Orange County observer. [volume] (Hillsborough, N.C.) 1880-1918, 1904-09-01

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nell, q mighty will does not Eo, NJ, f
great mar safe." What s hoi make .ss
their boys? That a weak Will fathers
Tor them? Nay, verify. Great f me BETS
the boy what momentum is ~ ,0ree is
ball; A boy without will canno ~ The rlt
needs every ounce he can acon;r. i've. B
alone viii not make him m au : but TIL
spiritually strong. The hope Of af'y safe y
not in his family, not in his forod d man i
is it in his furnishings, which I've, nor vt
equivalent for the will Of man use as ill.,
neither the individual nor the uonn say,
be saved by its furnishings. W.T. vii
went tosNneveh, one of the reasos Jonah
his going was that 10000 peon 1asoas ir
education-"they could not tel Ip ~ needed
hand from their left" That SAM alelr right
up to-day. Only educate and trG.; cry zoe,
is sufficient. Your section is not taln; that
washed with this system Of etb;os 50 White.
as some others I know. But wa culture
| emphasize too often or too nos;t lever can
axial tenet of Christ's creed tbatt wv the
man needs primarily is not. accsss Saat q
brain, but = fresh heart; not iIl nm;a0l Of
but reconstruction, the establishmaaaanon
him by grace OF something that * Sc, ~. ~
him by nature. illumination Of t6o hIs n
is never Qualification Of the heart : Ulan
was a man in u American life wha inerd
born of the best family, with a r nos,. way
force that commanded men and cap pE.sona
women, whose furnishings could p ss.ai
be surpassed, and yet there has not s ~salY
across the pages OF American histosaa
blacker hearted william than Aaron H.
I am as far as possible from sayino D ti
knowledge makes a man worse; nv ona
contention is that it has not in itself ~ ny
power OF making men better. Ideas, eSn
cation alone, can neither reconstruct Il
This is q thoughtful age: mon
brainy; all about us there is 4 passion II
new ideas: but our most urgent necas,;s
is not Of idea but Of power. What y
need most Of all is not schooling but hT
tism, and that is to come through faith
What is this faith that is to give us Il
supreme victory and insure our safetvs
is at this distinct point that we begin i
learn the real meaning and purpose
, faith. Every little while I I'M told by m
and another that he would like to har
faith in this particular matter in regard
. the Bible, or in regard to Christ in the h
: ture life as though if his mind could anil
, be brought Intellectually to consent to
the consummation would be reached and !
l great result achieved. Being prepared \
assent to this or that particular Statement
in regard to Christ, for example, is a yer|
. distinct. thing from faith. Faith is ned
3 sonal attitude, personal relationship. Fait1
: is such q personal yielding Of ourselves I
= another. a. brings us into living contac
= with that other and so makes us recipien
of what it lies in that other to confer. Tn
child becomes like his father by faith d
!. his father, because his faith is that inward
Z surrender that makes him susceptible Il
every impression that goes forth from hi
IS father. Achild's faith toward his mothel
Q is not faithathat what his mother says i
g true: it is faith in his mother, the hiding D
e himself in the one life that enwraps then
e both, so that he lives in the sweep Of be-
q inspiration AID grows up toward manhos
n by the appropriation of personal vlgor, VII
q dom and sweetness hourly made over him
~ And that is cast in the same mold as Ge
70 Del faith, which, Is as a cord by which th
e living Christ holds the believer to dim
II self. Faith is not a condition wherein .
). hold to something OF somebody, as that i
re which we are held by something or som'
body. It is not holding a doctrine, but b
ing held by q person. Il know whom
a, have believed" The iron filings stick
te the magnet, not because they try 50 bar
I to stick, but because they are masssre
by the magnet.
~ Faith, then, has for Its very essens
- personal self-commtment, one ounce
which is worth a whole ton OF lnteleea
affirmation. It Is this sense OF Oene Ne
u .bv God that makes a man safe ana seen
l r. ---A 1--or- hou, tho GRACE OF GOU "
Id take a man like Saul of Tarsus and ma
ut him Paul the Apostle; but no man v
IS, I've vet not [. but Christ liveth in N!
That = exactly what John B. Cough CT
he AZ he went like q flaming torch blazing
re- wav for a multitude Of hopeless drul
he .rds. The hope, and the only. nope,
on M all is in the grace of God, Il ws' !,
a strike a tuning fork on this desk anu i
ne & to nv ear not one in this room !, " T.
hear the sound thereof, but coula y
IN. Il and tune my violin. Strike 1t assla =
to instead Of holding it to my ear, s' ~ ~
he nn +h;a desk. Instantly the sound vo
, . 10 heard everywhere. But what 90
is bears Not the tuning fork, for the u u
it ~ maLes no louder sound the sc'
led t;rne than It did the first. What 90 !,
haara Yon hear this hard WOOD y
tn, rh;ch has no music in itself, but Juss
ent soon as It comes in contact with a nuI
mo instrument it itself becomes 1 mu;l.G IN
ust delights every one that has mu''' ~
IT'S. 1s.i &c,
in SUI NJ ;,d;v;dnal life may be inslgnn'
&c alone by itself; it may come 1r oraat + /
ing = g family or a bad; it may naf furnishing
SO or little; it may have choice lu1n q ii
ext not; but the safety and s sefus rel{ surrel
nat depend upon the personal sen IL The
Sue to the Son of God, who a II nsd which
er to make them Sons OF G eoree or Of
NY born not of a family or Oh loi'
)Cu- -..b;rre h,7t IF faith. -