Owingsville outlook. [volume] (Owingsville, Ky.) 1879-192?, 1897-02-04

we had our own way in life, he'6fe
this we would have brca imprr,oua-
tionS az sclfiShurSs an w1rldii1csi
and Disgusting sin an puT' ~ until
we would have been Ike Julius Cesar.
who was mIIc by sycppIirt, - h.
licve that lac was divine, and the
frccklcS On hi, fac were said u b, a.
the sta~s of the Ornament.
Onc of the swifteSt tran Atlantic
Voyages made one summer 10y the
Etruria was because She hal y stormy
wind ahl't, chasing her from New
Work. h. l..vcrpp Il. HIt 10 thpsr go
inc in the oprpsitc dire 'tion the storm
Wa a hullrtinI AMI Il hinlrancr. 1t
Is a bad thing To have "a storm ahead,
pushing us back; hut If W. h. Gods
children aud aiming toward Heaven,
the storms of life will only chase us
tia" sooner into the hlrhur I am SO
glad To belle ;c that the mon~OnrS, ty-
phuonS and mistrals aud Sirnrcu, uf
the land aud sea are not unrh aimed
uaniacS let loose upon the earth, hut
are under divine supervision.
| am So glad that the God of the
seven star, j. also the Gpl Of Orion,
II was out of Dante, suffering came
the Sublimc Divine Commcdia," and
out of John Millions blindness came
the PARADISE Lost. aud out of mis"r-
able iuti Tel attack came the Fridge
water Treatise in favor of Christianity.
aud ont of Dlvii'S exile came tine
songs of consolation, AMI out of the
4 h. if,il
" of the worlds rrdcmption. and out
of your bcreavcmcnt.you persecution,
your povcrtics ynur misfortunes may
come an eternal heaven.
Oh, what a mercy il is that in the
text and all up and down the Bible
God induces Us to look out toward
other worlds. Bible astronomy, in
Gcn"siS, in Joshua, in job, in tho
Psalms. in the prophets. major and
minor. in IT. Johns Apocalypse. prdc-
tically saying: Worlds, worlds,
worlds. Get ready for them We
have nice little world here that we
stick To. as though losing that we lost
all. We are afraid Of falling off this
little raft of "A world We are afraid
that some metcoric iconcclast will
sOrnc night smash it, and we want cv-
crything To revolve around il, and are
disappointed when we find that il re-
! wolves around the sun instead of the
sun revolving around it. What Il fuss
we make about this little bitof a world,
its existence only a short time between
two Spasms, the paroxysmS by which
it was hurled from the chaos into or
der, and the paroNysm of its dcmoli-
| ton.
And | am glad that so many texts
call us To- look off to other worlds
many of them larger and grandrr and
more rcspicndcnt "Loo.S there, says
| Job, lat Nazareth and Arcturus aud
his sons" Look there says st. John
ut the moon under Chrisrs feet.
Look there, says Joshua, ''at tht
sun staudin" still above Gideon.
| Look there" SAYS Moses. AT
the sparkling armament" Loon
there" SAYS Amos, the hcrdsman, ''a'
| the seven stars and Orion" DO not lei
us b. so sad about those who shove oil
| from this world under Chri>tly pil l.
age. DO not let us he So a%iiatcd
about our own going OFT this it'll,
| barge or slOop or canal boat of u v orl,
! To get On some "Grcat EASTERN % IN,
heavens ID not let us persist in want
ing to stay in this barn, this shed, tn.
clubhouse of the world, when all the
kings palaces already occupied 10y
many of our best friends are swinging
wide open their gates To let uN in.
When | read, In my Father, hoISe
are many mansions" | do not klpw
but that each world is a room, and is
many rooms as there our worlds, stellal
stairs, stellar galleries, stellar hail
ways, stellar windows, stellar domcS
How our departed friends must pity II
shut up in these crampcd apartments
tired IL we walk 10 miles. when they
some morning, by one stroke of wing
can make circuit of the whole stella
system aud be back in time for matt ms
Perhaps yOndcr twinllling coustella
tion is the residence of the martyrs
that group of II lumiuarics may be tn
celestial home of the apostles. Fer
haps that steep of light is the dwelling
place of angels chcrubic, seraphic
archangclic. A mansion with as man.
rooms rs worlds and all their window
Illuminated for fcstivity.
! oh, how this widcns and lifts AM
stimulates our expectation! How liz
tie it makes the present, and how stu
pcndous it makes the future. How
consoles us abou; our pious dead, tina
instead of being boxed up and undo
the ground have the range of as man.
rooms as there are worlds, an'
welcome everywhere, for it is the Faith
er's house, in which there are man
mansions. Oh, Lord God of the Sever
Stars and Orion, how can endure tia
transport, the ecstasy of such vision
! must obey my text and seek Him.
will seek Him. | seek Him now, for
call to mind that it is not the matcria
universe that is most valuable, but tn
spiritual, and that each of us has sou
worth more than all the worlds whic
the inspired herdsman saw from hi
booth on the hills of Tekoa.