Owingsville outlook. [volume] (Owingsville, Ky.) 1879-192?, 1896-11-12

Paul in the tex will not seem like ex-
trayaganza. The pr1prieties in most
churches are 80 fixed tn at all a Chris
tian is expected to d. on sunday is to
get mp Il little later in the morning
than Usual put on that which is next
to best attire not the very best, for
that has To hc reserved for the leyee-
cutrr the church with stately step,
bow his head, or any rate shut his eyes
la PRAYER time. ar close them enough
to look sleepy, turn toward the pulpit
with holy duilness while the preacher
speaks, put Il five-c1nt piece on the
collection platter, kind of showing il
down under the other coin so that it
might hr, for all the usher knows, a
fivc-dollar gold piece, and then, after
the bcncd .ctIon, go quietly home to
the biggest repaSt o. all the week.
That Is all the majority of Christians
are doing for the rectiiicatinn of this
planet, and they will do that until,
ut the close of life, the pastor opens a
blacl, book at the head of their casllet
and reads: "Blcsscd are the dead who
die in the Lord: they rest fro77 their
laburs and their work do follow them"
The scn,r of the luiicrous is s. tho
oughly develop in me that when
h ar thc,. Scripture words read at the
oh,rquics of one of the religious do
n0thinE> in the churches it is 900 much
for my gravity. Their worNS do fol-
low them What work - And in
what direction by they follow; them
mp or DOWN And do they .ollpw ON
foot or ON the wing? And how long
will tlcy follow before they catch up?
More appropriate funeral text for all
such religious dcad-bcatS would be the
words in Matthew NV, viii: Our
lamps are gone ont" One would think
that such Christians Won / show at
least under who's, banner they are en-
listed Ia one of the NapolcOnic wars,
a woman, .lcanucttc Ivy name. took her
position with the troops AMI shoulder
ed a broomsticIl The colonel said:
'Jeannctte, why do You take such
useless weapon iato the rlnks?"
"NCll," she said. II can show At least
which side | am on"
Now, the object OF this sc mon is to
stir at least Onc-fourth of you to an
ambition for that which ny text pre-
sent> in blazing vocabulary. namely, a
passion for souls. To prove that it is
possible To have much of that spirit. |
bring the conservation of 300 foreign
missionaries. II is usually estimated
that there are at least 3.O"O mission
aries. | make a liberal allowance and
81 FL 1. L.
aries ont of the 1000, but do not be-
licvc there is one. All English and
American merchants leave bombay,
Calcutta, Annoy and PckiR as soon
as they make their fortunes. Why?
because no European or American in
his senses would stay in that climate
after monetary Inducements have
ceased. Now, the missionaries there
are put down on the barcst necessities
and most of them do not lay up one
dollar in 20 years. Why, then, do they
stay in those lands of intolerable
heat, and cobras, and raging fevcrs,
the thermometer sometimes playing
ut 40 and 40 degrees of Oppres-
sivencss, 1000 miles from home, be-
cause of the unhealthy climate and
the prevailing immoralities of those
regions compelled to send their
children to England, or Scotland. or
America, probably never to see them
again? o Blessed Christ. Can it be
anything but passion for souls? 1t
is easy To understand all this frequent
depreciation of foreign missionaries
when you know that they are ali op-
posed to the opium traffic, and that in
terferes with commerce, and then the
missionaries are moral, and that is an
offcnse to many of the merchants-not
all of them. but manyA of them-wbo,
| absent from ali horne restraint, arc
so immoral that we can make
only faint allusion to the mon
strosity of their denominations. Oh,
! Heaven when those missionaries 20 in,
to see how they viii have the pick OF
cOronets, and thrones, and mansions
on the best streets of Heaven. We
who have had easy pulpits and loving
| congregations, entering Heaven, will
in my opinion, have to take our turn
and wait for the Christian workers.
who. amid physical sufferings and
mental privation and environment of
squalor, have done their work, and on
the principle that in proportion as one
has been self-sacrifieing and sdffering
for Christ's sake on earth will be their
celestial preferment.
Who is that young woman on the
worst street in Washington, New York
or London. Bible in hand. and a little
package in which small vials of mcdi-
cines, and another bundle in which arc
biscuits? How dare she risk herself
among those ''roughs," and where is
she going? She is one of the queens OF
Heaven, hunting up the sick
and hungry. and before night sac
will have read Christs Let not your
heart DC troubled in eight or ten
places. and counted out from those
vials the right number of drops to ease
pain. and given food to a family tina,
would otherwise had nothing to eat to
day, and taken the measure Of n dead
child that she may prepare for it q
| shroud, her very act of kindness fol-
/ the body accompanied with a benedic
| ton for the soul. You see nothing
but the filthy street along which she
walks and the rickety stairs up which
| she climbs, hut she is accompanied
/ by an unseen cohOrt of angels will
drawn swords To defend her, and will
/ garlandS twisted for her victories, al
| up and dCwl :he tenement house dis
| tricts.
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