Orange County observer. [volume] (Hillsborough, N.C.) 1880-1918, 1901-03-28
NEW SERIES--VOL. Xxx M :,

II there is house somewhere whose roof
does not leak, I would like to live there.
II Chere ls an atmosphere somewhere that
goes not distress the lungs, I would like to
breathe 1t. If there is a society some
where where there is no title tattle- +
would like to live there. IF there IS a
home circle somewhere where I can find
my lost friends. I would like to 90 there ]"
He used to read the first part of the Bible
chiefly. Why has he changed Genesis for
Reveiations All, he used to be anxious
chiefly to know how this world was made
ana all about It's geological construction.
Now he is chiefly anxious to know how
the next world was made, and how it looks
and who live there, and how they dress.
he reads Revelation ten times now where
ne reads Genesis once. The old story. sIn
the beginning God created the heavens
as the other story, II saw new heaven
and new earth"
The old mans hand tremhles as he turns
over this apocalyptical leaf, and he has
to take out his handkerchief to wine hia
spectacles. The book of Revelation is a
prospectus now of the country into which
he Is soon to immigrate, the country in
which he has lots already laid ont and
avenues opened and mansions built.
1t IS trouble, my friends, that makes us
feel our dependence upon God We do
not know our own weakness or Gods
strength until the last plank breaks. It is
contemplate in us that only when there
IS nothing else to take hold of we catch
hold OF God. Why, do you know who the
Lord is? He is not an autocrat seated
lar up IN palace, from which He emerges
once year, preceded by heralds swinging
swords to clear the way. No; He is a
father, willing at our call to st~nd by us
in every crisis and predicament of life. /
tell you what some of you business men
ma h1aI of G.. L
IN his business. He has to raise a good
deal OF money and raise it quickly. He
borrows on word and note all he can bor-
row: After while he puts mortgage on
his house; after while he puts second
mortgage on his house. Then he puts a
hen on his furniture; then he makes over
property; then he goes to his father
ln-law and asks for help. Well,
having failed everywhere, completely
failed, he gets down on his knees
and says 20 Lord, / have tried
everybody and everything; now help me
out of this financial trouble!' He makes
God the last resort instead of the first re-
sort.
Your troubles are educational. l 90
into the office of a lapidary, an artifcer in
precious stones, and | see him at work on
one precious stone for few minutes, and
he puts it aside finished. I see him take
up another precious stone, and he works
on that all the afternoon, and I come in
the q next day and still find him working on
It, and he IS at work on it all the week
| say to him, s'Why did you put only
twenty minutes work on that one precious
other?' Soh, he saws, that hetA one on upon rm1a
which put only. twenty minutes work is
OF put little worth, and soon got through
with It. But this precious stone upon
Vo mt ,oh
tul work is of vast value, and it is to flash
g 5hFSdsh f1's7t 1s With Sc oalS lG little cutting
much, he is small soul and of compara-
lively little value, but this other is of
great worth, and it is cut of pain, and cut
OF bereavement, and cut of persecution,
and cut of all kinds of trouble, and
through many years, and I ask. ''Dear
mord, Why al this this prolonged and severe
infinite value, and it is to fash in kings
coronet. He shall be Mine in the day
when make up My Jewels"
You know, on Widespread table the
food becomes more delicate at the last. I
have fed you to-day with the bread of con-
ISOLATION. Let the table now be cleared.
and let US set on the chalice of heaven.
Let the King cupbearers come in. "Oh,"
says some critic in the audience. 'sthe
Bible contradicts itself. It intimates again
and again that there are to be no tears
IN heaven, and if there be no tears in heav-
en- how is it possible that God will wipe
any away?" I answer, "Have you never
seen child crying one moment and laugh
ing the next and while she was laughing
perhaps you stopped her in the very midst
OF her resumed -glee and wiped off those
delayed tears. So think after the heav-
enly raptures have come upon us there
may be the mark of some earthly grief,
and while these tears are glittering in the
light OF the jasper sea God will wipe them
away How well He can do that
Friends, if we could get any apprecia-
ton of what God has in reserve for us, it
would make us so homesick we would be
unfit for our everyday work Professor
Leonard, formerly of Iowa University, put
In my hands meteoric stone, stone
thrown off from some other world to this.
How suggestive it was to me! And I have
to tell you the best representations we
have of heaven are only aerolites flung off
from that world which rolls on, bearing
the multitude Of the redeemed We ana
y lyze these aeroites and find them crystal:
ilzatlons OF tears No wonder, flung off
tears from their eyes,"
Have you any appreciation of the good
and glorious times your friends are having
in heaven? How different IL IS when they
get news there of Christians death from
what it is here! It is the difference be-
tween embarkation and coming into port.
Every thing depends upon which side of
the river you stand when you hear of
Christians death. If you stand on this
side of the river, you mourn that they go;
if you stand on the other side of the river
you rejoice that they come.
Oh, the difference between 1unerai on
earth and jubilee in heaven, between re-
QUEEN here and triumph there, parting
here and reunion there Together Have
you ever thought of it? They are together
not one of your departed friends in one
land and another iii another land, but to-
gether in different rooms of the same
house-the house of many mansions! To-
gether!
Do you not this moment catch glimpse
OF the towers? Do you not hear note of
the eternal harmony? Some of you may
remember the old Crystal Palace in this
city of New York / came in from my
country home verdant lad and heard in
that Crystal Palace the first great music
| had ever heard. Julien gave concert
c1lore, and there were 5000 voices and 5000
PLAYERS upon instruments, and { was
nightly impressed with the fact that Jul
lien controlled the harmony with the mo-
tion of his hand and foot, beating time
with the one and emphasizing with the
other. To me it was overwhelming But