Owingsville outlook. [volume] (Owingsville, Ky.) 1879-192?, 1893-10-26

have fifty or innumerable different
forms and finally In absorbed in God.
II was God at the start and will be God
at the last but who gives the author
ity for the truth of such a religion?
Some beings living in cave in Central
Asia. They are invisible to the naked
eye, but they cross continents and seas
in fash. My Baptist brother, Dr.
lialdeman, says that theosophist in
New York was visited by one of these
mysterious beings from Central Asia
The gentleman knew it from the fact
that the mysterious being left his pocket
handkerchief, embroidered with his
name and Asiatic residence. The most
wonderful achievement of the Theo-
sophist is that they keep out of the in
sane asylum They prove the truth
of the statement that no religion ever
announced was 80 absurd. but it gained
disciples Societies in the United
States and England and other lands
have been established for the promul-
cation of Theosophy. Instead Of
you can have these spirits
from cave in Central Asia to
tell you all you ought to know. and af-
ter you leave this life you may become
a prima donna or n robin or a gazelle
or a sot or prize fighter or a IIerod or
.Iczcbel, and SO he enabled to have
great variety of experience, rotating
through the universe, now rising, now
falling. now shot out in straight line,
and now describing a parabola, and on
and on, and up and up, and down and
down, round and round.
Don't you see? Now, that Theosophie
lifeboat has been launched. II pro-
poses to take you off the rough sea of
doubt into everlasting quietude. How
do you like that life-boat? My opinion
is you had better initiate the mariners
of my text and cut off the ropes of that
boat and let her fall off
Another life-bOat tempting us to
enter is made up of many planks of
GCod Works. 1t is really good boat
aims giving. practical sympthies for
human suffering, righteous word, and
righteous deeds. / must admit ! like
the looks of the PROV and of the row.
locks and of the paddles and Of the
steering gear and of many who are
thinking to trust themselves on her
benches. But the trouble about that
life-boat is it leaks
never knew n man yet good enough
to earn Heaven by his virtues or gen.
crosities. IL there be one person here
present on this blessed sabbath all of
whose thoughts have been always
right, all of whose actions have
always been right, and all of
whose words have always been
right, let him stand up or,
if already standing, let him lift his
hand. and will know that he lies Paul
had it about right when he said: by
the deeds of the law shall no flesh liv-
ing be justified. David had it about
right when he said: There is none
that doeth good, no, not one" The
Old Book had it about right when it
said: "All have sinned and come short
of the glory of God" Let a man get
off that little steamer called 1.-The Maid
of the Mist" which sails up to the foot
of Niagara Falls and then climb to the
top of the falls on the descending
floods, for he can 60 it easier than any
man ever will be able to climb to Heav-
en- by his good works. II your thoughts
have always been exactly right, and
your words exactly right and your
deeds exactly right, you can go up to
the gate of Heaven and you need not
even knock for admittance. but open it
yourself and push the angels out of your
way and go up and take one of the
front seats. But you would be SO I'M
like any one else that has gone up from
this world that you would be a curios-
ity in Heaven, and more fit for heav-
only museum than for a place where
charge. No. sir, l admire your good
works, and that life boat you are think
ing of trusting in is handsomos0
any yawl or pinnace or yacht
that ever sped out of a bos<
Eho;ste4yail IRA Fsee-#
Trust your soul in that and y,
to the bottom. She leaks So
the mariners of the text, and with
cutlass strike the ropes of the boat and
let her fall off
Another life-boat Is Christian Incon-
sistencies. The planks of this boat are
composed of the split-planks of ship
wrecks. The PROV is made of hypoc-
risy from the life of man who protested
one thing and really was another. One
oar of his life-boat was the falsehood of
| a church member, and the other oar
was the wickedness of some minister
of the Gospel, whose iniquities
Not one planl: from the oak Of Gods
eternal truth in all that life-boat. All
the planks. by universal admission, are
decayed and crumbling and fallen
apart and rotten and ready to sink.
"Well, WE'LL" You say. NO one will
want to get into that life-boat" Oh.
my friend, you are mistaken That
is the most popular life-boat
ever constructed. That is the most
popular life-boat ever launched. Mil
(! lions of people want to get into it
They jostle each other to get the best
seat in the boat You could not keep
them back though you stood at the
gun-wales with club, as on our ship
Greece" in a hurricane, and the steer
age passengers were determined to
| come up on deck, where they would
have been washed of, Odd the officers
stood at the top of the stairs clubbing
them back. Even by such violence as
that you could not keep people from
jumping into the most popular life
boat, made of church member inconsis-
tencies In times of revival, when sim
ners flock into the inquiry room, the
most of them are kept from deciding
Alright because they know so many
Christians who are bad.
The inquiry room becomes a Worlds
fair exhibition of all the frailties Of
church members, SO that il you believe
all is there told you, you would be
afraid to enter a church lest You get
your pockets picked or get knocked
down. This is the way they talk: II
was cheated out of $500 by leader of
! a Bible class" Sunday-school teach
err gossiped about me and did her best
to destroy my good name" OIL had n
partner in business who swamped our
business concern by trickery. and then
rolled mp his eyes in Friday night
prayer meeting as though he were look
ing for Elijah's chariot to make a sec
ond trip and take up another passen-
ger" But what cracked md water
logged and gaping-seamed life-bOat the
! Inconsistencies of others.
Put me on a single mid Atlantic and
leave me there, rather than in such a
yawl of spiritual confidence. God for
bid that should get aboard it, and lest
some of you make the mistake of get
ting into it, do as the mariners did
on that Mediterranean ship when the
sailors were about to get into the I'M
sa fe lifeboat of the text and lose their
! lives in that way. Then the soldiers
cut off the ropes of the boat, and let
I her fall off"
| Well says some one. this subject