Owingsville outlook. [volume] (Owingsville, Ky.) 1879-192?, 1898-12-08


graduated M the royal academy of
trouble. and thcy have the diploma
written il wrinkles on their counte-
uanccS. Ny my, What hcartaches
they hal, What tears they have w"pt!
What injustice they have suffered
The mi@ntirst influence for publication
and salvation is trouble. No diamond
fit for a crown until il j. cut No
wheat til for Tread till il is ground.
There ave only three thing, that can
i'rcak of II cEaiu a hammer. Il file or
= fire and trouble i, all three of them.
I he greatest writers. orators aud re
formers get much of their force from
trouble. What gave to Was hiugtun
Irving that exquisite tenderness and
rathu~ vhlrh will make his books IA
Nuri,c~ Will, the English language con
linucS to Ec written and spoken? An
early hcarihrcak that he never once
mentioned and when. ~ years after the
death al Matilda Hoffman. who was To
have boon his bride. her father picked
up Il piece Of embroidery and sud:
THAT is a piece of poor Matilda work
mauship." Washington IrNSIg sank
from hilarity into silence and walked
away. Dat of that lifetime grief the
great author dipped his pens mi%hticNt
rccuforc, iucnt. CalNiu's "ln>titutrs OF
Religion" than which more Wonder
ful book was never written 10y human
hand. WAS begun by the author at -
Years of age because Of the persecution
10y Francis. king of France. faradaN
tOilcd for all time on salary OF ~
wear and candles. A> every brick of the
wall of BABY Ion was stamped with In"
letter y. standing for NebuchaduczZar,
50 every part of the temple Of christian
achievement is stamped with the let
ter +, standing for trouble.
When in England man Is hororcd
with kni"lthood. he i struck with the
Hat Of the sword. Hut those who have
come Ia krighthoud in the kingdom of
tod were first struck. not with the Nat
&c the sword. hut with the Keen edge of
the scimctcr. To build his magnhi-
ccnce oi character. Paul could not have
spared one lash. one prison. one ston-
ing. one anathcma, one poisonous viper
from tine hand. one shipwrcck. What is
true of individuals i true of nations.
The horrors of the American revolution
gave this country this side of the Mis-
siSsippi river To independence. and the
conflict between England and France
gave the most of this country west of
the Mississippi To the United States.
France owned it, but Napoleon, fearing
that England would take it. practically
made present To the | Titcd States. for
he received only $l5,Ooa,OG0 for l.ouisi-
ana. Missouri. Arkansas. Kansas. Ne
hraska. Iowa. Minnesota. Colorado, Da.
Lota. Montana, Wyoming and the In
dian Territory. Out of the fire of the
Nm, rirdn revolution came this country
cast of the Mississippi. out of the Eu-
ropcan war came that west of the Mis-
siS>ippi river The British empire rose
TO its present ovcrtOwcring grandeur
through gunpowdcr plot, and Guy
Fawkcs conspiracy. and northampton
iuSurrcctiou. and Walter RalCiglr's be
heading and EacOn's bribery. and
Cromwcll's dissolution of parliament.
and the battles of Edge Hill, and the
vicissitudes of centuries. so the earth
itself. before il could become an appro-
pirate aud beautiful residence for the
human family. had, according To gcol-
ogy, to bc washed by universal dclu%e
and sc1rched and made incandCsccut
10y universal fires, and pounded by
sl,dge hammer of icebergs. and
isS,< nchcd Ivy earthquakes that split con
tinents, and shaken by volcanoes that
tossed mountains and passed through
| iSle catastrophcs of thousands of years
before Paradise became possible, and
the groves could shake out their green
hammers, and the first garden pour its
carnage of color between the Gihon and
the lliddcke!. Trouble a good thing
for the rocks. good thing for nations,
as wei! rs good thing for individuals.
SO when you push against me with Il
! sharp Interrogation point: Why do the
good suffer? open the dark sayin" on
a harp and. though | can neither play
| an organ or cornet or hautbOy or buglc
or clarinet. have taken some lessons
| in the Gospel harp. and if you would
like to hear ne ! will play YOU these:
"All things work together for good to
| those who love God" Now 10 chastcn-
| ing for the present seemcth to he joy
| Gus, but grieVous. nevertheless after
ward it yieldeth the peaccablc fruit Of
| righteousness unto them which are eN-
crciscd thereby" Weeping may en-
dure for night, but joy cometh in the
morning" What n sweet thing is a
| harp. and | wonder not that in Wales,
the country of my ancestors, the harp
| has become the national instrument,
and that they have festivals where great
| prizes are offered in the competition be
| tween harp and harp, or that weird
| Sebastian Erard was much Of his time
! bent over this chordCd and vibrating
| triangle and was not satisfied until he
| had given il a compass of six octaves.
| from T. to + with all the scmitOncs. or
that when King Saul was demcHtcd the
son of Jesse came before him and. put
! ting his fingers among the charmed
strings OF the harp, played the devil out
| of the crazcd monarch, or that in
| Heaven there shall be harpcrs harping
with their harps. So you will not blame
me for opening the dark saying on the
Gospel harp:
| Your harps. We trembling saints.
Down from the willows take,
| Loud the praise of love Divine
| Bid every string awake!
Interrogation third: Why did the
| good God let sin or trouble come into
| the world when lie might have KEEP:
them out? My reply is: He had a good
! reason. lie had reasons tLat lie has
never given us. lie had reasons which
| lie could no more make ua understand
| in our finite state than the fathe.. start
| ing out on some great and elaborate en-
tcrpriSe. could make the two ycar-old
child in its armchair comprehend it,.
| One was to demonstrate what grandeur
of character may be achieved on earth
| by conquering evil. Had there been no
evil 10 conquer and no trouble to con-
| sole. then this universe would never
have known an Abraham. or a Moses,
or n Joshua. or an Ezekiel, or a Paul,
or a Christ, or Washington, or a John
| Milton, or John Howard, and I. 1000, COO
victories which have been gained by the