The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1900-02-27

T'1. His father was old OId people
| may be tranSplanted to new country,
but they can never take root. There are
those who have gone to the rich and fer
tile west to grow up with the country
| but still long for the old home in Caro-
lima or Georgia.
so. There We're associations about that
old farm of Abraham 's-Spots that were
very dear-amd he did not like to give
them up. Wherever you find an agr:cul
tural people you will find holne-lovin2
and a patriotic people. Z They are tied
to the soil and could hardly leave it if
| they would.
-. Abraham did not know where he
was going. Go to a land that l will
show thee Said God. Men would call
that foolishness. Where are you going,
Abraham? i don't know Is the land
fertile? I don't know What sort of
people live there? I don't know Well,
| what do you know about it? Nothing,
except that God says go, and He will
show me the land
Men would call this foolishnesS. God
called it Faith. Now, many definitions
have been given of faith. have thought
that faith might be described as that de-
to do by Gods command that the end
of which he cannot see at the beginning.
"Abraham's life is a type of al times.
We often complain of the sam mess of
events, of the monotony of the times; but
some time there viii come a summon
into q path that's new and strange, and
we'u say, Surely I've not been this
way before In an unexpected hour
Gods voice will command, Get thee up
and go into new experience that | will
show thee BY and by this voice will
come to every one Of us"
AT the Tabernacle church two very
fine sermons We're preached by Rev. w.
ID. Hubbard, of Eufala, Alabama.
Mr.. Hubbard is a young man, but
married. He has a vigor of thought and
power of delivery that maae his dis
courses very attractive.
As he was invited here by the COM
mittee with a view to extending him a
call, Mr.. Hubbard's sermon Sunday
evening ON ''Paul's Preaching" becomes
especially interesting.
He took as his text a verse from the
24th chapter of Acts: And as he rea-
soned of righteousness temperance and
answered, go thy way for this time, when
| have a convenient season l WILL call
for thee"
Touching the mission Of the minister of
the gospel as shown in this incident be
tween Paul and Felix, Mr.. Hubbard
said:
each preacher has his own peculiar
way of preaching. Sam Jones may say
hard things about people, and DIT.
Broughton may use his own method, bat
it is not every man who can say such
things and come out alive. However,
each man has his peculiar way, as
said; but it seems to me that the best
way to cry down the vile IS TO hold ~
the pure. to overcome hatred IS TO preach
love- The more YOU stir the waters OF
an old pond the worse it IS. RememDer
that men can always say as hard things
to You as you can say to them Fam
did not tell Felix how mean he was,
or what he ought to be, but he reasoned
to him of righteousness, temperance and
Judgment to come, and thus Felix btheid
the wickedneSS of his life and he trem-
bled''
Speaking of the second division Of his
subject Felix's poStp1n9ment - the
preacher said:
'SFelix did not accept and gave rea-
son for postponement. But there can be
only one' reason, men prefer darkness
rather than light"
Mr.. Hubbard referred to Ella Wheeler
Wilcox's castle of resolutions built out
of all the kind words and deeds we III
tended but neglected, and added:
Don't postpone. Write the letter to-
night. Tell your wife tonight that you
love her and how good and pure she is.
Don't put off any good deed as Felix
and millions of others have done"