Owingsville outlook. [volume] (Owingsville, Ky.) 1879-192?, 1898-04-28
DIR. TALMAGE'S SERMON.
Storm Clouds May Be Dispelled by
Bravely Facing Them.
Every Cloud Has u silver Lining if "" But
IIaN" Courage T." Iuok fur IL Hope
ful Words On I-fc'> IIi- aud How
BEST to Meet Them.

bright lHht Mhlrh - IN the clouds.
Wind cast. Baron ter IA ling.
Sturm-,iEuals ont ship rrcfing main
tup>aiL Awnings taken in. lrorhc
cirS "f foul weather cvcrvv here. The
clouds ,nn"rcgarc around the SUI, pro-
posing to- abolish him. Eut after awhile
he a~~aii~ the llLuil, 81 the clouds with
living artillery of li"ht, and here
and there Is a sign nf clearing weather.
Many do not observe it, MANY do not
realize it. And NOW men sec not the
bright light which is in the clouds In
other words there arr, a hundred mon
Looking for sunshine. My object will
hc L. get You and myself into the de
Hight "a habit of making the best Of
everything
lou may have wondered at the
statistics that in India, in the year
$50, there wcrr over 10000 prupl"
slain 10y wild beasts and that in the
year 1876 there were in India over -.
o1o people destroyed 10y wild animals.
iut thrr" i a monster Ia cur own
land which i year 10y year dc>trnrin"
more than that. II is the oil bear 81
IN .anchuly, and with Gospel weapon,
propo,, To- chase it back to its mid
night cavcruS. | mean L. do two sums
"A sum in subtraction ami a sum in
additional subtraction from your
days Of depression and N addition to
your days "f JOY. II God will hrlp me
| will comucl YOU To- soc the bright
light that there j. in the clouds. and
compel You To make rhc best of every
thing.
In the first place You ought to make
the very best of al your financial mis-.
fortunes During tine panic a few wears
ago you all lost money. some of you
lost it in most unaccouEtahlr ways.
For the question: How many thou
sands of dollars shall | nut aside this
year, you >ub>titut ID: How shall |
pay my butcher. and baker and cloth
Ter. and landlord?" You had the sen
sation of rowing hard with two oars.
and yet all the time going down
stream.
You did not say much about il be
cause il WAS not polite Ia speak much
of financial embarrassment, but Your
wife knew. Less variety of wardrobe.
more economy At the table, s.lf-dcnial
in art and tapestry. Compassion; re-
trenchmrnt. Who did not feel the
nee s>ity of il? My friends. did You
make the BEST of this? Are YOU aware
of how narrow an escape you madr?
suppose You had reached the fortune
toward which you were rapidly going?
What then? You would have been as
proud as Lucifcr?
How few men have succeeded largely
in. inl Il "A,
their simplicity and religious consc-
Grafton, Not one man out of hun
drcd. There are glorious exceptions.
but the general rule is that in proper
ton as Il man gets well off for this
world he gets poorly off for the next.
lie loses his sense of dependence on
God. lie gets distastc for PRAYER
meetings. With plenty of bank stocks
and plenty of government securities.
what does that man know of the
prayer. give me this day my daily
brcad?" How few men largely success
full in this world are bringing souls To
''hrist, or showing self-denial for
others. or are eminent for piety? Yen
can count them all upon your eight
fingers and two thumbs.
One of the old covetous souls, when
he was sick, and sick unto death, used
to have basin brought ina basin
filed with gold, and his only amuse-
ment and the only relief, he got for his
inflamcd hands was running >hem
down through the gold and turning it
up in the basin. oh. what infatuation
and what destroying power money has
for many a man. Now. you were sail
ing at 80 knots the hour toward these
worthless of worldlincss-what mercy
il was, that honest defalcation. The
same divine hand that crushed your
storchousc, your bank, your office,
your insurance, lifted you out of de-
struction. The day you honestly sus-
pended in business made your fortune
for eternity.
oh" you say, Il could get along
very we'll myself, but | am SO disap-
pointed that can not leave a compe-
tence to my children" My brother.
the same financial misfortune that is
going tn save your soul will save your
children. With anticipation of large
/, fortune, how much industry would
your children have? without which
habit of industry there is no safety.
The young man would say: We'll,
there's no need of nv working; my
father will soon step out and
then I'll have just what | want.
You can not hide from him how
much you are worth. You think you
are hiding it; he knows all about it
He can tell you almost to a dollar.
Perhaps he has been TO the county Of
flee and searched the records of deeds
and mortgages, and he has added it all
up, and he has made an estimate of
how long you will probably stay in
this world, and is not as much worried
about your rheumatism and shortness
of breath as you are. The only for
tune worth anything that you can
give your child is the fortune you put
in his head and heart. OF all the
young men who started life with SI0.-
900 capital how many turned out we'll?
! do not know half dozen.
The best inheritance "A young man
can have is the feeling that he has to
fight his own battle, and that life is
struggle into which he must throw
body, mind and soul, or be disgrace
fully worsted. Where are the burial
places of the men who started life
with fortune? Some of them in the
potter's field; some i'm the suicides
grave. But few of these men reached
IS years of age. They drank, they
smoked, they gambled. In them the
beast destroyed the man. Some of them
lived long enough to get their for
tunes and went through them. The vast
majority of them did not live to get
their inheritance. From the gin shop
or house of infamy they were brought
home TO their fathers house, and in
delirium began to pick off loathsome
reptiles from the embroidered pillow,
, and TO fight back imaginary devils.
And then they were laid out in highly
upholstered parlor, the caslSet covered
with flowers by indulgent parents
flowers suggestive of a resurrection
with no hope.
AS you eat this morning at your
breakfast table, and looked into the
faces of your children, perhaps you
said within Yourself Poor thinpsi