Owingsville outlook. [volume] (Owingsville, Ky.) 1879-192?, 1896-10-08
DIVINE ClllROGRAPHY.
Rejoice Because Your Names Are
Written in Heaven.
The Archives WIN Come to Light Some
Day, and Each Wal see His Deeds
stand forth Beautiful SIRE
mon hy Rev. 4. Dewitt
Iaimage. n. ~.

DIR. Talmage's subject sunday was,
"nivinc Chirography,' the text being
Luke ", 20: Rejoice because Your
names are written in Heaven
thirography, or the art of handwrit-
ing, like the science Of acoustics is in
| a very unsatisfactory state. While
constructing a church, and told hy
some architects that the voice would
not be heard in building sharcd like
| that proposed. | came, in much anx-
icty. To this city ana consulted with
| Pro-. Joseph Henry, of the Smithsonian
| institution, about the law of acnus-
ties, lie said: TO ahead and
hulli your church in the shape
proposed, aud | think it will Ice all
right. | have studied the laws of
sound perhaps more than any man of
my time, ami | have come 81 far a.
this: Two auditorium, may seem Ia be
exactly al he, and in one the acoustics
may hr good and in the other bad" In
the SINE unsatisfactory stage is chirng-
raphy, although many declare they
have reduced it Ia a science. There
ac;cr 10y handwriting. 1t is said that
the way one writes the letter Il" de-
cidcS his cgotiSm or modeSty, and the
way one writes the letter % decides
the height and depth of his emotions.
| 1t is declared cramped hand means a
cramprd nature, and an easy and flow
ing hand facilc and liberal spirit, but
if there he anything in the science,
there must he some rules not yet an
nounccd. for some of the boldcst and
most aggressive men have a delicate
aud small pcnmanship, while some ~
,hc most tlmid sign their names with
the hight and width and scope of the
name of John Hancock ON the immur-
tai document. Some of the clcancst in
person and thought present their blot
tel aud spattcrcd page, and some of
the roughcSt put before us an immac-
ulate photography. Not our character,
hut the cnpy-platc set before us in our
schoulboy days. decides the general
style of our handwriting SO also
there is a fashion in penmanship, and
for one decade the letters are cX-
aggeratcd, and in the next miniticd;
now erect and now aslant, now heavy
and now fine. An autograph album
is always surprise, and you find the
pcumanship contradicts the character
of the writers. But while the chirog-
raphy of the earth is uncertain, our
blessed Lord in out text presents the
rhirography celestial. When address,
ing the 20 disciples, standing before
Him, lie said: Rejoice because your
names are written in Heaven"
OF course the Eib.e, for the most
part. when speaking of the heavenly
world, speaks tiguratively while talk
ing about book and about trumpcts
and abouc wings and about gates and
about golden pavemcntS and about
orchards with twelve crops of fruit
one crop each month-and about the
white horses of Heavens cavalry: but
we do well to follow out these inspired
metaphors and reap from them cour-
age and sublime expectation and con-
ISOLATION and victory We are told that
in the heavenly library there is a Book
Of Life. Perhaps there are many vol
umes in it. When we say n book, we
mean all written by the author on that
subject. | can not tell how large those
heavenly volumes arc. nor the SPLEEN
dor of their bindings, ncy the number
of their pages, nor whether they are
pictiorialized with some exciting scenes
of This world. y only know that the
words have not been impressed by
tyT {. but written out b. some hand,
anil that all those who, like the 20 dis
ciplcs to whom the test was spoken,
| IL e., l,.as.-
eternal salvation, surely have
| their names written in Heaven.
1t may not be the same name
that we carried on earth. We may,
through the inconsiderateness of par
ents, have a name that is uncouth, or
that was afterward dishonored by one
after whom we were called. ] do not
know that the seventy entrances of the
names of the seventy disciples corre-
spond with the record in the genealog-
zeal table. 1t may not be the name by
which we were called on earth, but it
will be the name by which Heaven will
know US, and we will have it an
nounced to us as we pass in, and we
will know it so certainly that we will
not have to be called twice by it, as in
the Bible times the Lord called some
people twice by name, Saul! Saul"
Samuel. Samuel!'' Martha. Mar
thar
When you come up and look for your
name in the mighty tones of eternity
and you are so happy as to find it there,
you will notice that the penmanship is
Christ's, and that the letters were
written with n trembling hand. Not
trembling with old age, for lie had
only passed three decades when lie ex-
pircd. 1t was soon after the 30th ami
versary Of his birthday. Look over all
the business accounts you kept of the
letters You wrote at 80 years of age,
and if you were ordinarily strong and
well. then there was no trcmor in the
chirography. Why the tremor in the
hand that wrote your name in
Heaven? Oh, it was compress
sion of more troubles than
ever smote anyone else, and all of them
trou bleS assumed for others. Christ
was prematurely old. lie had been
exposed to all the weathers of Pales-
tine. lie had slept out of doors, now
in the night dew and now in the tenn
pest ilt bCCu liiC surf
of Lake Galilee Pillows for others,
but lie had not where to lay His lead.
Hungry, lie could not even get fig
on which to breakfast; or have
you missed the pathos of that
verse, I'm the morning, as lie
returned into the city, lie hungered,
and when lie saw fig tree in the
way. lie came to it and found moth
ing thereon" Oh. lie was n hungry
Christ, and nothing makes the hand
tremble worse than hunger, for it pulls
upon the stomach, and the stomach
pulls upon the brain, and the brain
pulls upon the nerves, and the agitated
nerves make the hand quake On the
top of all this evaporation came
abuse. What sober man ever wanted
to be called drunkard? but Christ
was called one. What respecter of the
Lords day wants to be called Sabbath
breaker? but He was called one. What
man, careful of the company he keeps,
wants to be called the associate of
profigates? but lie was so called. What