Orange County observer. [volume] (Hillsborough, N.C.) 1880-1918, 1904-02-18

Under adverse conditions she loses nope s
and asks: why is life given when the
way is hld!>
Or. here. in the larger life, is. prince !
and leader. of men The roots of his power
begin to ramify through all the land. he :
seems to be the one indispensable man OF
the time. In the sorest need OF all, ne IS
smitten down and dies. Or here IS
great cause, reaching back into a great
principle. The light Of the divine justice
shines on the principle and SO WINS men Mem
to it that they cannot rest. Year aiter
year they will stand, suffering, toll,ng,
| diving for their cause but the way does
not omen. Yet they cannot choose but fol-
low the light IF the light had not shonee
So in our own land we might have ground
along in some sort OF atfanlty mn 70 slaveryf y
the nation that brought on the war; 1T
was light shining through the darkness
that kept the nation steady a Had mo no
such light shone, we saf%ld f% 4be eayH sbacI}es i1
Of the slave for wedding ring. But the |
, light stood like wall of fire; yet how long |
it was only light shining on hidden
5 way! Our homes, black with desolatlon;
> cheerful look, because they would not, by
/ their sadness, dishearten the great heart
t of the nation.
e And so, say, in men and nations you
< will find everywhere this discord between
t the longing that is in the soul, and what
It the man can do. Our life, as some one
n said Of the Cathedral of Cologne, seems to
y be broken promise made to God.
y Now, in trying to find some. solution OF
+ this question, l want to say 1ranKly tnaI 1l
t, T cannot pretend to make the mystery all
g clear, SO that it will give you no more
id trouble; because l cannot put a glrdle
n around the world in forty minutes, and
at also because a full solution must depend
ut greatly on our own dissolution. bel1eve,
C. also, that the man who thinks he has lett
he nothing unexplained, in the mystery OF
as providence and life, has rather explained
be nothing. I listen to him, if am in trou.
bic. and then go home and break my heart
he all the same, because see that he has n not
i'm only not cleared up the mystery, but that
". he does not know enough about 1t t to
en- trouble him. The Principal" and tha
He easy to him because he does not know the
OF Rule of Three And so l cannot be sat
zen isfed with the last words which some later
a hand has added to the book that holds TN!
nd his property doubled, to the last ass ant
a camel-has seven sons again and thre
his DAUGHTERS, has entire satisfaction OF al
rem his accusers, lives hundred and tort
his years, sees four generations OF his line an
lch then dies-satished.
ted Need 1 say that this solution will no
e her stand the test of life, and that if life,
~ ~ | the average, came out SO from ITS mos
na; M trying ordeal, there would be little nee &c
hea ne for our sermons. For then, every III
would De an open, Scll-SO1eoluSu ~
| dence and the last page in time would VII
to dicate the first. Men do not so live an
able die: and such cannot have been the prlm
ndl- tive conclusion Of the history. .aH \ h
that deeper meaning and a sublmer 2usgrne
up Holy Ghost.
10 vet And this assure to suggest itself to "
,;os. al; you read the story, that Jo6. IN Il
posf trouble. would have lost nothing al
u +o oa gained very much if he had not been SO i
,;,e .ne patient in coming to the conclusion tn
In, h;,ra God had left him, that life was me
iass n.n' apple of Sodom, that he had backed up
,enf great walls Of fate and ne had not a a lrle
ienI t.d left on the earth His soul, looking throu
lna: y = her darkened windows, concluded the he;
ae De-, II ems We're dark The nerve, qulyerlng
,'nn;, nH the gentlest touch, mistook the mlnlst
Ip upoiT ton of mercy for blow. He might ha
than 1ouao sohle t eGpi ~ r +be ashes in The bu
feet? ing sun. ne AneM e.,l noo +l;s d;d not de
;'.ht him from tearing to .shreds the rope u
was to shelter h1m from ne me ket keen MAi' " =
1ei'Gf e worse for his way Of meeting IT.,
= when he was at once in the worst nea
,la nalS of and temper possible, he said: w ny
have lsht siEE:1l -. w ~ 90 - uac then one of
u are is AoC Cliio nv" ~ 1o 4ha+ oan he ma
'.-,o1e ~ u I trv to solve great problems OF pr
Ao'o dence. perhaps, when am SO unsfrun}
to be entirely, untitled tx to to touch oeian =
nasea d more subtle, delicate ana Tar a;d rGac nn 81
S own | oxo,,is;te anthem when your organ
aver broken. and conclude there is no m
|, too, in it because you can make n. 10 musl
ear It it. as, in such condition OF lte : an ana :
st the a temper of the spirit: try to IND t.
much GREAT, harmonies of God. When an
moon trouble. then. and darkness comes q
night on me- ike a pail, the first question o.
trees ~ ~ 1eTIotv much of this unbellef a
en- and ,HroD;dence and life, like Cowpers S
Other rc IL, ,,,,,,o ri ono h1a sin comes from
S man most material disorcanization? :, Is
e; the darkness / feel in the SOUL or IS 1t on
That windows through which the soul
ornado see?'' Then, clear on TINS matter'
,, worst man tried so will endeavor to stand
,hty IN hrst. where this sad hearted man
1T fear; az fIe last. in the shadow of the Alml
sight, + he must stand in shadow, and no
spend to the confidence that somewhere "
ct say, all this trial is the eternal me sne shdHs ~
should a GREAT rock in weary land. =
poor sneculate all about the mystery, and
lore: a Conclusions from their premises are en-
re with cDrrect; but they have forgotten to TO
lndle oI in the separate sovereign VIII o4 the Wv
when l working out a great purpose n IN tne
&c, ana life. by which he is to be llfted Il
When | arander reach of insight and expe
le dieth fhan ever he had before. JOB SAID
wholly suffer, am in darkness ana alsap q
IN the ment and pain. because 1t IS tate.
tasted friends said: "No, you suffer becaus
mean? ha,,a s;nned Rushes never grow w
= way is wire" They were both wrong al
| 7pronr He suffered because theeI W.
nen ever divine way of bringing him out
as this, sleek. well satisfied content anu
of this through suffering this was done NE Sd
possible have heard OF &Ihee w WIN hl1ne e"l
e." But now mine eye seeth Thee.
h out IN If had never gone into "a darkensa a;r
women where the soul stands at the parting
ling, but worlds: or sat down beside widow
condition Gtt1e children, when the desire OF
ption Of aves was taken away with stro
e. would ryyesned the hands of strong men.
Cd. The ssii fhev had toiled for was gone,
the way 1nft hit honor: OF minlste:ed e
bruised. ,nanoled on the battlefield beyond
led to be mo. and heard in all these places
are yet da1kness was on the way, meiooles
that by d;e. that I never heard among tn
the last, ,nonnlaces of prosperity, could no no.
a doom, SIRE az I am that God often darke
they cut yav SO that the melody may grow
mes and and entire in the soul.
e to the There is a story in the annals OF
stone. t,nching this principle, Ihat We
from the struoole faithfully with these tHih
l.