Owingsville outlook. [volume] (Owingsville, Ky.) 1879-192?, 1896-07-02

hcnan was the IOuldiitt VI w
lleviug nothing; the religion of the
iIuxleys and thE Speneers merely
pedestal on which human philosophy |
sits shiycring in the night of the soul,
looking mp to the stars, offering no
help to the nations That crouch. and
groan AT the base. Tell me where there
Is one man who has rejected that Cos
pei for another, who is thoroughly sat |
iSfed. and helped. and contented in his |
sbrpticism. and I will take the ear to- |
morrow and ride 800 miles To see him. !
The full power of the Gospel has not |
vet been Touched. As a sportsman !
throws up his head and catches tn. ball |
iyitlg .thtcriph the air Just 81 easily !
will this Gospel otter q Niiile catch |
this round world flying from It's orbit |
and bring il back tn the heart of Christ. |
Give it full swing. aud it will pardon |
every sin, neal ever wound. cure every !
trouble, emancipatc every slave "n'
ransom every nation. We Christian
men and women. who go out this after
noon to do Christian work, as you go
into the Sunday schools, the lay
preaching stations aud the peniteutia-
rics aud the asyluns ! want tou to feel
that gon .hcfir, III your hand a weapon
compared with which The lightning has
no speed and avalanches have no ac't
and the thundcrbOliS of heaven have
no power: it is the arrow of the omnip-
olcrt Gn"pel Take careful aim. Pull
the arrow Gear back .ntil the head
strikes the bow, Then let it fly. And
may the slain OF the Lord be many.
Again. if you want to be skillful in
spiritual archery, You must hunt in un-
freuuentcd aud secluded places. Why
does toe hunter go three or four days
In the rcnnsyI3ania forests or over ha-
qucttc lake into the Wilds of the Adj
rondacks' II is the only way to do.
The deer are shy, and one bang OF
the gun clears the forest. From the
California stage you see, as you go
over the plains, here and there, coy
ote 'rotting along, almost within
| tange az The gun sometimes quite
within range Of it. No one cafes tor
that: it is worthless. The good game
is hidden and secluded. Every hunter
knows that. so, many of the souls
that will he of most worth for Christ
| and of most value to the church are Sc
rludcd. They do NIT rume in your way
You will have td go where they are
| Ydndcr they are down III that cellar;
| yOnder they are up in that garnet. Far
away from the door of any church.
the Gospel arrow has not been poittted
at them The tract distributor and
city missionary sometimes catch
| glimpse of them. as a hunter through
the trees gets II mnmcntary sight of
partridge or roebuck. The trouble
| is. we are waiting for the game to
come to MS. We are not good
hunters, We are standing in some
street OF highway expecting that
the timid ;thtclopc will come up
and eat ont of our hands. We are ex-
pecting that the prairie fowl will light
on our church steeple. 1t is not their
| habit IT the church should wait ten
millions of years for the world to come
in and he saved, it will wait in vain.
| The world will not come. What the
church wants now is to lift its feet
from damasS ottomans, and put them
In the stirrups. We want a pulpit ON
wheel, The church wants not so
touch &C as il wants Saddle-hags
an have got to put aside
III ID kid gloves, and
-, ga hunting shirt. We
. .sge iShing SO long in the
Co.,. run under the shadow
%, rch that .., psa know us.
tn. avoid the urr. tnl
cape a." soon as we cone 20 the ,IaH
viii 1AAonder is Upper .ar..lf, ;,i a..
| TupA y lake; where THE / Il swing of
thx. s,l net would break it for the
md of fishes. There is outside
t TSFT racss sS1ilIss ' se", | see Th i%
hunters I ..s-sAse a clearing and
campcd OF What do they care if
they have wet feet, or if they have
nothing hit u pine branch for a pill
low, or for,the northeast storm? IL a
moose in the darkness steps into the
lake to drink, they hear it right
away. If loon cry In the moonlight,
they hear it. So in the service of God
we haze exposed work. We have got
to camp out and rough it. We are put
ting all our care on the people who
come To our churches. What are we
doing for the thousa nds upon thous-
ands that do not come? Have they no
souls? Are they sinlcss, that they
need no pardon? Are there no dead
in their bouses, that they need no com
fort? Arc they cut off from God. to
go into eternity-nO wing tn bear
them. no light to cheer them, no well
come to greet them? | hear to-day,
surging up from tho lower depths, a
groan that comes through our
Christian assemblages and through our
beautiful churches; aud it blots out all
this scene from my eyes to-day, as by
the mists of great Niagara, for the dash
and the plunge of these great torrents
of life dropping down into the fathom-
less and laundering abyss of suffering
and woe. [ somtimes think that just rs
God blotted out the churches of Ihya-
tira and Corinth and Laodicea, because
of their cloth and stolidity, He will
blot out American and English Chris
tianity, and raise on the ruins n stall
wart, wide-awake, missionary church,
that can take the full meaning of that
commands: Go into all the world, and
preach the Gospel to every creature"
|
succeed in spiritual archery you must
have courage. Ii the hunter stand
with trembling hand or shoulder that
flinchcs with fear, instead of his taking
the catamnuut. the catamount takes
him. What would become of the
Grecnlander if. when out hunting for
the bear, he should stand shivering
with terror on an iceberg? What
would have become of Du Chaillu and
Livingstone in the African thicLet with
faint heart and a weak knee? When
a panther comes within 20 PAGES of you
and it has It's eye on you and it has
squattcd ;or the fearful spring,
STEADY thcre!'
Courage, We spiritual archers,
There are great monsters in iniquity
prowling all around about the com.
munity. Shall we not of the strength
of God go forth and comtI- them? We
rot only need more hc1r- bat more
hack bone. What is the ci.4lra Ct sod
hat it should fear to lOot 81 .uc q. Ia
any tran sgression? There is sac hen
gal tiger of drunkenness that nv Is
around, and instead of attacking il
how many of us hide under the
church-pew or the communion table!
There is so much invested in it we are
afraid to assault it; millions of dollars
in barrels, in watts, in spigots, in cork