Owingsville outlook. [volume] (Owingsville, Ky.) 1879-192?, 1898-11-10

Z this wrcStlr with the sin and error of
the world, we had better ct ready 10y
Christian discipline. 10y holy srlklc-
NAL. 10y constant practice. 10y submit
/ ting to divine sup 'rviSll and direction.
ID" not hrgrudgc the time ard the
money for that vnuu@ man who il in
/ preparation for the ministry. spend
ing two years in grammar school and
four years in college and three year,
in Theological seminary. | know that
nine years are a big slice Ia take off a
mans active life. but if You realized
/ the height and strength Of the archan-
I gels of evil in our time with which
that vnun" man i goin" To wrrstlc.
you would not think nine year, of
preparation were too much. An un-
/ educated ministry WAS tNcuSablc in
other day>. Tut not in his time. loaded
with Schools and colleges. \ man who
wrote me the other day u letter asking
/ advice. aS he felt called L. preach the
Gospel. began the word God" with u
little ~. That kind of q man is not
, called Ia preach the Gn~pcl lIlitcratc
men. preaching the Gnspcl. quote for
their own encouragement the S,.riptur-
al passage. open thy mouth wide and
/ ! will ill it, YES, lie will I'LL il with
wind. Preparation for this wrestling
/ il absolutely nCcc, Sary. MANY Years
az" DIR. Newman and DIR. Sunderland.
on the platform Of brigham Noung's
tabernacle at Salt Lake City. Utah,
gained the victory because they had So
/ long been slsillful wrcstlcrs for tod
Otherwise brigham Young. who was
himself giant in some things, would
have thrown them out of the window
Get ready in Bible classes. Gct ready
in Christian Endcavor meetings Gct
ready in giving testimony in obscure
places. before giving testimony in con-
SpicuouS places.
/ Your going around with Ragstcr
Bible with flaps nj the edges under
your arm. does not qualify you for the
work of AN evangelist. In this day of
profuSc gab. remember that il is not
merely capacity To- talk. hut the fact
that You have something la say. that
Is going Ia fit you for the struggle into
which You are to go with a smile on
your face and Illumination on Your
brow. hut out of which YOU will not
come until your physical and mental
and moral and religious energies
have been taxed To the utmost
and you have not nerve left.
or a thought uncXpcndcd. or n prayer
nnsaid, or Il sympathy unwcpt. In
, this struggle between right and wrong
accept no challenge on platform or in
newspaper unless you are prepared.
Do not miSapply the story of Goliath
the Great and David the Little. David
had been practicing with "A sling on
dogs and wolves and bandits. and a
| thousand times had he swirlcd stone
around his head before lie aimed at the
I forehead of the giant and tumblcd him
backward. otherwise the big foot uf
Goliath would almost have covered up
the crushed form of the son of .Ic'~c.
Notice also that the success of a
wrestler depended on his having his
feet well planted before he grapplcd
his opponent. Much depends upon the
way the wrestler stands. Standing on
an uncertain piece of ground. or bear
ing all his weight on right foot or all
his weight on left foot. he * not ready
y slight emf of his antagonist will cap
size him. \ stroke of the heel of the
other wrestler will trip him. And in
this struggle for God and righteous
ness, rs well as for our own souls. we
want our feet firmly planted in rhc
gospel both feet on the Rock of Ages.
1t will not do to believe the Bible in
spots. or think some of it true and
some of it untrue.
You just make up your mind that
the story of the Garden of Eden i an
allcgory. and the epistlc of James an
, Interpolation, and that the miracles of
Christ can he accounted for on natural
grounds. without any belief in the
supernatural, and the first time YOU
are intcrlocllcd in Il wrcstlc with sin
and Satan you will go under and your
feet will be higher than your head. 1t
will not do To have one foot on rocl,
and the other ON the sand.
The old Book would long ago
have gone 10 pieces il it had been
vulnerable. But of the millions of Iii
blcs that have been printed within the
last % years not one chapter has been
omitted. and the omission of one chap
ter would have been the cause of the
rejection of the whole edition. Alas,
for those who. while trying to prove
that Jonah was never swallowed of u
whale. themselves get swallowed of the
whale of unbclicf. which digests hut
never ELECTS its victims. The inspira-
tion of the Bible is not more certain
than the preservation of the Bible in
its present condition. After 81 many
centuries of assault ON the Book
would il not he a matter of
economy. to say the lcaSt-ccono-
my of brain and economy of sta
tioncry. and economy of printers ink
if the batteries now aSSaulting the
book would change their aim and he
trained against some other books. and
the world shown that Walter Scott did
not write The Lady of the Lake" nor
Homer The Had" nor Virgil The
Gcorgics." nor Thomas Moore "Lalla
focllh." or that WashingtOn's Fare
we'll Address" was written by Thomas
Fame. and that the war of the rcvolu-
ton never occurred. That attempt
would he quite as successful as this
long-timcd attack anti-Biblical. and
then it would be new. Oh. keep
ont of this wrestling bout with the ig-
norancc and the wrctchedncsS of the
world unless you feel that both feet
are planted in the eternal vcraciticS of
the Book of Almighty God,
Notice also that in this science of
wrestling. to which Paul refers in my
text, il was the third thrown that de
cidcd the contest. \ wrestler might
be thrown once and thrown twice. hut
the third time he might recover him
self. and. l'y an unexpected twist of
arm or curve of foot. gain the day.
( Well, that is broad, smiling. unmis-
taxable Gospel. Some whom | adj
dress through ear or eye. by voice or
printed page, have been thrown in
their wrestlc with evil habit.
Aye, you have been thrown twice:
but that does not mean. q worstcd
! soul, that You are thrown forever.
have no authority for saying how
many times man may sin and he for
given, or how many times he may fall
and yet rise again: but have authori-
ty for saying he may fall 400 times, and
1870 times get up. The Bible declares
that God will forgive seventy times