Owingsville outlook. [volume] (Owingsville, Ky.) 1879-192?, 1898-02-17

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without any sense, aud then sud
denly stops. - is the body of that
WORKOUT man. Ii is a neglected clock,
and though 10y some summer recreation
il may hc wound up, still the machin-
cry is all out of gear. The hands turn
around with velocity that rNcitcS the
a>tonishmcnt of the world. Men can
not understand the wonderful activity.
and there il a roar and a buzz,
and rattle about these dis
ordered lives. and they strike 10
when they ought Ia strike six,
and they strike 10 when they ought
Ia strike nothing, and suddenly they
stop. Post mnrtcm examination re-
vcals the fact that all the springs, and
pivots. and weights, and balance
wheels nf health are completely de-
ranged. The human clock is simply
run down. And at the time when the
steady hand ought to he pointing Ia
the Industrious hours ON a clear and
suulit dial the whole machinery of
body, mind and earthly capacity stops
forever. oak liill and Greenwood
have thousands of business men who
died of old age ut 30 ~, 10, ~.
Now, what is wanted is gracc-di-
vine grace for ordinary business men,
men who are harnrSscd from morn till
night and all the days Of their life
harncsscd in business. Not grace Ia
lose hundred thousand. hut grace Ia
lose Sln Not grace Ia supervise 30
employees in factory, but grace Ia
supervise the hookkccpcr, and two
statesmen. and the small hoy that
sweeps out the store. Grace 10 invest
not $4,000 Of net profit, hut the s., 500
of clear gain. Grace not Ia endure the
loss Of whole shipload of spices from
the Indies, but grace To endure the
loss of "a paper of collars from the
leakage of displaced shin
gle ON n poor roof Grace not to en-
durc the hardness of the American
congress in passing necessary law, but
grace Ia endure the hardness of an err
rand boy stopping to play marbles
when he ought deliver the goods. such
grace as thousands of business men
have to-day-kccping them tranquil,
whether goods sell or do not sell,
whether customers pay or do not pay,
whether tariff is up or tariff is down,
whether the crops are luNuriant or n
dead failure-calm in all circum-
stances. and amid all vicissitudes. That
is the kind of grace we want
Millions of men want il, and they
may have il for the asking. Some hero
or heroine comes to town, and As the
procession passes through the street
the business men come out. stand on
tiptoc ON their store step and look at
some one who in Arctic CLINE, or in
ocean storm. or in day of battle, or in
hospital agonics did the brave thing,
not realizing that they, the enthusiasts
tic spectators. have gone through trials
in business life that are just as great
before God. There are men who have
gone through freezing Arctics and
burning torrids. and awful Marengocs
of experiences without moving five
miles from their doorstep.
Now, what ordinary business men
need is to realize that they have the
friendship of that Christ who looked
after the religious interests of Mat
thew, the custom house clerk. and
helped Lydia, of Thyatira, To sell the
dry goods, and who opened n bakery
and fish market in the wilderness OF
Asa Miuor to feed the 1000 who had
come out on religious picnic, and
who counts the hairs of your head with
as much particularly as though they
were the plumcs of a coronation, and
who took the trouble to stoop down
with his finger writing on the
ground, although the first shuttle oi
feet obliterated the divine caligraphy,
and who knows just how many 10
Gusts there were in the Egyptian
plague, and knew just how many
ravens were necessary to supply Eli
jah's pantry by the brook of Cherith
and who, as floral commander, leads
forth all the regiments of primroses
foxglovcs, daffodils, hyacinths and
| lilies, which pitch their tents of beauty
and kindlc their camp fires of color all
around the hemisphere-that that
| Christ and that God knows the most
affairs of your business life, and, how
ever inconsiderable, understanding all
the affairs of that woman who keeps a
affairs of Rothschild and Barring.
Then there are all the ordinary
farmers. We talk about agricultural
| life, and we Immediately shoot off t,
talk about Cincinnatus, the patrician
who went from the pillow to high po
sition, and after he got through tn,
dictatorship in II days went bacl
again to the pillow. What encourage
ment is that to ordinary farmers
them will be patricians. Perhaps non'
of them will be senators. If any o
them have relationships it will
be over forty or fifty or n hundred
acres of the old homestead. VIVA
these men want is grace to keep thei
patience while blowing with balk,
oxen, and to keep cheerful amid tn,
drought that destroys the corn crop
and that enables them to restore tn,
garden the day after the neighbour
cattle have broken in and trampleo
out the strawberry bed, and gon,
through the Lima bean patch and eat
en- up the sweet corn in such larg,
quantities that they must be kept from
the water lest they swell up and die.
Grace in catching weather that en-
ables them. without imprecation, t.
spread out the hay the third time, al
though again, and again, and again, i
has been almost ready for the NOW
A grace to doctor the COW with a hol
low horn, and the sheep with the foo
rot, and the horse with the distemper
and to compel the unwilling acres Il
yield a livelihood for the family, an'
schooling for the children and littl'
extras to help the older boy in bust
ness, and something for the daughter
wedding outfit and little surplu
for the time when the ankles vii
get stiff with age, and the breau
will be a little short, and the swing
ing of the cradle through tn,
hot harvest field will bring on the oil
mans vertigo. Better close up abou
Cincinnatus / know five hundre'
farmers just as noble as he was. VIVA
they want is to know that they hav
the friendship of that Christ who oftel
drew his smiles from the farmers life
as when he said: "A sower went fort
to SOW" as when he built his best par
able out of the scene of farmer bo