Owingsville outlook. [volume] (Owingsville, Ky.) 1879-192?, 1896-06-18


tiuns, by hearty counsel, by prayer. by |
GoSpelizcd hchaviorl Let MS remember |
that ii we are wormwoOd to others we |
are Norwood to ourselves, and our |
life will he bitter and our eternity Bit |
tcrcr. The Gospel of Christ is the only |
swcetcning power that is sufficient. IL |
swcctcns the disposition. 1t swcctcns |
manners, it swectens life, it swectens
mysterious Providcuccs. 1t swcctcns
a Affections. IL swcctens death. Ii
swectCns everything. | have heard
people ask in social company: "If you
could have three wishes gratificd. what
would your three wishes be?" If
could have three wishes met this morn
ing | tell you what they would be.
First: more of the grace of God. Sec
ond: more of tine grace of God. Third:
more of the grace of God. In the door
yard of my brother John, missionary
in Annoy, China, there was tree called
the emperor tree, the two character
istics of which are that il always grows
higher than its surroundings, and its
leaves take the form of a crown. II this
cmpcror-trce be planted by a rosebush,
it grows little higher than the bush,
and spreads out above it a crown. IL
it be planted by the side of another
tree, it grows little higher than that
tree and spreads above it crown.
Would God that this religion of Christ,
a more wonderful emperor-tree, might
ovcrshadow all your lives? Are you
Lowry in ambition and circumstance,
putting over you its crown; are you
high in talent and position, putting
over you its crown. Oh. for more of
the saccharinc in our lives and less of
the NORWOOD!
What is true of individuals is true
of nations. God sets them up To re-
volve as stars, hut they may fall worm
| wood
Tyre-thc atmosphere of the desert,
fragrant with spices, coming in cara
vans to her fairs; all seas cleft into
| foam by the kcels of her laden mcr-
chantmcn; her markets rich with horses
and camcls from Togarmah, her ba-
zaars filled with upholstery from De-
dan, with emerald and coral and agate
| from Syria, with wines from lielbon,
| with embroidered work from Ashur
and Chilmad. Where now the CLEAN
of her towers, where the roar of her
chariots, where the masts of her ships?
Let the fishermen who dry their nets
where once she stood, let the sea that
PUSHES upon the barrcnnesS where once
she challenged the admiration of all
nations, let the barbarians who set
their rude tents where once her pal
aces glittered, answer the question
She was a star, but by her own sin
turned to NORWOOD and has fallen.
| Hundrcd-gated Thebes-for AL time
to he the study of the antiquarian and
hicroglyphist; her stupendous ruins
spread over - miles; her scriptures
presenting in figures of warrior and
chariot the victories with which the
now forgotten kings of Egypt shook
the nation; her obelisks and columns;
Carnac and LuXer, the stupcndous
temples of her pride! Who can i'm
agine the greatness of Thebes in
those days when the hippo
drome rang with her sports and
foreign royalty bowed at her shsines
and her avenue roared with the wheels
I u. p-',"ssior- = the wake of return
.a@ cyEIu" nr." What di', he'd down
be vision .t .Ia riots AID r..Inp'"s ard
. ,..'.ays- vr. hands '-l .t.- 'nc
/ coiur vs. = h.r cory? What ruthless
ness defaced her sculptured wall and
broke obelisks and left her indescriba-
bile temples great skeletons of granite?
| What spirit of destruction spread the
:Iir of wild beasts in her royal
Sepulchers, and taught the miserable
cottagcrs of to-day to build huts
in the courts of her temples, and
sent desolation and ruin slxulking be-
hind the obelisks and lodging among
the sarcophagi and leaning against the
columns and STOPPING under the
arches and weeping in the waters
which go mournfully by as though they
were carrying the tears of all ages?
| Let the -mummics break their long
silence and come up to SILVER in the
desolation, and point to fallen gates
and shattered statues and defaced
sculpture, responding: "Thebes built
not one temple to God. Thebes hated
righteousness and loved sin. Thebcs
was n star, but she turned to worm
wood and has fallen"
| Babylon, with her $50 towers and her
brazen gates and her embattled walls,
the splcndor of the earth gathered
within her palaces, her hanging gar
dens built by ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS to
please his bride, Amytis, who had
been brought up in a mountainous
country around Babylon-these' hang
ing gardens built, terrace above
terrace, till at the height
of 400 feet there were woods
waving and fountains playing. the YER
durc, the foliage, the glory looking as
if mountain were on the wing. On
the tiptoe a king walking with his
| queen among statues snowy white,
looking up at birds brought from dis
tant lands, and drinking out of tank
ards of solid gold or looking off over
rivers and lakes upon nations subdued
and tributary, crying, us not this
great Babylon which built?'