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

nothing at oil. II resolve al the ser
vice this day TO become a Christian
that amounts to nothing at all
If resolve after l go home
to-day to yield my heart to God,
that amounts to nothing at all.
The only kind of resolution that
that is Immediately put into execution.
There is a man who had the typhoid
fever. he said: "Oh, IL could get over
this terrible distress; II this fever
should depart; if could be restored to
health, L would all the rest of my life
serve God" The fever departed. lie
got well enough to walk around the
block. lie got well enough to go over
to business. lie is well to-day-as
well as he ever was. Where is the
broken vow? There is a man who said
long ago: "If l could live to the
year 1890, by that time I will have
my business matters all arranged, and
| will have time to attend to religion,
and will be a good, thorough. conse-
Grated Christian" The year 1896 has
come. January. February, March,
April-a fourth of the year gone.
Where is your broken vow? "Oh,r
says some man. IN attend to that
when get my character fixed up, when
can get over my evil habits; ! am now
given to strong drink" or, says the
man, II am given to uncleanliness," or
says the man, II am given to dishon-
esty. When get over my present habits
then I'll be a thorough Christian" MY
/ n
until Christ takes you in hand. Not
the righteous. sinners Jesus came to
call" oh, hut you say, II agree
with you in all that, but l must put it
off a little longer" Do you know there
were many who came just as near as
you are to the kingdom of God and
never entered 1t? l was at Easthamp-
ton, and went into the cemetery to
| look around. and in that cemetery
there are IL graves side by side-the
graves of sailors. This crew, some
years ago. in ship went into the
breakers ut Amagansett, about three
miles away. My brother, then preach
ing at Easthampton, had been at the
burial. These men of the crew came
very near being saved. The people
| from Amagansett saw the vessel, and
they shot rockets, and they sent
ropes from the shore, and these poor
fellows got into the boat, and they
pulled nightly for the shore, but Just
before they got to the shore the rope
snapped and the boat capsized and
they were lost. Their bodies after
ward washed upon the beach. OH
| hot 1ax II hax- hnn
told of it by my brother-when these
twelve men lay at the foot of the pull
pit, and he read over them the funeral
service. They came very near shore
within shouting distance of the shore,
vet did not arrive on solid land. There
are some men who come almost to the
shore of Gods mercy, but not quite.
not quite. To be almost saved is to be
| lost.
will tell you of two prodigals-the
one that got back and the other that
did not get back. In Richmond, Va,
| there is a very prosperous and beauti-
full home in many respects. A young
man wandered Off from that home. lie
wandered very far into sin. They
heard of him after, but he was always
on the wrong track. He would not go
home. At the door of that beautiful
home one night there was a great out
cry. The young man of the house ran
down to open the door to see what
| was the matter. 1t was midnight
| The rest of the family were asleep.
There were the wife and children of
this prodigal young man. The fact
was he had come home and driven them
out. ''Out of this house! Away with
these children. 1 will dash their brains
out. Out into the Storm The mother
gathered them up and fled. The next
morning the brother, the young man
who had staid at home. went out to
find this prodigal brother and son, and
he came where he was and saw the
young man wandering up and down in
front of the place where he had been
staying, and the young man who had
kept his integrity said to the older
brother: "Here, what does all this
mean? What is the matter with
you? Why do you act in this
way? The prodigal looked at him
take me to be?" He said: "You are
my brother" mo, L am not. l am a
brute. Have you seen anything of my
wife and children? 1 drove them out
last night in the storm. / am a brute.
John, do you think there is any help
for me? Do you think will ever get
over this life of dissipation He said:
John, there is one thing that will stop
this" The prodigal ran his fingers
across his throat and said: THAT
will stop it, and l will stop it before
night. Oh, my brain; l can
stand it no longer" That prodigal
never got home.