Orange County observer. [volume] (Hillsborough, N.C.) 1880-1918, 1901-01-17
. NEW SERIES-:VOI. Xxx. NJ. -,

eiatesl and failed 2nd made laughing
stccis Racks and prisons and whips and
s;lnNreeks and axes of beheadment did
t'Hir worst. yet the heroes were more
tian conqrero- Witch such things you
t will illustrate that word courage" and
they will go out from your presence to
start anew and right, challenging all earth
and he'll to the combat.
Tht word courage fifty spoken with
compressed lips and stout grip of the hand
and an intelligent fash OF the cye-well,
the finest apples that ever thumped on the
ground IN an autumnal orchard and were
placed in the most beautiful basket of sill
yer network before keen appetites could
not be more attractive.
Furthermore, comforting word ftly
spoken is a beautiful thing. No one but
t God could give the inventory of sick beds
and bereft homes and broken hearts. We
ought no. to let a day pass without q
visit, or letter, or message, or prayer
| consoiatory. You could call five minutes
| OH your wav to the factory; you could
leave half hour earlier in the afternoon
and fill a mission of selace; you could
| brighten a sick room with one chrysanthe-
r.lm; you cou.d put a postscript to a let
| ter that would bring the joys Of heaven to
| a soul; you could send your carriage and
| give an afternoon airing to an invalid on
/! a neighboring street; you could loan
! book with some chapters most adapted to
some particular misfortune. Go home to-
| day and make out list of things you can
do that will show sympathetic thoughtful
| ness for the hardly bestead. lIow many
| dark places you might illumine! How
many tears you could stop or, if already
started, you could wipe away! How much
! like Jesus Christ you might get to be! So
| sympalnetic was He with beggary, so
| helpful was IIe for the fallen and SO stirred
was He at the sight of dropsy, epilepsy,
paralysis and ophthalmia that, whether
He saw it by the roadside, or at the sea
beach, or at the mineral baths of Rethes-
da.. He offered relief. Cultivate genuine
sympathy, Christlike sympathy. You can
not successfully dramatize it. False SYM
| patly Alexander Pope sketches in two
lines
Before her face her handkerchief she
To hide the food Of tears she did not
| she'd"
Or the man astray may have an unhappy
home, aud that is enough to wreck any
one. We often speak of men who destroy
| their homes, but do not say anything
| about the fact that there are thousands OF
| wives in American who by petulance and
| fretting and reconsideration and lack OF
/ economy and ALI manner of disagreeable-
ness or-yc their husbands into dissipation.
rhe rearon that thousands of men spend
| their evenings in ciGckouses aud taverns
is because they cannot staac 1t at home.
[ know men who are thirty-year martyrs
| in the fact that they are awfully married.
That marriage was not made in heaven.
Without asking divine guidance they en-
| tered into an alliance which ought never
to have been made. That is what is the
matter with many men you and l know.
They may be very brave and heroic and
say nothing about it, but all the neighbors
know.
Now, ii the man going wrong has such
domestic misfortune be very lenient and
excusatory in yoEr word of warning. The
difference between you and him may be
tina. you would have gone down faster
that he is going down if you had the same
kind of conjugal wretchedness.
Besides that, you had better be merclful
in your word Of warning, for the day may
come when you may need some one to be
lenient and excusatory to you. There
may be somewhere ahead of you a tempta-
| tion SO mighty that unless you have SYM
pathetic treatment you may go under:
for that" How old are you? Oh you
say, sI have been so long in active busi-
ness life that / am clear past the latitude
of danger There is man IN Sing Sing
penitentiary who was considered the soul
of honor until he was fifty years of age,
and then committed dishonesty that star
tied the entire commercial world.
An art to be studied as you study music,
for it is music in the fact that it drives
out moral discord and substitutes eternal
harmony. An art to be studied like sculp-
ture. for it is sculpture in the fact that it
builds man not in cold statue, but in i'm
mortal shape that will last long after all
pentelican marble has crumbled.
An art to be studied as you study archi-
lecture, for it is architecture in the fact
that It builds for him house of God, eter-
nal in the heavens. But an art that we
cannot fully learn unless God helps us.
Ourselves saved by grace divine, we can
| go forth to save others, and with tender
ness anu compassion and a pity that we
could not otherwise exercise we can pro-
nounce the warning word with magnif.
cent result.
The Lord said unto the prophet Amos,
! sfAmos, what seest thou?' and he an
swered, "a basket of summer fruit" But
!, l do not think Amos saw in that basket
. of summer fruit anything more inviting
and luscious than many a saved man has
seen in the warning word of some hearty,
common sense Christian adviser, for a
| word fifty spoken is like apples OF gold
in baskets of silver"
, So also is word Of invitation potent
and beautiful. Who can describe the
drawing power of that word, so small and
yet so tremendous, Gomez" It is short
word, but its ir.auence is as long as eter
nifty; not a sesquipedalian word spreading
it's energy over many syliabies, but mono
syllable. Whether calling in wrong direc
ton or right direction many have founc
' it irresistible. That one word has filled
! all the places of dissipation and dissolute
ness. It is responsible for the abomina
, tions that curse the earth Inquire at tn.
/ door of prisons what brought the offender
t | there and at the door of alfnshouses wha
: brought the pauper there, and at the doc
t of the lost world what was the cause o
{ the Incarceration, and if the inmates speal
! the truth they will say, "The word come
/ brought us here" Come and drink Com
/ and gamble come and sin. Come an.
: die. Pronounce that word with one kin,
{ of infection, and you can hear in it tn
d tolling Of all the bells of confagration an,
\ woe.
The. chief baker in prison in Pharaoh
8 time saw in dream something quite differ
t ent from apples of gold in baskets of si
e yer. for he said to Joseph, "I was also i
l. a drear, and behold r had +l,rao whit