Orange County observer. [volume] (Hillsborough, N.C.) 1880-1918, 1903-01-08
NEW SERIES--vOL. XXI. NO. so.

Savior at the Last Supper, Zone Of 70
shall betray me-" or when He was walk
Ing with them toward the garden, "Al
OF you shall he offended this night be
esen cause Of ia Me:o - whsn He was .1,as il th
could you not watch with Ne one hdup
The stone that hurts Christ most is not
one that is cast by the unbelieying worl
He expects that; it is the one that
cast by His own. people, and there is
one stone. that they can cast at Him,
one way and live another, confessing "
the lips and denying in the walk. Z
never took step in the wrong direction
but it was a stone cast at Christ. l have
heard OF q young lady who was engaged
in the greatest amount of pleasure and
to Christ. One day being asked by her
companions to go to a certain place. she
refused on the ground that it was Com
munion Sunday in the church. In amaze
ment her friends asked her, "Are you
communicant?" ?" If the world does not
ar: taking up stones with which to stone
Him.
II. On the part of those who are not
His followers, with some it is absolute
hatred; certainly 1t was so with the Jews
You read in the text that they took up
stones again. The first time we read Of
their stoning Christ is in the eighth chap
ter of John, and it is supposed that they
and it was very easy to pick them up.
The second time they were near Solo
mons porch; and it is question If there
We're any stones there to be found. So it
is thought that they carried them all the
way, perhaps only dropping them as they
listened to His speech, by which they
picked them up and hurled them at Him.
Are you casting these stones at Christ?
Remember that He said HE that is not
with Me is against Me-"
INDIFFERENCE. -,
I'll. With many it is the stone of indif-
ference. It was one of the first cast at
Him in the world. It began at the man
ger, going to the cross, and it is still
being thrown. With curling lips and in
the carpenter's SOM" When He was on
the cross, they said in derision, He saved
others; now let Him save Himself" It is
| now the ninth hour and darkness is settled
| about the place. Listen! His lips are
moving: "Eloi! Eloiw Surely this will
caeg or as et ns see il Sh hs will eeme
to Him" This is all like the gathering of
| a storm to me: first the cloud was the
size of man't hand, that is, at Bethle-
hem; it is larger at Egypt; heavier at
| Nazareth; darker in Jerusalem; then He
| comes up to the Mount of Olives, and the
| cloud seems to break as He cries out,
l"Oh! Jerusalem. j Jerusalem!
j A man working on one OF the railroads
i in the State of Indiana discovered, one
morning, that the bridge had fallen, and
heAsmembered that the train was due. He
started down the track to meet her. saw
her coming, and, raising his hands, pointed
to the bridge but on she came hay,ns no
track, and the engineer, si1Ik
madman stopped The tram JI5iil
arose and told his story and ~ ~ i ls 81 ~
of hundreds. Christ did this 10 50b s. q
purchased your redemption by the iSelS
of Himself whether YOU have accepted this
that? 4,
UNBELIEF.
| ". When He said: 1sI and My Father
are one,' they cast another stone at Him.
That was unbelief. Indifference was kArd
to bear; hatred cut like knife, but unhe-
lief was the crowning sin OF the jews.
Many are hurling it at Him to-day. HS
and we need only to trust Him to be
saved. A little girl in Glasgow who had
just found peace was heard counseling one
of her playmates in this way: Il say, las
sic. do as l did, gfip promise and hold on
to it, and you will be saved and there is
salvation in the child's words.
follows the text: Many good works have
4 [ showed you from My Father: for which
i Of those works do you stone Me-" It is
supposed that some of the Jews had actu-
ally struck Him With a stone, and this
drew forth from Him words tender
enough, pathetic e1pugh to turn aside the
| lo4roJ of6 6pn ho 1oA boarF of ctour
i DO NOT STONE HIM.
l. Because Of whit He was, they called
Him the bright AND moaning star; the
fairest Of all the hildren Of men; the
, chiefest among ten thousand. Oh, that we
might have our eyes bpen to behold Him!
3 Fifty years agd there was war In
India with England. \On one occasion sew
eral English officers werc taken prls9ners ;;
among them was one man, namea fat.u. paIu
to put on them all. Baird had been soreI.
: wounded and was suffering from his weak weak
ness A gray haired officer said, .,You o., VI, WI
:, not put chains on that man, surely =! ~
E answer was, Il have just as many fetter
q as prisoners, and they must all pe worn. !.
n Then said the old hero, Put two pJoO, pa,rJ5 .,
/ me-" Baird lived to gain his freedom
y but the other man went down to MS deaf
e doubly chained. But what il he had W Wor
y the letters Of all in the prison, ana Wns WIG
e if voluntarily he had left palace 10 Iea
lie chains. to suffer the stripes and enoII
a. the agony? That would be poor liius.i' III
IA fIon OF at that Christ has- done Ioi ~ su =.
c, and for me. Will you stone Him Tor ina!
le 8. Because of what He is to-day. !
d. 1877 there was a great riot IN LONDON,
le which houses were sacked and gener
Sc insurrection reigned; guns in the tow'
ID were laundering against the 1nsurgeh
Ell and armed bands were. assa1ilng them
&c every side. Three hundred were arreste
I'd tried and hanged; five hundred were ca
ID into prison. and were to be. tired beio
TX the king. Henry VIII. As he sat IN sta ST
I'd On the throne the door opened and IN tn
I'd came, every man with rope aoou. !
n neck. Before sentence could be passed
u them three queens entered, Eathefine
Ii Aragon. wife of the king; Margaret
Ie, Scotland, sister Of the king, and Mary
France. They approached the throne knf
~ at the feet Of His Majesty and there
ne NAMED pleading until the king forgase
a five hundred trembling men. -.
en- But there is better lntefeessloD tn. -
ng that going on for you and ior me at - u
th 1,1ornent. Will you stone linn lot tna
t's Looking out from the windows OF neas =,
lss The Son OF God bshe,d peop.e hsav!iy :.
rs dened bearing the weight o. @ lhsie err;r r1r
1t cropping about in then. blindness, CYL a,
n. Peace! peace." and there was no pea pea
en- And He said. sI viii go down ana n Dsso' CO.
be hona ~ their hone and flesh or theh HSs