Owingsville outlook. [volume] (Owingsville, Ky.) 1879-192?, 1898-08-18

stores and three ships. Well" the
man says to himself. lit is silly for ne
to pray, tive me this day nv daily
bread, when my pantry j. full. and
the canals from the west are crowded
with hrcadStuT> destined for NV
storchou>cs. ON. my friends. il the
combined misfor, unr and disaster of
lf" have made you climb up into the
arms OF SYM athletic and comuaSs-
tomato God, through all eternity YOU
h.ess him that in this world there
was sharp rock on the one sid, and
sharp rock on tAc other side"
Again, that man i in the crisis of
the text who has HON, troubles and
outside persecution at III, same time.
The world treats man well lust a.
long rs II pays To treat him we'll As
long aS II can manufac ure success ont
Of his bone and brain aud muscle, it
favor HIM. he world fattrns the
hoT>" II wants to drive. Hut let q man
sec IT his duty tn cross tin. track uf the
world, lh"u every luh i .ull of
horns aud 'u,k> thrust at him. They
Will cnr,calurc him. They will call
his generosity self aggrandiz .mcnt
and his picty >anctimoniouSncs>. The
very worst persecution will sometimes
come upon him from those VINO pro-
fc>> to hc Christians
John Milton -.rcat and good John
Mllton->o Jar forgot himself as to
pray. in 50 many words, that his enc
mics might lie ct, rnally thrown down
m In h.a AZ url-. Il
he'll, and lie the undermOst ami most
detected. and the lowest down vassals
of Icrdit!on. And Martin Luther so
far forgot himself a. tn say, in regard
To his theological opponents: Put
thcm IN whatever sauce you please,
roasted, or fried. or baked, or stcwed,
or boiled. or hashed, they are nothing
tut asses. An. NV friends. if John
Milton or Martin Luther could com
down tn >uch scurrllity. what may You
not expect from less elevated oapon-
ents? Now. sometimes the world
takes after tn IN, the news
apers tax after them. public
opinion takes afr them. ami the I'M
fortunate man is lied about until all
the dictionary of II llingSratc is cx-
haustcd on him. You often see man
whom You know u b. gooi and pure
ami honest set upon by the world and
maulrd by whole communities. while
vicious men take ON a >uperc .liouS air
of condemnation of him. aS though
Lord Jrffreys should writ an cs av
on ccn;lrnr>s, or Henry VIII. talk
about purity. or King IIrrod take To
blessing little children.
Now. a certain amount of rcrsecu-
ton are II cs a mans defiance. StirS
his bleed for magnificent battle and
make> him 10 ,im'S mere "A man than
he would have been without tine pcr>"-
cution. 20 il WAS with tn great e.
former when Ice >aid, Il will not be
put down; will be heard" AMI 80 it
was with Willard. tn. preacher, in the
time of Louis NJ. When Louis NJ
sent word to him that unless ~ stop-
rcd preaching in that .strie he would
throw him into l..--rtvcr. he rcplird.
Tell the King that will reach
llea"| sooner 10y water than he will
each il by :a>t horses. \ certain
amount of persecution il Il tonic and
inspiration. but too much of il
and too long continued becomes
the rock Bozcz throwing dark
shadow over mans life. What is he
tn do then? TO home. YOU say. Good
advice, that. That is just the place for
a man to go when the world abuses
him. TO home. blessed be God for our
quiet and sympathetic HON :! But
there is many a man who has the repu-
tation of having a home when he ha ,
none. Through unthinkingneS or
precipitation there are many matches
made that ought never to have been
made. An officiating priest can not
alone unite couple. The Lord AL
mighty must proclaim banns. There
are many homes in which there is no
sympathy. and no happiness, and no
good cheer.
The clamor of the battle may not
have been heard outside; hut God
knows, notwithstanding all the play
inS. of the Wedding March," and all
fhe odor of the orange blossoms, and
the benediction of the officiating TaS-
tor. there has been no marriage. 80
some times men have awakened to find
on one side of them the rock of pcrsc-
cution, and on the other side of them
the rock Of domestic infelicity. What
shall such a oac do? DO as Jonathan
did-climb Get up the heights of
Gods consolation, from which You
may look down in triumph up
on outside persecution and home
trouble. While good and great John
Wesley wa, being silcncsd by the
magistrates, and having his name
written on the board fences of London
in dorgerel, al that very time his wife
was making him as mis- 'rabl.. as she
could-acting as though she were pos
sessed by the devil, rs | suppose she
was; never doing him a kindness I'M
til the day she ran away, SO that he
wrote in his diary these words: Il
did not forsake her; | have not dis.
missed her; | will not recall her. g
Planting one foot upon outside perse-
cution and the other foot on home
trouble, John Wesley climbed IN into
the heights of Christian joy, and after
preaching 10000 sermons and travel
ing go. 900 miles reached the heights
of Heaven. though in this world he
had it hard enough-''a sharp rock on
the one side and a sharp rock on the
other"
Again, that woman stands in the
crisis of the text who has hereavcmen Mt
and a struggle for livelihood at the
same tins. Without mentioning
names. l speak from observation. All,
it is hard thing for a woman to make
an honest living, even when her heart
is not troubled, and she has a fair
check, and the magnetism of an ex.
quisite presence. But now the hus-
band, or the father is dead The ex.
penses of the obsequies have absorbed
all that was left in the savings bank;
and wan and wasted with weeping and
watching, she goes forth-a grave, a
hearse. n coffin behind hcr-to contend
for her existence and the existence OF
her children.
When | see such a battle as that
open. shudder at the ghastliness OF
the spectacle. Men sit with embroi-
dered slippers and write heartless es.
says about women's wages; but that
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