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

heard the strol. q - the hammer an tho
spikchcads. and the dying FroaE Ia
that midnight that dropped on mil
noon, did anyone like Jesus have this
passion for souls
hut breaking right in upon me is th.'
question. How eau W.T. get something
OF this Pauline and ChriS;ly longing
for saved MUNICIPALITIES? | answer;
by better approaching the prulonGa.
ton Of the souls existence compared
with everything physical and material
How hope that surgeon viii success
fully remove the cataract from tina,
mans eye! 1t is such a sad thing to
hc blind. Let rs pray while the doctor
is busy with the delicate operation.
hut for how long time viii he be- able
To give his patient cycsI"ht? Well,
II the patient be- 10 years of age
he will add Ia hi, happiucss, perhaps
fifty years Of cyc>ighi, and that
viii bring the man tU % years and il
i not probable that he will live longer
than that. or that he will 1--we 50 long
But what i good cycSight for - years
more A. compared with clear vision for
the soll billion of centuries hope
the effort To drive back the typhoid
fever from yondcr home will bc sue
cr,>ful. Gnl help the doctors. We
will wait IN great anxiety until the fires
of that fever are CNtingui .hCd, ana
when Tia man rises from his pillow
and walks out, with what heart
mess we Will welcome him into the
fresh air and the church and business
circles. lie i 30 years of age, and If
he shall live 10 years more that will
make him -. But what are 80 years
more of earthly vigor compared with
the souls health for quadrilliOn mel
lcnimums a millcnimum,a As YOU know,
thousand years? This world, since
fitted up for mans residence, has exist
ed about q. 600 years. How much longer
will it exist? We will suppose it will
lat az much longer, which is very
doubtful. That will make its exist
encc l2,Ol0 years But what are or
will he l2,0Oo years compared with the
eternity preceding those years and
the eternity following them? Time, as
compared to eternity, like the drop Of
the night dew shaken from the top of
I Il
way aficld this morning. as compared
with Mediterranean, and Arabian, and
Atlantic, and Pacific watcry domin-
ions.
A stranger desired to purchase n
farm, but the owner would not sell it
would only let it The stranger hired
il by lease for only one crop. but he
sowcd acorus and tn mature that crop
three hundred years were necessary.
That was practiccd deception, but
deceive You not when | tell you that
the crop of the soul takes hold of I'M
ending ages.
see the author of my text seated in
the house of GaluS, who entertained
him at Corinth, not far from the over
hanging fortress of Aero Corinthus. and
meditating ON the longevity oi the soul,
and getting more and more agit ted
about its value and the awful risk
some of his kindred were running con-
corning it, and he writes this letter
containing the text, which Chrysostom
admired so much he had it read to- him
twice n week, and among other things,
he says those daring and startling
words of my text; Il could wish tina t
myself were accursed from Christ for
my brethren, my kinsmen, according
to the flesh "
Another way to get something of the
Pauline longing for redeemed immor-
talities is by examining the vast ma
chincry arranged to save this inner
and spiritual nature. That machinery
started To rcvolve on the edge of the
Garden of Eden. just after the cyclone
of sin Frustrated its sycamores, and
| .amarisks, and willows, and will not
cease to rcvolve until the last
soul of earth shall get rid of
its last sin and enter the
Heavenly Eden. On that stupen-
dous machinery for soul-saving, the
patriarch put his hand. and prophet
his hand, and evangelist his hand,
and apostle his hand, and Christ
his hand, and almost every hand
that touched it became a crushed
hand. 1t was the most expensive ma
chinery ever constructed. 1t cost more
to start it, and has cost and will cost
more to keep it running than all the
wheels that ever made revolution
on this planet. That machinery
turned not by ordinary motive power,
but by force of tears and blood.
To connect its bands of influence, made
out of human and Christly nerves. with
all parts of the earth, millions of good
men and women are now at work and
will be at work until every wilderness
| shall become Il garden, and every tear
OF grief shall be tear of joy, and the
sword of divine victory shall give the
wound to the old dragon that shall
send him bowling to the pit, the iron
gate changing against him, never again
to open.
All that, and infinitely more. to save
the soul! Why, it must be tremen-
dous soul-tremendous for good or ire
mendous for evil: tremendous for hap
piness or tremendous for woe. Put on
the left side Of the largest sheet of pa
per that ever came from n paper mill a
single unit, the figure I. and how many
ciphcrs would You have to add II the
right of that figure to express the
souls value, each cipher adding ten
fold? Working into that scheme of the
souls redemption, how many
angels of God, descending and
ascending! How many storms
swooping on Lake Galilcc? How
many earthquakes opening dungeons
and striking cataclysms through
mountains: from top to base. What
MONDAY sun was put on retreat! What
! Omnipotcnce lifted, and what Godhcad
was put to torture! All that for the
soul. No wonder that Paul though
possessing great equipose of tempera-
ment, when he thought what his
| friends and kindred were risking con-
corning their souls, flung aside all his
ordinary modes of speech, argu-
ment. and apt simile, and bold met
aphor. and learned allusion. as unfit
to express how he felt, and Selling
upon the appalling hypcrbo!iSm of my
| text. cries out: Il could wish myself
accurscd." That is, struck of the
thunderbolts of the Omnipotcnt God,
sunk to unfathomed depths, chained
into servitude To Abaddon, and thrust
| into furnaces whose fires shall never
burn out, if only those whom | love
might now and forever be saved.
Mind you, Paul does not say, Il
do wish" lie says, Il could wish. -