Owingsville outlook. [volume] (Owingsville, Ky.) 1879-192?, 1896-08-13

while you move into a larger house
ind mid mure luxuriant surroundings,
and you invite your friends, but you do
not invite that man tn whom 20 times
you sent AN invitation TO the smaller
house. Are you to blame?
You would only make yourself abb
surd before God and man to send that
man another invitation. For 30 years
he has been declining your offers and
sending insult for kindness and cour-
tcsy. and can he blame your Can he
come up to your house on the night OF
the banquet? Looking ZIP and seeing
it is finer house, will he have any
right to say: Let me in. | declined
all those other offers, but this is n
larger house, "a brighter house, II more
luxuriant abode. Let the ini Give me
another chancea' God has spread
a banquet of Ills grace before us. For
80 days of every year, since we knew
the difference between our right hand
and our left, lie has invited us by His
Providence and by His Spirit. Sup
pose W. decline all these offers and all
this kindness. Now, the banquet is
spread i'll larger place, in the Heaven
ly palace. Invitations are sent out,
but no invitation Is sent to us. Why?
Because we declined all those other
banquets. Will God be to blame? viii
we have any right to rap on the door OF
Heaven and say: II ought not to be
shut out of this places give me another
rhanccP' Twelve gates of salvation
gia pHin,r ,xi.I., F...., 81
our life, and then when the 1? gates
close we rush on the bosses of Jeho.
vah's buckler saying: give Inc an.
other chance" A ship is to sail from
Hamburg. You want to go to Germany
by that line. You see the advertise
mCnt of the steamers sailing. You see
1t for two weeks. You see it in the
morning papers and you see it in the
evening papers, you see it Placardcd
on the walls. Circulars are thrown
into your Office telling you all about
that steamer.
One day you come down on the wharf,
and the steamer has swung out into the
stream. You say: "Oh, that isn't fair.
Come back, swing up again to the
docks. Throw the plank ashore that
| may come on board. It isn't fair.
want to go to Germany by that steamer
Give me another chance" Here is a
magnificent offer for Heaven. It has
been anchored within our sight
year after year, and year after
year. AMI year after year, and
all the benign voices of cartl
and Heaven have urged us to get
on board, since it may sail at any
moment. suppose we let that Oppor
sunity sail away. and then we lool
out and say: send back that oppor
tunity; want to take it; it isn't treat
| ing me fairly. Give me another chance.
Why, my brother, YOU might as wei
90 out and stand on the Highlands a
the Navesink three days after the Ma
| jestic has gone out, and shout: Cap
tain, come back; | want to go to Liv
erpool on the Majestic. Come bacl
over the sea and through the Narrow!
and up to the docks. Give me another
chance
You might as well do that as, aftel
the last opportunity of Heaven has
sped away, To try to get it back again
Just think of it. 1t came to me yc stcr
day in my study with overwhelming
| imprcssivcncss. just think of it. Al
Heaven offered us as a gratuity for f.;
whole lifetime, and yet we wanting t,
rush against God, saying: Give mi
another chance There ought to he
there will be, no such thing as post
/ humoS opportunity.
| You see common sense agrees with
my text in saying that If the tree fal
| toward the south. or toward the north
in the place where the tree fallctl
there it shall be" You see this idc;
lifts this world from an unimportan
way station to platform of stipend
Gus issues, and makes all eternit,
whirl around this hour. Oh, my soul
My soul! Only one trial, and all tn
preparations for that trial TO be mad
in this world, or never at all. oh, m
soul. My soul! You see this piles nj
all the emphasis and all the climax
and all the destinics into this life. NJ
other chance. oh. how that intensific
the value and the Importance of thi
| chance