Owingsville outlook. [volume] (Owingsville, Ky.) 1879-192?, 1896-04-02

them to join in the ball players sport.
You will come back from these out
door exercises and recreations, with
strength in your arm and color in your
cheek and a flash in your eye and cour-
age in your heart. In this great battle
that is opening against the kingdom of
darkness, we want not only a conse-
Grated soul, but a strong arm and stout
lungs and mighty muscle. | bless God
that there are so many recreations that
have not on them any faint of iniquity;
recreations in which we may engage
for the strengthening of the body, for
Elimination of the soul.
There is still another form of recrea-
ton which commend to you, and that
is the pleasure of doing good. | have
seen young men, weak and cross and
sour and repelling in their disposition,
who by one Heavenly touch have walk
cned up and become blessed and buoy
ant, the ground under their feet and
the sky over their heads breaking
forth into music. oh" says some
young man in the house to-day, II
should like that recreation above all
others, but have not the Means My
dear brother. let us take an account of
stock. You have a large estate if you
only realize il. Two hands. Two feet.
You will have, perhaps, during the
next year at least ten dollars for char
liable contribution. You will have
$500 cheerful looks, if you want to
employ them. You will have 5000
pleasant words If you want TO speak
them. Now what an amount that is to
start with!
You go out tomorrow morning and
you see n case of real restitution by the
wayside. You give him two cents.
The blind man hears the pennies rat
ties in his hat and he says: Thank
you, sir; God bless YOU" You pass
down the street, trying to look indif-
ferent, but you feel from the very
depth of your soul a profound satisfac-
ton that you made that man happy.
You go still further and find poor boy
with wheelbarrow trying to get it up
on the curbstone. lie fails in the at
tempt You say, "Stand back, my lad;
let. me try" You push it up on the
curbstone for him and pass on. lie
wonders who that well-dressed man
was that helped him. You did kind.
ness to the boy. but you did a great joy
to your own soul. You will not get
over it all week.
On the street tomorrow morning,
you will see n sick man passing along.
"Ah," you say, what can | do to make
this man happy? lie certainly does not
is sick" Give him one of those twenty.
five hundred cheerful looks that you
have garnered up for the whole year.
Look joy and hopefulness into his soul.
1t will thrill him through and there
will be reaction upon your own soul.
Going a little further on, you will come
to the store of a friend who is embar.
raised in business matters. You will
go in and say: what fine store you
have! l think business will brighten
up, and you will have more custom af
ter awhile. think there is coming a
great prosperity to all the country
Good morning" You pass out. You
have helped that young man, and YOU
have helped yourself.
Col. Gardner, who sat with his elbow
on a table spread with all extravagant
viands, looking off at a dog on the rug
saying, "How | would like to chang,
places with him he the dog and he bs
Col. Gardiner or, those two Moraviar
missionaries who wanted to go into the
laZaretto for the sake of attending tn,
sick. and they were told: IF you go il
there you will never come out. We
never allow any on to come out, fol
he would bring the ,contagin." Their
they made their wills and went in, frs
to help the sick and hen to die. Which
was the happier-Cor Gardiner, or tn,
Moravian missionaries dying for 9th
ers? Was it all sacrifice when the mis-
sionaries wanted to bring the gospel t.
the Negroes in the Barbados, and, be
ing denied the privilege, sold them
selves into slavery, standing side by
side, lying side by side, dowr
in the very ditch of suffer
ing, in order that they might bring
! those men up to life and God and
Heaven? Oh, there is a thrill in the
joy of doing good! 1t is the most mag
nificent recreation to which a man evel
put his hand, or his head. or his heart
But, before closing, want to impress:
upon you that mere secular entertain
mcnts are not fit foundation for you
soul to build on. | was reading of a
woman who had gone all the rounds o
sinful amusement, and she came to die
She said: Il will die tonight at 81,
o'clock" 'Oh." they said, II guess not
You don't seem to be sick" Il shall
die at six o'clock. and my soul will b,
lost. | know it will be lost. | hav,
sinned away my day of grace.
The noon came. They desired
her to seek religious counsel
Oh she said. lit is of no use
My day is gone. l have been all tn,
rounds of worldly pleasure, and it i.
too late. | shall die tonight at 81,
o'clock" The day wore away, and il
came to four o'clock, and to five o'clock
and she cried out at five o'clock, DE
-stroying spirits, yc shall not have m,
yet; il is not six, it is not six.' Tn,
moments welt by, and the shadows he
gan to gather, and the clock struck six
and while it was striking her sou
went. What hour God will call for IL,
l do not know-whether six o'clock to
night, or three o'clock this afternoon
or ut one o'clock, or at this moment
Sitting where you are, falling forward
or dropping down, where will you e
to?
The last hour of our life will soon b.
here, and from that hour we will re
view this days proceedings. 1t will b,
a solemn hour If from our death pill
low we have to look back and see life
spent in sinful amusement, there vii
be dart that will strike through oul
soul, sharper than the dagger will
which Virginius slew his child. TIT
memory of the past will make us quak,
/ like Macbeth. The iniquities and riot
ings through which we haze passed will
come upon us, weird and skeleton a.
Meg Merrillies. Death, the old shy
lock, will demand and take the remain
ing pound of flesh and the remaining
drop of blood; and upon our last oppor
tunity for repentance, and our las
chance for Heaven the curtain will for
ever drop.
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