Owingsville outlook. [volume] (Owingsville, Ky.) 1879-192?, 1898-11-17


nothing uselcssly,
rose did He build youI md and
soul as they are built: here are only
two beings in the universe who can
answer that question. The angels do
uot know. The schools do not know.
Your kindred cannot certainly know.
God knows, and you ought to know.
\ factory running at an expense OF
5000 year and turning out goods
worth 20 cents a year would not be
such an incongruiry as you, o man.
with such scmi-infinite equipment do
irg nothing. or next to nothing, in the
way of usefulness. What shall do?"
YOU ask. My brethren. my sisters, do
not nsk me. Ask God. There Some
path of Christian usefulness open. 1t
may be a rough path or it may be Il
smooth path. long path or Il short
path. 1t may be on the mount of con-
spicuity or in the valley unobservcd.
but it is path on which you can start
with such faith and such satisfaction
ard such certainty that you can cry
cut In the face of earth and hell and
heaven: $40 this end was born"
Do not wait for extraordinary quail
fications. Philip. the conqueror. gained
his greatest victories seated on Il mule.
and il YOU wait for some caparisoncd
Buce phalus to rid, into the coz ilict yoI
will never get into the worldwide fight
AT all. Samson slew the Lords en-
cmics with the iawbone of the stupid
ct beast created. ShamSdr slew co.
of the Lords enemies with an OK 2oad.
Under God spittle cured the blind
mans eyes in the New Testament story.
Take I'll the faculty you have and say:
III Lord, here is what | have. Show
me the field, and back me up by omripo-
ten; power. Anywhere, anyhow, any
tine for God"
1t may be helpful if | rccite my own
experience in this regard. | started
for the law without asking any divine
direction. | consulted my own tastes.
| liked lawyers and courtrooms and
judges and iuries, and reveled in hearing
the Frelinghuysens and the Eradleys
Of the New Jersey bar, and as assistant
CT the county clerk, at l6 years of age,
| searched titles. naturaliZed foreign
crs, recorded deeds. received the con-
f, ssion of judgments. swore witnesses
and juries and grand jurics, but after
awhile | felt call to the gospel minis
try and entered il, and felt some salts
faction i'm the work; but one summer,
when | was resting at Sharon Springs
and while seated in the park of that vii
lnge. | said to myself: IF have an es-
pecial work to do in the world, ought
to find it out now" and with that de-
termination prayed as had never be-
fore prayed, and got the divine direc-
ton, and wrote il down in my memoran-
dun book, and saw my life work then
as plainly as | see it now. Oh, do not
be satisfied with general directions!
Get specific directions. Do not shoot
at random. Take aim and fire. Con-
ccntrate. Napoleon's success in battle
came from his theory of breaking
through the enemy's ranks at one
point, not trying to meet the whole line
of the enemy's force by similar force.
One reason why he lost Waterloo was
because he did not work his usual the
DRY and spread his force out over a
wide range. o Christian man, O Chris
tian woman, break through some
where. Not a general engagement for
God, but a particular engagement, and
made In answer to prayer. IL there are
LOCO .000, 200 people in the world. then
there are GOO, ZOO, 900 different missions
to fulfill, different styles of work to do
different orbits In which to revolve, and
II you do not get the divine direction
there are at least 1895, 900 900 POSSIBLE
tiles that you will make mistake. On
your knees before God get the matter
settled 40 that you can firmly gay: "To
this end was born"