Orange County observer. [volume] (Hillsborough, N.C.) 1880-1918, 1906-01-18


child as to spare the rod and spoil
False philanthropists feed the lazy
and pauperiZe those who ought not to
eat because they do not work. We
must sympathize Alright
The woman who cares for the or
phan; the nurse who ceases not her
vigils in the epidemic; the neighbor
whe grants loan to deserving man
in hard place; the friend with his
fifty spoken word to tighten the
weighted heart and gladden. the record
ing angel-these are all illustrations of
sympathizing Alright. The highest form
is the poor sympathizing with the rich
in their loneliness, and the rich with
the poor in their needs. When the
highest and lowest feel as one, SYM
pathy has it's perfect work. The heart
thus sympathetic will go down in pity,
out in love to enemies and up in love
to God, and throughout envieth not.
Thus this most blessed faculty Of the
heart is pure. We preach Love one
another with a pure heart, fervently."
Love, the most prominent thread warp,
is more than mere morality" Knowl-
edge of the good does not overcome
the inertia to its doing. The impera
tives Of duty must be divinely spoken
and warmed It's not the act, but the
motive that gives quality. The love
of God to us in Christ Jesus drawing
us into fellowship with the Infinite
heart imparts the highest quality to our
deeds.
Hate is another thread in the warp.
We have earned advanced university
degrees in this accomplishment. In
stance civil wars and religious inquisi-
tions. There is an Orientalism in
Thugism, whose votaries worship the
sword as the Greek his Icon. Killing
is worship wherein they do the will
of their goddess. Asceticism could
have a patent Office all it's own for in
struments Of fagellation devised to
scourge monks into hatred of this
beautiful world. Count the number Of
those you hate. We naturally love
friends and hate enemies. From
Christ we learn to hate Alright.
The Pharisee's law was: "Be holy,
as the Lord your God is holy" Jesus
sat at meat in a Pharisee's house.
There were good Pharisees. There
were others whom the Master branded
as generation Of vipers, straining at
a gnat and swallowing camel; with
out whited sepulchres, and full Of
ucdu Meu OOueS N1lu1u. NOt Tic
Pharisees, but their sins, Jesus hated.
The cross shows Gods immeasurable
hatred of sin. Paul delivered the most
drastic phiiippicS against sin, the de-
snoyer of soul. To describe sin as
the glory of the imperfect is worse
than criminal. We ought to hate sin
with all passion.
Work is a prominent thread in the
! warp. Love, hate, fear are emotional.
John Wesley, in his experience Of
saving faith, says the heart was
strangely warmed. The Sermon on the,
Mount is a message to the heart. The
feelings have reared the great faiths.
'Out Of the abundance Of the heart
the mouth speaketh." Tonurse our feel
ings for themselves is irreligious.
| They must issue in acts. Hunger leads
us to eat, not for the Utilization OF the
palate, but to restore lost tissue and
! complete the body. The blessing Of
hungering and thirsting after right
eousness is in leading to the activity
| that fills us with the fullness Of God.
Feelings evidencing in action is what
| we need.
True character is within. But ''no
| man liveth to himself "Let your
| light shine is the command to OBJ
jectify that character. To be seen, it
must be in good works, and those best
/ seen are to mems bodily needs. Elee-
| mosynary provisions must always
| characterize Christians.