Orange County observer. [volume] (Hillsborough, N.C.) 1880-1918, 1905-04-06

cesity Of it as civilizing, refining and
improving conservating element in hu-
man society. Now, religion could not
live and do its needed work among men
without an organization to keep it
alive and carry on the activities. You
will understand and grant the impor-
tance of honesty and honor in our
business and industrial life. Dishon-
esty, If the general rule, would mean
the wreck of our whole financial sys.
tenn, the failure of banks, the breach
of trusts, the refusal of credit, defal-
cation and distress. You understand
and will grant the desirableness of
high character, of personal and social
purity, the great benefit of goodness
on the heart of citizens of any country
or community. We know what it
means to have desperadoes, cutthroats,
adulterers @nd thieves the controlling
element in town or city. You UNDER
stand and grant that it is vital to a
people Of state to be able to get JUS
tice in the courts, to be protected in
their property rights, and vital to the
existence of a state that there should
be patriotism, industry and fidelity on
the part of those who constitute it's
citizenship. All these things, all these
fundamental virtues we need and
must have in order to live together in
peace and prosperity, the church Of
God is designed and persistently en-,
deavors to produce. The church is the
factory If I may put it that way,
whose output is virtue, honesty, purity,
kindness. fidelity principle impressed
and built into the characters of her
members, producing these things as
well and as abundantly as our COM
mercial factories and mills produce
steel billets, cotton cloth or tin plate
In order that these moral necessities
may exist and continue to be present
and to affect our social, Industrial,
| political and family life there must be
an organization to create and train and
bring them out. There can be no sue
| cess without organization. Every sue
cess is organized before it is won.
The success Of the Japanese at the
Ya1u River and Port Arthur was per.
| fected in equipment, training, supplies
before it was accomplished on the field
of battle. Our civilization, culture,
morality, high sense of honor, public
spirit, refinement of taste represent
and are the Towering and fruitage Of
seeds sown broadcast in the churches
is Christ's organization. Now no Or
ganiZatiOn can live OF do it's work with
out members. If you are in favor Of
and want to see multiplied these vital
virtues and principles for which the
church stands are you not duty bound
to enter her fold, enlist in her ranks
and lend your aid in carrying out her
mission?
The church's value to civilization
can be shown by a reference to his
tory. Her triumphant march down
the ages is the wonder of all history.
Feeble as an infant in the land of her
birth, she grew and thrived in spite
of opposition and bitter persecution,
driven into hiding i'll the catacombs
and caves under the earth she emerged
at length with doubled strength to
take her place with kings on their
thrones until to-day she is the might
lest single power on the face of the
earth, mightiest because a moral and
spiritual power. Though mighty as an
army she is harmless as dove seek.
ing only to help, to improve, to save
For 1900 years she has been Unidentified
with and given impetus il not birtf
to the greatest movements and mos
notable reforms for the welfare of the
. human race.
And next let me ask for what is thu
family under obligation to the church
She throws the arms of her protection
about the divine institution of mar
!. riage, making it, and to the extent O.
!. her ability, keeping it pure, honorable
$ indissoluable. She frees and uplift!
e woman from the bondage and degre
S dation which are accepted as the Law
Of her being in heather and Orienta
l lands. and teaches that as wife ant
mother she is deserving of the best ad
). vantages, of especial consideration, o
e highest reverence and purest affection
t She breaches the divineness of child
d hood, that the wisest and creates
l. must become as a little child in orde
l. to enter into the kingdom of heaven
= that the care, the education, the mora
t training Of the rising generation i
e that first duty of the parent, the chic
: concern of the state, the vital self
it preservation of society. She give
l. herself earnestly and unreservedly t
o this cause, declaring that 'honor th
r father and thy mother" is divin
l. commandment, that children ODE
a, your parents is sanctioned by the PR
Is cept and example of the Perfect Ma
v Of the ages She communicates spi
y it and sends forth a cheer that blesst
n the home and pervades the domestl
ot sphere and harmonizes the hearts {
e. hose who form the household.