Owingsville outlook. [volume] (Owingsville, Ky.) 1879-192?, 1896-06-11


h Fps his arms around him and
h IS, nself. Roars aloud. Hcllos.
..a.. Cries. Changes from crying.
i'.u- and jumps again" Well, my
brother, If that good man went through
all that prncess, in yOur occupation. in
your profession, In your store, in your
shop, at the bar, In the sick-room. in
the editorial chair, somewhere, you
will have Ia go through % similar
process; you can not escape it.
kpat. wrote his famous poem, and
the hard criticism of the poem killed
him-litcrally killed him. Tasso wrote
his poem entitled Jerusalem Deliver
cd, a." and it had such cold reception it
turned him into raving maniac.
Stillingfieet was slain by his literary
enemies The frown OF Henry VIII,
slew Cardinal Wolsey. The duke of
Wellington refused TO have the fence
around his house, which had been de-
stroyed by an excited mob, rebuilt, be-
cause he wanted the fence To remain
as IL was, a reminder of the mutability
and uncertainty of the popular favor.
And YOU will have trial OF some sort.
You have had it already. Why need |
prophesy? ] might better mention an
historical fact in your history. You are
IA merchant. What time you had
with that old business partner! How
hard It wa Ia get rid of him! Before
You bought him out, ar he ruined both
of you, what magnitude of annoyance!
Then after you had paid him down a
certain sum of money to have him go
out and to promise he would not open
a store of the same kind of business in
your street, did he not open the very
same kind II business as near to you
as possible, and take all your GUS
tuners as far as he could
take them? And then, knowing
ncsses, after being in your business
firm for so many years, is he not now
, spending his time in making a com
mcntary on what you furnished as a
text? You are physician. and in your
sickness. or in your absence, you get a
ncighburing doctor to take your place
in the sick-room, and he ingratiates
himself into the favor of that family,
80 that you forever lose their PATRON
age. Or, you take IA patient through
i the serious stages of II fever, and some
day the impatient father or husband
of the sick one rushes out and gets an
other medical practitioner, who comes
in Just in time to get the credit of
the cure. Or, you are lawyer,
and you come in contact with a
trickster in your profession. and in
your absence. ard contrary to agree
ment. he moves u nOnsuit or the dis
missal of the easel or the judge on the
bench, remembering an old political
grudgc, rules against you every time
he gets a chance, and says with a snarl,
IF yon don't like my decision, take an
/ exception" Or. you are u farmer, and
/ the curculio stings the fruit. or the
weevil gets into the wheat, or the
drought stunts the corn, Ur the long
q continued rains give you no opportuni-
ty for gathering the harvest. Your
/ best cow gets the hollow-horn, your
| best horse gets fuundered. A French
proverb said that trouble comes In on
horseback and goes away on foot. So
. trouble dashed in ON you suddenly, but
! oh, how long 1t was in getting away!
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| foot. Rapid in coming, slow In going.
That is the history of nearly all your
troubles. Again and again and again
! you have experienced the power of the
cas- wind. 1t may be blowing from
, that direction now.
!, My friends, God intended these
Spubles and trials for some particular
purpose. They do not come at random.
| Here is the promise: ale stayeth his
rough wind in the day of the east
! wind" In the Tower of London the
swords and the guns of other ages are
! FURNISHED and arranged into huge pas
sion flowers, and sunfowers, and bridal
cakes, and you wonder how anything
SO hard as steel could be put into such
! floral shapes. | have to tell You that
the hardest, sharpest, most cutting,
most piercing sorrows of this life may
/ be made to bloom and blossom and
put on bridal festivity. The Bible
says they shall be mitigated, they
shall be assuaged, they shall be gradu-
ated. God is not going TO allow you to
/ be overthrown. A Christian woman.
very much respondent, was holding her
child in her arms. and the pastor trying
to console the woman in her spiritual
depression. said: There, you will let
your child drop" "Oh, no." she said,
Il couldn't let the child drop" He
said: You will let the child drop"
Why" she said, IF should drop the
child here 1t would dash his life outr'
well, now,' said the Christian minis
ter, don't you think God is as good as
you are? Won't God, your Father,
take as good care of you, His child, as
you take care of your child? God won't
let you drop"
suppose God lets the east wind
blow hard enough to drive us into the
harbor of Gods protection. We nil feel
we can manage our own affairs. We
have helm and compass AID chart and
quadrant. Give us plenty of sea room
and we sail on and So; on; but after a
while there comes Caribbean whirl-
wind up the coast, and we are helpless
/ In the gale, and we cry out for harbor.
All our calculations upset, we say with
the poet:
| Change and decay on all around l see:
| o Thou who changest not. abide with mer
The south wind of mild providence
makes us throw off the cloak of Chris
! tian character and we catch cold, but
the sharp east wind of trouble makes
us wrap around us the warm promises.
The best thing that ever happens to us
is trouble. That is hard thing per-
haps to say: but l repeat it, for God an
nounces it again and again, the best
thing that happens to us is trouble.
When the French army went down
into Egypt under Napoleon, an engi-
neer, in digging for a fortress, came
| across a tablet which has been called
the Rosetta stone. There were in
| scriptions in three or four languages on
that Rosetta stone. Scholars studying
out the alphabet of hieroglyphics from
| that stone were enabled to read ancient
inscriptions on monuments and on
tombstones. Well, many OF the hand
writings of God in our life are indie
cipherable hieroglyphics; we can not
understand them until we take up the
Rosetta stone of divine inspiration, and
the explanation all comes out, and the