The Dillon herald. [volume] (Dillon, S.C.) 1894-????, 1910-07-14

If hope is all this. then we do we'll
to cultivate 1t, TO cherish it. at all
hazards. Better part with anything
than it. Better give up your friends
than Your hopes. Better part with
your money. The only man without
God in the world is the man without
hope. We need to cherish it. for
ourselves and for Others, The most
selfish life in the world is the hone
less life. "Noblesse oblige." II is
our duty to help and not to hinder:
to lift up and not cast down: to he
sign posts along the way. rather than
stumbling blocks in the way. There
Is no influence more bliGhtinS in all
the world than that OF man who
sedulously cultivates the philosophy
OF despair. He is nothing hut a nuis-
ance. and an inferpal one at that. he
cause his philosophy Is hell-horn. lie
becomes hinGerer rather than
helper. He is deliberately withhold
ing from others. in their cares and
burdens and sorrows. that cheer and
courage which God has meant him to
lmpart. II that alone were true. II
would be bad enough. but other
things are true. He is not only with
holding: he is injecting. he is poison
ing. He is offending one of Gods
nttle ones. He pretendS 10 be vour
TREND. but he is drilling holes below
the water line. He is pulling out the
bricks from the wall and the riyets
from the bolts. He is undermining
the moral constitution of every one
he meets. He is damDing mems ar
dor. he is chilling their enthusiasms.
ne is putting clouds into clear skies,
because he is discounting here. The
further such man keeps away from
N fO1
lie has no business with them. The
only proper place for Elijah was the
wilderness and the juniper tree when
ne had ceased to hone And the
only proper place for him when new
hope and Joy had been born within
his soul was back among the sons OF
men. When our Lords soul was
troubled He was alone, the shades OF
night were about Him. His discinles
silent. When He smoke to other than
God 1t was the message of hone:
Come unto Me. all We that labor
and are heavy laden and | will give
YOU rest. There is only one heart
strong enough to bear the weight Of
a homeless soul and that is the heart
OF God. He alone is the 10y of the
comfortless. light of the straying.
nope of the penitent. fadeless and
pure"
The world has no time and no use
for the man who has no time and no
use for hone. 4 gentleman on be-
ing asked to contribute TO the erec-
tlon of monument replied: Not a
dollar. | am ready to contribute to-
ward building monuments to those
who make us hope. but will not give
dollar to help per1etuate the men,
ory and influence of those who live
to make us despair" The men who
find the world waiting for them. re-
sponsive to them. grateful for them.
are the men who bring into its dark
ness something of light and into its
suferings and sins. the aleviation
and stimulus of hope.
a singer sang n song OF tears and the great
world heard and wept:
For he sang of the sorrows of heetinc
years. and the hopes which the dead
past kept:
And souls in anguish their burdens bore,
and the world was sadder than
before.
A singer sang song of cheer. and the
great world listened and smiled
For he sang of the love of n Father dear,
and the trust of little child:
And souls that before had forgotten to
pray looked up and went singing
along the way.
Perhaps. after all, to those who
are listening tonight, it is not neces-
sary to say all this. You know It
already. If YOU don't. it is because
you have never Yet entered into the
JOY of your Lord. which is not re-
served, simply for the life to come,
but is impaired TO His followers in
the life that now is. 1t is a Joy that
no man taketh away. For it is the
not only that in the hiding of God
there is safety, but that in the hands
or God all things are made to work
together for our good Ii is the Joy
OF the consciousness that the bars
and bolts that once held us in the
prison have been withdrawn. and
the door has swung open. and we
have passed ont into the light. And
1t is the 10y that. having passed ont
into the light there is given to us not
only freedom from bondage. but af-
hliation. the privilege of partnership
with God; the power to do and to
become. And if we still feel our
selves hedged about by unpropitious
circumstance. and assailed by the
temptation of that illicit self which
still clamors for recognition and
claims enthronement, there is born
within us the hope that out of strug-
gle and defeat. ont of strivings and
groaninss. out of bondage and i'm
prisonment. We are at last to come
on more than colquerors through
Him who has loved us and redeemed
us by His blood. When we receive
Christ. who is our Hope. the Bright
and Morning Star Of Life. we enter
into privilege and possession. All
things are ours: the world about us.
the skies above us; the heritage of
soil and. the heritage of souls: the
deep happiness Of proprietorship in
the things of the life that now is and
the fadeless hope of the life everlast-
ing: All things ars ours. for we are