Owingsville outlook. [volume] (Owingsville, Ky.) 1879-192?, 1898-08-18
TRIALS or THIS WORLD.
Ii Will Require a Gog's Strength to
Overcome Them.
Mans Own Natural DETERMINATION Q" Win
often Carries Him safely Through
TroubIous Z m,s sermon By
Rev. I. Dewitt Talmase.

This discourse of Dr. Talmagc is full
of encouragement for those who know
not which way To turn lccausc of ac-
cumulatcd mi~fortuuc~. Text, !. sam
ucl. xiv. {: There was a sharp rock ON
the one side aud sharp rock ON the
other side.
Tie cruel army of the rhiliStincs
must hr taken and scattered. There
i lust one man, accompanied 10y his
hodvguard. to do that thing. iona
than is the hero of the scene. | know
that David creek Il the skull - the
giant with II few pebbles we'll Nlunr,
and that 800 Gidcunitcs scatter. ii
10 900 AmllckitcS by the crash Of
broken crnckcrv; but here i n
more wonderful conflict Wonder
are the rnlli~tinc> on the rocks Here
j. jonathan with his h"dyguard in the
valley. On the one >ldr il a rock call
ed Il, 2rA ON the other side i rock
called >cnch. Thrsc two wcrr "A, IA
nous in ol len times as in modern
times ar. Plymouth RrcS and tiibral-
tar They we're ! RECEPTIONS, un>cai-
able and sharp Between these two
rocks Jonathan must make his ascent.
The day comes for the scaling OF the
height Jonathan ON his hands ami
feet begins the ascent With strain
and slip and bruis", | suppose, but
still ON ami M, first goes Jonathan
and then COS his bodyguari.
I;ozrZ on one side, Scnch on the
other. After sharp tug, and
push. and clinging, ! see the head of
Jonathan above the hole in the noun
tain, and tn re is "A challenge and a
fight. and supernatural con>tcrna-
tiun. These two men. Jonathan aud
his bodvguard drive back and drive
down the Philistinc> over the rocks,
and open campaign which dcmolishcS
the enemies of Israel. | suppose that
the ovcrhanging and over>hadowing
rocks on either side did not balk or
dishearten Jonathan ar his bodyguard,
hut only reused aud filled them with
enthusiasm a they went up. There
was sharp rock on the one sid. and
sharp rock on the other side"
NV friends, You have been, or are
now, some of you, in this crisis of the
text. If a man meets any trouble he
can go through with it, lie gathers
al. his energies. concentrates them on
one point. and in the strength of Col.
or by his own natural determination.
goes through it, Hut the man who
has trouble to the right of him. and
trouble To the left of him, is To be pitt
led. Did either trouble come alone.
he might endure il, hut tw" troubles.
two disasters, two over>hadowing mis-
fortunes. are Boz,Z and Sench. tod
pity him, "Therr i sharp rock on
the one Sid.. and "A sharp rock on thr
other side"
In this crisis of the text i that man
whose fortune and health fail him at
the sam tim' Ninc-t 'nths Of ALI urr
merchants cap>ize in business before
they com, to A. years of age. There
is some collision in comm Srcial circles.
and "a V stop payment 1t seems as If
every man mus. put his name on the
back of a note before he learns what
a fool n man is who risks all his own
property on the prospect that some
man will tell the truth. 1t seems as IL
man must have large amount of
unstable goois ON his own shelf be-
fore he learns how much easier it i to
buy than to sell. 1t seems as if every
man must be com letcly burned out be-
fore he learns the Importance of always
keeping fully insured. 1t seems as if
every man must be wrecked in a tinan-
cial TEMPEST before he learns to keep
things snug in case of a sudden euro
clydon.
When the calamity does come it is
awful. The man goes home in de-
srair, and he tells his family. We'll
have to go to the poorhouse. He
takes dolorous yieNof cvH'ything..
Ii SEEMS as if h never could rise.
But a little time passes and he says:
why, | am not So badly off after all;
have my family left"
Before the Lord turned Adam out of
Paradise. lie gave him Eve, SO that
when he lost Paradise he could stand
it. Permit one who has never read
but a few novels in all his life. and
who has not great deal of romance
in his composition, TO say that il, when
a mans fortunes fail. he has a COOL
wife-a good Christian wife-he ought
not to be Respondent. "Oh. Won say.
.'th1t only increases the embarrass-
ment, since you have her also to take
care Of" You are an migrate, for the
woman as often supports the man as
the man supports the woman. The
man my bring the dollars, but the
woman generally brings the courage
and the faith in Col.
Well. this man of whom | am speak
ing looks around, and he finds his fam
ily is left. aad he rallies, and the light
comes to his eyes. an / the smile to his
face and the courage to his heart. In
two years he is quite over il. He makes
his financial calamity the first chapter
in a new era of prosperity. He met
that one trouble-conquered it. He
sat down for little while under the
grim shadow OF the rock Boz.z; vet h (,
soon rose, and began, like Jonathan, to
climb But how often is il that physical
ailment comes with financial embar-
rassment. When the fortune failed it
broke the mans spirit His nerves
were shattered. His brain was
stunned.
can show you hundreds of men in
our cities whose fortunes and health
failed at the same timn. They came
prematurely to the staff. Their hand
trembled with incipient paralysis.
They never saw well day since the
hour when they called their creditors
together for compromise. If such
man ara impatient and peculiar and