Owingsville outlook. [volume] (Owingsville, Ky.) 1879-192?, 1896-09-24


lieve Ne, and do you believe Me now?"
Why, all the telegraph stations of the
earth would be crowded as none of
them were ever crowded just after a
ship wreck. tell all these things to
show you it is not among the impossi-
Iilities or even the improbablities that
Christ will conquer the whole earth,
and do it instantcr, when the time
comes. There are foretolenings in the
air Something great is going to hap
pen. do not think that Jupiter is going
to run us down, or that the axle of the
world is going to break; but mean
something great for the worlds bless
ing, and not for the worlds damage, is
going to happen. | think the world
has had it hard enough. Enough, the
famincs and plaques. Enough, the
Asiatic cholera. Enough, the wars.
Enough, the shipwrecks. Enough, the
connagratious. / think our world
could stand right well procession of
properties and triumphs. Better be
on the lookout Better have your
ohservatories open toward the
heavens, and the lenses of your
most po vcr:ul telescopes well pol.
ishcd. Better have all your Leyden
jars ready for some new pulsation of
mighty influence. Better have new
fonts Of type in your printing offices tic
set up some astounding good news.
Better have some banner that has new
err been carried, ready for sudden pro-
cessions. Better have the bells in
your church towers well hung, and
rope within reach, that you may
ring out the marriage of the Kings
Son. Cleanse all your courthouses,
for the Judge of all the earth may
appear. Let all your legislative
halls he gilded for the Grelt Law
giver may he about To come. Drive off
the thrones of despotism all the occu-
pants, for the King of Heaven and
earth may be about to reign. The
darkness of the night is blooming and
whitening into the lilies of morning
cloud, and the lilies reddening into the
roses of stronger day-it garlands,
whether white or red, for Him on
whose head are many crowns THE
day is at hand.
One more ray of the dawn see in
| facts chronological and mathematical.
Come now, do not let us do another
stroke of work until we have settled
one matter. What is going to be the
final issue of this great contest be-
tween sin and righteousness? Which
is going to prove himself the stronger,
God or Dia bolus? Is this world going to
he all garden or all desert? Now, let us
have that matter settled. If we believe
Isaiah, Ezekiel. and Hosea ard Micah,
and Malachi, and Joan, and Peter, and
Paul, and the Lord him self, we believe
that it is going to be all garden. But
let us have it settled Let us known
whether we are working on toward n
success or toward a dead failure If
there is a child in your house sick and
you are sure he is going to get well
you sympathizc with present pains, but
all the forboding is gone. If you are
in cyclone off the Florida coast
and the captain assures you the YES
sci is stanch and the winds are chang
ing for a better quarter, and he is sure
he will bring you safe into the harbor,
you patiently submit to present dis
tress with the thought of safe arrival.
Now, | want to know whether we are
coming on toward dismay, darkness
and defeat, or on toward light and
blessedness. You and l believe
the latter. Ii so, every year we
spend is one year subtracted from
the worlds woe, and every event
that passes, whether bright or dark,
brings us one event nearer a happy
consummation, and by all that is in-
eXorable in chronology and mathe-
MATES | commend you to good cheer
and courage. If there is anything in
arithmetic, if you subtract two from
five and leave three, then by every
rolling sun we are coming on toward
magnificent terminus. Then every
s--r ms s~-s- - ono severity less for
Cor world. Then every summer
gone by brings us nearer unfadiug
arborS rGaAI- Put you- algebra down
on the top of your Bible and rejoicc.
If it is nearer morning. at o'clock
than it is at ,, if it is nearer morning
at 4 o'clock than it is at 8, then we are
nearer the dawn of the worlds deliv-
erance. Gods clock seems to go very
slowly, but the pendulum swings, and
the hands move, and it will yet strike
noon. The sun and tho moon stood
still once; they will never stand still
again until they stop forever. If you
believe arithmetic as well as your BIZ
BILE, you must believe we are nearer the
dawn. The day is at hand"