Orange County observer. [volume] (Hillsborough, N.C.) 1880-1918, 1906-10-18
THE BEAUTIFUL WAY
OUR REGULAR SUNDAY SERMON
The Glory Of the Lord VIII Come
to Him Who Walks Constantly IN
His Holy Way.

Brooklyn, N. Y.-Union services Of
the First Reformed, the Grace M. 3.
Church, the Memorial Presbyterian
and the Sixth Avenue Baptist were
held in the last-named church. Sun
day morning the preacher was Bishop
John J. Tigert, of the Methodist Epis-
copal Church, South, who was elected
to the bishopric in May last, at which
time he was the editor of the South
ern Christian Advocate. The bishop
is a vigorous and lively preacher OF
the old-time Methodist order. His
subject was "The God of Grace" and
| he took for his text the passage, II
| Corinthians, iv:6: "For God, who
commanded the light to shine out OF
| darkness, hath shined in our hearts
| to give the light of the knowledge or
! the glory of God in the face OF Jesus
Christ" He said:
The great lesson that lies on the
| surface of this text Is that the COO
of creation is also the God OF grace
and salvation. If you and should
think about it superficially we should
be inclined to believe that the God
who built the universe is greater
God than the One who saved the soul,
| but therein would lie a radical mis-
take. Many a man of great wealth
and resources has found it easier to
build a palace than to frame the life
of a son, and many man so situated
would give all he ever earned In Or
der that he might have boy after
his own liking. The Car found 1t
easier to accumulate resources, In
J cluding men and material, for the
war against Japan than he is finding
| it to pacify the people Of Russia to.
! day. The more we think about II
} the more we shall be compelled tt
: believe that every problem involving
. the government of moral matters II
. more difficult than the fashioning o
material things. For the element
freedom enters into the former pro
posal; and wherever we are deann'
with those who are free we canno
+ count on the result as we can whel
It dealing with forces that are fixed
A The free and the fixed-these ar
: two realms. but the God of the f1xe
- 10 also the God of the free; and Tn
- God of creation is also the God
Il revelation and grace and the salvs
le +ion Of the human soul: For Got
$. who commanded the light to shin
H. ont of darkness, hath shlned IN OF
?" hearts to give the light OF knowlede
20 If the glory of God in the race
1osns Christ" Now there is certa1l
" in this phrase as express rem1nl
cence of the first chapter OF Genesl
ae Good said, Let there be light: al
It. +here was light It is very easy I
to no to imagine the annihilation OF Il
or world. can conceive the sun
to he hlotted out; the moon and t
"a stars no longer to shine; the touno
tions of the earth removed. But
tor shall have imagined this l Sn;
find that there is void, eternal
finite. that by no effort OF tnous
ter can I annihilate. 1t may be notni,
nd, and vet I cannot conceive II as IL
,se were nothing. If l think II,
no more closely about it am opi1geo
conceive this void as absolutely ual
That is to say, light is posl1,ve
tity: darkness is nothing: me
ce. moval of the source OF nght Drli
her darkness, and since IN TINS oarAn
there is no source OF hsnI =. ~ ~ ~
md altogether dark. Now, just as I'd
- ness II the absence of light, SO G.
ia the complete absence ol ~
Evorvthing. even ice, possesses
ant, little heat: we cannot imagine W
OF ;nfnite cold is. Yet this VOID. e.
way roI infinite. is at once complet
cold. Again, silence is the aDse
ont of so,7n1, Silence does not reqt
80 anv absolute cause; in order to
~ 80 = ate silence in this house | nave =
~ to cease talking. Once more:
let void W cold. silent, dark, is also az
ev- Did you ever think about it? De ,e
etic Is nothing. You will never :. -
be- death. for while you are death IS
to and while death is you are not.
YOU SO you and death can never eoa come ef
to face. What terror you Lei aein +
gave is born of false 1maglna'
aoW- The horrors that creep over US
aans+;t'+e NC @ nhysical fear Of death
more the imposition of imaginatlon !.
sud- causa c we conceive of ourselves
hy?' being sensitive; as leeitng ansrwh sub 81
y ol uaMp ~. o9.u 9nr,.noss But death is
r be ~ 10 I;fo Fix these four
zane absence .. nnn mn your mind for