Orange County observer. [volume] (Hillsborough, N.C.) 1880-1918, 1904-11-17

toned, the integrity Of that help is never
becomes personally deficient or person
ally degenerate. For doubtless everywhere,
when it comes to the purely practical side
Of things. "what is he?" is Of far greater
importance than whence did he Gomez"
A big fruit from a little tree is worth
more than a little fruit from q big tree,
when it Is fruit that the market is de-
mahding. And what this intensely practi-
cal age demands is not so much ancestral
trees as palatable fruit.
1 confess that sometimes I nave found it
hard to preserve the properties when /
have heard people boasting of ancestry. I
nave sometimes wondered what the an
cestors would say if they suddenly saw the
progeny. Paternity is not always easily
recognizable in posterity. Neither in
things material nor in things moral does
past possession ever pay for present pow
erty. There must be some water in the
channel to make a river out of it, and i is
always the present water volume of the
stream that determines the real water
value of the river.
ooh, East is East, and West is Vest
And never the twain shall meet,
Till Earth and Sky stand presently at
Gods great Judgment seat;
But there is neither East nor West, 4
Border, nor Breed, nor Birth,
When two strong men stand face to face,
Though they come from the ends of the
Earth"
These are strong lines of Kip1ing; brave
words, wise and true. When it comes to
the solemn strife and stress of life, what,
weighs more than whence" Every man
in his W saddle and ''every tub on its
own bottom"
Nevertheless. all people are disposed to
,ooopri1o tho nocsihi1i+r nf hioh ho-on =
honorable descent. But admit this to be
true, and it carries it's own serious claim
along with it.. It was the observation of
one of the ancients that the burden of
government is Increased to princes by the
virtues OF their immediate predecessors.
johnson, in one of his essays, remarked it
as always dangerous to be placed in a state
OF unavoidable comparison with excellence.
and that the danger is always greater when
the excellence is consecrated by death.
Privilege OF ancestry means responsibility
of heirship. Duly and morally considered.
Il can never be lordshlp. It is essentially
given, of him shall much be required" is
the law universally here applied. That is
the principle underlying this whole matter.
Children of God. be imitators of God. Mo-
blesse oblige. Nobility imposes the obi
cation of nobleness. "Be ye therefore i'm
itators of God. as beloved children"
Whence am I: It is the old question by
which every man is confronted as soon as
he begins to draw lines of distinction be-
tween himself and his surroundings. And
here, as everywhere. no comment on the
works Of God like the word of God. "In
the beginning God created the heavens and
the earth" That sentence scatters dark
ness and doubt. The world IS not eter-
nal; it had an actual and definite begin
ming. Man is not the child Of chance: he
has a Father in God. After that God had
spent much time and labor in fitting and
furnishing the globe to be an abode. He
SAID, Let us make man in our image. af-
ter our likeness" It is written, $50 God
created man IN His own image; formed
man OF the dust OF the ground and
nreathed into his ~nostrils the breath of
lite, and man became a living soul"-the
masterpiece of divine ingenuity and now
'er, IN whom there is no Dremonition what
s5oever of my higher physical life. Let
them have dominion over the fish Of the
sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over |
ene cattle, and over all the earth, and over
the earth" Divinely authenticated on
heartkand on BRAIN. being Of -boundless
aspirations, separated in. moral and spirit |
ual nature, as by an impossible gull, from |
all other animal orders, man is at the head
NATIONAL. responsible, immortal.
How often we speak that word "immor-
tall" Man does not die
There is no death. What seems 20 IL !
transition;
This life of mortal breath
Is but a suburb Of the life elvsian,
Whose portal we eall death"
The good which a man does lives for
ever. And the good man lives in It. Au- !
gustine in his confessions. Calvin in his
V1ndlcatlon. Watts and Wesley in the |
and hymns and spiritual songs bv
which Christendom's praises are still at
tuned. Robert Raikes. the publisher. and
Henry Duncan, the divine-the one still
the children and the Other still
guards the treasures Of the poor. Through
al Germany, amid their restless lives
and the many temptations of their career,
Of young journeymen mechanics.
who know not the name. still bless the
hand of Clemens Perthes. the learned pro-
lessor of Bonn, because he laid the foun-
dations of the homes which open to them
their hospitable doors. Yonder at Wei.
mar, that Metropolis of the poets Of
germany" and hard by the grave Of
Goethe, who was the prince of them all.
IS the resting place of one whose fame was
indeed from theirs. but on whose
the epitaph runs: 'sUnder this I'm
den tree, freed from sin through ,Tesus
Christ, lies John Falk. Let every strange
child who visits this peaceful place diff
gently pray for him. And because he
cared for little children, receive him. o
Lord, Thy child, unto Thyself."
Gone forever! ever? MOTOR since our
diving raca baran