Owingsville outlook. [volume] (Owingsville, Ky.) 1879-192?, 1898-12-08
BRIGHT SIDE OF LIFE
There Is Sunshine on Every Cloud
Says DR.. ralmagc.
" hat We Consider Gui's tGiIctionS
ON t. Are Always Influences tor
Goud-Nh TIE i>crni Are
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GCoryriBht. INNl
la this discourse nr. laimagr lakr,
AN optimistic ,i,W at MANI thing that
are usually accounted ~ iucNp,ic&hir
ia human vNUrri.urr and shows H. that
even trouble and ailiiction may not Lc
wholly wirhuu, their brighter side.
Test. Psalm in:I: "Ivili open my darl.
aiiug uT,u the harp"
The World j. full of the ur>plicahlc
the inpa>- able the uufathomahlc. the
iusurmouutahlc. We cauuui go three
steps in any direction without comm"
up against q hard wall of wl Nt,rN, rjL
dies. Iarldr\rs. UInfuudiiirs, lahy
riuths, problems that We cannot solve
Lirroglyphic> that We cannot dccipLcr.
Uuag rams Ne rauE,t spcll cut. >phinN"s
THAI viii not speak For that rrasou
DAVID in my t,>t proposed To take nj
some of these sombrr ard darn things
and try tu SCI them Ia sweet music
81 viii open my dark savings on
harp" 50 look off upon society and
find people in unhappy conjunction Of
circumstances. aud they do not know
what il means aud they have a right to
ask: Why is this? Why i that" And
! think | will hc doing good work 10y
trying to explain some of these Strange
things and make You more content with
your lot. and hail oUlN I've answering
questions that have often been asked
me or that We have all asked ourselves
while ! try to sci these mysteries to
music and open my dark savings on
harp.
Interrogation the fr~t: Why does
God take out uf the world those who
are useful and whom We cannot SPARE
and leave alive ard in good health so
many who are only nuisance To the
world? ! thought | would hcgin with
the very toughest of ali the seeming
inscrutahlts. Many of The most useful
men and women die at - or 80 years
of age. while Won often find useless pco-
pie alive nj co and - ard 81 John
Careless wrote To bradford who was
soon Ia lie put To death. saving: "Whv
doth God suffer me and other such eat
crpillars To live tina; can do nothing but
consume the aims of the church anil
take away 50 many worthy wurkmcn
in the Lords virrNard?" Similar qucS.
tions are often asked. Here are two
men. The one i a noble character and
a Christian man. lie chooses for II
lifetime companion one who has been
tcndcrly reared. aud she is worthy of
him and he i worthy Of her. ~ MGR
chant or farmer or professional man
or mechanic or artist he tolls to cdu-
cate aud rear his children. He i sue
ceediu|. hut hr has not vet established
for his family a full competency. He
seems indispensable To that household
hut one day. before he has paid of the
mortgage on his house. he j. coming
home through a strong northeast wind
and a chill strikes through him. and
four days Of pneumonia eUd his earth
~ career. and the wife and children go
into a struggle fer shelter and food
His next door neighhor i a man who
though strong and well. lets his wife
support him. He is around AT the gro
Gerry store or some general loaling place
in the evenings. whilr his wife scws
His boys are initiating his example and
lounge and swaggcr ard swear. All the
use that man i in that house is to rave
because the coffee i cold when he comes
TO a late breakfast or to say cutting
things about his wife's looks. when he
furnishes nothing for her wardrobe.
The best thing that could happen to
that family would he that mans flu
, neral but he declines To die. lie lives
on and on and on. so we have all no
ticed that many Of the useful are early
cut Oft. while the parasites have grea;
, vital tcnacity.
take up this dark saying on my harp
and give three or four thrums on the
string in the way of surmising and
hopeful guess. Perhaps the useful man
was taken out of the world because he
and his family were SD constructed that
they could not have endured some great
prosperity that might have been just
ahead, and they all together might have
gone down in the vortex of worldliness
which every year swallows up 10000
hos schools And so he went while he
was humble and conSecrated. and they
! were by the seventies of life kept close
to Christ and fitted for usefulness here
and high seats in Heaven. and when
they meet AT last before the throne they
will acknowledge that. though the fur
mace was hot, il purified tn m and pre-
pared them for the eternal career of
! glory and reward for which no other
Kind of life could have fitted them. On
! the other hand. the useless man lived
on to 80 or 60 or 20 years because all
| the ease he ever can have hC must have
! in this world. and you ought not there
! fore bcgrudgc him his earthly longev-
! ity. In all the ages there has not n
single loafer ever entered Heaven.
| There is no place for him there to hang
around.
Interrogation The second: Why do
| good people have 81 much trouble. sick
neEs, bankruptcy. persecution, the
three black vulturcs, sometimes put
| ting their fierce bcaks into one set of
| tangled nerves? think now of a good
| friend | once had. lie WAS a conSe-
| Grated Christian man. an elder in the
| church. ami as polished Christian gen
| tleman as ever walked broadway.
| First his general health gave way. and
he hobb,ed around on a cane, an old
Imam at 40. After awhile paralysis
struck him. Having hy poor health
been compelled suddenly TO quit bust
ness, he lost what property he had.
Then his beautiful daughter died;
thcna son became hopclesSly demented.
Another son, splendid of mind and com
handing of presence, resolved that he
would take care of his fathers house
hold. but under the swoop of yellow
fever al Fernandina. Fla. he sudden
ly expired. so you know good men and
women who have had enough troubles,
You think, to crush 80 people. No
worldly philosophy could take such Il
trouble ard set Il To music or play it
| on violin or flute, but | dare to open
that dark saying on golden harp.
You wonder that very consecrated
/ people have trouble? Did you ever
know any very consecrated man or
woman who had not had great trouble
Never! 1t was through their troubles
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