Owingsville outlook., 1896-09-03

In all our sermons there must be heir.
for every one somewhere. You go into
an apothecary store. We see others
being waited on; we do not con-
plain because we do not Immediately
get the medicine; we know our turn
will come after awhile. And so while
all parts of a sermon NAV not be ap-
propriatc to our case, il we wait pray
erfully, before the sermon is through,
we shall have the divine prescription.
| say to these young men who are GO
ing to preach the Gospel, these theo-
logical students-I say to them,
We want in our sermons not
more metaphysics, nor more i'm
agination, nor more logic, nor more
profundity. What we want in our SER
mons and Christian eXhortation is
more sympathy. When Father Taylor
preached in the Sailors Bethel, at Bos-
ton, the iaclltars felt they had help for
their duties among the ratlines and
the forecastlcs. When Richard Weaver
preached to the operatives of Oldham.
England, all the workingmen felt tacy
had more grace for the spindleS. When
DIR. South preached to kings and
princes aud princesSeS, all the mighty
men and women who head him felt
preparation for their high station.
DO you not know that this simple
story of Saviour's kindness i, TO re-
deem all nations? The hard heart of
this worlds obduracy is To be broken
before that story. There is in Antwerp,
belgium, one of the most remarkable
pictures ! ever saw. Ii Is ''The de-
scent of Christ From the Cross" II
is one OF Rubcns' pictures. No
man can stand and look at that
descent from the cross" as Ru-
bcnS pictured it, without having his
eyes flooded with tears, if he have
any scnsibility at all. 1t is an over
mastering picture that stuns YOU
and staggrrS you and haunts your
dreams. One afternoon a man stood in
that cathedral looking at 'Rubens de
scent from the Cross" lie was all alb
Sorbed in that scene of a Saviour's suf-
ferings when the janitor came in and
said: ut is time To close up the cathe-
dral for the night. | wish you would
depart" The pilgrim looking at
that Descent from the Cross" turned
around To the janitor and said: mo,
NO; not, yet Wait until they get Him
down" O. II is the story of Saviour's
suffering kindacSs that Is to capture
the world. When the bones of tn,
great bchcmnth of iniquity which has
trampled all nations shall be broken
and shattered, it will be found out that
the work was not done by the hammer
of the iSonCclast, or by the sword of
the conpucror, or by tine plain, simple.
overwhelming force of the soft tom
que that bVoalieth the hon."
kinincos. We all need more of it in
our hearts, our wor !s an / our bchav-
ior. The chief characteristic OF orr
Lord was kindness A gcntl man in
England died. leaving his fortune by
will To two sons. The son that stared
at home destroyed the fathers will and
pretended that the brother who was
absent was dead and buried. The
absent brother, after awhile. re-
turned and claimed his part of the
property. Judges and jurors were
to be bribcd To say that the returned
brother AMI son was no son ut all
but only an imros.er. The trial came
On. Sir Matthew IIrle, the pride of
the English calrtronn an fo- ~ years
the pride Of iuriSprudence, heard that
injustice was about To be prlctice,. !.
lie put off his official robe. lie put on
the garb of a miller. lie went to the
village where that trial was Ia taka
place. lie entered the courtroom. lie
somehow got empanelod as one of the
Jurors. The briber came around and the
man gave ten pieces OF gold to the other
jurors, bat as this was only poor
miller. IT," briber gave t. him Only five
pieces of gold. A verdict was brought
in rejecting the right OF th'S returned
brother. lie was to have no share in
the inheritance. 'iIoll! my lord"
said the miller. 'llo'd! We are not all
agreed On this verdict. Ihes, other
,acn have received ten piece, of gold
in br berry and have received
only, five " "Who are you? Where
do You come from?" sIid the Judge on
the benc.s- The response was: Il am
from WesthIiaats:Ill: ny Ptmo
is Matthew Hale, lori chi Z Justice
of the kings bench, OF Gf that pIags,
thou villianI' Aai 80 tlsu inlu4f;ca
was hallled. and so the yoa1 g man ,Jt
his inheritance.
1t was all for another that Sir Mat
thew Hale took off his robe and put on
the garb of miller. All so Christ
took off his robe OF royalty and put on
the attire of our humanity, and in that
disguise lie won our eternal portion,
Now, are we the sons of God? Joint
heir! We went off from home sure
enough, but we got back In time to re-
ceive our eternal inherita ce. And il
Christ was so kind to us, surely we can
afford to be kind to each other.