Owingsville outlook. [volume] (Owingsville, Ky.) 1879-192?, 1897-03-04

water l:ut the battle RACED, and
three hundred dead and half dead were
flung into the well for quick aud easy
hurial 81 that the we'll of re- ircshmcnt
became the we'll of death, and long
after people looked down INTO the well
and they say the b!rachci skulls but
no water. 81 the human soul was a
well of good but the armies OF sin have
gu ght across 1t and been slam, and 1t
has, become a we'll Of skeletons.
| Dead hopes, dead resolutions, dead
! "pVortuurt' dead ambitions.
An abandoned well unless
Christ shall reopen anl purify and fill
At ~ the we'll of belgium never was
| lnclcan, unclran.
Another NrrIphIc posture in the text:
"Nith twain he covered the face.
That mean, reverence Gudward. New
cr 81 much irrcycrcucc abroad in the
world ~ to-day. lnu see it IN the de-
faced >taiuary, in the cutting out of
figures fron tine paintings. in the chip
ping Of monument, for a mrmcntn, in
| the fact that u military guard must
stand at the ,'~avcs Of Lincoln and
Garfield. and that old shade frees
must u, cat down Tor fire
wool, thouch - Gcur%c l.. Nor
rises hcr the uuolsman Ia spare the
tree, and that calls u corpse a cadavcr.
And that speaks of the death as going
| over To the ma ioritv, and substitutes
| for the rcvcrcn' terms father and
mother, the uli man, and the old
| woman aud finding nothing impress
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columns Of karu1c. and sees no differ
! cncc IN the sabbath from other days
except it allows more dissipation, and
| reads the Bible ia what is called higher
! criticism. making IL not the word of
! God, but a bUoi, with some things in it
| Irrcycrcurr never 81 much abroad.
| How many take the name Of God
| in vain, how many trivial things said
| about the Almighty. Not will
! ing To have tod in the world, they roll
up an idea of aentimcutatIty and hui
manitarianism and impucncc and im-
| bccility, and cali 1t Gui. No wings of
reverence over the face, no taking of
Of shoe, on holy ground. You can tell
from the way they tall, they couli have
| made a better world than this, and
| that the God of the Bible shocks every
sense of proprirty. They talk Of the
| love of tod in a way that shows You
| they believe IT does not make any diff
! ference how bad 4 man is here, he will
come in at the shining gate. They
| talk of the love of Gol in IA way which
| shows you they think 1T l. a general
| Jail delivery for all the abandoned and
| the scnundrclly Of the universe. No
| punishment hereafter for any wrong
done here.
The Biblc gives two descriptions of
tod. and they are just opposite, and
| they are both true. In one place the
| Eiblc says tod is love. In another
| place the Bible says God is a conSum-
| ing fire. The explanation is As plain
as plain can he. God through Christ
is love God out of Christ is fire. To
win the one and to escape the other
we have only To throw ourselves
body, mind and soul into Christ's keep
! ing. NO" says irrCvcrencc, Il want
no atoncmcnt, | want no pardon,
want no Intervention, will so up and
face tod, and will chal-
lcngc him, and will defy
| him, and | win ask him what he
wants So do with me" So the finite
| confronts the infinite, SO tack ham
mer tries to break n thundcrbolt, so
the breath of the human nostrils defies
the everlasting God. while the hier-
! arch of Heaven bow the head and bend
| the knee as the Kings chariot goes by,
and the archangcl turns away because
| he can not endure the Splendor. and
! the chorus of aFt-rfrr- rr1pIrcs7of IIcav.
en- comes in with full diapason, Holy,
holy, holy"
| Reverence for sham, reverence for
the old merely because it is old, rcvcr-
cnce for stupidity however learned,
reverence for incapacity however fine
| " inauguratcd, | have none. But we
want more reverence for God, more
reverence for the Bible, more rever-
ence for the pure, more reverence fol-
| the good. Reverence n characteristic
of all great natures. You hear
it in the roll of the master ora
tories. You see it in the Rayhaels and
Titians and Ghirlandajos. You study
it in the architecture of the
Aholiabs and Christopher Wrens. Dc
not be flippant about God. Do not
joke about death. Do not make fun OF
the Bible. Do not dcride the Eternal.
| The brightest and mightiest scraph
can not look una dashed upon Him. In
voluntarily the wings come up. with
| twain he covered his face"
Who is this God before whom the
arrogant and intractable refuse
reverence? There was an engineer
| by the name OF Subsidiaries who
was in the employ of Alexander
the Great, and he offered to hew
a mountain in the shape of his master,
the emperor, the enormous figure TO
hold in his left hand city of ten thou.
sand inhabitants, while with his right
hand il was To hold basin large
enough to collect all the mountain tor
rents. Alexander aIplaudcd him for
his ingenuity. but forbade the enter
prise because of its coStliness. Yet
| hate to tell You that our King holds in
one hand all the cities of the earth,
and all the oceans, while he has the
stars of heaven for his tiara.
Earthly power goes from hand to
hand. from Henry |. to Henry II. and
! Henry Ill, from Charles |. To Charles
| H., from Louis !. to Louis IL. and
Louis Ill, but from everlasting to
everlasting is Col. God the first, God
the last, God the only. lie has one
telescope with which lie secs every
thing: Ills omniscience lie has one
/ bridge with which he crosses
/ everything: His omniprescncc lie
has one hammer with which he builds
everything: Ills omnipotcncc. Put
two tabIespoonfuls of water in the
palm Of your hand and it will over
flow; but Isaiah indicates that God
puts the Atlantic and the Pacific and
the Arctic and the Antarctic and the
Mediterranean and the Black sea and
all the waters of the earth in the hollow
of his hand. The fingers the beach on
one side, the wrist the beach on the
other. lie holdeth the water in the
| hollow of his hand
As You take II pinch of salt or
powder between your thumb aud two
/ fingers, 50 Isaiah indicates God takes
up the earth. lie measures the dust of
the earth. the original there indica ting
! I hat God takes all the dust of all the