Orange County observer. [volume] (Hillsborough, N.C.) 1880-1918, 1906-03-29
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d5 NOT give no The other things,

but you make another claim, and that
you can only make throtgk Him who
alleWs 1t, and He allows it by Coming
here to be reached and embraced. II
you will, and loved. He revealed Him
self as one of lis in order that through
Him we, by the Holy Ghost; might
reach the Father. for He comes out
from the invisible to be visible. He
can be touched and handled and seen
here. He was here with certain gen.
GRAFTON when this Was the case. We
must not envy them. for tye have
greater privilege than they. You re-
member Thomas. Jesus said to him
after he had been So obstinate, BE
cause thou hast seen Me.thou hast be-
iieved; blessed are they that fave not
seen and yet have believed" We may
believe if we will on the undoubted
teslimtfly Of the ages, that Jesus after
passed through the craven gate OF
death, and had consummated for man
the glory 6f the resurrection, and took
our nature Through into heaven and
blessed it on the throi:e of God. where
He ever remains as a magnet to draw
men in love, so that we may say Witt,
David. "The Lord is my shepherd.
therefore can I lack nothing"
Now, my friends. wish to say that
40 other element of wealth can enable
us to say, Therefore can lack noth-
ing" Try the experiment with which
we are most familiar as world power,
wealth in any form. have been with
some of the wealthiest men that the
last generation knew. | have seen
them in the hour of death and as they
died the bonds and stocks OF wealth
fell down ano passed hands. It could
not buy an entrance ticket to Paradise
nor to heaven. II you would be wise
.onsider the end and nothing between.
Forecast the frture, not as bounded
by the horizon Of earth, but by the
glories of Paradise and heaven. The
Lord is my shepherd; therefore can
lack nothing" becaus He was born
with us, nay, conceived with us, ana
He goes, through life's journey with us
as our friends do who survive us, but
they must part with us as we bid them
the last farewell; but He, Of whom
the Psalmist speaks, ''The Lord my
shepherd" He dies with me, is buried
| with NE; He goes to Paradise with
| my soul; He will be with me at the
| last great day, and if I have been
! loyal and true to Him, He will well
| come me to His everlasting blessing
He will be my advocate and plead hls
sacrifice to take away my sins.
Observe that the religion which
Jesus gives US embra ces the whole of
| life. There is no other religion that
does. You may divide them into reijg-
ions that appeal to pleasure, "the lusts
of the fesh," and the religions that ap-
| peal to the pride of intellect. Take
! the ancient Saduceeism. the medieval
Mohammedanism and the present-day
Mormonism. They are the flesh i'll
! religions. They cannot begin to tell
upon mankind until passion shall de.
| velop in manhood and wonlanhood.
| Take the intellectual systems OF Greece
and the PHILOSOPHERS of the present day
| that appeal to the intellect, and q
man is almost half way upon the
Journey of life before they touch him,
| Take Christianity; whero does it be-
| gin? With conception. with birth. in
fancy, childhood, youth, manhood, iu
health, in sickness, In death and the
resurrection and the life eternal III
| the presence Of the great White
| Throne. Christianity embraces the
religion Of life. Does it appeal sim
ply to the body? No. But 1t appeals
/ to the body, the intellect and the soul
| Remember the declaration Of St
john, "the disciple whom Jesus loved. >
Re says: '"rhe Word was made flesh
and dwelt among US, and we beheld
His glory, as Of the glory OF the only
begotten Of the Father, full OF grace
and truth" He embraced the whole
of man. The Word was made flesh
but with that was intellect and spirit
| and so He was a complete and perfec1
| man. This morning we were joined to
/ gether hand in hand in the prayers OF
| fered by your rector, but when We
come to the creed. how is it? The hus
! band drops the hand of the wife. the
father Of the child, the friend Of the
| friend, and each for himself, as II
the Day Of Judgment, stands on hi:
own feet and says, II believe" 1t il
personal act. ''The Lord is ny
shepherd; therefore can lack moth
| ing" There is one element Of wealth
On which we can rest, and which vii
enable us to say I've shall lack moth
| ing" Without our Saviour we shal
lack everything when we. come to die
! I care not who we are or whether WI
have been clad IN the purple of king
or the spiendor Of jewels, we shall b
stripped stark naked and go up naket
into the presence of God. We shal
lack nothing il we can. say from th'
depths of our soul, ''Tne Lord is m.
shepherd" Then when the end come
we shall be able to say: "Thy mere.
i and loving kindness-Thy mercy 70
forgiveness; Thy loving kindness TO
my needs-shall follow, me all the day
of my life, and I shall dwell in th
house Of the Lord forever" There i
no dwelling place here. / was once
rector in Brooklyn, but where are m.
parishioners now? Most Of them ar
gone. Within he last two month
two Of my classmates in Columbia ar
gone. And tlyre are but few OF taos
knew in the lecture room left. Their
is no dwelling place here. It is chea
we put upon ourselves when we tai
OF houses as dwelling places. The,
Iare not. God grant. my brothers, tha