Orange County observer. [volume] (Hillsborough, N.C.) 1880-1918, 1906-08-23

and for Joy in the heart of our King.
The Christ was true to God and to
man and to self. The happiness Of
His Fathers universe was His hope
and care. To His home, to His
neighbOrs, to His country, to all
trusts, the Saviour was faithful. He
had an eye singly toward holy and
hallowing service. Preaching a COS
pei of life, He lived a life of love-
And so, 70 be like Christ we lust
live like Christ. His hopes must be
our hopes; His pleasures must be
our pleasures. The motive in His
life must be the force which, in our
lives, will make for goodness and
goa!iness. And godliness is but
goodness raised to inf1nity.
AS the Christ was, so must the
Christian be, truly spiritual. His
guide and his guard must be the
Comforter who cometh from above.
Divinity, deep down in his heart, will
| be the power and the handspring in
his life.
Christianity is pure politics, clean
business methods, sturdy honesty
and noble purpose, all rolled into
one. A clear conscience means
brave ballot; and, conversely, dirty
ballot means a smeared soul. Up
right business methods earn their
own reward; perhaps not in unde
served dividends and wrongly divid-
| ed or diverted profits, but in happi-
/. ness of heart Honesty is but step
toward holiness. Nobility and sim
| cerity are mighty forces. And these
| facts the civic and the business
worlds are recognizing more and
| more. Dishonesty is bad asset;
| and the Christian man, who stands
four square to the world upon the
| rock Christ Jesus. is to have the call.
TIme-serving politicians may scoI;
those who define character in the
terms of preferred stock, and who
i prefer gold to goodness, may con-
tinue to misjudge what is highest in
life; sin may seem still to have the
stranglehold upon the world; Chris
tians may stumble, yea fall, upon the
Kings highway, be derelict to duty
and to faith, may initiate poor, fore
| warned Peter and deny the Christ,
but :1e eternal principles Cf individ-
ual and oe social righteousness are
b md to win.
But while many of us are, through
the grace Of God, enabled to approx.
mate righteousness in our wider So
cial relations, there are but few OF
us who are Christlike in the home
life. I have sinned must be our
plea; for pardon must be our prayer
A renewed life must be our resolu-
ton, that Christ may be our portion.
The gross sins OF the bellevlns
| Christian are, largely, not those OF
immense or awful delinquency. MOS
of us managed to keep out of prison
! ~ cfo nd
} unon charges of overt crime. Mos1
mus. by the mercy Of God, are guilt
less of the sins which shock the
senses. The defiling sins OF the
Christian in his home life are W1a1
} we are likely to term the weaknesses
of life. For you and for me, pett.
faults are oftentimes the Creates
sins. With us the proneness to sa!
the unkind word; think the unWor
! thv thought; to do the hard act o.
IN sneak the stern sentiment; TO give
, the rein to anger or to let pass1o1
rule. these are the most detrimental
| and defiling sins. Many 'motne1
who would give up life itself for tnf
, child Tho nestled at her breast
MANY a father who lot only wouio
hut does. work long and weary r ur'
: for the loved ones of his home ane
hearth: many such man anu nan.
such a woman finds the love OF tnos
> most dear to them IS lost and lost Z
them perhaps forever. because OF un
2 Christian uncharitableness IN tn
home. oa. ,, COZ, cav
r But do you live the life? Are yo, r.
l thoughtless of the rights OF oen1,s tha,
: Are YOU self-centred rather tna'
mor1d loving? Are you needless 0
3 tba % needs of men? These are mlno
3 things thn % in life; these are the trihes j e.
}. Pat iI 10 the soul that is growing u
: toward tow God, and out toward meI !
Y and that is spreading roots throug
e the eternities, they spell eltner ial,
b ure or success. AS mas @ Deen 'a,s CIV
: success is made up Oh 'rineo a.
9 success is no trifie.
e Selfishness, hastiness, 1nconsioei
j ateness, all these are the sins "nlc