Orange County observer. [volume] (Hillsborough, N.C.) 1880-1918, 1906-07-26

lSm is SOOQ, out IL does not stand the
strain. A patience that fails at the
hardest point, is weak all through.
Nothing short of the Christ type Of
patience will suffice.
But not only self-control in pain.
also in pleasure, another name for
which is temperance. Young ladies'
need to be temperate as well as young
men. am not referring to the liquor
question, although never more need
than to-day for temperance there, but
to the whole problem OF living. To
be temperate in thought, in speech,
in desire, in act instead of extrava-
CANT. It is so eaxy to let pleasure
run away with us and cause us to
think life has no value beside. Dissi.
patton is only extravaganza in pleas
ure. The curb has been thrown off
our necks. Pleasure was given too
much license. We entertained it too
freely, endowed it with our own per-
sonality, and before we were aware OF
it, it took us up in it's arms and ran
away with us. We handed the con-
troll of the situation over to it. We
became dissipated. We are lost. Self
control in pleasure as well as in pain
is the demand. Temperance as well
as patience.
But a second requirement is self.
command. This may be regarded as
intensified self-control. Self-control
is passive. Self command is active.
The other is to force yourself on.
Patience and temperance are good, in
dispensable to beauty of character.
Forbearance and forgiveness are hard
er still. We speak from experience
in saying so. Controlling your speech,
Withholding the adverse criticism
when just dying to speak, to give
your adverse opinion. We often think
we are not saying anything worth
while unless we criticise. Forbear-
ance Of the senseless gossip, and the
retailing of slander. Forbearance Of
the disagreeable person.
Then forgiveness Of that which It
is natural for you to resent. We like
to hold spite. They injured me. I
must get even with them. And we
never thought that the getting even
with one who has injured us means
to get uneven with ourselves and un-
even with COD. 81 will never forgive" :"
spells human nature. But it also
spells basest sin. Not until we can
stand with Jesus and say, Father,
forgive them," have we any beauty of
character worthy the name To hate
is human; to forgive is divine. To
remember that is to help yourself
over many hard place Of temper and
hatred. It is an axiom that no beauty
of character can be where no spirit
of forgiveness abides in the heart.
Hatred, anger, tying Yourself ND intc
knot. kills beauty. Forgiveness ex-
pands the heart, opens the mind. ex.
ats the spirit. Then beauty exists.
Would you be able to command self?
| Get rid of sin. Bring in a stronger
will Gods, to reinforce your own.
A third necessity in the retaining
| of beauty is self-forgetf.1Ines This IS
a passive quality, as is self-control.
1t is also negative. But it is neither
massive nor negative until certain &C.
tive graces and positive virtues enter
| in and make it so. I mean by self
forgetfulness the becoming oblivious
| to those desires and demands OF vour
| nature, the remep1br OF which
| make you self-contained and ill at
| ease. even miserable and sinful. To
/ become so. possess faith, belief in
! some nersonalitv greater than your
| self. Belief in any objective fact or
person more important than yourself
/; and they all are. for you are very
insignificant factor in the life prob
lem. a mere atom in the midst OF the
sensualities, will produce self-forget
fn1ness. The greater the object OF faitf
the greater the oblivion OF self, fol
il gives self chance to expant
along the line Of the other persons
/ excellence, and gradually a newer
larger self takes the place OF the ole
in your consciousness. It is fore
gone conclusion that faith in God
thrn,reh :resus Christ, enIarses and
| ~eerrla+es the life - can ~ other per
eon. for vou are Immediately eiver
the vorthiest nocsihle object on whic!
| to - vorr attention.
Ten trust Do not be AFRAID =:
trust somebody. Test. then trns.
More loss cones to lis nlortais throue'
rnder trust Cha, through over trus:
It IS hard to believe it. Just as hare
| to believe as to believe that sins Q