Owingsville outlook. [volume] (Owingsville, Ky.) 1879-192?, 1896-12-17

not think of Catharine of Russia, or
Maria Theresa of Germany, or Mary
Queen of Scots When you think of a
queen you think of plain woman who
sat opposite your father at the table,
or walked arm-in-arm-someti to
the Thanksgiving banquet, sometimes
to the grave, but always side by side,
soothing your little sorrows and adj
justing your little quarrcls listening
tn your evening prayer, toiling with
the needle or at the spinning-whcel,
and on cold nights tucLing you up
snug and warm. And then on that
dark day when she lay a-dying, putting
those thin hands that had tOiled for
you so long, putting them together
in dying prayer commenting you
to that God in which she had taught
YOU to trust. q, she was the queen
she was the queen. You can not think
of her now without having the deepest
emotions of your soul stirred, and you
feel as il you could cry as though you
were now sitting in infancy on her lap,
and if you could call her back To speak
your name with the tenderness with
which she once spoke, you would Toe
willing now to throw yourself on the
sod that covers her grave, crying
Mother, mother" All! she was the
queen. Your father knew il. You
knew it. She was the queen, but the
queen in disguise. The world did not
rccogniLcit.
But there was grandcr Disgusting.
The favoritc of great house looked
II T.. nj
saw that the people were carrying
heavy burdens, and that some Of them
were hobbling on crntches, and he saw
some lying at the gate exhibiting their
sores, and then he heard their lamenta-
tion; and he said: II will just put on
the clothes of those poor people, and |
will go down and see what their sor-
rows are, and will sympathize with
them, and | will bc one of them, and
will help them" Well, the day came
for him to start. The lords of
could sing joined in the parting song,
which shook the hills and woke up the
shepherds. The first few nights he has
been sleeping with the hostler and the
camel-drivcrs. for no one knew there
was king in town. He went among
the doctors of the law, astounding
them; for without any doctors gown,
| lie he knew more law than the doctors.
| fried fish on the banks of Genncsaret.
lie was howlcd at by crazy people
in the tombs- lie was splashcd of
out any pillow. A sick man without
any mcdicament. A mourner with no
sympathetic bosom in which he
coulti pour His tears. Disguise COM
plete, | know that occasionally His di-
vine royalty flashed oct, as when in
the storm ON GaIilee, SIS in the red wine
at the wedding banquet, as when lie
freed the shacklPd demoniac of ia
dara, as when lie turned a whole
| school of fish into the net of the dis
couraged boatmen, as when lie throb-
bed life into the shriveled arm of the
paralytic; but for the most part lie
was in disguise. No one saw the
| Kings jewels in his sandal. No one
saw the royal robe in His plain coat.
No one knew that that sheltcrlcss Christ
owned all the mansions in which
the hierarchs of Heaven had their hab-
itation. None knew that that hun
| gercd Christ owned all the olive groves,
and all the harvests which shook their
gold on the hills of Palestine. No one
knew that lie who said IL thirst pour
ed the Euphrates out of his own chal-
ice. No one knew that the ocean lay
in the palm of Ills hand like dewdrop
in the vase of a lily. No one knew that
the stars, aud moons, and suns, and
gala yies, and -tnstellationst that MARCH
ed on age alter age, were as COM
pared with his lifetime, the sparkle OF
n FREELY on n summer night No one
knew that the sun in midheavcn was
only the shadow of his throne. No
one knew that HIS crown of universal
dominion was covered with n bunch OF
thorns. Omnipotence sheathcd in a
human body. Omniscicnce hidden in a
human heart Everlasting harmonies
subdued into human voice. Royalty
en- masque Grandeurs of Heaven in
earthly disguise.
My subject also impresses me with
how people put on masks, and how the
| Lord tears them off. 1t was terrible
moment in the history of this woman OF
Tirzah when the prophet accosted her,
practically saying: II know who you
are; you can not cheat me; you can not
impose upon me; why feignest myself
to be another?' She had n right to
ask for the restoration of her son: she
| had no right to practice that false
hood. 1t is never right to do wrong.
Sometimes you may be able
to conceal an affair; it is
not necessary to tell everything.
There Is natural pressure to
the lips which seem to indicate that
silence sometimes is right; but, for
double dealing, for moral shutting, for
counterfeit, and for sham. God has
nothing but anathema and exposure.
lie will tear off the lie. lie will rip up
the empiricism. He will scatter the
ambuscadc. There are people who are
just ready to be duped. They seem to
be waiting to be deceived. They be-
! lieve in ghosts; they saw one themselves
once. They heard something strange
in an uninhabitcd house. Going along
the road one night, something APP
preached them in white and crossed the
! road. They would think it very disas-
trous to count the number of carriages
at a funeral. They heard in n neigh
boris house something that portended
! death in the family They say it is a
sure sign of evil if bat fly into the
room on a summer night, or they see
the moon over the left shoulder. They
would not for the world undertake any
enterprise on Friday. forgetful of the
fact that if they look over the calendar
of the world they will see that Friday
has been the most fortunate day in all
the history of the world.
AS near as | can tell, looking over
the calendar of the worlds history,
more grand, bright, beautiful things
have happened on Friday than any
other day of the week They would
not begin anything on Friday. They
would not for the world go back to the
house for anything after they had
once started. Such people are ready
to be duped. Ignorance comes along,
perhaps in the disguise of medical
science, and carries them captive;
for there are always men who have
found some strange and mysterious
weed in some strange place, and pluck