Owingsville outlook. [volume] (Owingsville, Ky.) 1879-192?, 1893-12-07
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&c frost of trial takes many hard
4 prickly shell and brushes it until
tina which stung the soul now feeds it,
There are passages of Scripture that
once were enigmas, puzzles, riddles,
and impossible for you to understand,
but The frosts of trouble after while
exposed the full meaning to your soul.
Lou said: Il do not see why David
keeps rolling over in his Psalms the
story of how he was pursued and perse-
cuted." lie describes himself as sur
rounded with bees. He says: They
compassed me about like bees; yea, they
compassed me about like bees You
think what an exargerating thing Tor
him to exclaim: out of the depths OF
hell have | cried unto Thee, D Lord
And there is so much of that style of
Iamentation in his writings you think
he oyerdoes it, but after while the
frost comes upon you in the shape of
persecution, and you are stuck with
this censure and stuck with that de-
famation, and stuck with some false
hood, and lies in swarms are buzzing,
buzzing about your ears, and at last
you understand what David meant
when he said: They compassed me
about like bees; yea, they compassed me
about like bees" and you go down I'M
der nervous prostration. and feel that
You are as far down as David when he
cried, out of the depths of hell"
What opened all those chapters that
hitherto had no appropriateness?
Frosts! For long time the Bible
seemed lop-sided and a disproportion-
ate amount of it given up to the con-
solatory. Why, page after page and
chapter after chapter and book after
book in the Bible taken up with allie
viations, with paci6cations, with con-
dolences.
The Book seems like an apothecary
store with one half of the shelves oc-
cupied with balsams Why such a super
fiuitv of balsams' BUT after awhile the
membraneous Group carries off your
child. or your health gives away under
the grippe, or your property is swept
off by bad investment, or perhaps all
three troubles come ant Once-bank-
ruptcy, sickness and bereavement.
Now the consolatory parts of the Bible
do not seem to he disproportionate.Y You
want something off all the shelves of
that sacred Dispensary. What has I'M
covered and exposed to you the use
fulness of so much of the Bible that was
before hidden? The frosts have been
fulfilling their mission.
Put down all the promises of the BIZ
BILE on table for study, and put on one
side the table man who has never had
any trouble, or very little of it, but
pile upon the table be side him all ency-
clopedias, and all dictionaries, and all
archaologies, and all commentaries,
and on the other side of the
table put n man wfso has trial upon
trial, disaster upon disaster, and let
him begin the study of the promises
without lexicon, without commentary,
without any book to explain or help.
and this latter man will understand far
more of the height and depth and
length and breadth of those promises
than the learned exeiyete opposite a.
most submerged in sacred literatn~r.
The one has the advantage over ths
other, because he has felt the NJ s, ~.
of the frosts. Oh, take the consoia II IN
of this theme, ye to whom life 5 y
struggle and disappointm emit and a
gauntlet and pang. That is beauti-
full proverb among the Hebrews which
says: "When the tale OF bricks is
doubled, then Moses comes"