Orange County observer. [volume] (Hillsborough, N.C.) 1880-1918, 1901-08-29

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heSsth from Him, your companion from
Him, your children from Him, your home
from Him, all the bright surroundings Of
your life from Him.
Oh, man, what dost thou with that hard
heart? Canst thou not feel one throb of
| gratitude toward the God that made you
and the Christ who came to redeem you
and the Holy Ghost who has all these
years been importuning you?
If I could gather all the griefs Of all
sorts from these crowded streets and could
put them in one scroll, neither man nor
angel could endure the recitation. Well,
what do you want? Would you like to
have your property back again? "No,"
you say as a Christian man, Il was be-
coming Hgr aarr tagn t and md I think dot that m is why ~
have sas n9 my i property r. aH BACK Nv Wen ! "1 Would ID
again? mo- you say, 4 couldn't take
the responsibility of bringing them from
a fearless realm to a realm Of tears. |
want? A thousand voices in the audience
cry out: Comfort! Give us comfort!"
For that reason I have rolled away the
stone from the wells mouth. Come, all
We wounded Of the flock, pursued of the
wolves, come to the fountain where the
Lords sick and bereft ones have come;
"Ah," says some one, "you are not old
enough to understand my sorrows. You
have not been in the world as long as I
have, and you can't talk to me about my
misfortunes in the time of old age" Well,
I may not have lived as long as you, but l
have been a great deal among old people,
and I know how they feel about their fail
ing health and about their departed
friends and about the loneliness that some
times strikes through their souls. After
two persons have lived together for forty
or fifty years, and one OF them is taken
away, what desolation!
I shall not forget the cry of DR.. De
Witt, of New York, when he stood by the
open grave of his beloved wife, and after
the obsequies had ended he looked down
my honored, faithful and beloved wife.
The bond that bound us is severed. Thou
art in glory, and I am here on earth. We
shall meet again. Farewell! FAREWELL,
To lean on a prop for fifty years and
only. two years difference between the
death of my father and mother. After my
mothers decease my father used to go
around as though looking for something.
He would often get up from one room
without any seeming reason and go to an
cane and start out, and some one would
say, Father, where are you going?" And
he would answer, Il DOM know exactly
where I am going" Always looking for
heart and nan t6,t I n meyer IT saw t6e hnr;a1 cry " but
OhOO, Oho CIoV wa GU CLS LII VI 10y
mother. After sixty years living together
it was hard to part. And there are aged
people to-day who are feeling just such a
pang as that. I want to tell them there is
perfect enchantment in the promises of
this gospel, and [ come to them and offer
them my arm, or l take their arm and 1
bring them to this gospel we'll. Sit down,
, father or mother; sit down. See If there
is anything at the well for you. Come,
David, the psalmist, have you ANYTHING
the paafmisst; they shall still bring forth
= fruit in old age; they shall be fat and
fourishing to show that the Lord isN2-
=, right. He is my rock, and there is no I'M
righteousness III Him" Come, Isaiah,
l h hSve you fo any thing to H,s say e out It Of y0a "yppr pro;
: says Isaiah; down to old age I am with
, thee, and to hoary hairs will | carry thee"
Well, if the Lord is going to carry you,
o you ought not to worry much about your
! ailing eyesight and failing limbs.
e You get a little worried for fear that
. . some time you will come to want, do you?
Your children and grandchildren some
: times speak a little sharp to you because
of your ailments. The Lord will not
speak sharp. Do you think you will come
to want? What do you think the Lord
Isl? Are His granaries empty? viii He
! feed the raven and the rabbit and the lion
= in the desert and forget you? Why, nat
. ~uralists tell us that the porpoise will not
: forsake its wounded and sick mate. And
do you suppose the Lord of heaven and
+ fish of the sea? But you say, Il am SO
i near worn out, and I am Of no use to God
- any MORE" 1 think the Lord knows
h whether you are Of any more use or not
. If you were of no more use He would have
taken you before this. Do you think God
care Of you seventy or eighty years? He
!, thinks more of you to-day than He ever
did because you think more of Him. May
the God of Abraham and Isaac and Jacob
- and Paul the aged be your God forever
4 But I gather all the promises to-day in
y group. and [ ask the shepherds to drive
l. their focks of lambs and sheep up to the
- sparkling supply. Behold, happy is the
&c man who God correcteth." Though HI
no cause grief, yet will He have compassion
?, but the Lord deivereth him out Of then
N all" weeping may, endure for a night
~ but JOY cometh in the morning" I an
e. , determined that no one shall go out o
this house uncontrolled.
~ So | come to your timid and shrinkin;
" " soul to-day and compel you to come ou
in the presence of the Divine Physician
! He will not hurt you. He has been heal
m give you gentle and ~omnipotent medica
n ment.
is But people, when they have trouble, g
VII any Wuefe fdCner Cndn TO OOO. LIE Qu1n
1e cey took opium to get rid of his troubles
Charles Lamb took to punch, Theodor
Hook took to something stronger. Edwin
a. Forrest took to theatrical dissipation, an,
e. men have run all around the earth, hor
d, ing in the quick transit to get away fror
~ their misfortunes. It has been a dea
be failure. There is only one well that ca.
in Stake the thirst of an afflicted spirit, an
Il. that is the deep and inexhaustible well c
of the gospel.
But some one in the audience savs
Mt notwithstanding all you have said thi
as morning. | find no alienation for my tro,
bles." Well, I am not through yet.
haves left the most potent considerable
for the last / am going to soothe yo
as with the thought of heaven. Howeve
OF talkative we may be, there will come
time when the ~stoutest and most en-
be phatic interrogation will evoke from l
k no answer. As soon as we have cSose
I'd our lips for the final silence no power O
earth can break that taciturnity. B,
to where, O Christian, will be your spirit
o. In a scene of infinite gladness; the sprir
u. morning of heaven waving it's blossoms
of the bright air; victors fresh from bait
/. showing their scars; the rain of earth
IL sorrow struck through with the rainbo
in Of eternal Joy; in one group God and a
nd gels and the redcemed4Pau and Sila
I Latimer and Rid'.y, Isaiah and Jeremia.
OF Payson and John Milton, Gabriel ar