Owingsville outlook. [volume] (Owingsville, Ky.) 1879-192?, 1898-03-10

ing. What | do thou knowest not
now; hut thou shalt know hereafter"
lou shall know why God took To him.
self that only child. Next door there
was a household of seven children
Why not take one from that group, in.
stead of your only one? Why single
out the dwelling in which there was
only one heart heating responsive To
yours? Why did cod give You
child at all, if lie meant tn
take it away? Why fill the cup
of you gladness Drumming if lie meant
To dash it down? Why allow all the
tcndrils of your heart To wind around
that object, and then, when every fiber
of your life seemed to he intcrlocllrd
with the child's life, with strong hand
tn tear you apart, until you fall, bleed.
ing and crushed, your dwelling desc.
late, Your hopes blasted. your heart
broken? DO you suppos' that Go will
explain that? Yea. lie will make it
palmer than any mathematical prob
lcm-as Plain as that two AMI two
make four. In the light of the throne
you will see that it was right al ri rht
just and true are all Thy ways, Thou
King of saints"
Here is a man who can not get on in
the world. He always seems to buy at
the wrong time, and to sell at the
worst disadvantages lie tries this en-
terprise and fails. that busincs, and is
disappointed. The man next door to
him has a lucrative trade, but he lacks
customers, New prospect opens. His
income is increased. But that year his
family are sick, and his profits are cx-
pended In trying to cure his ailments.
He gets discouraged look. Becomes
fnithless as to success. Begins to cx-
pect disasters. Others wait for some.
thing to turn up; he waits for it
to turn down. Others, with only
half rs much education and char
acter. get on twice as well. He somc-
times guessss as tn what il all
means. He says, Perhaps riches will
spoil me. Perhaps poverty is necessary
tn keep me humble. Perhaps | might,
If things were otherwise, he tempted
into dissipation" But there is no com
plcte solution of the mystery. He secs
through glass darkly, and must wait
for higher unfolding. Will there be
an explanation? Yes: Col will take
that man in the light of the throne and
say. Child immortal, hear the cxpla-
nation. You remember the failing If
that great enterpri>c-your misfortune
in 1857; your disaster in 1867? This is
the explanation. And you will an
swer, 1T is all right"
l see. every day, profound mysteries
of Providence. There is no question
we ask oftcner than Why? There are
hundreds of graves in Oak Hill and
Greenwood and Laurel Hill that need
not be explained. Hospitals for the
blind and lame, asylums for the idiotic
and insane, nlmshouses for the desti-
tute, and a world of pain and misfor-
tune that demand more than human
solution. All! God will clear it all up
In the light that pours from the throne
no dark mystery can live. Things
now utterly inscrutablc will be illumin-
ed plainly as though the answer were
written on the jasper wall, or sounded
in the temple anthem. Bartimcus
will thank God that he was blind; and
Lazarus that he was covered with
sores; and Joseph that he was cast
into the pit; and Daniel that he
denned with lions; and Paul that he
was humpbacked; and David that he
was driven from Jerusalem; and that
sewing woman that she could get only
a few pence for making n garment;
and that invalid that for 20 years he
could not lift his head from the pill
low; and that widow that she had
such hard work to enrn bread for her
children. You know that in song
different voices carry different parts.
The sweet and overwhelming part of
the hallelujah of Heaven will not be
carried by those who rode in high
places, and gave sumptuous entertain
ments, but pauper children will sing it,
tgggSrs- will sing it, redeemed hod car
riers will sing it, those who were once
the offscouring of earth will sing it. The
hallelujah will be all the grander for
earths weeping eyes, and aching
heads, and exhausted hands, and
scourged backs, and martyed agonies.
Again: the thought of the text is
just when applied to the enjoyments
of the righteous in Heaven | think
we have but little idea of the number
of the righteous in Heaven. Infidcls
say, Your Heaven will be very
small place compared with the world
of the lost; for, according to your
teaching, the majority of men will be
destroyed" | deny the charge. |
suppos, that the multitude of
the finally lost, as compared
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will be handful. suppose that the
few sick people in the hospital to-day,
as compared with the hundreds of
thousands of well people in the city,
would not be smaller than the number
of those who shall be cast out in suf-
fering. compared with those who shall
have upon them the health of Heaven.
For we are to remember that we are
living in comparatively the beginning
of the Christian dispensation, and that
this world is to be populated and re-
deemed, and that ages of light and love
are to flow on. If this be SO, the null
titudes of the saved will be in vast ma
jority.
Take all the congregations that have
to-day assembled for worship Put
them together and they would make
but a small audience compared with
the thousands and tens of thousands,
and ten thousand times ten thousand,
and the hundred and forty and four
Thousand that shall stand around the
throne. Those flashed up to
Heaven in martyr fires; those
tossed for many years upon the
invalid couch; those who fought in
the armies of liberty, and rose as they
fell; those tumbled from high scaffold-
ings, or slipped from the mast, or who
were washed off into the sea- They
came up from Corinth, from Loadicea,
from the Red sea bank and the
Gennesaret's wave, from Egypt's
brickyards and Gideon's threshing
floor. These, thousands of years ago,
| slept the last sleep, and these are this
moment having their eyes closed and
their limbs stretched out for the sep
ulcher
general expecting an attack from
the enemy stands on a hill and looks
through field glass, and sees. in the
great distance, multitudes approach
ing, but has no idea of the numbers