Orange County observer. [volume] (Hillsborough, N.C.) 1880-1918, 1906-08-30
WHY DARE DELAY?
OUR REGULAR SUNDAY SERMON
An Eloquent Discourse Delivered to
a Thoughtful Congregation-Timely
Discussion Of Vital Topics.

Washington, d. C.-The Rev. Ed
ward Lawrence Hunt, on Sunday
preached the following brilliant
sermon from the text: Il came that
they might have life, and that they
might have it abundantly. =
John 1910:
Jesus object was to give men life.
His church breaches this through her
chief sacrament: my flesh / give Tor
the life of the world"
ooh, the wild joys of living! ***
The hunt Of the bear"-are these
the Presidents holiday words or
Browning's? Even that life is the
gift of God through Jesus Christ,
without whom was not anything
made that was made"
Physical life is good. There is
something better. The high man
who would not discount life, as fools
do who would mot live thus, but
know" is still loftier than the world
suspects" There is something higher
still. ITO know" is not eternal life,
but to know God-and the gift of
God is eternal life. through Jesus
Christ. This is life eternal, that
they might know Thee, the only true
God, and Jesus Christ whom Thou
hast sent"
To give MAJ that life, Jesus must
come. II came that they might have
life" Why could not the living
Creator give that life by His mere
word?
First, because death had passed
| upon all men, for all sinned. The
God Of Law, who breathed into mans
| nostrils the breath of life, when man
became a living soul, ordained the
law, 1.-THE soul that sinneth, it shall
die; Or, to put the same truth in
other words: The God of Love
warned nan that "the wages Of sin
is death" Man scorned loves
| warning and sinned. Then felt with
in him that sin is a fatal disease.
So came Jesus to put away sin by His
death, that as sin reigned unto death,
even so might grace reign through
righteousness, unto eternal life
through Jesus Christ.
"Grace" means He died for our
alive unto God, might live. He came,
then, to free us from that death
which means separation from the liv-
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n only way, by death, so that here
on earth we might live with God.
And, further, He came to free us
from the fear Of that death which is
the blowing out of the candle. By
rising from the dead, and so bring
ing life and Immortality to light by
His Gospel, He inspires the hope of
immortality. Hence we do not
Stretch lame hands of faith and grope,
And family trust the larger hope,
but we lay strong hold on the hope
set before us, as al anchor of the
soul, sure and steadfast, entering in
to that within the veil.
This eternal life must be laid hold
Of by man, Il came that they might
not must. Man gets it by faith: HE
that liveth and believeth on Me shall
never die" 1t is whatsoever be-
lieveth" that need not perish, but
have eternal life"
Remember eternal life is not mere
duration. Jesus is the quality. How
not how long, we live; and because
OF quality, endurance: mo one is
able to snatch them out of NJ
Fathers hand" To know God, tt
share His life, to walk in love will
Him until God is tired Of you, mean:
to live with Him forever.
Second, He came because maj
must have a teacher and an eXampl,
OF the best life. "If when we wer,
enemies We were reconciled to Go,
by the death of His Son, much more
being reconciled, we shall be save
by His life"
Jesus life is the hope Of the race
One man has lived in the fulles
healthy exercise Of all his powers
no mar need despair. The ideal ha
been realized. He has also give
us the secret of success. 1t is willin
surrender to God. It is to lear
Gods purposes and with lovin
sympathy work them out with Hin
This involves first and always tn
destruction OF selfshness. 1t mean
we must follow Christ. And eff an
man will come after Me, let him den
himself and take up his cross. Fo
he that will gain his life shall lose il
but he that will lose his life for M
sake shall find it."
Except a corn Of wheat shall ia
into the ground and die, it abidet
by itself alone. But if it die it sha
live abundantly. What a pitiab
t time the mean, selfish man must ha,
= to abide alone here on earth wit
the grasping fellow even he himse
, despises. And if at last, in disgu
: at himself, he should follow the e
: ample Of a Judas Whose associate
with Jesus gave him at least enou,
conception of a true manhood to
: enough disguised with himself to k
himself)-then? Then he must Ike
on abiding by himself Alone" fc
> ever with a murderer, alone.
Judas-Jesus! Grasping-givin
e Which will you follow?
# If you would live you must fiji
wish for it. One object of Jes,
d life was to awaken your desire /
.. the fullest life. Contrast, then, yo
life with His, with the life of t
best character you know, with t
man you hoped in your youths be,
dreams you might some day be.
ne Note the appalling railroad WIRE
to of the past week. Read it's allego
ae See two pictures-the freight
r. loaded with blessing; two cars W
dynamite with power for good;
:. passenger train with it's freight
IL souls. What thrill of the music
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