Orange County observer. [volume] (Hillsborough, N.C.) 1880-1918, 1908-03-26
THE PULPIT.
oo,,ENT SUNDAY SERMON BY
" rus REV. B. J. NEWMAN.
subiect: Our Four Anchors.

Subject: Our -Four Anchors
prook,vn. N. Yin Unity Church,
,..;ng 1ro Mace and Gates avenue, Sum
dow % morning, the Rev. b. J.: newman
10. uuss.orhed. The text was: And fear
In9 y,u"t lost we should have fallen upon
.ss .ss rocks they cast four anchors out
v. ss0 tho stern and wished for the day"
| He said: 1a,,,,. .+,
:, .ho shinwreck. Paul was going to
=. n,u,o MO to be tried for his life, but on
.v .so cea storm ragged for two weeks.
w wv tho m darkness of the dead of night.
M MT knowing where they were, the
sailors on watch heard the sound OF
water vr breaking on the rocks and they
t"ot .@ls soundings. And again they
tOot t0o their soundings and finding that
tSo s water was shallower, they threw
ort four anchors land wished for
the dav." We do not have to be sail
ors to know the value of these an
chors to the storm assailed men on
that shin. They held them to their
anchorage until light came and they
could see their way.
Nv purpose this morning is to con-
slider briefly the anchors of righteous
ness that we need in our daily living.
The simplest analysis Of our present
dav life. of one weeks experience,
would show that there are a dozen
Influences outside ourselves and two
dozen temptations within us that are
storming our righteousness. We are
surrounded on all sides by difflculties.
Our honor, our justice, our sympa-
thies our religion, all are assailed,
and we have got to protect ourselves
and our fellow men. Take the first
GAY of the working week and look at
the experiences we meet with in that
day. We 20 to business. and funda-
mentally the principle to-day upon
which business seemed to be based
is that Of dishonor- 1t is not honor
all men 1t is not trust all men,
but it is distrust your fellow man;
'put him under bonds" Only the
other day in the Sunday school said
to the young men and women there:
BE honest; tell the TRUTH" and one
member came to me and said: @'Hov
can We be honest? We have to lie
There is tendency in the life of mel
today to get ahead, no matter what
happens to the other man. Or or
Tuesday we read in the paper thai
some bankers to whom the funds O.
the people had been entrusted, ant
On which the stability of bushes!
men depends, and to whom the mon
ey OF widows and children has beer
entrusted. have been dishonest ant
speculated in the stock market to in
crease their own incomes, and hav'
tailed. Our confidence is assai1ed
anu we say: Whom can we trust?'
IN Wednesday, perhaps, we go to -,
magistrates court and we watch tn
man Who is elected to dispense jus
uce IN your name. and we see case af
sr case where the politicians inf1u
s slce Is at work Or where the petit
vIloe IS at work, and men and boy
.ld' nave broken our law, and VIII,
Mould be put in our prisons unit
mes learn what it is to live anon;
.eir fellow men in Righteousness
ase olscharged and so free. Ou
a.lse OF justice is shocked. Or pei
laps 1t IS some man in higher ran
VI lie who takes the life of another
Nno comes into our courts. and unde
oas, ole pea OF insanity he is declared nc
m nunts OF his crime; while some poo
ron WI, with the feelings of poverty an
ooal ~an'' steals q loaf OF bread from tn
Ornel fOr 4, grocery, and he is sent to ia
too fl, tnree months. Our sense of jus
~, Tss IS nightly shocked. Perhaps O
hnulSuay hor, at 6 o'clock we are comm
a'e ena ana We are at the New Yor
saa 500 ol tne Brooklyn Bridge, and W
NJ T mad rush to get into the car;
n.1 sTIe IS no sympathy shown. Fac
ub nnsho lfies to get himself in an
and ues women and children asid,
thor we say: What are men ths
tt nsf5: VIII Go this?" And SO our syn
inp isfs sboth Wlth our fellow men are bt
t5e snoc6ed. And SO it is throug
con,os esI OF the week. And Sunda
vhon sunday, the Gay set asid
and n Nv. we try to commune with Go
to 10 be iearn little hit Of what it NEAR
SNnGo,. S-N~oOo, 10 90 GOQS VIII
and ~ - comes, and q. few of us, he1
are te'e' tha attend services: but tne1
poolroo5 ns SO called sacred concert
open '0ms m and saloons, all throw
not lhon Men say liberty" but this
tlensa,zy' nng,sIIy' but license to degra6
our rsSives. ra1i:. And we permit il. an
ture 'snslon sns is assailed, and our Gu
ture ~ @io the Development of our Gu
Tos W worship God is assailed.
side eIomrp1ations orot and conditions GU
within o.es selVes and temptations arisir
We hao~a ause US to face danger dali
that tHl sllnn oL the cruelty Of the factor
len to o'loWs the little boy and girl ,
they ge+ aolK X twelve hours a day unit
We hee. &C. tne great white plague
Yard Aear ae OF the evils of the stoc;
on. W. W. the great railroads, and ,
Ten thu tht near of these things so O
to them hem we H are growing hardene
its bowl n Familiarity with evil dul
Fe"Sf TO affpc+ ,,r ,l 50,