Owingsville outlook. [volume] (Owingsville, Ky.) 1879-192?, 1898-03-17

oh, wonderful lnvitationl \ on can
take il to-day, and stand at the head
of the darkcs, alley in any city, and
say; Come, Clothes for Your rags,
SalVc for your sores. a throne for Your
eternal reigning.' 4 Christ that talks
like that, and acts like that, and par
dons like that-do you wonder that
Stephen stood looking at Him? |
hope To spend eternity doing the same
thing. | must see Him: must look
upon that face once cloudrd with sin.
hut now radiant with my pardon. want
a. touch that hand that knnchrd oil
my shacLlcS. want t. hear that
voice which pronounced my deliver
ancc. l:chnld Him, little children, for
if You live To three score years aud ten,
y"u will see none 80 fair. BEHOLD Him,
w aged ones, for lie only can shine
lhr, ugh the failing Guinness of your
falling oversight. Rrhnld lIlm, earth,
Rchold Him. Heaven. What a mo-
mcni when ali nations of the saved
shall gather around Christ, All faces
that way. An thrones that way, gag
ing on Jesus.
Hi> worth II all the ions knew
sur tie ~ holc earth would love Hin too.
pass on and look at stephen stoned.
The world has always wanted tn get
rid of GOOD men. Their very life is an
assault upon Mickcdncss Dat With
Stephen through the gates of the city.
Down with him over the prccipiccs
Let every man come up aud drop 4
stone upon his head. hut these men
did not 81 much kill Stephen rs they
bounded upon them. While thcs,
murdercrs werc transfiNcd by the
scorne of all good men, stephen lives
in the admiration of all ChriStcndom
stephen stoned, but stephen alive
~ all good men must Ia pclicd. Al
VIII" Will live Gudly i'm Christ Jesus,
must suffer persecution 1t i n,
culugy at man t" say that every
body likes him. Show IN" any one who
is doing all his duty IT, state ar church
and | will show ynu men who utterly
ahhor him
II all men S-cal well of Won il i hc.
cause You are either a larrard or q
dolt. IL a steamer makes rapid pro
gross through the waves the water will
boil aud foam all around il. Brav,
soldiers of Jesus Christ viii hear tn,
carbincs click. When see man with
voice. and money. and influence all on
the right side, and some caricaturt
him, and some snccr nj him, and some
dcnouncc him, and men who pretend
To hc actuatcd by right motives con
>pirc IL cripple him, east him out, IL
destroy him. | say: stephen stoned
When | see man in some great
m. raj or religious reform lattling
against gror shup, exposing wicked
ness in high places, 10y active means
trying to purify the church and better
the worlds estate, and find that som,
of the newspapers mathematics him
and men, even good men, oppose hin
and dcnouncc him. because, though h,
does good, he does not do il in thcil
way. say: stephen stoned" Tn,
wcr!d. with infinite spite. took after
John Frederick oberlin. and Paul, an,
stephen of the text But you notice
my friends, that, while they assaultc,
him. they did not succeed really in
killing him lou may assault a good
man, hut You can not kill him.
On the day of his death Stephen
spoke before a few people in the san
hcdrim: now he addresses all Christen
dom. Paul the Apostle stood on Mars
Hill addressing a handful of philoso
pliers who knew not SO much about
science rs modern schoolgirl. To-day
he talks To all the millions of Christen
dom about the wonders of justification
and the glories of resurrection. JohI
Wesley was howled down by the mol
to whom he preached, and they threw
bricks at him, and they denounced
him, and they jostled him, and they
spat upon him, and yet to-day, in al
lands. he is admitted to be the great
father of Methodism. Booths bulle
vacated the presidential chair; bu'
from that spot of coagulated blood on
tht floor in the box of Ford's thcatel
there sprang up the life of n nation
Stephen stoned hut stephen alive
Pass on now and see stephen in hi!
| dying prayer. His first thought wa
not how the stones hurt his head
nor what would become of his body
His first thought was about his spirit
Lord Jesus, receive my spirit" Tn
murderer standing on the trap door
the black cap being drawn over hi
head before the execution. may grim
ace about the future, but you and
have no shame in confessing som,
anxiety about where we are going {,
come out. You are not all body. Their
is within you a soul i see it CLEAN
from your eyes, and | see it irradiatini
your countenance. Sometimes l an
abashed before an audience, not be
cause / come under their physical eye
sight. but because | realize the trutl
that ! stand before SO many jmmorta
spirits. The probability is that you
body will at last find a sepulcher il
some of the cemeteries that surroun
your town or city, There is no douh
but that your obsequies will be decen
and respectful, and you will be able t
pillow your head under the maple or tn
Norway spruce, or the cypress, or tn
blossoming FIR; but this spirit abou
which Stephen prayed, what directio
will that take? What guide Will escor
il? What gate will open TO receive ii
What cloud will be cleft for its patti
way? After il has got beyond the ligh
of our sun, will there be torches lighte
for il the rest of the way? Will tn
soul have to travel through long de.
erts before it reaches the good land
five should lose our pathway will Their
be castle ut whose gate we ma
ask the way to the city? Oh, this my
terious spirit within us! 1t has tw
wings, but il is in a cage now. 1t
locked fast to keep it; but let the doc
of this cage open the least, and this
soul is OFF. Eagles wing could NJ
catch it, The lightnings are not swi
enough to take up with it. When I'll
soul leaves the body it takes so worlt
at bound. And have l no ankle,
about it? Have you no anxiety abol
it?
/ do not care what You do with m
body when my soul is gone, or wheth'
you believe in cremation or inhum
ton. ! shall sleep just as well in
wrapping of sackcloth as in satin line
with eagles down. But my soul-b