Orange County observer. [volume] (Hillsborough, N.C.) 1880-1918, 1909-01-14
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he puts into practice
It Is a question, rather, OF the
mans will. Now, follow me: Mex
to the omnipotence Of God Is the
will of man; the sovereign will OF
man is the mightiest force in human
life; it is the absolutely Fundamental!
power in personality, the executive OF
the individual life. Every man Is q
small army of faculties, but the Will
is the commander, the pilot that runs
the ship, who can bring it safely
through the stress of weather and
wave to its destined harbor. The VIII
is the king on the throne Of the soul!
We are not led into right relations tic
| God in Il religious life through the
! feelings or the intellect; it is not
what a mar knows, Or what he feels,
but what lie wills to be and do, that
makes him a Christian and a man!
If YOU want something that is going
! to push you Immediately up to the
| higher levels of life and give YOU a
| kingly attitude before God and man,
! listen to this: You are what your
| will is, nos Your knowledge OF feel
| ings. At the Battle Of Waterloo,
both Napoleon aid Wellington knew
that the Old farmhouse at HouGou-
mont was the strategic point in the
| conflict; whoever held Hougoumont
would win Waterloo! So a a. wins
moral rule over the world Just as he
is in possession of his will and its
conscious exercise. To lose his will
is to lose the most divine element in
his. nature; to lose it is to be insane.
A friend Of mine il good circum-
stauces-good enough to take me
riding in his w caTriage-sot the
Wall Street fever; ne presently sold
out his business and went on the
:Street;" but the "Street' soon sold
him cut! That's Wall Streets way.
The nan was beside limNlf. When
I met him, he explained how 1t was.
He said: "The one difficulty is that
/ have no will; I have lost my will,
not my reason. not my love for my
family, Or my interest in life, but my
will" / urged him to hold on, to
attempt the exercise OF choice; but it
was OF 10 help to him, and to-day
he is in an insane asylum, where he
will probably remain for the rest of
his life. So every MAJ who has lost
his will is practically insane, too; just
as every man VINO has the power to
Will has the power to win in the bat
ties OF life and assert his manhood
under any circumstances.
The true Christian is the kinplv
mar everywhere in the world, in
Japan and America alike!
When You begin to talk about a
man. 1t is a question of his will. not
of his ignorance CIR his unbelief. IF
a man is not a Christian it is because
he is unwilling to. give up sin. I will
tell you-aithOugh you know il YOUR
self, God knows it and the devil knows
lt-your Sin, something in your life
you are unwilling to give IN. alone
Keeps you from God; it is something
that lies deep down in your heart
ana you don't want to drop it out.
Ii q man a the habit Of SHINING
may become SO used to it that he
SINS mechanically, and may cease to
1t as sin. IT religion is to be
ana practical, a man must say II
will Will give up my SIM"
The second thing I want to talk
about is. "Unwillingness to do Gods
VIII" When YOU know the will Of
goa 0 begin to see the hideousness
OF SID, and You will curse the hour
tnat vou turned your heart away
from God and good; you will wish
you had never seen the vision or His
love. Think OF the grand message of
God to man. of it's beauty, of it's ten
derness, and you'll wish you never,
had seen the vision of it at all unless
you turn from your sin. Here # is.
Whosoever will. may come" "If a
man will, he may take of The Water
OF Life" And the most pathetic
words Jesus ever uttered are these:
Ye will not come unto Me that We
have Life!" Oh, how black is
sin when it will draw forth such
from the Son Of God. When
left the wife and the home. and
went away to meet sin, you put your
out and crushed the beautiful
hover of the Fathers love! We
think OF such a case; she told us of If
herself. I had married them myself
She was a beautiful Christian girl.
but he had gone away to sin. and
mad come home again and damned
her whole physical life. I do NOT
think there is a hot enough corner
in hell for that man who Is willing
wreck the soul of wife and child
and faint their blood with the conse-
Quences of his sin!
~ hO opSdh " Won Of
the highest and hottest experience in
my life. One Sunday afternoon some
months ago I was in Jerusalem. with
to Go as I pleased for ten DAYS
more. So I went through the
Gate that day, and Climbed
to h crown OF Calvary, that green
hill outside the wall of the civ
There read the whole story of re-
oeeming love, prayed over it, wept
over 1t; then I went to the foot of
the Mount OF Olives and into the
Garden Of G~ethsemane, where, to nv
delight, I found myself alone. From
Lhence l passed down the Damascus
along which they brought INV
Lord, and through the gate once mere
1nso the city, and over the Via Dolor-
osa to Pilates Judgment Hail. In
imagination, l saw the soldiers bring
Kim before His judge, followed by
the priests and city rabble: and 7
heard their voices demanding His
c~rucihxion, though Plate said. 1T
n no fault in Him at all!" heard
them c1amor for the release of Rar-
abbas, and saw Plate surrender Him.
the King of Glory, to their cruel will
they freed; but Jesus thew
crucihed On Calvary! This is the