Orange County observer. [volume] (Hillsborough, N.C.) 1880-1918, 1903-08-13

are il committed. 0 CIV have
heart. mo" you say, you ca heen n1 NV
it; it is mine; | am go'n rgsm;nded as I
nama down from B~inghamton through tne
an1'nta;ns IN Saturday II love tnose
monntains. q have been hungry OUT on
he Western plains to see, a I'LL. lou
would be SURPRISE, to see 1 VIVA. snes with q
mhee ghs could build a bigger mountain
w = dav than some Of those Mountains.
+ looked over those mountains anu remem-
hered an experience some years ago IN inc
~Adirondacks. We started out early one
morning to climb a mountain. Inc va ay
fram the tor Of one of the foothills in the
valley at our feet the beautiful! verdure
seemed to throw back the beauties OF the
SUNLIGHT. Then we entered a fog, where
we could not see more than live or SIX 1eet
away. Where was the beauty gone Fo uar
to climb out of the fog. Presently we
emerged from it and were on the mountain
ton, NV. what a scene! There lay the
valley at our feet, like an extensive world;
towns. rivers and railways-the great Val
ley Of the Moha 1 True, It 1oo was nearly ga y
That " was ike the Christian experience.
When YOU came to the seat that day you
we're on the foothill. You forgot all be-
cause Jesus was everything. and you saw
the little landscape. You thought, Ihe
Christian life is beautiful. l am 19ll OF
said, But to live as a Cshir ia is not SO
lev. where is it? What a tremendous
| thing it is to be climbing up to God" And
| the Cloud settles and you get to be selfish.
| But if you persevered and cllmoed up
Experience, and you feel that all your
powers and love ought to be settled on
| one effort to climb still further and fur
her in the vision of the Eternal. / won
der if some of us are not still in the cloud,
because we have lost the JOY of service.
an perfectly aware, when I ask you to en-.
ter with greater zeal in the service of God
that I am asking you to suffer. You will
not be killed, or asked to move out of the
United States or prosecuted because you
are a Christian, but you will have to suf-
fer, and when you suffer you will begin to
enjoy. No man laughs 50 heartily as the
ter rings so in heaven as that which comes
through the tears down here. By suffering
| mean you will be asked to endure the
cross. Jesus endured the cross. Now,
right here let me say that suffering is not
service. Some one says: "See here, do you
Christ that is not service?" That is exact
iy what l mean to say. God has no pleas
ure in your pain, but if your service for
Him demands it, and you bear it heroic
ally, He has pleasure in the attitude of
your life: Jesus Christ endured the cross.
of saving this race. Somebody will call
me hereto, but | am not. l believe, and
you believe, that Jesus Christ came to this
world to save this race. l believe and you
believe that without Christ there is no SAL
walton. The key note of all my ministry
shall ever be that Jesus is the divine Son
of God: If He is not divine let us stop our
preaching. sell our property and be inf
dels. II Jesus Is a mere man let us all quit
business. | may be an old fogy, but as
long as this tongue breaches the gospel
Jesus Christ will be the divine Christ in
message. Do 1 mean that Jesus came
to His cross by accident? Not at all. He
mission, and for the JOY that was set be-
fore Him endured and came to save this
race, and that meant the bearing of a cross
and He bore it. But the real mission was
the saving of the race, not the bearing of
the cross: His mission was to save men.
Cod so loved the world that He gave His
only begotten Son that whosover believeth
IN Him might not perish, but have ever
lasting life" When the cross stood in the
way Of the perfection of salvation Jesus
endured it divinely, heroically and unfinch-
lngly died upon it to save us. Suffering is
IhclueHc = y sefVlce. ana Wnen L cali you to
serve God you will have your cross. The
men you work with will say you are too
much of a crank and a fanatic. It will hurt
and pain and go deep. and you will finch.
Sometimes you will try to apologize for
being a crank and fanatic, and You will
thank God there is something you can en-
dure. 1t IS part of service and behind the
suffering comes a JOY, deep and profound,
when you are true. Yes, you will have
shame to bear, too. Two or three Young
ladies where [ have been holding meetings
lately and baptizing some have said. 81 do
t not IKE to think Of getting. up before all
der II we are going into the joy of fulfilling
GODS command. If we are we have got to
endure some of that shame He endured.
Let me tell you if you had administered
baptism and you saw as a minister sees i'm
the face OF the believer buried out of sight
ana raised to resurrection of newness Of
llte,lf you saw what he sees just once you
would drop your quibbling now. Shame on
US II we cannot bear in the twentieth CEN
fury light of Christian truth all that fol-
loving Jesus demands of us. A writer in
a ne british Weekly in an article entitled
against the wind by steam power was op-
posing one force to another, and was sim
ply a matter of victory for the stronger
force; but to sail to windward in a sailing
vessel was a matter of skill for here
forces that oppose are not opposed but
used" Brethren, we must cheat to wind
ward" Christian living that meet with no
opposition is not Christian living at all. If
you are heating to windward for Jesus this
world will oppose you. 1t is a matter of
skill, then, to take the opposing forces of
suffering and sin and use them to advance
your life in the kingdom of heaven. When
! begin to sacrifice I begin to enjoy. Be-
loved, if you would have the joy of Chris
tan service you must have the heart of
Christian sacrifice.
The Last Sabbath.
When that last Sabbath comes-the Sab