Owingsville outlook., 1896-09-03

are "a great many people who become
skeptical in religious things. How
shall you capture them for God?
Sharp argument and sarcastic retort
never won "A single soul from slepti-
cism to the Christian religion. While
powerful books ON "Thc Evidences
of Christianity" have their mission IN
confirming Christian people in the
faith they have already adopted, have
noticed that when slieptical people are
brought into the kingdom of Christ it
is through the charm of some genial
soul, and not 10y argument at all. Men
are not saved through the head; they
are saved through the heart. A storm
comes ont of its hiding place. 1t says:
"Now, well just rouse up all this sea-"
and it makes great blustcr. but
it does not succeed. Part of
the sea is reused up perhaps
onc-half of il or onc-fourth Of
il. After while the calm moon,
placid and beautiful. looks down. and
the ocean begins to rise. II comes up
To- hiEh-watcr mark. 1t embraces the
great hcadlandS 1t submcrgcS the
beach of ali the continents. 1t is the
heart throb of one world against the
heart throb of another world. And
have TO tell You that while all your
storms % ridicu.c and storms oi sarcasm
may rouse up the passion r-en immor-
tai nature, nothing less IN, the at
tractivc power of Christian Kindness
can ever raisr the d'athlcSo spirit to
happiness and 10 Got Ihayc more faith
in the prayer of child five years old.
in the way of bringing an intiIcl back
To- Christ and To- Heaven, than have
in all the his ing thundcrbolts of &C.
clc>iaStical controversy. Ynu can not
overcome men with religious argu-
mcntrtion. II ynu come al a slI"p'ical
man with an argument ON behalf of
th' Christian religion, you put the man
ON his mtttlc. He SAYS: Il see that
man has a carbinc. I'll use my ear
binr. IN answer his argument with
my argument hut il You come to
that man, pcrNuading him that you lie
sire his happine,S ON earth and his
eternal welfare in the world To come
he can not answer Il.
What | have said il Just rs true in
TIE ic, amatinn of the open vicious.
Did you ever k..ow drunkard to he
saNc1 thr"Igh the caricaturr of a
d;un'.ard? Noir mim.cry q the stag
gcring Stco, ali the thick toygLc. and
the dis gus ing hircough. only worse
madden, his brain. But IL YOU come
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one kin g,o, { Go tomorrow and ut
ter til 1u saving, omnirotent. kind
word. Hcr, is n soul that has been
swan a'd ~ sin. lie wants to find
the ,5-ht ID the Gospel lie feels
like shi. wrecked mariner looking
out 1,rr H., beach. watching for a sail
aga. .l, .l' ky. d, bear down on him.
Tell him that the Lord waits to be
gracious to him; that though he has
been great sinner there is n great
Saviour pr ovided. Tell him that though
his sins are scarlet they shall be as
snow; though they are red as crimson,
they shall be as wool. That man is
dying forever for the lack of ono kind
word. There used tn be sung at one
of the great pianos all through the
country song that has almost died
out. | wish somebody would start it
again in our social circles There may
not have been very exquisite art in the
music, but there was grand and glor-
ious sentiment: