Orange County observer. [volume] (Hillsborough, N.C.) 1880-1918, 1903-05-07

other case. He IS the reWerder of those
who put their trust in Him.
If man die, shall he live again? As
Christian I answer yes. Do you ask why?
Because he has a right to do So, Because
Cod is just Righteous art Thou in all
Thy way, the psalmst sings. Some incline
to the view that as regards Gods dealings
with man, the latter can have no right,
that man is in the position, of beggar,
glad to receive anything, but without any
not because of any virtue in His character.
but because We is all powerful. He made
US, we are His creatures; therefore, He
may act toward us and do with us as He
p.eases. We are duty bound to obey Him.
TO be kindly disposed toward Him. but He
erously or justly toward Us. All such the
cries and interpretations misrepresen-
tations Of the divine character. actual
SANDERS uoon Gods goodness. God is
father. aud no father is at liberty to reg
lect. i'll treat: degrade a child Simply be-
fact is the strongest sort of reason that
he viii do just the reverse. We all recog-
nize and respect the obligations of parent
blood. To care for the child's body to
train its mind. to instill moral principle
into its nature is incumbent upon every
parent. Some deny Themselves the high
privilege for fear of az inheritance OF
weakness or disease. and thereby making
the life of loved one miserable. It is the
veriest sophistrv. it is cruel miSrepresenta-
ton. to my mind il is unthinkabie, that
his child than the perfect God toward bis,
that the finite is under compulsion to do
right but the Infinite is not. On the con-
trary. every rise in the Scale Of being de-
.nands CORRESPONDING rise in the sea ie
better off the parent. the happier his child
is expected to be. The greater his ability
to do, the more :. ought to do. This is
the lesson OF the parable of the talents.
To one five, to another two, to another
! one to every man according to his several
| ought the return to be. He who has little
| Of rim little is demanded. He who: has
| much of him much is required. This is
| an mmutable law of universal application.
| We are not mere objects-stones, sticks,
| shels-but animate, intelligent beings. into
! whom God breathes and builds something
! that Identifies us with Him and His nature.
! The difference between God and man is
more in degree than in kind. The two are
| of the same spiritual essence, There are
! faculties the two have in common: Reason,
| conscience. will. are specifications in point
! Man is endowed with them AID the constl-
tuition and course OF nature reveal their ex-
istence in the workings OF God. BY resem-
| blance of attribute aud identity of life we
| are proven Gods children. And will God
Kill His own children? kill US before VIC
. have fully realized what the life He has
! given is? We long for happiness and vet
we get comparatively little of it here. We
! cherish an ideal Of perfection and yet we
| never attain it on earth. We are but be-
| ginning to understand what grand and
| noble thing life NAV be when we have to
| lie down and die. We are Just on the point
J Of reaching the rewards for which we have
/ waited and toled when the end comes. and
! il we are ever to enjoy them It must be in
| another world. Now is God in all this and
| all the while deceiving. US? When we de-
! sire the bread of everlasting life will He
| give US the stone OF everlasting death! Al
| Him, lifted up our hearts to- Him. tried
| His works to do, loved Him and longed to
be with Him during our residence on earth
will Tle welcome when at last we come
! to Him with annihilationo If so He IS
not good. If so He is not God. Ii so there
! j. no God. If SO on the throne of the uni
| verse is seated not loving father but
! ieerng fend tauntiDg us for our helpless
ness and deiighting in our misery. Right
eousness. eternal righteousness is against
any such supposition. It is not possible
that the devil is supreme. It is not posi-
bic that man is more kind. more humane
| and considerate and sympathetic than the
that He who made conscience has no
| conscience. If anything stands the test OF
! reason this Goes-that He who implanted
the sense OF justice within US must Himself
be just Amid all the darkness the sor-
| rows, the riddles of existence, let us not de
spond or despair. let, us look confidently
for the greatest gift. the gift God owes it
to Himself to bestow-eternal life
"In all the maddening maze of things
And tossed by storm and flood.
To one fixed state my spirit ciings-
know that God is good"
[ Therefore. He will never leave or for
sake US. either in this life or the world to
come. Let us hold fas.. to this truth-God
is good-and when the end cometh all will
be well with the soul.