Owingsville outlook. [volume] (Owingsville, Ky.) 1879-192?, 1896-04-09


quick dispatch? 1t is news, it is newsl
Christ has found the lost.
Nor angels can their JOY contain,
But kindle with new fire:
The sinner lost Is found, they sing.
And strike tho souding Tyre.
When Napoleon talked OF going into
Italy. they said. "You can't get there
IL you knew what the Alps were you
wouldn't talk about it or think about
IT. You can't get your ammunition
wagons over the Alps" Then Napoleon
rose in his stirrups, and, waving his
hand toward the mountains, he said:
There shall be no Alpsr' That won
drrful pass was laid out which has
been the wondermcnt of all the years
sincc-the wonderment of all engineers.
And you tell Inc there are such mount
aims of sin between your soul and God,
there Is no mercy. Then ] see Christ
waving his hand toward the mountains.
! hear Him say: IL will come over the
mountains Of thy sin and the hills of
thine iniquity.' There shall he no
Pyrenccs; there shall be no Alps.
Again: | notice that this resolution
OF the young man OF my text WAS
founded in sorrow at his misbrhavior.
II was not mere physical plight. 1t was
grief that he had so maItrcated his
father. 1t is a sad thing after a father
has done everything for child To have
that child ungratcfuL
How sharper than a serpent's tooth IL Is,
To have u thanklcss child.
That is Shakespeare. "A foolish son
is the heaviness of his mother" That
is the Bible. Well, my friends, have
not some of MS been cruel prodigals?
Have we not maltrcated our Father?
And such Father Three times day
has lie fed thee. lie has poured sun
light into thy day and at night hindles
up all the street lamps of Heaven.
With what varieties of apparel He hath
clothed thee for the seasons. Whose
eye watcheth thee? Whose hand de-
tends thee? Whose heart sympathizes
with thee? Who gave you your chill
dren? Who is guarding your loved
ones departed? Such II Father! So
loving, SO kind. II lie had been a
stranger; IL lie had forsal<en MS; Il He
had negotiated us; 10 lie had pound
eel us and turned us out of doors on
the commons, it would not have
been so wondcrful-our treatment of
Him; but He is n Father. So loving,
SO kind, and yet how many of
us for our wanderings have never
apologized! IL we say anything that
hurts our friends feelings, IL we do
anything that hurts the feelings of
those I'm whom we are interested. how
quickly we apolizc! We can scarcely
wait until we get pen and paper to
write letter of apology. How easy it
is for any one who is intelligent, right
hearted, to write an apology, or make
an apology! We apologize for wrong
done to our fellows, but some of us,
perhaps. have committed ten thousand
times ten thousand wrongs against God
and never apologized.
] remark still further. that this reso-
luton of the text was founded in a
feeling of Inconsistencies. do not
know how long this young man. how
many months, how many years he has
been away from his fathers house. but
there is something about the reading
of my text that makes me think he
was homesick. Some of you know what
that feeling is. Far away from home
sometimes, surrounded by everything
bright and pleasant--plcnty of friends
you have said: Il would give the
world to be home tonight" Well, this
young man was homesiclS for his faith
er's house. ] have no doubt when he
thought of his fathers house he said:
Nov, perhaps father may not be liv-
ing" We read nothing in this story
this parable-founded on everyday life
we read nothing about the mother.
1t says nothing about going home to
her. 1 think she was dead. / think
she had died of broken heart at his
wanderings, or, perhaps he had gone
into dissipation from the fact that he
could not remember n loving and SYM
pathetic mother. A man never gets
over having lost his mother. Nothing
said about her. but he is homesick for
his fathers house. lie thought he
would just like to g., SHd walk around
the old place. lie thought he would
just like to go ard zee if things were as
they used to be. Many man, after
home and knocked at the door, and a
stranger has come. II is the old home
stead, but n stranger come to the door.
lie finds out father is gone. and mother
is gone. and brothers and sisters all
gone. | think this young man of the
text said to himself: Perhaps
father may be dead" Still
he starts to find out. Are there
any here to-day homesick for
God, homesick for Heaven. A sailor,
after having been long on the sea, re.
turned to his fathers house, and his
mother tried to persuade him not to &c
away again. She said: Now you had
better stay at home. Don't go away.
We don't want you to go. You will
have it a great deal better here But
it made him angry. The night before
he went away again to sea he heard
his mother praying in the next room,
and that made him more angry. He
went far our on the sea, and a storm
came up and he was ordered tc
very perilous duty, and he ran NJ
the ratlines, and amid the shrouds OF
the ship he heard the voice that he had
heard in the next room. He tried tC
whistle it off, he tried to rally his cour.
age; but he could not silence the voice
he had heard in the next room, and
there in the storm and darkness he
said: "Oh, Lord! what a wretch have
been! What n wretch l am! Help me
just now, Lord God" And / thought
in this assemblage to-day there may be
some who may have the memory of a
fathers petition, of n mothers prayer
pressing nightly upon her soul, and
that this hour they may make the
same resolution l find in my text
saying: 81 will arise and go to my
father"
A lad at Liverpool went out to battle
went out into the sea, went out too far,
got beyond his depth and he foated far
away. A ship bound for Dublin came
along and took him on board. Sailors
are generally very generous fellows
and one gave him a cap, and another
J gave him a jacket, and another gave
him shoes. A gentleman passing along
on the beach at Liverpool found the
lads clothes and took them home, and
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