Orange County observer. [volume] (Hillsborough, N.C.) 1880-1918, 1903-10-29
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eat of>the tree Of life, which is in the para
disc of God" There is a very common nc.
lion that though goodness may I've Il safa
tr,c,- to some far-of ce]estian city 1t IS a
| considerable sacrifice of the content of lie
here and now. Naturally enough not a
! few decide to take what they can in the
present and leave the struggle for GOODNESS
Alone and chance the future. Well, the
! truth is that only in a worthy character. I'D
fhe ~ascendaucy over evil. in the mastery
! Of in,parity and Of egoism in all it's forms,
| on the higher levels of special cultivation,
| does a man really get the core of lie now.
| pet the very best there is In 1t. in tacs
| the old Eden story comes true AGAIN ana
| again in the lives of men. Get your pleas
IRE. satisfy your desire in illicit ways, in
| defiance or in neglect Of the divine order
| Of life. it simply means paradise lost. You
| turn yourself ont of the best by so dong.
LOYALTY to goodness is the way o. blessed
ness. There is no happiness like that
which comes from simple goodness:
What does the victor find? lie finds the
unseen reserves from which he, may draw
sustenance and power to his WI surprise
and that of the world. "To him cha. over
cometh | will give to eat of the hidden
mamma In the winning struggle you find
the soul sustenance> hidden sfrem, YOU be
fore and still hidden from the world. New
condolences. new assurances, new ialths
lie III Liz SOuIs c L A&IN kPoHA
il. new voices speak to it and in it: new
communions with unseen covers enrich.
its inner soiitudes. and the man gets "
and by to understand what Paul meant
when he smoke of being Strengthened
with might in the inner man." The truly
earnest man who perseveres IN the htc OF
the good is constantly surprised at the re.
serve of w upon which he draws. Red
seas which looked as il they meant certain
death have been safely crossed. and the
song OF triumph rang up to God on the
other side.
Difficulties which seemed insurmountab.e
lave been successfully overcome. This is
why the man says: "Hitherto hath the
Lord helped me- lie cannot understand
himself by himself, and so he builds al
alter to a higher power. In life's victories
march we discover the enrichment Of the
way, come to one afte: another of the
wells of salvation. hidden from all who do
not march that way. And, remember al
ways, that the larger our conquest in life,
the more abundant will be life's susten-
ance; 1t is the %conoueror who finds the
man !: In In a IS sense se; fSEe;I r is hidden !,
is so in the intellectual sphere. You dis
cover treasures as you conquer difficulties.
You must conquer the alnhabe. and the
spelling book to discover the sentence:
conquer the sentence to discover the para
graph: conquer every paragraph to know
the trcsc.-e OF the tcck. And so all the
Nay up; Many cannot read Il book that is
cannot appreciate. Why? because their
conouests are too small: they have not
overcome ignorance and superfciaity suffi-
GENTLY, so the mama there remains hid.
cen.
The same is true in the moral and sp.r-
ls'ai sphere. There are people who are
quite incapable of understanding the high
est kind of affection and the hottest
kind Of love because they have not them
selves overcome the vulesrity and coarse
ness Of human natures lower levels. All
world knows not Of" they have afec-
tons which the world would always dilute
with base Ingredients and aspirations
which it would always tarnlsh with the
stains Of earth. Be sure of it, your discov-
cry of lifes best things will depend upon
your onquest of its worst. and with every
victory you shall eat hidden mamma and
be strengthened for victories vet to be
achieved. The successful struggle con-
stantly discovers supports hidden from
him before. and still hidden from live.
which do not know TIE loftier reaches and
the more earnest endeavors. What does
lie yield to the victor? Here is one OF the
finest of the promises: II vii! give him the
morning star? It is the feeling that life is
sweet and pure. fair and fresh with the
touch of morning. Tt is the feeling that
life is full OF promise. that day is coming
on: that the best is yet to be. It is the
power to be oneself & sweetenino. freshen-
Ing influence in the would. a living pro-
there IS nothing like moral purity to keep
the touch Of morning on life: compromise
your morality and it Is marvellous how soon
everything is stale. There is an indescrib-
an,e sweetness in the air Of early morning
when the world is as God wakes it: when
It IS indeed in the process of HIS remakinS
before we light our fires and emit our
smoke and beat up the dust Of our noisy.
fErhuient life. Something like that sweet
freshness Of morning belongs to the soul
that Is pure and comes to It always in it's
hour OF victory over sin AS long as YOUR
affections arr clean they are fresh: Won
never tire Of pure feelings or holy loves.
tsaln: VIVA, Goes tie mora, victor find?
Is promised that Christ Will write upon
him Gods name and the name OF Gods
city, ard mis- OWE new name. Tn our Ian
rnage this means that life Yields the victor
*he consciousness that he really belongs
70 God: that he belongs 70 the new 50.
clety; that he belongs to Christ. Tn other
words the spiritual universe owns him,
oi'N IL hioN' HiitSeiI as q vital nart OF 1t.
even as q pillar in the temple of God. an
unha,der Of the sacred things of life: one
ut those who have a real nerrnaneDt life in
Ihe sanctuary. mon the sanctities Of
cod-yca, who share the spiritual sover-
eionty Of life with Cod. with Christ and
with all the good: "IIe shall sit with Ne
on My throne" etc.
Oh, YOU who are G%ehting sin. take cour-
age; with every triumph you are mo,1utinr
the steps OF the throne of God. and ever
nearing the time when your life shall he
NEED IN the truth which knows no turning.
ana the Righteousness which is forever.
Lay hold on the THOUGHT of God as vo,,r
Helper: and believe that if YOU work Win
Hlm al will be .well:,. ] invite you to no
Superficial optimism that has never sound
ed the depths of LIES woe. nor seen into
the hearts Of it's tragedy. There is no DOW.
CT and no healing in that. I heard Il once
gwen out from a Christian platform r.
d~Ienounced gloominess OF every kind. II
siashed the nessimists in every direction.
1t declared that all things were GOING On
exceedingly well; even the slu,ns Were MT
50 bad as some made out. and the war in
South Africa-well, it would come to an
end some time. Oh
SO much Of this was dealt out that 7 fe,t
,nae such optimism vas the shallowest of
les; and that to ventilate it in the Mans
OF christianity was to forget the traeedv
OF 1ethsemane an to blot out the mem.
Dry OF the cross. No, 70: il YOU are to he
4 serious man ir o,rnouL r. w