Owingsville outlook. [volume] (Owingsville, Ky.) 1879-192?, 1898-06-02

Bought with price. The purchase
complete. 1t is done.
Why, is not man free when he gets
rid of his sins? The sin, ui the tongue
gone; the sins of action gone; tn. sins
of the mind gone. All the transgrcs-
sions Of 30, 40. 30, 10 years gone-no
more In the soul than the malaria that
loatcd In the atmosphere thousand
years ago; for when my Lord Jesus
pardons a man lie purdons him and
there is no halfway work about it,
Here |. see a be"gar going along the
turnpike road. lie is worn out with
disrnse. lie is stitr in his joints. lie
is ulcercd all over. lie has rheum in
his eyes. lie l. sick and wasted. lie
is in rags. Every time he puts down
his swollen feet he cries: ''Oh. the
PAIN lie sees IA fountain by the
roadside under IA tree, and he crawls
up to that fountain and says: Il
must wash. Here | may cool my ul-
GERS. Here ! may get rested" lie
stoops down, and scoops up in the
palm of his hands enough water to
Stake his thirst; and that is all gone
Then he stoops down and begins to
wash his eyes; and the rhcum is all
gone. Then he puts in his swollen
| feet ami the swelling is gone. Then,
willing no longer To bc only half cured,
| he plun%cs in and his whole body is
lavcd in the stream, and he gets upon
| the bank we'll Meantime the owner
of the mansion M vondcr comes
down, walking through the ravine
| with his only son. and he sees the
/ bundle of RAGS, and asks: Whose
rays are thesc?i 4 voice from
| the fountain SAYS: Those are nv
| rags. Then SAYS the master tn his
son: Go up To the house and get the
| best new suit you can find and bring
it down" And he brings down the
clothes, and the beggar is clothed in
| them, and he looks around and SAYS:
Il was filthy. but now | am clean.
was ragged, but now am ROBBED
was blind, but now | see. Glory bs to
the owner of that -sansiOn: and glory
| bc to that son who brought me that
suit of clothes; and glory he to this
fountain, where | have washed, and
where all who will may wash and he
clean. Where sin abounded, grace
doth much more abound. The bird has
been dipped now, let it fly away.
The next thing | noticed about this
bird. when it was loosened land this is
the main ideal. is, that it flew away
Which way did it 60? When you let a
bird loose from your grasp. which way
does it fly? Up. What are wings for:
To fly with. Is there anything in the
suggestion of the direction taken 10y
that bird to indicate which way we
ought to go?
| Rise. my soul and stretch thy WINGS
| Thy better portion trace:
| Rise from transltory things
| To Heaven, thy native place
We should be going IIeavenward
| That is the suggestion. But | know
that we have great many draw backs
You had them this morning perhaps
You had them yesterday, or the DAY
before: and although you want to h,
going lieavenward, you are constantly
discouraged. But | suppose when thai
bird went out of the priests hands i
went by inhections-som stooD
;.g a bird does not shoot directly
up, but this is the motion of a bird.
so the soul scars toward God. rising
up in love, and sometimes depressed by
trial. 1t does not always 60 in tn,
direction it would like to. But tn,
main course is right. There is or,
passage in the Bible (Which quot,
oftener to myself than any other: IL,
knoweth our frame, and lie remem
| bereth that we are dust"