Owingsville outlook. [volume] (Owingsville, Ky.) 1879-192?, 1896-09-24
THE DAY is AT HAND.
The hlmishty's Finger Guides the
Chariot of Our Destiny
That Rolls 50 Close To Ruin. hut Never
StTikCs-N Use Heads Ward ON Ia Conflict
and Dcft Hands Prevent some Dire
Disaster IaImacc's sermon.


aster-1almHce's sermon.
DR. Talmag text was Romans xiii,
Il: The day is at hand"
Back from the mountains and the
seaside, and the springs, and farm
house, your checks bronZcd and your
spirits lighted, hail you home again
with the words of Gyhazi to the Shu-
Mantle: is it well with thee? Is il
well with thy husband? Is it we'll with
the child? On some faces | see the
mark of recent grief, but all along the
track of tears see the story of rcSur-
rrction and reunion when all tears are
done; the deep blowing of the keel, fol-
lowed lay the flash of phoSphorcSccncc.
Now that | have asked YOU in regard
Ia your welfare, you naturally
ask how am. Very well. thank
You Whether il was the hracing air
of H. , mountains, or bath in the surf
of Lcp ny Island Beach. or whether il is
the j. Y of standing in this great group
of warm-hcartcd friends, or whether il
is a new appreciation of the goodness
of God, can not tell | simply know
y, ffatt, the great Methodist preacher
occasionally got fast in his sermon,
and To cxtricate himself would cry
"lIallclujahr' | am in no such prcdica-
mcnt to-day, but | am full of the same
raphsodic ejaculation. Starting out
this morning ON "A new ecclesiastical
year, | want 10 give you the keynote of
my next II months ministry. | want
To set it To the tunes of Antioch,
ARIEL aud Coronation | want to
put a new trumpet stop into my SER
mons. We do wrong if we allow our
personal SORROWS to interfere with the
glorious fact that the kingdom is com
ing. We are wicked if we allow appre-
hension of national disaster to put
down our faith in Col and in the mis-
sion of our American people. The God
who hath been on the side of this ma
tion since the 4th of July, 1910, will
see To it that this nation shall not com
nit suicide on November 5, 1896. by
the time the unparalleled harvests of
this summer get down to the seaboari
we shall be standing in sunburst of
national prosperity that will plralyze
the pcssimist>. who by their evil proph-
ecies are blaspheming the God who
hath blest this nation as he hath blest
no other.
In all our Christian work you and |
want more of the element of gladness.
No man had a right to say that Christ
never laughed. DO you suppose that
he was glum at the wedding in GAIA
of Galilce? DO You auppose that Christ
was unresponSive when the children
clambcred over His knee and shoulder
at His own invitation? Do you sup
pose that the Evangelist meant moth
ing when he said of Christ: lie re-
joiced in spirit DO you believe that
the Divine Christ who pours all
the waters over the rocks ut
Vernal Falls, Yosemite, does not be-
live in the sparkle and gallop and tu-
multuous JOY and rushing rapture of
human life? | believe To. a1. c at
the morning laughsy>ano tna' tne
mountains laugh, and tEal b. - as
laugh, and that the casc.,I. ... :h,
but that Christ laughed. NJ ., take
n laugh and tear into an a}.-u q. and
assay them, and test then ait sIyZe
them, and you will often find a, l..uch
of the pure gold of religion in a laugh
as in n tear. Deep spiritul joy always
shows itself in facial illumination.
John Wesley said he was sure OF a cool
religious impression being n ed
hgcansed of what he calls Z -
g'adncsS =" Jaw among the -
Goaies-. .a.- .cs-->sShscy -.s.-
.yhern, L2t 'es "a stan joy
As appropriate very.
= Moreover, the outtas.-aof the world
ought to str us to gladnesS. Astrono-
mers disturbed many people by telling
them that there was danger OF stellar
collision. We were told by these as
tronomcrs that there are worlds COM
ing very near together, and that we
shall have plaques and wars and tu-
mults and perhaps the worlds destruc-
ton. Do not be scared. If you have
ever stood at railroad center, where
10 or 20 or 30 rail tracks cross each
other, and seen that by the movement
of the switch one or two inches the
train shoots this way and that, with
out colliiing, then you may under
stand how - worlds may come within
an inch OF disaster and that inch be as
good as million miles. IL n human
switch tender can shoot the trains this
way and that without harm, can not
the hand that for thousands of
years has upheld the universe keep our
little world out of harms way? Chris
tian biologists tell us that this world
was millions of years in building.
Well, now, | do no: think God would
take millions of years to build house
which was to last only 6,0)O years.
There is nothing in the world or out
side the world, terrestrial or astronom-
zeal, to excite dismay. | wish that
some stout Gospel breeze might scatter
all the malaria of human foreboding.
The sun rose this morning at about six
o'clock, and | think that is just about
the hour in the worlds history. The
day is at hand"
The first ray of the dawn | see in the
gradual substitution of diplomatic
skill for human butchery. Within the
last % years there have been interna-
tional differences which would have
brought shock of arms in any other
day, but which were peacefully adj
justed, the pen taking the place of tie
sword. The Venezuelan controversy
in any other age of the world would
have brought shock o. arms, but now
is being So quietly adjusted that nc
one knows just how it is being settled.
The Alabama question in any other
age of the world would have caused
war between the United States AMI
England. How was it settled? by
men-of-war off the Narrows or off the
Mersey? by the gulf stream of the
ocean crossed by gulf stream of hu-
man blood? by the pathway of ma
tions incarnadined? No. A few wise
men go into quiet room at Geneva,
talk the matter over AMI telegraph to
Washington and to London, "All
settled" Peace! Peace! England
pays to the United States the amount
awarded-pays really more than she
ought to have paid. But still, all thai
Alabama broil is settled-settled for
ever. Arbitration instead of battle.
So the quarrel about the Canadian