Orange County observer. [volume] (Hillsborough, N.C.) 1880-1918, 1899-12-14
Df.TALMAGE SERMON
THE GREAT DlNi<E'S ELOQUENT
MESSAGE.
Subject: yic:orie. of Teace-Thr Many
blessings For which We should Ee
ThaDkful-Maclsiuer Has Iishtened
Euraens-God Sent The Wheel.

WAsHINaro<. y. C.-Thi5 Discourse - Or
TaImage is i sermon ~ preparation for tl-e
.ational observance ana il au unusual way
calls for the gratj,aie g. the people; the
was cri@. unto them il Ny hearing,
Wheel
The .as. Thursday o. tie eleventh month,
by proclamation 0t President and Cover
nors, Is observed in Thanksgiving tor
temporal mercies. With WHIST spirit shall
We enter upoG i,2 For nearly a year AMI u
half this nation has been celebrating the
triumph Of tie sword and gun and bat
terry. We have sung martial airs AMI
chrered returning heroes and sounded the
requiem for the slain in battle. MetAinks
1t will he a heathful change fthis Thanks
giving week, Il. church ana HON steal. We
celebrate tie victories or peace for Moth
ing was done at Santiago or Manila that
was o: more importance than that which
III the last year has been dolo in farmer
field and mechanics shop aud authors
study by those who never wore an c9auie,
CT shot 4 Spaniari or went hundred
miles from their own doorSill And row
/ cal your attention 10 the wlce OF the
text.
Man, u small speck in the universe. was
set down in a biC.worli, high mountains
rising before him. deep seas ARE -tln-, his
pathway ana Wild beasts capable OF his
destruction, Yet he was - conquer. 1t
could not be by physical force, for COM
pare his arm with the oXs horn AMI the
elephants tus!1, AMI how weaE lie i. Il
could no. be by phy-icai speed, for COM
pare him to the :IntclOpe's tO0t and ptar-
mcan's wing. and how Sow he is, 1t
could not he by physical capacity 70 soar
or plunge. for the condor beats him in ono
direction and the porpo.se In the other.
Yet he was 10 conquer the world. Two
eyes, two hands ana two feet were INSULT
cien.. he must be reenforced, - COG
sent the wheel.
Twenty-Five times is the wheel men
toned III tho B5ie, sometimes, as in
! Ezekiel Illustrating proviIential move
ment; sometimes. as in the Psalms. crush
ing the bad; sometimes. as in Judges rep
resentinS Gods chariotcd progress. The
wheel that started in INoaus rolls On
through Proverbs, thr ugh Isaiah through
Jeremiah. through d anie through Nahum,
through the centuries, all the time gather
ing momentum ard spleu1or. untl, seeing
what it has done for the worlds progress
and happiness, We clap our hands in THINKS
giving and employ the apostropAe OF the
text, crying, 70 wheel"
! call on You In this Thanksgiving week
20 praise God for the trium mpts IF machin-
cry, which have rcyoiution!zed the world
and multiplied its attractions. Even para
disc, though very picturesque, must have
been comparatively dun, hardly anything
going on, no agriculture Eeeded, for the
harvest was spontaneous: no architecture
re4ei~ea, .or the" eiert under the trees. no
: nanulac:urers loom necessary for the
weaving q apparel, for the fashions were
eXceej.in-.v simple. To dress the garden
c0Uil not have required ten minutes q day.
Having nothing to 60, they got into mis-
chief and ruined themselves and the race.
II wa a sad thina, to lie turned ont Of par
adise, but, once turned out, beneiicert
thing TO be compelled to work To help
man ~ and on tfC1 sent the wheel! II