Owingsville outlook. [volume] (Owingsville, Ky.) 1879-192?, 1896-06-18
FALLING STAR.
One of the First Magnitude That Beams
for Evil or Good.
u Fades In the Dawn or Twin>ieS Tifc's
Close Some Are Called Wornw u"d-
Dr. Talmsgc's Study In Astronomy
As Applied to Every bay Iifc.


Dr. TaImsgc's Study In Astronomy
As Applied to Every bay iifr.
Dr. TalmaGe chose for his text sun
day Rev. viii: IO-ll: There fell great
star from Heaven, burning a. it were a
lamp. and it fell upor the third part of
the rivers and upon the fountains of
waters: and the name of the star is
called Norwood
Many commentators. like Patrick and
Lowth. Thomas Scott. Matthew Henry
and Albert Earncs, agree in saying
that the star Wurmwood, mentioned in
Revelation, WAS Attila, king Of the
huns lie was So called because he
was brilliant as star, and, like worm
wood, he cmhittrrcd everything he
touched. We have studied the Star of
Bethlehem and the Morning star of
the Revelation and the Star of Peace,
hut my present subject calls MS 10
gaze at the star Norwood, and my
theme might bc called Brilliant Bitter
ness.
a more extraordinary character his
tory docs not furnish than this man
thus referred Ia. Attila, the king of the
Huns. One day "A wounded heilcr came
limping along through the fields, and
the her lsman followed its bloody track
on the grass Ia SEE where the hcifcr
was wounded, and went on back fur
thcr and further until he came to "a
sword fast in the earth, the point down
ward, as though it had dropped from
the heavens, and against the edge Of
this sword the hcifcr had been cut.
i he hcrdsman pulled mp that sword
| and presented it tn Attila Attila said
that sword must have dropped from
the heavens from the grasp of the god
Mars. and its being given To him meant
that Attila should conquer and govern
the whole earth. other mighty men
have been delighted at being called
libcrators or the mrrciful or the good.
but Attila called himself, and de
mandci that others call him the scourgc
| of God.
At the head of 900. 900 troops mounted
on Cappadocian horses. he swept every
thing from the Adriatic to the Black
sea. He put his iron heel on Mace
donna and Greece and Thracc. lie
made Milan and Pavia and Tadua and
| Verona beg for mercy, which he he
slowed not. The byzantine castles,
to meet his ruinous levy, put up at auc-
| ton massive silver tables and vases of
solid gold. A city captured by him.
the inhabitants were brought ont and
| put into three classes; the first class.
those who could bear arms, who must
| immediately enlist under Attila or he
hutchercd: the second class. the beau
tiful women, who were made captivcs
| To the Huns; the third class, the aged
men and women, who were robbed of
everything and let go back to the city
to pay heavy tax.
1t was common saying that the
grass never grew again where the hoof
of Attii,'s horse had trod. His armies
reddrn~d ., waters of the Seine and
Mos He ,'ud ~, lime % ra~na"c,
and Ought "u "a, "a. ii9n ria ms
the fierccss hattie sin q Ihr We .
stood 500. 900 dead icft 81 th.' I,.". On
aud on. until all those who could hot
oppose him with arms lay PROSTATE On
| heir faces in prayer, 3n--a "T'pd Of
! duSt seen in the distance a bishop cflcd:
1t is the aid of God and all the pep Sc
took up the cry. 1t is the aid os "od:'
| As the cloud of dust was bloom asi's.
| the banners of rc-cnforring armies
marched in to help against httiia, the
scourgc of God. The most unimror< anI
occurrences he used as supernatural
resource, au1~after three months of
faisdre-e~c ca pturc the city of Aquileia
and his army had given up the siege,
| the flight of stork and her young
| from the tower of the city was taken
by him as a sign that he was to capture
the city and his army, inspired by the
same occurrence, resumed the scigc
and took the walls at n point from
which the storil had emerged. So
brilliant was the conqueror in attire
that his enemies could not look at him.
but shaded their eyes or turned their
heads.
Slain on the evening of his marriage
by his bride. Iit.eo. who was hired for
the assassination, his followers be.
walled Inn not with tears, but with
blood, eating themselves with knives
and laIces. lie was put into three cof-
fins-thc first Of iron. the second of sill
|
| buried by night and into his grave
Scrc poured the most valuable coin
and precious stones, amounting To the
wealth of kingdom. The grave dig
| gers and all those who assisted at the
| burial were masSacred, SO that it would
never be known where so much wealth
was cntombcd. The Roman con-
quered the Roman empire. lie was
right in calling himself n scourge, but
instead of being the scourge of God he
was the scourge of hell. Because of
his brilliance and bitterness the com
mcntators were right in believing him
: to be tho star Norwood. As the
I .cEions he deya stated were parts most
! Opllcut with fountains ana streams
and ric s., you see how gra pine ~ ,atia
reference in Revelation: There icil Il
great star from Heaven, burning, as it
were. lamp, and it fell upon the third
part of the rivers and upon the foun-
tains of waters, and the name of the
star is called Norwood"
Have you ever thought how many
embittered lives there are all about us.
| misanthropic, morbid, acrid, saturnine?
The European plant from which worm
| wood is extracted, artcmisia absin-
thium, is perennial plant, and all the
year round it is ready to exudc its oil.
And in many human lives there is n
perennial distillation of acrid expert
cnces. Yea, there are some whose
whole work is to shed a balcful influ-
| ence on others. There are Attilas of
the home or Attilas of the social circle
or Attilas of the church or Attilas of
| the state. and one-third of the waters
of nil the world, if not two-thirds the
waters, are poisoned bv the falling of
the star Norwood. 1t is not compli-
mentary to human nature that most
men. as soon as they get great power,
become overbearing. The more power
men have the better, il their power be
iscd for good. The less power men
have the better, if they use it for evil.
Birds circle round and round and
round before they swoop upon that
which they are aiming Mt. And if my
discourse so far has been swinging
round and round, this moment it drops
straight on your heart and asks the
question: us your life benediction
to others, or an embitterment, a bless
ing or cure, balsam or worm
| woody"