Orange County observer. [volume] (Hillsborough, N.C.) 1880-1918, 1905-06-22

erything they had that was in sight.
You had better not talk about that
Gods plan is to keep the races Of this
world marching and moving. Yet,
somehow, some cannot get it through
their thick heads, their gold-plated
heads, their noodles, hard with cruel
ambitions and paltry pride, that when
the Scripture. says, "He made Of one
blood all nations" it means what it
says. If you won't learn it by peace
you will learn it by war; if you won't
learn it in Bibles, you will learn it by
bullets; if you won't learn it in packed
Europe and Asia and so there, God will
bring those people here. Let them
come. I laugh at all this talk about
checking immigration. King Canute
might just as we'll have tried to throw
back the waves with his mandate. In
certain sense it is proper to say that
God is mighty utilitarian. 1t is a
great time for service; we need to wake
up, it was nearly daylight, it is dawn,
great things are coming. Therefore, I
think that our churches, colleges,
schools and homes ought to engage in
the manufacture of locomotives.
That wonderful, intricate engine
who made it? Did baby locomotive
grow up into that great machine? You
say it is evolution. Evolution de-
scribes the way a thing is made, but
never made anything. The process of
If I believe God made this world by
process, say yes. That is the way He
makes everything. When He makes
anything that can grow He gives it
a chance to grow. His plans are made
and I don't care where He began!
care more for where He ends. You
say it took long while. Yes, the
larger the pattern, the larger the plan.
Our steam engine is fine instance OF
evolution. 1t is mans creation and it
represents his Creators idea and in
tentiOn. It is a wonderful epitOme of
mind working for an intended end; of
a purpose perfected by thought. And
your bodies? They just happened7
The steam engine had to be made ana
you are an accident? A master me-
chanic and designer, he is a mere
chance? Do not think it. Where is
our reason? God is back of this adap-
tation, this mighty thing that we call
life. Our purposes are the service.
That is first
And, second, your perfect steam en-
gine is made with a purpose. The
railroad company owns it. They enc
ploy an engineer to run it. Now in a
sense it is his; it is his to use and con-
troll, but it is not his to sell. 1t is his
to take care Of and to get as much as
he can out of, but in no other way. But
if he takes a notion that he can run
the whole road and ignore schedules
and orders then very soon from him
will be taken even that which he
seemed to have. Now, we do not own
our bodies-these engines. We are the
engineers, but not the owners. Ny
body is mine only in a relative sense.
am to give account for it. You say,
| "May not a man do what he will with
his own?" Certainly, if you own any
thing. What is the engine for? To
| look at? No, for use. Is it made to
| be destroyed? If so it might just as
| we'll be made of wood and paint or
chrome engine. Some men are such
do not act like it. You have seen a
model engine under a glass case; that
you wind up. The wheels go, but the
| easily because they don't touch the
track. I have seen some men and I
| suppose there are some women, who
are wound up with keys. The wheels
buzz, but there is nothing done. There
are people who sit in theatre, and the
tears run down their cheeks, and they
think they are good because they can
cry. They pay $1.50 for the privilege
| of weeping. We all know how we
smooth ourselves when a tear comes.
We feel penitent and say, eve are
not so bad as we thought" It is toy
| engine, the wheels go, but it does not
| advance. A perfect engine is meant
to do something in the world, and Sc
are we If coupled to the task that God
gives us. Some people don't want to
pull, they want to be pulled. You
always see dead engine in the middle
| of a train. Which end of the train
do you like, the front or somewhere
in the middle? God give us the front,
with all it's dangers and perils and
joys.
Perfect engines get hold of the track.
Orders come with lightning rapidity
to the engineer, and they must be
obeyed without question. The respon-
sibility for the orders is not with him
his responsibility is to execute them
God can run this world, but He has
put it into your hands to run your
self. When you stop at the end of the
road you can be perfectly certain thai
if the passengers are too busy to take