Owingsville outlook. [volume] (Owingsville, Ky.) 1879-192?, 1896-03-12

StrOy, any tmulOrtai souls ~ unmn, any
more nations To ballS, any more civiliza-
tions to extinguish.
Then there is in America what we
call socialism, in France communism,
and in Russia Nihilisn--thc three
names for one and the same thing and
having but two doctrines In its creed:
First, there is no God Second, there
shall he no rights of property. One of
their chief journals printed this scnti-
mcnt; dynamite can DC made ont of
the dead bodies of capitalists as well as
out of hogs" One of the leaders of
communism left inscribed on his prison
wall, where he had been Justly incar
ccratcd, these words. when once you
are dead, there is an end of everything;
therefore, We scoundrels, grab what
ever you can only don't let Yourselves
be grabbed. Amen There are in
this country hundreds of thousands of
these lazy scoundrcls.
Honest men deplorc it when they can
not get work, but those of whom
speak will not do work when they can
get it. tried To employ one who asked
NV W. 'ohtNs lfbND III NV
cellar - some wood To saw, and | will
pay you for It," For n little while |
heard the saw going, and then I heard
it no more. | went downstairs, and
found the wood, but the workman had
disappeared, taking for company both
buck and saw.
Socialism, communism and nihiliSm
mean, Too wicked to acknowledge
God, and too lazy to card II living" and
among the mightiest obstacles To be
overcome are those organized elements
of domestic, social and political ruin.
There are also the businesses of inf
deity, and atheism. and fraud, and po-
litical corruption, and multiform, ny
dra-headcd million-armcd denominations
all over the land. While the mightiest
agencies for righteousness on earth are
good and hcalthful newspapers and
good and healthful looks, and our chief
dependence for intelligence and Chris
tian achievement is upon them, what
word among the more than one hun
dred thousand words in our vocabulary
can describe the work of that archan-
angel Of mischief, a corrupt literature?
What man, attempting anything for
God and humanity, has escaped IL
stroke of its lithy wing? What good
cause has escaped its Underwent?
What other obstacle in all the land
so appalling? But ! can not name
more than onc-half the battlcmcnts,
the bastionS, the intrcnchments, the re-
doubts, the Notifications to be stormed
and overcome if this country is ever
taken for God. The statistics are so
awful that if we had nothing but the
multiplication table and the arithmetic
the attempt to cvangclizc America
would be an absurdity higher than the
Tower of Babel before it dropped on
the plain of Shinar. Where are the
drilled troops to march against those
Notifications as long as the continent?
Where are the batteries that can be I'M
limbercd against these walls? Where
are the guns of large caliber to storm
these gates? Well. let us look around
and see, the first of all, who is our
leader and will he our leader until the
work is done. Garabaldi with a thou
sand italians could do more than an
other commander with 10000 Italians.
Gen. 81 erman on one side, and Stone
wall jackson on the other, each with
10 HG0 troops, could do more thar some
pth'r generals :rfti. eJ; troops The
roGs., uoat in which Washington
crossed the icy Delaware with few
half-frozen troops was mightier than
the ship of war that, during the Amer
lean revolution, came through the mar
rows, gun at each portfolio, and sunk
in He'll Gate Our leader, like most
great leaders, was born in an obscure
place, and it was an humble home,
about five miles from Jerusalem. Those
who were out of doors that night said
that there was stellar commotion, and
music that came out of the clouds, as
though the front door of Heaven had
been set open, and that the camcls
heard His first infantile cry. Then
He came to the fairest boyhood
that mother was very proud of,
and from l. to 80 years of age was
off in India, if traditions there are ac-
curate, and then returned to His ma
tive land, and for three years had His
pathway surrounded with blind eyes
that he illumined. and epileptic patients
to whom He gave rubicund health, and
tongues that He loosed from silence in
to song, and those whose funerals He
stopped that He might give back to
bereaved mothers their only boys. and
those fevered pulses He had restored in
to rhythmic throb, and whose paralytic
limbs He had warmed into healthful
neutrality-suspicious. at Capernaum, but
flaming evangelist everywhere, hush
ing crying tempests and turning roll
ing seas into solid sapphire, and for
the rescue of a race submitted to court
room filled with bowling miscreants,
and to u martyrdom at the sight of
which the sun tainted and fell back in
the heavens, and then treading the
crowds homeward, like snowy noun
tain peaks, till Heaven took Him back
again, more a favorite than He had
ever been; but, coming again, He
is on earth now, and the nations are
gathering to His standard. Following
Him were the Scotch covenanters, the
Theban legion. the victims of the Lon
don Haymarket, the Piedmontese suf-
ferers, the Pilgrim Fathers, the Hugue-
nots, and uncounted multitudes of the
past, joined by about 40O, ZOO, 900 of the
present, and with the certainty that all
nations shall huzza at His chariot
wheel, He goes forth, the moon under
His feet and the stars of Heaven for
His tiara-the Mighty Leader, He of
Drumclog, and Boutwell, Bridge, and
Bannockburn, and the One who whelm-
ed Spanish Armada, Coming up from
Edom, with dyed garments from Boz
rah, travelling in the greatness of His
strength, mighty to save" and behind
whom we fall into line to-day and
march in the campaign tn : is to take
America for God. Iiosanna, IIosanna,
Wave all the palm branches. At His
feet put down your silver and your
gold, as in Heaven you will east before
Him your coronets.
With such a leader do You think we
can do it? Say, do you think we can?
Why, many ramparts have already
been taken. Where is American slav-
cry? Gone, and the south, as heartily
as the north, prays peace to its ashes"
Where is bestial polygamy? Gone, by
the fiat of the United States govern