Owingsville outlook. [volume] (Owingsville, Ky.) 1879-192?, 1898-12-29


ly pacification. GLORY 10 God and
peace to mem" In His manhood
Christ pronounced the same doctrine:
blessed are the merciful." Before the
Bethlehem star flashed its significance
the theory was: blessed is wholesale
cutthroatery. blessed are those who
can Hill the most antagonists. Blessed
are those who can most skillfully
WELD the battleax. Blessed are those
who can stab the deepest with spear or
roll a chariot wheel over the most
Ounded or put his chargers hoof on
the most dead" The entirely new the
DRY of our Christ was blessing for ours
ing; prayer for those who despitefuliy
use YOU; foundries to turn spears into
pruning hooks. redhOt furnaces To
melt swords into molds shaped like
plowsharcs If gigantic acerbities and
worldwide tigerisms had. without any
Gospel opposition, gone on until now
and been augmented by 1,S9S years Of
fcrocity, by this time what would this
world have been turned into? You
need not remind me of the awful wars
since the opening of the year l of our
Christian era. for il the earth has been
again and again lacerated into an Acel-
DANA. through improved weaponry of
death and more rapidity of fire. Prus-
sian brecchluader. which in 1SC6
startled the nations with unprecedent-
ed havoc. eclipsed by contriyances that
can sweep vaster numbers to death by
one volley. and telCgraphy adding to
punncry new facilities for slaughter by
Instantly ordering armies to where
they can do the most wholesale murder
/ say il all this woe has beel wrought.
how much worse would il have been il
the Chri>tIv revelation had not been
let down from Heaven on five-rungcd
ladder of musical scale. and there had
been no preaching of good will all up
and down ChristeudOm for 10 cen
turtles, The bethlehem manger has
given the most potent suggestion of
p, ace the world has ever received. The
cavalry horses cannot eat out 90 tkat
manager.
take another step forward in show
ing the narrow escape you and ! had
and the world had in the secretion OF
Christ's birthplace from the Herodic de-
tectives and the clubs with which the Y
would have dashed the Babes life out
when I say that without the life that
began that night in bethlehem the
world would have had no illumined
deathbeds. Before the time of Christ
I 4 hgf nrf' IL
in peace while depending upon the
Christ to come. and there were ante
diluyian saints. and Assyrian saints.
and Egyptian saints and GrcciaL. saints.
and Jerusalem saints long before the
| clouds above Bethlehem became a bal
cony filed with the best singers Of 4
world where they all sing, but | cannot
read that there was anything more
than a quieting guess that came tn
those before Christ deathbeds. Job
said something bordering on the conf
dent. but it was mixed up with n story
of skin worms" that would destroy his
body. Abraham and Jacob had a little
Eight on the dying pillow, but. com
pared with the after Christ deathbeds.
il was like the dim tallow candle of old
beside the modern cluster of lights
electric know Elijah went up in
memorable manner. but il was terri
/ bic way To- goa whirlwiud of fire that
must have been splendid to look at by
| those who stood on the banks Of th,
| Jordan but il was a sly lc Of ascent ihdi
I required more nerve than you and
eyer had. TO he n pIa>;h -.rcf.np1nt of d
| chariot draw by such wiid team
| a., ,rf,mnr M. --pathbeds. as far a.
-. 4ft.- Christ death beds.
40 pros ,s,Ca of hosannas have
. marched Iror"h tAe dying room of the
saints he 'ast 10 CENTURIES! What
cavaI .r ol mounted halleluiahs has
gaIluP>d -r.- III the dying visions of
the last go ears save 100, Peaceful
! dcathbcds in she years Il. c.. Trium-
plant deathbeGSs2for the most part, re-
served for the years \. d.. Behold the
Geathbeds of the WesIeys. of the Dodd-
ridges, of the Leigh I;ichmOnds, of the
Edward Pay of Nara, the convert
ed heather chieftain, crying in his last
moments: The canoe is in the sea.
The sails are spread. She is ready for
the gale. | have 4 good pilot to guide
NE. My outside man and my inside
man differ. Let the one rot till the
trumpet shall sound, but let my soul
wing her way to the throne of Jesus.
of dying John Fletcher, who entered
his pulpit to preach, though his doe
tors forbade him, and then descended
To the communion table. saving: Il
am going to throw myself under the
wings of the cherubim before the mercy
seat" thousands of people a few days
after following him to the grave, sing
ing:
With heavenly weapons he has fought
The battles of the Lord.
Finished his course and kept the faith
And gained the great reward.
of Pastor Emile Cook, the great
French evangelist, who sat in my
church in Brooklyn one Sunday morn
ing. and in few days shipwrecked and
dying after his wife had said to him:
God will help you, my dear; lie will
give you peace" replying: But have
it-peace, have it," or Prince Albert.
quoting with his last breath: Rock
of Ages cleft for me. let me hide my
self in thee!" OF the dying soldier who
had been shot through the mouth and
could not talk, and when the chaplain
approached him, motioned for pencil
and paper and wrote: Il am a Chris
tian, prepared 10 die. Rally round the
flag. Rally round the Ilag." Of john
Brown, of lIaddington. who said: Il
desire to depart and be with Christ,
and. though have lived 90 years very
comfortably in this world, l would
turn my back upon you all to be with
Christ. There IL no one like Christ
no one like Christ. | have been
looking ut Him these many years, and
never yet could find any fault in Him
but was of my own making. though he
has seen 10000 faults in me. Oh. what
must lie he in Himself when it is He
that sweetcns Heaven, sweetens Scrip
ture. sweetens ordinances, sweetens
earth, sweetens trial" of John Jane
way, saying in his last moments: IL
have done with prayer and with all
ordinances. Before a few hours are
over shall be in eternity singing the
song of Moses and the Lamb. | shall
presently stand on Mount Zion with an
iuuumsr1 HE pomnapy nf auUalS and