Owingsville outlook. [volume] (Owingsville, Ky.) 1879-192?, 1896-10-08

| got there, and yOu wonder, oh, child OF
, God. that, looking into the volumes of
Heaven for your name, you find it was
written with trembling pen
manShip trembling with every let
| ter of your name, IL IL bc your
earthly name, or trembling with every
letter of your heavenly name, if that
bc different and more cuphonOus. That
will not be the first time that YOU saw
the mark of quivcring pen, for did
you not, oh, man, years ago see your
name so written ON the back of a lei.
ter, and you opened il, saying: why,
here is a letter from mother, or "lIcrc
is Il letter from father. and after you
open it You found all the words because
of old age were traced irregulary and
uncertain, 81 that you could hardly read
| il at all. hut after much study you
made il out-a letter from home, tell
ing you how much they missed you,
and how much they prayed for you,
and how much they wanted tn SEE you,
and if it might not he on earth that IL
might be in the world where there are
no partings. Yes. your name is writ
ten in Heaven, if written ut all, with
trembling photography.
Again, in examination of your name
! in the Heavenly archives, ii you find
il there at all, you will find it written
with a bold hand. You have seen many
Il signature that because of sickness or
old age had a trcmor in it, yet il was
| as bold as the man who wrote it.
Many an order written on the battle
field and amid the thunder of the can
nOnade mas had evidence of excitement
i'll every word and every letter and in
the speed with which it was folded and
handed to the officer as he put his foot
in the swift stirrups, and yet that com
mander, Notwithstanding his trembling
hand, gives n boldncss of order that
shows itself in every worl written
You do not need to be told that n trem-
| bling hand does not always mean Il
cowardiy hand. 1t was with very
| trembling had Charles Carroll, of Car
| rollton, signed his name to the Dcclara-
tion of American Independence, but no
signcr hal more courage, and when
some one said. There are many
! Charles CAROLS, and it will not be
known which one it is" he resumed
his pen and wrote Charles Carroll. of
Carrollton. Trembling hand is no sign
of timidity. The daring AMI defiance
seen in the way your name is written
in Heaven is challenge to all earth
and hell to come on il they can to de-
| feat your ransomed soul The way
your name is written there is as much
to say, II have redeemed him: | died
| for him; | am going to crown and
enthrone him. Nothing shall ever
happen, down in that world where
he now lives, to defeat my de-
termination to keep him, to shelter
him, To save him. By my Almighty
grace am going to fetch him here. lie
may slip and slide, but he has got to
come here. by my omnipotent sword,
by the combined strength of all llelv-
ems principalities and powers and do
minions. by the 20. 900 chariotS Of the
Lord Almighty, | am going to see him
| through" Bold handwriting, 1t is
the boldest thing ever written To write
my name there and your name there.
| He know our weakness and bad pro-
pensities better than we know them
ourselves. Jle knows all the apolly-
onic hosts that are sworn to down us
If they can. lie knows all the tempta-
tions that viii iS-ail us between now
and the moment of our last pulsation
of the heart, and yet he dares to write
our name there. BoldnesS! Nothing
at Saragossa, or Chalons, or Mara.
thon, or Thermt. .ylae, to equal it.
Nothing in the sack of gunpowder
which one English. soldier carried un-
der the blazing IItillery of the Mo-
hammedans and ew I'D the gate OF
| Delhi! Can You OF see the boldness
in the pcnmansfip that has already
written our nauses there? Apostle
Peter, what do you think of it? And
he answers: kept by the power OF
God through faith unto complete sal
vation." Oh, blessed Christ, what dost
Thou mean by it, And he answers:
They shall YER perish, neither
shall any man luck them out of my
hand" Your names are written i'll
Heaven"
Again, itsnccording to the promise OF
the text Won are permitted to look into
the vol1mes of eternity and shall see
your ZANE there, you will find it writ
ten in lines, in words, in letters un-
mistakablc. Some people have come
to consider indistinct and almost un-
readable penmanship mark of genius
and SO they affect it. Because every
paragraph that Thomas Chalmers and
Dean Stanley, and Lord Byron, and
Rufus Choate, and other noted men,
wrote was a puzzle, imitators make
their penmanship a puzzle.
Alexander Dumas says that plain
penmanship is the brevet of incapacity.
Then there are some who, through too
much demand upon their earnings and
through lack of time, lose the capacity
of making the pen intclligible, and
much of the writing of the world is in
| decipherable. We have seen piles of
ineXplicable photography, and we our
selves have helped augment the magni-
tudc. We have not been sure of the
name signed, or the sentiment ex-
pressed. or whether the reply was
affirmative or negative. Through in
distinct penmanship last wills and
testaments have been defeated, wild
o"S AOCOSN Va bhNii
inheritance, railroad trains brought
into collision through the dim words
of n telegram put into the hands of a
conductor, and regiments, in this wise,
installing their instructions, have been
sacrificed in battle. asked Bishop
Cowie, in Auckland, New Zealand, the
bishop having been in many of the
wars, what Tennyson, in his immortal
poem, The Charge of the Light Brig
ade," meant by the words "Some one
had Numbered" and the bishop said
that the awful carnage at Balallava
was the result of an indistinctly writ
N and wrongly read military order.
Some one had Numbered. But your
name once written in the Lambs
Book of Life will be SO unmistak-
able that all Heaven can read it at the
first glance 1t will not be taken for
the name of some other, SO that in re-
gard to it there shall come to be dis
putaticn. Not one of the millions and
billions and quadrillions OF the finally
saved will doubt that it means you and
only you. oh, the glorious, the rap
rurous gertrude of that entrance OH
al Not in n