI the Almighty will stand neglected.
Men may call you heretical. but wha.
rleI. say Of you is of no importance in COM
IariSo, with what God viii say. Your
business iSto be On His side, and to be sure
III your heart that He is Your side. r.
after that. people agree with you. you may
well rejoice, but if they do not that is their
| affair and not yours. Your duty is what
yau think Your duty is after the enlichten-
ment nr illumination which always comes
to him who is in accord with the Holy
Spirit Of the universe, and thus breathe5
the atuOsp phere of the spiritual life. To
! that duty you should never be false, for 1t
Is what makes You living soul, what
fors : nobility of character. what opel.s
the door Of communication with the other
world, what gives you claim to the as
/ s~tance Of the angels and assures you u
the ileI ping hand of the Most High Not
, he is religious. in any wide sense, who is
| merely the shadow of some else ;,
: mind, hut he who casts his own shadow.
{ because he is solid substance on Whic a
the sun shines.
This is i! very queer world in one respect.
y We like to he sheep and How bell
: vcther. Even in matters of dress we must
needs be told what to wear, and whether ii
7 is conely or uncomely we wear it. In the
II matter Of religion there is as much fashion
( a. there is in dress. What the maj ority be
lieve we try to believe, because it is SO eas y
4 t. go with the majority. If it does no
& commend itself to our judgment we secret
ly dissent, but openly approve. This in
troduces an element OF hypocrisy into th
Holy OF Holes, demOrallZes mind and heart
Y forces from us our self-respect. and de
:. priyeS US OF heavenly recognition and az
provaf Our vital energy il sapped. On