Owingsville outlook. [volume] (Owingsville, Ky.) 1879-192?, 1898-06-16

by holy rctound YOU will come out
INTO the calm waters. If W. want to
max" ourselves hap v ". must make
others happy Mytholo tells us Of
Amphi"n, who played h, Tyre until
the mountains were moved and the
walls of ThcluS arose; hut religion had
mighticr story to tell Of how { .rio-
tian song may build whole tempt : Of
"tcrnnl joy and lift the round cnrth
int" symraihy with the skies.
tarr!cd many nights in London.
ami used Ia hear the bells. the small
bells of the city, strik, the hour of
night-one. two. three, four, and
among them the great -. Paui'S cathc.
dral would COME in To- mark the hours.
making al the other sound, seem ut
tcrly insignificant rs with mighty
tongue it announced the hour of the
night. every stroke an ovcrmaStcring
boom. My friends. it was intended
that all the lesser sounds of the world
should hc drnwnrd ont IN the mighty
tongue IF congregational song heating
against the gates of Heaven. do YOU
know how they mark the hours in
Heaven? They have no clocks. rs III "
have no candles, but great pendulum
of hallrlujah swinging across Heaven
from eternity Ia eternity.
Again ] remark that sanctuary help
ought Ia Gene fr, IN the sermon. OF
thousand people in any audience how
many want sympathetic help? Doyou
guess a hundred? DO YOU guess five
hundred? You have guessed wrong.
/ 1N-tll foil
Ont of a Thousand n,onIe in ory
audience there are lust !. 900 who need
svmpathctic helm These vounr n,o.
pie want il iu,t as mnch A. tho old
The old pcoplr sometimes soon In
think they have n mononolv of tho
rhrumatisms, and the neuraloias. and
the headaches and the phv.ic,l dis.
orders of the world: but | tell Won
there are no worse hcortocbcs than
are felt by some of the vounr pcopIc
DO Won know that much of the work
is done by the Young? Eaphael died
at -. Hichclieu at 81. ,;ustavus
| Adolphus died Mt rs Innocent Ill
came to his mightiest influence, at az
Cortez conquered Mexico at 80. Don
/ John won Lepanto at -. Grotius WAS
1 attorney general Mt -. and have no.
| tic amid all classes of men that
some of the srvercst battles aud Tn,
| toughest work comes before 20
/ Therefore we must have our sermons
| and our exhortations in PRAYER meet
| ing all sympathetic with the Young.
And 50 with these people further on
/ in life. What do these doctors
/ and LAWYERS aud merchants and me-
| chanics care about the distractions
of religion? What they want is help
/ to bear the whimsicalities of patients.
the brow beating % legal opponents,
| the unfairncSs of customers who have
| plenty of fault-findinr for every i'm
| perfection of handiwork, but no rraise
| for 20 exceIlencies. What does the
/ brain-racked. hand blistered man care
| for Zwingle's Doctrine of Original
Sin" Augustine's "Retraction?" You
might as well go to man who has the
! pleurisy and put on his side IA plaster
made out of DR. PARIS Treatise on
Medical Jurisprudence"
While all of a sermon NAV not be
helpful alike to all. if it be Christian
sermon preached by a Christian man.
there will be help for every one some :
where. We go into an aporhecary's
store, we see others being waited on:
we do not complain because we do not
| immediately get the medicine; we
know our turn will come after awhile.
| And so while all parts of n sermon may
not be appropriate to our case. if we
wait prayerfully. before the sermon is
through, we shall have the divine pre-
scription. | say to Young men who are
going to preach the yospel: We want in
our sermons not more metaphysics, nor
more imagination. nor more logic. nor
more profundity. What we want in
our sermons and Christian exhortations
:, Il. ore sympathy. When Father TAYLOR
; preached in the sailors Bethel of Bos-
/ ton the lack tars felt that they had help
/ flr II, ir dutic, nong the ratlines
/ anf forecast - r-.. ;ichard Weaver
tr,uclFYi T. t.,. operatives in Oldham.
Eng. al On, .nrL,,pen felt they had
4 pory r'-s. 900. ,h,. spindles. When
DIR. :.uta p, a.hed to kings and
princes ava, usiG,r .sses, all the mighty
men and n-.,nan who heard him felt
preparation for their hirh station.
People will not 90 to church merely
as matter of duty. There will not
next, Sa bbath b, a hundr, d people in
this city who will get up in the morn
ing and say: The Bible saws must
go to church; il is nv duty to
go to church, there fore | will
go to church" The vast multitu le of
people who 60 to church. go to church
because they like il. and the
multitude of people who STAY away
from church, stay away because they
do not like il. am not speaking about
the way the world ought to be, | am
speaking about the wav the world is.
Taking things as they are. we must
make the centripetai force OF the
church mipbtier than the CENTRIFUGAL
We must make our churches magnets
to draw the peopl. thcreunto- 50 tba, n
man will feel uneasy if he does not 90
To church. SAVING. Il wish I had gone
this morning. | wonder IL cant dress
and get there in time. Tits II O'CLOCK.