Owingsville outlook. [volume] (Owingsville, Ky.) 1879-192?, 1897-12-02

Ito better tn wait for the natural roll of
years Ia remove them. Men die but
the truth lives On. We may not all
agree as Ia the number Of teeth in the
iawhonc with which Samson slew the
Ihilistincs, or agree as Ia what was
the exact color of the foxes which he
set on fire to burn mp the corustoclls.
hut On the titals of religion we all
agree.
II we could call into one great con
vention the 6l5, 5d6 Episcopalians the
l,l20,905 luthcranS, the |. ITO. SO Pres
bytcrians, the 4, li3, so liaptists, the
5,6j3,2N9 Mcthodi>tS. putting unto them
the following questions, we would get
unanimous answer in the affirmative:
do YOU believe in II God, good. holy.
just, omnipotcnt2 do you believe In
Jesus Christ as Il saviour? Dn you br-
licvr in the cunVicting. convert
ing aud sanctifying power uf
the Holy Ghost? Dn You he
licyc that the Gospcl is going to com
qucr nll nations? If You shuald put
these questions To those assembled
millions on millions, while there would
not he solitary negative, there would
he an aye, aye. aye! loud enough Ia
make the foundations of the earth
trcmhlc and the arches of the heavens
rcS"und. lat there In platforms, let
there he great nrcasiunS. let there he
undcnominatiunal printing presses to
thunder forth the unity of all Chris
tendon One Lord One faith One
Baptism. uuc tod aud Father tine
Jesus Christ. onc cross. Onr Heaven
~ also there * room for a religious
Journal that stands for liberty a.
against all oppression. No authority.
political or ecclesiastical. must bc per-
mitted To make us believe this or that.
Liberty of the Armenian to worship
God independent of the Turkish gov
ernmcnt Liberty of Cuba as against
Spanish domination. Liberty of lla-
waii As against all monnrchial author
ity which il has thrown oil. Civil lib
rrty. Polical liberty. Religious lib
crty.
The religious journal ON whose
seventh anniversary preach has had
for its owner and publisher one who.
in his ancestry, experienced just the
opposite. His father. an exile from his
native land because of his opinions, his
property cnntiscatcd, his life Imperfect.
landed ON American soil bcreft of every
thing that foreign expressions could rob
him of. Naturally his son knows right
well how tn appreciate liberty: the most
of us are descended from those who
imperiled all to gain their natural and
religious rights. Let the type and the
printing presses and the editorial
chairs he ovcrthrown which dare To
surrender To any attempt again to put
on the shackles. The movement has
started for the demolition of all the
tyrannics of church and state. Rclig-
iouS newspapers must stand shoulder
Ia shoulder in this mighty march for
tod and the worlds rescue.
Again, on this seventh anniversary.
| say there is room for a religious pa
per charged with old-fashionrd evan
gclism. Other styles of religious news
paper may do for advertising purposes,
or for the presentation of able ESSAYS
on elaborate themes. but if this world
isevcr brought To God il will be through
unqualified, unadultcratcd. unmixed,
unmistallablc evangelism II was as.
founding that the Lord Almighty should
have gone into great bereavement. sub
mitting,to the loss of his only Son, that
Son stepping of the doorsill of Heaven
into darkness and an abysm that no
plummcs has ever yet been able to
fathomSand through that funeral of
the Heavens life is offered to our world;
but ho}v to get the tidings TO all PEG
pie, AID in such an attractive way
that they will take hold of them
is the absorbing question. The hui
man voice can travel only few
feet away, and the world wants
something further and wider-reach-
ing, and that is the newspaper press:
and as the secular press must neces-
sarily give itself chiefly 10 religious
affairs, let the religious newspapers
give itself to the present and everlast-
ing salvation of all who can read. or, if
not able To read. have cars To hear
Others read. If there be an opportun-
ity higher, deeper. grandcr than that
offered To newspaper evangelism, name
il and guide MS to it, that we may see
its affairs, its pillars, its domes, its in
fnitudc.
Again, on this seventh anniversary
of the Christian Herald. | notice there
is room for religious paper thorough
~ humanitarian. The simple fact is
the majority of the human race have
not enough to eat or wear. The ma
jority of the human race are in trouble.
How to multiply loaves of bread and
increase the fuel and heal the wounds
and shelter the homeless are questions
that Christ met equally as soon as he
did spiritual necessities. The first
heart to respond to the cry of sufferers
from drought, or food or earth
quake, or cruelty, should be
the Christian heart. Therefore let the
pages of religious journalism spread
out the story of all such woes and col
lect relief and disburse aims all around
our suffering world. Religious jour
nalism ought to become the aqueduct
through which the Christian charities
of the world should pour until there
should he no more hunger to be fed. no
more ignorance to be educated and no
more nal<edness to be clothed, and no
more suffering to assauge. In trying
to do that practical thing the religions
paper whose anniversary | celebrate
has, during the past seven years, raised
and distributed over S4OO, 900 for the
relief of physical distresses.
Again, on this seventh anniversary
of religious publication. notice that
there is an especial mission for relig-
ious journal truthfully optimistic. The
most optimistic book | know of is the
Bible, and its most impressive authors
were all optimists. David an optimist
Paul an optimist. ST. John an optim-
list. Our blessed Lord an optimist. |
can not look upon a desert but am by
the Old Book reminded that it will
blossom like as the rose | can not
in a menagerie look upon a lion
and leopard but l am reminded that
"a little child shall lead them" | can
not see a collection of gems in a jew
eler's window without thinking of
Heaven afiash and ablaze and incar-
nadined and empurpled with all man
ner of precious stones. | can not
hear a trumpet but think of that one
which shall wake the dead. All the
aueS Of time loupdad On ono Sida nv