Owingsville outlook. [volume] (Owingsville, Ky.) 1879-192?, 1898-08-04

Nt"iH hS' tIhu ltil ~ iOnh
out for itself 1t Is still under the di-
vine care. Christ never for half sec
ond takes His hand of of it, or 1t
would soon hc a shipvrcrhcd world.
dcfunct word. an oh,ol.tr world. an
abandnncl world. dead word. IL I
there lr light" was said at the begin
ming. AuG Christ stands under the
wintry skies and says. let there be-
snow llalc> tn enrich the earth; aud
under the clouds of sprin" and says,
come yr blossoms and make rcdol mt
the orchards, and in September diIs
the bran, hes in the vat of beautiful
colorS and swings them into the hazy
air. No whim of mine i IN :. With
out Him was not anything made that
WAS made. Christ writing ON the
ground.
If You could see his hand in all the
passing SEASONS how il would illumc
the world, Al. vcrdurc anl foliage
would To- alicgoric. and again We would
hear Him say. a. of old: Consider the
lille, of the field, how they grow" and
we would not hear the whistle of
quail or the cawing of a raven. or the
ruundclay of brown thrcshcr, with
out saying. "Bchold the fowls of the
air, they gather not in barns, vet your
Heavenly Father fccd"th them; and "a
Dominic hen of the BARNARD could not
cluck for hcr brood. hut we would
near Christ saying, a. OF old. How
often would | have gathered thy chill
drcn together. even "a Il hen gathereth
ner chickens under her wings, and
through the rcdolcnt hedges we would
hear Christ saying, Il am the rose of
Sharon;" we could not dip the SEASON
in" from the salt cellar without think
ing of the divine suggestion, We are
the salt of the earth. but il the salt
hath lost it, SAVIOR il is fit for nothing
but 10 hc east out aud troddcn under
foot of men"
Let us wake from our stupidity and
take the whole world as parable.
Then. if with gun and pack of hounds
we start of before dawn. and see the
morning coming down of the hills 10
meet H.. we would cry out with the
| evangelist: The DAY spring from on
high hath visited us or caught in a
, srowstorIn, while strug Cling home,
eyebrows and beard and apparel all
covered with the whirlinr fak'~. we
would cry ont with David: Wash me.
and | shall bc whittier than snow. In
Il picture gallery of Eurouc there is on
the ceiling an exquisite ircoco hut
/ the people having To Look straight M.
it wcaricd and dizz,cd them and bent
their nccks almost beyond cndur-
D
near the ilopr. and now visitors only
need To look easily down INTO the mir
ror and they see the frcSco at their
/ feet. And So much of the high Heaven
of Gods truth is reflected in this
/ world II, in a mirror, ami things that
are above are copied hy things around
us.
I What right have We to throw away
one of God's Bihlcs-aye. the first
Bible lie ever gave the race? We talk
! about the Old Testament, and the New
I Tes' amcnt, but the oldest Testament
contains the lessons of the
natural world. Some proplc like the
/ New Testament SO we'll they discard
e. the Old Tcstam shall we like the
/ New Tcstam mt and the Old Testament
50 well as to dcprcciatc the oldest,
namely. that which was written be-
fore Moses was put afloat on the boat
OF leaves which was cllllcd with as
/ phaltum. or reject the Gcncsis that
was written centuries before Adam
lost q rib and gained a wife? No. no,
When Deity stoops down and writes
on the ground let us read il.
would have no less appreciation OF
the Bible on papcr that comes out of
the paper mill, but ! would urge Az
probation of the Bible in the grass.
the Bible in the sand hill. the u bic in
the geranium, the Bible in the aspho-
del, the Bible in the dust. Some one
asked an ancient king whcthc he had
seen the eclipse of the sun. No,
said he. II have SO much to study on
earth ! have no time To look at lIeav-
en-" And if our faculties were all
awake in the study of God we would
not have time to go much further
than the first grass blade. have nc
fear that natural religion will ever
contradict what we call revealed re.
ligion. | have no sympathy with tho
followers of Aristotle, who. after the
telescope was invented, would no,
look through it. lest ii contradict some
of TIE theories of their great master
l shall DE glad to put against one Ii
of the Eiblc the microscope and
against the other lid of the Bible the
telescope.
But when Christ stooped down and
wrote on the ground what did lie
write? The rhari>ccs did not stop Il
eNaTi line. The towards, whipped oi
their own conscience, fed pell nell.
Nothing will fiay man like an
aroused conscience. Dr.. Stevens, in
his History of Method;sm." says tina,
when Rev. Ben iamin Abbott. of olieu
times, was preaching he exclaimed
For aught l know there may be Z
murderer in this house" and a man
rose from the assemblage anu started
for the door and bawled aloud: con,
Tossing TO a murder he had committed
Is years before. And no wonder these
Pharisees, reminded of their sins
took to their heels.
But what did Christ write on the
ground? The Bible does not state
Yet as Christ never wrote anything
excel that once you can not blame Us
for wanting to know what lie really
did write. But | am certain lie
wrote nothing trivial or nothi ng I'M,
important. And You will allow me tC
say that think l know what He wrote
on the ground. | Judge from the cir
cumstances. lie might have writer
other things, but knccling there in tho
temple, surrounded by n pack of hypo
critics who were a self-appointed con
stabulary, and having in his presence
a prosecuted woman, who evidently
was very penitent for her sins, l an
sure lie wrote two words, both o
them graphic and tremendous anC
reverberating. And the one word wa:
Hypocrisy" and the other word wa.
forgiveness
From the way these Pharisees aud
scribes vacated the premises and got
but into the fresh air, as Christ, will
Just one ironical sentence unmaskeC
them, | know they were frst-clas:
hypocrites. 1t was then as it is now
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