Owingsville outlook. [volume] (Owingsville, Ky.) 1879-192?, 1896-12-31

the regular churches to multiply them,
to cheer them, to clear the way for
them. Some Of them you like. lou
say some are too sensational, and
some of them are not enough
learned, and some of them are
erratic, and some of them are too
vehement, and some Of them pray
/ too loud. oh. fold up your criticism
and let them do that which we. the
pastors. can never do | like all the
cvangrlist> have ever seen or heard.
They are busy now: they are busy ev-
cry day of the week. While we. the
pastors, serve Gol by holding the
fortress of righteousness and drilling
the Christian so,diery, and 10y marshal
ing anthems and sermons and ordi-
nanccS ON the right side, they are ont
fighting the forces of darkness ''hip
and thigh, with great slaughter" All
success Ia them, The faster they gal
lup, the better | like il. The kccucr
the lanceS they fling. the more ! adj
mire them. We care not what convcu-
/ tionality they iniract if they only gain
the victory. Moody. and Chapman,
aud Mills, and Jones. and Harrison,
and Munhail. aud Mai Cole, and Crit
/ tendcn. and hundred others, are now
making the cavalry charge. end they
] are at this moment taking New York
and Philadelphia and Cincinnati for
God, and | wish they might take our
nations capital Hear the tremendous
[ facts: There are now in this country
nearly 10000 church congregations,
4 with nearly II. 600 900 communicates.
with seating capacity in church for
more than 4a.Ol0.OoO people; in other
words, room in the churches for three
| fourths of the population Of this coun-
! try. and about onr-third of the popula-
I iiop of this country already Christian.
I In other words, we have only to aver
age bringing two souls To God during
l the next three years and our country
! is redeemed. Who can not, under the
( power Of the Holy Ghost, bring two
souls Ia God in three years? And 80
many will hiring hundreds and thouS-
ands tn tod. most ~ YOU have To bring
only one soul Ia God and the gospel
campaign for this continent will lie
ended. IL you can not bring one soul
| to God. or two souls, or three souls. in
three years, you are no Christian and
deserve yourself To be shut out of
Heaven. The religious pessimistS
of this country are all the time
depicting the obstacles as so
great and our forces as so
small that We half of the time feel that
we are attempting an impossibnity
| Take out of Your prayers and preach
/ ing some Of your stuffing Of groans
and put in something of reclamation
/ and triumph. AMI the United States
will be gospelizcd, and if the United
States be gospelized America will be
gospclized and America gospeliZed, we
will take Asia from the Pacific beach
and Europe from the Atlantic beach,
and not far from now the lost star we
live on will take its place among the
consultations that never fell. Let the
more than 81, GOO, 900 communicates. as
they lift the sacramental cup to their
| lips, take oath that they will not rest
until the other 40, 100000 are saved.
! The opportunities are all saddled and
bridled. Whore are the men and women
to guide them? IL will deliver the ., 600
| horses, il thou be able TO set riders
upon them" What two men can do
for good or evil is impressed upon me
by the fact that two Scotchmen, going
to California. each took something that
would remind him of his native coun-
try. The one took a thistle, the en-
blem of Scotland. The other took a
hive of bees. Years went by. and the
work of the two Scotchmen Is "'dely
seen. The curse of the Pacii. 3, pc is
the thistle, and the blessing II i.e Pa
cific slope is the honey four very
where in woods aud fell. "a your
life are you responsible for ha.ey or
thistles, and IL one man ca" do much
good, and another SO mu-h evil, how
much could be done for the Isom of
this country by twenty-one million
people all consecrated?
Get out of the way with your dolor-
GUS foreboding, and change your
dirges for what we have not done for
the grand march of what we may do
and will do. The woman at Sedan, in
whose house Napoleon the Last was
waiting to make surrender of himself
and his army. said to the overthrown
French emperor, What can l do for
your And the despairing ex-monarch
replied, Nothing but draw down the
blind SO that / can not be stared at
In this Gospel compaign we have plen-
ty TO draw down the blinds. In Gods
name ] say. pull up the blinds, and let
the morning sun of the coming victory
shine upon US. What we want in this
campaign for God is the self-abnega-
tion and courage of the men of Sir
Colin Campbell. who. as Lord Bishop
Cowie. of New Zealand, once chaplain
of his army, told me, said to the
troops: Men, no retreat from this
place. De right here" And they
shouted: "Yes. Sir Colin; We will do
H." And they did.
Temporary defeats ought not to dis
hearten. What is Bunker Hill mouu-
ment? Monument of defeat But
from that bloody mount American in
dependence started for its grandest
achievement, and all the defeats of
the cause of God are incipient vic
tory.
Thy saints in all this glorious war
Shall conquer. though they die
They see the triumph from afsr
And seiz, It with their eye.
And now, standing as ! do, in this
national capital, let we say that what
we want in the senate and house of
representatives and the supreme
court is pentecostal blessing that
will shake the continent with di-
vine mercy. There recently came into
my hands the records of two congress
sioual prayer meetings, on the rolls of
which were the names OF the most en-
liner senators and representatives who
then controlled the destinies of this
republic-the one congressional prayer
meeting in 1857 and the other in 1866
The record is in the handwriting of the
philanthropist William +. Dodge,
then a member of congress. There
are now more Christian men in
the national legislature than ever
before. Why will they not band
together in a religious movement
which before the Inauguration of the
next president shall enthrone Christ in
the hearts of this nation? They have
the brain, they have the eloquence,
they have the influence. God grant
them the grace sufficient! Who in con-