Owingsville outlook. [volume] (Owingsville, Ky.) 1879-192?, 1896-04-16

sake, tor lnelfS IL llc hunbuOm oi
Heaven" but they do not realize the
fact that this principle applies To word
ly as well as spiritual success 1t is
true in all departments Men rise to
high positions through miSrcpresenta-
ton. Public abuse is all that some of
our public men have had to rely upon
for their elevation. II has brought to
them what talent and executive force
could not have achieved. Many of
those who are making great effort
for place and power will never sue
coed. inst because they are not of
enough Importance to be abused. II
is the nature of men-that is, of
all generous and reasonable men-to
gather about those who are prosecuted
and defend them, and they are apt to
forget the fault of those who are the
subjects of attacks while attempting to
drive back the slanderers. Persecu-
ton is elevation. Helen Stirk, the
Scotch martyr, standing with her hus-
band at the place of execution, said:
Husband, let MS rejoice to-day; we
have lived together many happy years;
this il the happiest time of all our life;
you see we are to he happy together
forever. he brave, now, be brave. |
will not say Good night to you, for we
shall soon he in the kingdom of our
father together" Persecution shows
the hero and heroines. go into an
other department and find that those
great denominations of Christians
which have been most abused have
syread the most rapidly. No good man
was ever more violently maltreated
than John Wcsley-belicd and Carl
catured and slandcred until one day he
stood in pulpit in London, and man
arose in the audience and said: You
were drunk last night" and John IVES
ley said: Thank God, the whole cat
alogue is now complete. | have been
charged with everything but THAR
His followers were hooted at and ma
ligned and called by every detestable
name that Internal ingenuity could in
vent, but the hotter the prosecution the
more rapidly they spread, until you
know what "A great host they have be-
come and what n tremendous force for
God and the truth they are welding all
the worN over! IL was persecution
that gave Scotland To Presby-
terians. 1t was persecution that gave
our land first to civil liberty and aft
erward to religious freedom. Yea,
| might 20 further back and say
it was persecution that gave
the world the great salvation of the
Gospel. The ribald mocleery, the hun
gering and thirsting, the unjust charge,
the ignominious death, when all the
force of hell's fury was hurled against
the cross, was the introduction of that
religion which is yet to be the earth's
dcliverance and our eternal salvation.
The state sometimes said to the church:
| Come, take my hand and | will help
you" What was the result? The
church went back and it lost its estate
of holiness. and it became ineffective.
| At other times the state said to the
| church: Il will crush you" What has
been the result? After the storms have
spent their fury the church. SO fan
from having lost any of its force
has increased, and is worth infinitely
more after the assault than before
Read all history and you will find that
true. The church is far more m
debted to the opposition OF civil gov
eminent than to its approval. The
fires of the stake have only been the
torches which Christ held in his hand
by the light of which the church has
marched to her present, glorious posi-
ton. In the sound of racks and nipple
ments of torture hear the rumbline
of the Gospel chariot. The scaffolds OF
martyrdom have been the stairs by
which the church mounted.
Learn also from our subject that sir
will come to exposure. Long, long age
had those brothers sold Joseph int,
Egypt. They had made the old father
believe that his favorite child was dead
They had suppressed the crime, and i
was profound secret well kept by the
brothers. But suddenly the secret il
out. The old father hears that his soI
is in Egypt. having been sold there by
the malice of his own brothers. How
their checks must have burned and theil
hearts sunk at the flaming out of thi'
long suppressed crime. The smallest mi
guilty has n thousand tongues, and they
will blab out exposure. Saul was SEN
to destroy the Canaanites, their sheer
ana the'r OXEN out when ne got uowf
there among tue pastures nc saw Soih'
hhe sheep an" oxen 700 la' 10 Kill Sc
ne Thought ne would steai ,hem' NO
BODY would know IT, lie drove tnes'
stolen sheep ana oxen toward nome, ou
stopped 10 report 10 the prophet no"
ne hao executed ms miss'on' wheh II
the distance 'he sneep began 10 piea
ana the oxen 10 oeliow. Inc secret wa
out anu namuei saiu 10 the oiushing ant
confused oaui' VIVA. nheaneth 'h'
oieatin% Oh 'he sheep Una, ! near an'
the oeiiowins Oh 'he ea''ie' hn' my
nearer you can ho' heep an ihiqui'N
s'iii a' Just inc wrong time ,he sneel
VIII oiea' ana 'he oxen VIII pei'ow
Achah can no' s'ea' 'he nao y,on,Si
garment without oeihs s'oheo 10 uea'h
nor hrnoio oe',ay ms COUNTY, ",'hou
having ms neck s're.cheu, LOOK owe
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ourgiars' these coun' t. mes
n'ghway.hen' 'nese assass.ns, .n.y a.
'hougn' .hey eouiu Jury 'heir ihiqui.'
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