Orange County observer. [volume] (Hillsborough, N.C.) 1880-1918, 1904-02-18
NEW SERIES--VOL. XIII. No. IS.

was fnprezsec he rna suggestive beauty of
the elliptic fguras He tried to search out
sight. A century and half after Plato,
Appolonius came, was arrested in the
same way; took up the question where
Plato left it, tried to find out its full
meanings, and died without. the sight
centuries. some of the best minds were
fascinated by this problem, drew from it
strength and discipline; and yet, in all this
time, the problem was an abstract FORM
a beautiful or painful speculation. 1t did
not open out into any harmonious prin-
ciple There was light on the thing, but no
| light on the way In the full time, kepler
came; sat down to the study; and by what
we call the suggestion Of genius, but ought
found that the orbits Of the planets Were
elliptical. and he died. Then Newton was
born, took up the problem where Kepler4
had laid it down, made all the estabhshed
when he had done, he had shown that this
figure, this problem, which had held men
spellbound through the ages. is a prime
element in the law of universal gravltation;
lat once the most beautiful theory. and
the most absolute conclusion OF science
Then men could see how it was. because
God had made the light shine on the
thing, that the way was found From New
! ton back to Plato, in true apsotohc order.
: every man, bending over this mystery OF
{ | a light where there was no way, and Wrest-
ling faithfully with it, had not only grown
more noble in his own soul in the struggle,
but had done his share toward the solution
= found by this greatest and last. who was
. also ''born under the law that they might
y y receive the adoption Of sons"
So. I tell you, is this restless search tor
e condition that shall answer to our concep-
+ ton; this fascination. which comDels us
II to search out the elliptic of providence,
q q the geometric certainty underlying the
ee apparent eccentricity. And every struggle
= to find this certainty: every endeavor to
y ! plumb the deepest causes Of the dlscord
a y between what the nature bears and what
E the soul believes; every striving to find
IL IL the God of our loftiest faith in our darkest
- - day. will, in some way, aid the demonstra-
-. ~ ton, until, in the full time, some Newton
~ ~ Of the soul will come and, gathering the
OF result of all these struggles between our
a. a. in life, will make it the base of some
~ ~ vast generalization, that will bring the
I'd ripest conclusions Of the science OF provl,,
ha dence into perfect accord with the grantd!
~, ~ apostolic revelation. "We know that al
~ ~. things work together for good to them that
n;s love Cod" -
aH III We wrong the deepest revelations O
I'd ~, life when we are not content to Let thu
ma .aa one little segment in the arc Of our exist
III ence stand in its own simple, separat'
.t.1 dn intention whether it be gladness or gloom
,eaa and trust surely. if we are faithful. tn
Au full and perfect intention must come ou
in the full range of our being: God seldom
nov perhaps never, works out HIS y vis1Dle pu'
On pose in one life, how, then, shall He IN on
ost life work out His perfect will? The dunn
eed noetrv in William Burns, the father, ha
lie to wait for Robert Burns. the son; Be
ovl- nardo waited to be perfected IN bus sol
s1nl sna Torquato Tasso; William Herscnei re re
n mi Herschel to make clear; Leopold Mozal
has wrestled uiist melodies that Chrysosseea;;
Mozart fffni,ber of his brain, and Raymon
Bonheur needed his daughter Rosa to coz
vou and paint out his pictures for MIN.
his Reid has said. that when the pee 4ah
and its cell so geometrlcaiiy' tne fe!l.oS T.
i'm not in the bee, but in the geometr1clan tn
that made the bee. Alas, if in the Maker the
mere is no such order for us as there Is 1or =
n to heel If God so instruct the bee; II 0oo
lend feed the bird: if even the mons. roar erl
cav God: if He not only holds, the hnnef
o at the spray. but the lion on the spr1ng, NJ
stra- shall we dare lose heart and hope!
have So. then, while we may not know WI
/; he trials wait on any OF US, we cdh 4h;s De1o IN
,urn- | that as the Gays III "hiIn ~
next wrestled with his dark malades are
letter onlv days that make him worth reme
that brance. and but for which his name s !!
inds. never been written IN the booA OF
was the days through wnlGn ins;n we +ha hsl 1 a
|
ealth will be the most slgnlhcant We eres rS od D.
aifd?" wrestled WI with this problem OF the Cd dlt
+ the ence between the conception and the G
aade? dition ditto Lie is full of these appeals, fl i
,rovi- the doom that is on US to the love
ng usrem the &c God deyT we tSrist tfaf to
their God we worship: Inc Veiy w.,
!, har- once: MY COO! why 5a Hd'. a,,,. nun 1'oh
some saken Me?'' Yet never did our noo
an IS and bes1. our apostles, martyrs and
music fessors finch finally fro from die;ne the;n u
sic Of that God is light; tha1 Ire Is wv W. oe
such there Is. way, though We nLdy n.y. Jos~ o.
these and have gone singing Oh CiIeil 4, ~ Il, =,
am in tidence, by fire and cross my VIZ
down Of death: 1t is true, nay, II IS tIues toss
ouchtI all. that ",nen who suffered countess I
about about in IN battles attic for the true and just" have
sense the strongest conviction, like & old Lat, ham
m the that a way would open aaoi5,a in thoae mon
On the 1;aht I' on the thing brought a comman
must Assurance that there must someW
T, the sometime, be light on the way.