Owingsville outlook. [volume] (Owingsville, Ky.) 1879-192?, 1896-06-11
DESTRUCTIVE WINDS.
They Make Wreeksse Of Mems Pre-
eious Souls, or Level
The TaIlcst Growths OF Human VANITY
Pestiience That Conhes on the wings
bf the Fast Wind-Dr. TaImaees
Lesson of the Tornatio.

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Sunday Exodus g., 10. "And the Lord
brought an east wind upon the land all
that day and all thai night"
The reference here is not to a by
clone, but to the long-cohtinucd blow
Ing of the wind from AN unhealthful
quarter. The north wind is hracing
the south wind relaxing, hut the east
wind is irritating and full of threat
Eighteen times does the Bible speak
igaiist the east wind Moses Describes
the thin ears blasted by the east wind.
The Psalmist describes the breaking of
the ships Of Tarshish by the east
wind. The locusts that plagued
Egypt were blown in on the east
wind. The gourd that sheltered Jonah
was shattered by the east wind, and
In all the 5000 summers, autumns. win
,ers, springs Of the worlds existence
the worst wind that ever blew Is the
East wind. Now, II Tod would unly
give MS a climate Of perpetual NOR
wester, how genial and kind and placid
and industrious Christians we would all
hel But il takes almighty grace To be
what we ought to he under the east
wind. Under the chilling and wet
wing of the east wind the worlds vii
lainies, frauds, outrages, suicides and
murders have been Matched out. /
think you should keep meteorologi-
cal history of the DAYS of the year. and
put right beside II the criminal record
II the country you would find
that those were the hest days
fur public morals which were
under the north or west wind,
and that those were the worst days for
public morals which were under the
east wind. The points of the compass
have more to do with the worlds NOR
ais and the church's piety than you
have yet suspected. Rev. DIR. Archi-
bald Alexander, eminent for learning
and for conservation, when asked by
ohe of his students at Princeton
whether he always had full assurance
of faith, replied: YES, except when
the wind blows from the east" DIR.
Francia, dictator of Paraguay, when
the wind was from the east, made OPP
prcssive enactments for the people: but
when the weather changed. repcnted
him of his cruelties, repealed the en-
actments and was in good humor with
all the world.
You say that men and women ought
not to lie 50 sensitive and nervous.
admit it; hut | am not talking about
what the world ought to be. | am
talking about what the world is. While
there are persons whose dispositions do
not seem to be affected by the changes
In the atmosphere, nine out of ten are
u,ightily played upon by such influ-
ences. o Christian man. under such
circumstances do not write hard things
against yourself, do not get worried
about your iiuctuating experience. You
are to remember that the barometer in
Your soul Is only answering the baron.
eter oj the weather. Instead of sitting
dow and being discouraged and say.
ip Il am not a Christian because |
- not feel exhilarant." get up and
look out of the window and t5r>f,- .he
weather vane pointing To the wrong
quarter and then say: Get thee be-
hind me, Satan. thou prince of the bow.
er of the air, get out of my house. get
out of my heart. thou demon of dark
ness horsed on the east wind. Away
However good and great you may be in
the Christian life, your soul wiz *
be independent of physical con
feel am uttering a most pract
full truth, here, one that mayg -a4-si
to a great many Christians Tho are
worried and respondent ut tirhes.
DIR. Rush. a monarch in ins dicine, af-
ter curing hundreds of eases of mental
depression, himslf fell sick and lost his
religious hope, and he would not be-
lieve his pastor when he told him that
his spiritual depression was only con.
sequence of physical depression. An
drew Fuller, Thomas Scott, VIM. Cow
per, Thomas Boston, David Brainard.
Philip Mclancthon were mighty men
for God, but all of them illustrations
of the fact that mans soul is not in
dependent of his physical health. An
eminent physician gave as his opinion
that no man ever died a great V
triumphant death whose disease was
below the diaphragm. Stackhouse.
the learned Christian commentators.
says he does not think Saul WAS
insane when David played the
harp before him. but 1t was hypo-
chondria coming from inflammation of
the liver. Oh, how many good people
have been mistaken in regard to their
religious hope, not taking these things
into consideration! The dean of Car
Isle, one of the best men that ever
lived, and one of the most useful, sat
down and wrote: Though | have en-
deavored to discharge my duty as well
as could, yet sadness and melancholy
of heart stick close by and increase
upon me. tell nobody, but | am very
much sunk indeed, and wish could
have the relief of weeping as l used to.
My days are exceedingly dark and dis
tressing. In a word, Almighty God
seems to hide His face, and l intrust
the secret hardly to ny earthly being
/ know not-what wal become Of me.
THERE'S doubtless {. good deal of bodily
affiiction mingled with this. but it is
not all so. bless God, however, that
l never lose sight of the cross, and
though l should die without seeing any
personal interest in the Redeemer
merits, hope that shall be found at
His feet. | will thank you for a word
at your leisure. My door is bolted at
the time l am writing this, for l am
full Of tears.
What was the matter with the Dean
of Carlisle? Had he got to be a worse
IAN? No. The physician said that the
state of his pulse would not warrant
his living a minute. Oh, if the east
wind affects the spleen, and affects the
lungs, and affects the liver, it will af.
feet your immortal soul. Appealing to
God for help, brace yourself against
these whitening blasts and destroying
influences lest that which the Psalmist
said broke the ships of Tarshish ship
wreck you.
But notice in my text that the Lord
controls the east wind: 1.-The Lord
brough the east wind" He brings IL
for especial purpose; it must sometimes
blow from that quarter; the east wind
is just as important as the north wind,
or the south wind, or the west wind,
but not so pleasant. Trial must come
The text does not say you will escape
the cutting blast Whoever did es-
cape it? Especially who that accom-