Owingsville outlook. [volume] (Owingsville, Ky.) 1879-192?, 1898-08-18
TRIALS OF THIS WORLD.
Ii Will Require Gog's Strength to
Overcome Them.
Mans Own Natural Determination &" Win
often Carries Him safely Through
TroubIous 7 mes sermon IIy
Rev. I. Dewitt Talmage.

This discourse of DR. Talmagc is full
of encouragement for those who know
not which way to turn because of ac-
cumulatcd mi>tortunc>. Text, !. sam
ucl. xiv. & There was a sharp rock on
the one side and sharp rock ON the
other side.
The cruel army of the rhiliStincs
must br taken aud scattered. There
| j. just one man, accompanied 10y his
hodvCuard. Ia do that thing. iona
| than il the hero Of the scene. know
| that David crack Il the skull ~ the
giant with a few pebbles we'll >luur,
and that 900 Gidrunitcs scatter d
10. 600 AmrIrl,itrs 10y the crash Of
broken crorkcrv; but here j. a
more wonderful conflict Wonder
are the rnili>tinr> On the rocks. Here
i, jonathan with hi hndyguard in the
valley. On the one SIDE IL a rock call
ed l.. zrz. ON the other side j. a rock
called >cuch. These two were a, IA
nous in ol len times a. in modern
times ar, Plymouth Rrci, and Gibral-
tar They were rrripitou>, unscal-
| able and sharp. Between these two
| rocks Jonathan must make his ascent.
| The day comes for the scaling OF the
height. Jonathan on his hands ami
feet begins the ascent With strain
and Slip aud hruiS", | suppose, but
still ON ami M, first goes Jonathan
and then Cos his bodyguari.
Eozrz CA one side, Scneh on the
other After sharp tug, and
push. and clinginE. see the head of
Jonathan above the hole in the noun
tain. and TN re is a challenge and
fight, and a supernatural con>tcrna-
| ti"n. These two men. Jonathan and
| his bodvguard. drive back and drive
down the Philistinc> over the rocks,
and open campaign which dcmolishes
the enemies of Israel. | suppose that
the ovcrhanging and over>hadowing
rocks on either side did not balk or
disheartrn Jonathan ar his bodyguard.
but only reused aud filled them with
enthusiasm a they went up. There
was sharp rock on the one sid =. and
a sharp rock on the other side.
Ny friends, You have been. or are
now. some of Won. in this crisis OF the
text. II a man meets any trouble he
can go through with ii. lie gathers
all his energies. concentrates them ON
one point and in the strength of Col.
or by his own natural determination.
goes through it hut the man who
has trouble to the right of him. and
trouble To the left of him, is to bc pit
led. Did either trouble come alone.
he might endure il, hut two troubles.
two disasters, two ovcr>hadowing mis-
fortunes. are Row. and Sench. tod
| pity him, Their il a sharp rock on
the one >id.. and sharp rock on thu
other side"
In this crisis of the text i that man
whose fortune and health fail him at
the sam tims Nine-t 'nths Of all our
merchants capSize in business before
they come to ~ years of age. There
is some coll sion in comm Srcial circles,
and T.. Y stop payment 1t seems as if
: cry man mus: put his name on the
back of n note b fore he learns what
| fool a man is who risks all his own
property on the prospect that some
man will tell the truth. 1t seems as If
| man must have a large amount of
unstable gooiS ON his own shelf be-
| fore he learns how much easier il i to
buy than to sell. IL seem, as il every
man must be com letcly burned out be-
| fore he learns the Importance of always
kec ming fully insured. 1t seems as il
every man must be wrecked in a finan-
cial tempest before he learns to keep
things snug in case of sudden euro
clydon.
When the calamity does come it is
awful. The man goes home in de-
srair. and he tells his family. We'll
have to go to the poorhousr.H He
takes a dolorouS vie-S-oI cyiGsytaiass...
| 1t SENS as if h never could rise.
But little time passes and he says:
why, | am not 81 badly off after all;
l have my family left"
Before the Lord turned Adam out of
Paradise. lie gave him Eve. so that
when ne lost Paradise he could stand
it. Permit one who has never read
but a few novels in all his life. and
who has not great deal of romance
in his composition, to say that if, when
a mans fortunes fail. he has a COOL
wifc-a good Christian wife-he ought
not to be respondent. "Oh. you say.
| "lh1t only increases the embarrass-
ment, since you have her also to take
care Of" You are an migrate, for the
woman as often supports the man as
the man supports the woman. The
man my bring the dollars. but the
woman generally brings the courage
and the faith in Col.
Well. this man of whom am sneak
| ing looks around, and he finds his fam
| ily is left, a?d he rallies, and the light
comes to his eyes. an the smile To his
face. and the courage to his heart. In
| two years he is quite over il. He makes
his financial calamity the first chapter
| in a new era of prosperity. lie met
| that one troublc-conquered it. lie
sat down for little while under the
grim shadow of the rock Boz.z: yet h ,
soon rose, and began, like Jonathan, to
climb. But how often is it that physical
ailment comes with financial embar-
rassment. When the fortune failed it
broke the mans spirit His nerves
were shattered. His brain was
stunned.
| can show You hundreds of men in
our cities whose fortunes and health
| failed at the same TIM. They came
prematurely to the staff. Their hand
trembled with incipient paralysis.
| They never saw a well day since the
hour when they called their creditors
together for compromise. If such
men are impatient, and peculiar, and
irritable, excuse them. They had two
troubles, either one of which they
could have met success 'ully. II, when
the health went the fortune had been
retained, it would not have been so bad
The man could have bought the very
best medical advice. and he could have
had the very best attendance, and long
lines of carriages would have stopped
| at the front door to inquire as to his
welfare. But poverty on the one side
and sickness on the other are
Bozez and Seneh, and they interlock
their shadows, and drop them upon
the poor mans way. God help him!
There is sharp rock on the one side
and a sharp rock on the other side"
| Now what is such a man to do? In
the name of Almighty God, l will tell
him what to do. DO as Jonathan did
| climb: climb up into the sunlight of