Orange County observer. [volume] (Hillsborough, N.C.) 1880-1918, 1901-06-13
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4 take the world for God. and T defgg golng IN TO
esl powers, human and satanic. to d;seo1s ne
dge me. Count me into the service oun
noe play upon musical instrumen+ ~
edn poilsh cornet or string harm o.. az .
plaud the orchestra u al'-
AL Al through that mans experience there.
I auls 1alth that vail keep him cheerf,,f
Watchword of Cromwelfs stTrons;aaasS aSe :, Inc .he
| men men VINO feared nothing and dared evarr- @
tn1ng e!ln1 gong into the battle with the sho,t
ne Lord OF hosts is with us. The Ge.7
oI Jacob IS our refuge. Selah!'' No hal
ance tnat human brain ever planned ~.
neman e hand ever constructed is worthy
OF weighing such spirit. Gold and nre.
clous stones are measured hy tbe anu a,p.s pae-
Mnlch Is tour grains. The dealer puts the
ulamond or the pearl, on one side Of The
scales and the carat on the other and telie
you the weight. But we need Sometime
more dellcately constructed to weigh that
W. Mohoer1ul quality OF faith which I am glad
TOR all time and all eternity.
Inc earthly weighman counternoises ~.
metallic 70 balances the iron, the coal the ar
t1cies OF human food, the solids of earthIx
merchandise, but he cannot test or an
nounce the amount of things spiritual.
Put also into those royal scales the am
p1ulous spirit. Every healthy man and
AAo"7 r.
sure sign Of idiocy or immortality. The
only question is, What shall be the stvIe-
OF . our ambition? To stack up a stupen-
uous fortune, to acquire resoundiuo
name, to sweep everything we can reach
1nto the whirlpool of our own selfshness-
Ihat IS deoaslng, rulnous and deathful. If
IN such spirit we get what we start for
we only secure gigantic discontent. No
man m n, was ever made happy by what he GOT
IL all depends upon the spirit with which
we get 1t and the spirit with which we
Keep 1t and the spirit with which we dis
trloute 1t. Not since the world stood has
there been any instance of complete han
plness from the amount of aecnmulaf;op
Give the man Of worldly ambition sixty
years OF brilliant successes. He souont for
renoWn,, and the nations speak his name
ne sought for afauence, and he is nut tos
MS wits end to find out the best stocks
anst, ana ponds IN which 81: he may make his in
and trustee In enough institutions and
president OF enough companies to bring on
pafesls, or which he is now diving. The
royal balances are lifted to weigh the am
bltlon which has controlled him lifetime
what was the worth of that anbitionS
no" no" mucn old 1t yield for usefulness and
heaven! Less than scruple, less than a.
gram OF sand, less than an atom, less than
nothlng. Have funeral a mile long with
carriages; let the richest robes of eccIesi-
ast1cs rustic about the casket; caricature-
the scene by choirs which chant Blessed
are the g, dead that die in the Lord" That.
mans life is a failure, and if his heirs
scuff1e in the Surrogate's court about the
lncapaclty OF the testator to make last
Will and testament it will only be a pro-
l9o.ngation of the failure. Tie son, through
aalsfslpat1pn .f spent his share of the fortune
with dollar; the daughter married AGAINST
his will, and she is disinherited; relatives
whom he could never bear the SIGHT of
VIII put IN their claim, and after YEARS of
htlgatlon so much of the estate as the law
yeTs nave not appropriated to themselves
Will go into hands which the testator
never once thought of when in his LAST
days he bade fearful farewells to the
houses and lands and government securi-
lies he could not take along with him into,
the sepulcher.
Many in whose temporal welfare and
eternal salvation he bore part will hear Of
t IN various places and eulogize his mem
ory,. and God will say to the ascending
spirit, 10 him that overcometh will I
sLee Nv to eat OF the tree of Life; which is in
me midst OF the paradise of God" In the.
lour OF that souls release and enthrone---
nent there will be heavenly acclamation
IS IS, IN the royal balances the Lord weigh
tn the spirits"
Ihe wish of this sermon is to empha--
lze the invisible, to show that there are
ther balances besides those made of brass~
nd platinum and aluminium and set in
arthly storehouses; that the spirit is the
nost important part of us; that the scales
Vh1ch weigh your body are not as impor--
ant as the scales which weigh your soul.
)epend not too much for happiness upon
ne visible: Pyrrhus was king and had
lake war against the Romans, and Cineas.
ne TREND OF the king, said to him, Sir.
hen you have conquered them what viii
ou do next?" SsThen Sicily is near at
and and easy to MASTER "And what
hen you have conquered Sicity?" fsThen
e will pass over to Africa and take Car
2age, which cannot long withstand us~
ext attempt?' ssThen we will fall in
pom Greece and Macedonia and recover
hat we have lost there" ':Well, when
l are subdued what fruit do you expect
ON all your yictories?" .Then,' said
le king, eve will sit down and enjoy our
, it now? Have you not already a king
om Of your own? And he that cannot
10Y himself with kingdom cannot with
e whole world
L say to you who love the Lord the
ngdom is within you Make more Of the
le world has no bushel to measure. no
eelyards to weigh. AS far as possible
e should make our balances like to the
vine balances
What world this will be when it is
elghed after it's regeneration shall have
ken place! Scientists now guess at the
mber Of tons our world weighs, and they
It the Apennines and the Sierra Nevadas
d Chimborazo and the Himalayas in the
ales, but if weighed as to its morals at
e present time in the royal balance the
aviest things would be the wars, the
ternational hatreds, the crimes mountain
yh, the moral disasters that stagger the
mispheres on their way through imnlen-
y. But when the gospel has gardenizeH
e earth, as it will yet gardenize it. and
e atmosphere shall be universal BALM
d the soil shall produce universal har--
st and fruitage, and the last cavalry
rse shall go unsaddled, and the last gum
'riage unwheeled, and the last fortress
ned into muse-n to show nations IN
Ace what horrid t',;ng war once was,
IN the world will be weighed, and as
: opposite side of the scales lifts as.
'ugh it was light as a feather the right
e of the. scales viii come down, weigh
more than all else, those tremendous
ues that ST. Peter enumerat faith,
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