Orange County observer. [volume] (Hillsborough, N.C.) 1880-1918, 1901-11-07
NEW SERIES--VOL. Xxx. NO. 43. !.

when other resources gave out and the
men and women who, going into this bat
tie armed only with needle or saw or axe
or yardstlck or pen or type or shovel or
the heaven resound With all the re-
sources Of God promised for every exi-
| gency no one need be left in the lurch.
l like the faith displayed years ago in
Drury lane, London, in an humble home
where every particle of food had given
and other table supplies and found ket-
tie on the fire ready for the tea The
benevolent lady said, 'sHow is that YOU
| have the kettle ready for the tea when
| you had no tea in the house?" And the
| daughter in the home said: Mother
would have me put the kettle on the fire,
| and when | Said, What is the use of
| doing SO when we have nothing in the
| house? she said: NV child, God will pro-
| vide. Thirty years He has already pro-
! vided for me through all pain and help
lessness, and He will not leave me to
starve at last. He will send us help
! though we do not see how. We have been
! waiting all day for something to come,
but until we saw you we knew not how
it was to come" Such things the world
may call condolences, but | call them
Almighty deliverances, and, though you
| do not hear of them. they are occurring
every hour OF every day and in all parts
| of Christendom
| Those who follow the advice of this
| world in time Of perplexity are in a fear
! full round, for it is one bewilGered soul
following another bewildered soul, and
only those who have in such time got
their eye on the morning star of our
| Christian faith can find their way out or
be strong enough to lead others with an
| all persuasive Invitation.
But, says .some one, you Christian
people keep. telling US to come yet YOU
do not tell us how to come.'' That
charge shall not be true on this occasion.
praying! After all that Cod has been
doing for 6ooo, years, sometimes through
patriarchs and sometimes through pro
phets and at last through the cnlrlila
tion of all the tragedies on Golgotha, can
any one think that Cod will not welcome
your coming? Will a. father at vast out
lay construct mansion for his son and
lay out parks white with statues and
green with foliage and all a-sparkle with
fountains and then not allow his son to
live in the house or walk in the parks?
Has God built this house of gospel mercy
and Will He then refuse entrance to His
children? VIII a Government at great
expense build hfe-saving stations all
along the coast, and boats that can hover
unhurt like a petrel over the widest
surge and then, when the lifeboat has
reached the wreck of a ship IN the ofing,
not allow the drowning to seize the life
line or take the boat for the shore in
safety? Shall God provide at the cost of
his only Sons assassination escape for a
sinking world and then turn a deaf ear to
the cry that comes up from the breakers?
But, you say, there are SO many
things have to believe and SO many
things in the shape Of a creed that have
to adopt that am kept back" No, no.
You need believe but two things-name-
ly, that Jesus Christ came into the world
to save sinners and that you are one of
them. But" you say, Il do believe both
Of those things" Do you really believe
them with al your heart? eyes" Why,
life. Why. then you are a son or a
daughter Of the Lord Almighty. Why,
then, you are an heir or an heiress of an
inheritance that viii declare dividends
from IRON nov until long after the h stars are
do you not come and take your coronet?
Princess of the Lord Almighty, why do
you not mount your throne? Pass I'D
into the light. Your boat is anchored
why do you not 60 ashore? Just plant
your feet hard down, and you viii feel
under them the Rock of Ages.
| challenge the universe for one in
stance in which a man in the right spirit
appealed for the salvation of the gospel
and did not get it. Man alive, are you
going to let all the years of your life so
away with you without your having this
great peace: this glorious hope, this bright
expectancy?
Are you going to let the pearl Of great
, price lie in the dust at yosr feet because
you are too inoolent or too proud to
} stoop down and pick it up? Will you
J wear the chain of evil habit when near
.. by you is the hammer that could with
| stay in the prison of sin when here is a
gospel key that co...d unlock your ircar-
ceration? No, no!
, ! As the one word "come" has scme-
times brought many souls to Christ, ]
will try the experiment of piling up into
avalanche Of power, many Of these gospel
comes" Come thou and all thy house
, into the ark, "Corle unto Me, all ye
) who labor and are heavy laden. and
] will give you rest" ), Come: for all things
: .sThe Spirit and the bride say come,
: and let him that heareth say come and
, let him that is athirst come" The
/ | stroke of one bell in a tower may be
+ sweet, but score of bells well tuned
r and rightly lifted and slzillfully swung il
! music almost celestial. And no one who
e has heard the mighty chimes in the tow
: ers of Amsterdam or Ghent or Copenha
gen can forget them Now, it seems tc
j me that in this Sabbath hour all heaven
!. is Ginning, and the voices of departed
! friends, and kindred ring down the sky
i saving, "Come!"
i The angels who never fell, bending from
q sapphire thrones, are chanting, "Cor1e!'
;, Yea, all the towers of heaven, tower o
martyrs, tower of prophets, tower of apos
q ties, tower of evangeiists, tower OF The
= temple of the Lord God and the Lanf
:, are Ginning "Come! Comet Pardor
: for all, and peace for all, and heaven fol
T all who come.
4 When Russia was in one of her grea
;; wars, the suffering of the soldiers hae
! been long and bitter. and they were wait
). ing for the end of the strife. One day ;
. messenger in great excitement ran among
= the tents of the army shouting, peace
+ | Peace!" The sentinel on guard asked
y "Who says peace?" And the sick soidie
IS asked. "Who says peace?''' And all VI
q and down the encampment Of the Rus
q slams went the question, Who say
n speace?'" Then the messenger respond
d ed, "The Gar says peace That wa
Il enough. That meant going home. Iha
"a | meant the war was over. No nor.
wounds and no more long marches S
= to-day, as one of the Lords messengers
p I move through these great encampment
= | of souls and cry. peace between cart