Owingsville outlook. [volume] (Owingsville, Ky.) 1879-192?, 1896-11-19
TIE SUPERNATURAL.
LET Me Go. for the Day Breaketh, /"
Cried the Angel,
OF Jobbok With Jacob struggle of
Everyday Life Foreshsdowe d-ser-
mon by DIR. Taimage.

mon by DIR. Tsimage.
Out of this strange seehe of Biblb
times, DIR. Talmage, in his sermon sun
day, draws remarkable lessons of good
cheer and triumph. His subject was:
Wrestling with the Supernatural"
and the text: Genesis NXxii, -, 70:
And when he saw that he prevailed
not against him, he touched the hol-
low of his thigh; and the hollow of ia
cobs thigh was out of Joint rs he
wr, stlcd with him. And he said, Let
me go, for the day brcakcth. And he
said | will not let thee go except thou
bless me,
There is cloud nf dust from trav-
cling herd of cattle, and sheep, and
goats, and camels They are the pres
cnt that Jacob sends to gain the good
will Of his offended brother. That
night Jacob haltS 10y the brook .Iab-
box. hut there is no rest for the
weary man. No shining ladder To let
the angels down into his dream; hut
severe struggle, that lasts until morn
ing. with an unknown visitor. They
each try Ia throw the other. The un-
known visitor, To reveal his superior
power. 10y a touch wrrnChcS Jacobs
thigh bone from its socket, perhaps
manning him for life. A. ON the morn
ing sky the clusters of purple cloud
begin to ripcn, Jacob sees it is an
angel with whom he has been contend
ing. and not one of his brothers cuad-
tutors. Let me GO, cries the angel,
lifting himself mp into increasing light,
1.-The day brcakcth."
You sec. in the first place. that God
allows good people sometimes tn get
into terrible struggle, Jacob WAS n
good man; but here he is left alone in
the midnight to wrcstlc with tire
mrndouS influence 10y the brook Jab-
box. For Joseph, pit; for Daniel, a
wild beast den; for David, dcthrunc-
mcnt and exile; for John the Baptist
a wilderness, diet and the execution
ers AK: for Peter, a prison; for Paul,
shipwrcck; for John, dcsolatc ratmos;
for Christ, the cross.
For whom the racks. the gibhcts. the
| prisons, the thumhscrews? For the
sons and daughters % the Lord Al
X
reformer, THE world is against you.
Then" he replied, Il am against the
world"
will 60 further and say that every
| Christian has his struggle. With finan-
cial misfortune some of you have had
the middl, might wrcstlc. Red hot dis
astcrs have dropped into your store
from loft To cellar What you bought
you could not sell. Whom You trusted,
fled. The help you expected would
not come. Some giant panic, with
long arms and grip like death, took
hold of you in an awful wrcstlc, from
which you have not yet escaped, and ii
| is uncertain whether it will throw you
or you will throw it. Here is another
soul in struggle with some bad appe-
tit. lie knew not how stealth
lily it was growing upon him.
One hour he woke up. He said,
For the sake of my soul, of my fam.
lily, of my children, and of my God,
must stop this And behold, .he found
himself alone, by the brook q, Jabbol;
and it was midnight That evil appe-
titc seized upon him, and he seized up.
on it; and oh, the horror of the CON
fl;ct. When once lad habit hath
reused itself up to destroy n man, and
the MIN has sworn that, by the help OF
the eternal God, he will destroy it, al
Heaven draws Itself out in long line o.
light to look from above and all he'll
stretches itself in myrmidons of spite
To. look up from beneath. | have seen
men rally themselves for struggle
and they have bitten their lip, and
clenched their fist, and cried with &
blood-red earnestncss and rain o.
scalding tears: God, help me-
From a wrestle with habit hav,
seen men falling back defeated. Call
ing for no help, but relying on thcii
own resolutions, they have come into
the struggle; and for a lime it seemed
a. if they were getting the upper hanC
o. their habit, but that habit rallied
again its Internal power, and lifted tn,
soul from its standing, and, with /;
force borrowed from the pit, hurled i
into outer darkness
But, thank God, have often seer
better termination than this.
have seen men prepare them
selves Cor such wrestling. They
lad hold OF COTS help as they
went into combat. The giant habit
RECALLED by the cup q. many di sipa
tioas, came out strong AM defiant
They clencacd. There were the with
inTs and distortions o! fearful strug
gle. But the old giant began to WAIVER
and ut last, in the midnight, alone, with
none but God to witness, by the b~oo!
Jabhok. the giant fell; and the tri
umphant wrestler broke the darkness.
with the cry, Thanks be unto God
who givcth us the victory, through
our Lord Jesus Christ"
There is a widows heart, that frs
was dcsplated by bereavement, anC
since. by the anxietics and trials tina
came in the support of Il family. 1t is
a 81 thing To see man cuntrnding
for a livelihood under disadvantages
but to see delicate woman, with help
less little ones at her back, fighting tn,