Owingsville outlook. [volume] (Owingsville, Ky.) 1879-192?, 1897-02-11
HikBOR OF HOME.
Type OF Heaven When the Family
Gathers Around.
H"hm FLOWS In the Window Of the
sheltered iisN' of Home III SPOT
That - t'Icht"s On Earth Tat
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This Sermon ~ nr Talmagc will set
many m"m"rirs ringing with the good
pld times. III. 1almagc's subject sun
iny wa,. "lIarhor o. home. and the
text. Mark y, ~, Co home TO thy
tn"nd~.ant tell them how great things
ia" Loud hath don" for thee.
There ate & great many people long
ing ior some Grand sphere IN which To
serve Gud. They admire Luther at the
ilct of worms. and only wish that they
had som" such opportunity in which
ITO display their Christian PROV.
IS. They admire Paul making
Felix trrmhlr, and they only
wish they had some such grand uccl-
sl"u in vhjch to preach ri.htcouSurSS,
temperance and Judgment To- come
| All they want i an opportunity to
exhibit their Christian hcroiSm Now
the apostle comes To- ~ aud practically
says. Il viii show YOU a place where
you can exhibit all that j. grand and
/ beautiful aud glnunu> IN Christian
character, aud that Is tur domestic cir
! clr."
| II one is not faithful in an lusignii-
SAINT ~ph"rr hc will not L.. faithful in a
rcNuuudlu" sphere II Peter viii not
help the crlpp!r At the gate Of the
Temple lac viii never he able To- preach
/ 5000 souls into the Kingdom at the
/ i"ntcco~t II Paul viii not take pains
L. instruct in the way Of salvation the
| >hcr,n of the rhilippian dungeon. he
"i.l never make EcliN trrmhlr. lie who
- not faithful in a sh,rmi~h would not
he faithful in an Armagrddnn The
fact is, we are all placed in just the
/ position in which we eau most grandly
serve God, and W. ought I-pt to he
! ,hic1y thoughtful about some sphere
| Il usefulness which we may after
lw hiir gam. but the all-ab,orbing
! question with Won and me ought To he
Lord, what wilt Thou have me (now
! lnd hcrcl to du?'
| There IL one word in my text around
which the most of our thoughts will
| to-day revolvr I hat word is Home.
Ask ten different men the meaning of
ihat word and they will give Won ten
lifrcrent definitions To one it means
love at the hearth. il means plenty at
the table. industry ut the vnrl,Stand
Intelligence At the books. devotion at
the altar TO Inn it means a greeting
1T the door and Il smile at the chair
Peace lowering like wings. joy clap
| ping its hands with laughter Life "A
tranquil lake. lillowcd On the rpples
| sleep the shadows
ASK another man what home is, and
ne will tell YOU it is want, looking out
IF cherries, fire CRATE and kncading
| lungcr in an empty bread tray. The
lamp air shivcrin" with curses No
Bible on the shelf Children, robbers
and murdc-ers in embryo. Vile songs
! their lullaby. Every face picture of
ruin. Want in the background and
| sin staring from the front. No Sab
! bath wave rolling over that doorsill.
Ncstibule of the pit Shadow OF in
| lcrnal walls. Furnace for forging
| everlasting chairs. Fagots for an I'M
! ending funeral pile. Awful word! II
Is spelled with curses it weep with
ruin. it choNcs with woe. it swcatS with
The death agony of despair
The word Home" in the ore case
means everything bright. The word
Home in the other case means every
thing terrific.
| shall speak To Won of home; as 81
test of character, home as refuge,
| home as kedtical safeg Iard. home as
\ school, and home as type of
| Heaven.
And in the first place | remark that
home is a powerful test % character
The disposition in public may I've in gay
costume, while in private it is in dis
habillc. As play actors may appear
in one way on the stage and may APP
pear in another way behind the scenes,
80 private character may he very
iiffrrcnt from public character.
Private character is often public char
lctcr turned wrong side out. A man
may receive you into his parior as
though he was distiIlation of smiles
and yet his heart may be a swarm of
nettlcs. There are business men who
all day long are mild and courteous
and genial and good naturcd in com
mercial life. keeping back their irri-
liability and their pctulancc and their
discomfort. but at nightrall the dam
breaks, aud scnlding pours forth in
floods and frcshcts.
Reputation is only the shadow of
character, AMI very small house
sometimes will east a very long shad:
DIV. The lips may seem To drop myrrh
and cassia. and the disposition to b. as
| bright and warm as a sheaf of sun
beams, and yet they may only To- a
magnificent show window To Il wretch
I'd stock of goo IS There is many a man
who is affablc in public life amid COM
mercial spheres. who, in cowardly
way, takes his anger and his petulance
home and drops them in the domestic
circle.
The reason men do not display their
bad temper is because they do not wish
to be knocked down. There are men
who hide their pctulance ami their ir-
reliability just for the same reason that
they do not let their notes go to pro-
| test: it does not pay. Or for the same rea-
son that they do not want a man in their
stock company To sell their stock at
less than the right price, less it depre-
ciatc the value. As at sunset the wind
rises, So after sunshiny day there
may be tcmpcstuous night There
are people who in public act the phi
lanthropist who at home act the Nero,
with respect TO their slippers and their
gown.
Audubon, the great ornitholigist,
with gun and pencil, went through the
Forests of America to bring down and
| TO sketch the beautiful birds and aft
err years of toll and exposure completed
his manuscript and put it in a trunk in
Philadelphia for a few days of recrea-
ton and rest, and came back and found
that the rats had utterly destroyed the
manuscript; hut without any discom-
posture and without any fret or bad
temper, he again picked up his gunand
pencil and visited again al the great
forests OF America and reproduced his
immortal work. And yet there are
people with the ten-thousandth part of
that loss who are utterly -irreconcila-
BILE, who, at the loss of pencil or an
| article of raiment, will blow as long