Orange County observer. [volume] (Hillsborough, N.C.) 1880-1918, 1906-02-15

uarieu out OF Tie clouds, Hasn follow
ing fash jn the terrible spiendor of
Oriental tempasts till the atmosphere
seemed charged with continuous flame,
and Mount Sinai and the cave and the
armament itself seemed ablaZe. Again
he strained his vision to discern in the
binding glare One yet more glorious.
But the Lord was not in the fire." -
AS has been finely said Elijah had
conceived God simply as power. His
own achievements had been wrought
by power He is now made TO recog-
niZe the futiiity Of mere force. This is
a npodful discovery fo" ,rs Es' "i-
ally for the worlds great ones. The
man who in finance Or industry has
won the greatest success is speedily
convinced of the impotency Of that
i which men ordinarily consider victory.
Whatever teaches us this is good. Fail
ure. disappointment, sickness, each is
blessing in disguise if it lifts us out OF
| ourselves and makes us feel that with
all the world can give there is some
thing else needed.
! He showed Elijah the infnitude, the
inexhaustible power and goodness and
glory Of the divine. The cyclone was
stilled, the earthquake spent, the light
y
not. "Then on perturbed and torment
ed nature silence rested as when the
ashed galley slave is permitted to rest.
as when the Atlantic roaring for days
falls into q calm" The cave in it's
deepest grotto. was penetrated with
the spirit Of stiffness. No breath
stirred. The seer felt an awe, not less,
but greater than before, when there
came Il voice, mysterious, thrilling his
heart and asking the old question. The
i Did answer was given, we must believe,
with new meaning, for the great les
/ son of time and eternity had been
taught.
In the cave of Horeb the fundament-
t al truth Of the Christian religion is re-
vealed truth every mission, however
: humble; every church. however
adorned: every cathedral. however
magnificent. must illustrate. Not the
earthquake. cyclone, hurly-burly, but
+ The still small voice. Here is the Sc
I cres Of God. Not the startling, but the
pleading; not the violent. but the ten
der; not force, but pity; not Sinatic
6 fury, but gospel grace; mot by might
nor by power. but by My spirit, saith
. the Lord" God is love. Not an un-
; seen God, but a saving Christ. "He
came to Horeb a voice. he left it an i'll
, itjated man." says -i,.urice.
But Irom the living of the Christian
: turn to- his dying. The close of every
: good life has dignity like unto ''char
= lots Of fire and horses of fire." But the
: likeness ms on immeasurably beyond
5 death. ST. James tells that Elijah wal
! ! man Of like lassions with US. Their
: our infrmities, thank God, allow us {
) life that does not end with earth. Th'
+, thought of All Saints is Of the steadily
, accommodating honors and joys Of re
deemed souls We see Elijah go. Bu
p it is not the last Of him. Malachi sait
+ he would come back on eartl. Cen
: turies later the world asked John tn
e Baptist if he we're Elijah. Some be
0 lieved Jesus must be. the day @
q Transit .su- -;tior, Elijah for iaomen
! was with us, at once on earth and il
r glory.
= We can trust those dear DEPARTS
II ones. VIII 6, memorials cluster aroun
e us, with the Lord God Of Llijah. =: