Owingsville outlook. [volume] (Owingsville, Ky.) 1879-192?, 1898-06-16
South Side.


well-to- do to us the other day: 81
admire The OUTLOOK very much.
1t is an open. fearless paper in most
things, but / would like to see it
battle against intemperance more"
We are glad the good lady men
toned it, for it is lamentabls fact
that alcohol is king of America.
He yields mighty scepter, and
men in all classes Of society sub
nit to his all-conquering power.
His subjects range from the hoary-
headed fathers down to the spright-
ly youths of our land, and truly it
is sad sight to see both old and
young abusing the qualifications
God gave them and degrading
themselves lower than the beasts of
the field. But while intemperance
is spreading desolation throughout
our land there is another enemy
equally as formidable and danger
Gus. 1t il pride. Intemperance
Stays only such victims as will give
themselves up to its power, while
pride grinds the faces of the poor
and has driven them from society
and the church, and many u man
Of noble qualifications in his lone
illness and poverty has sought for
getfulness in the wine glass and be-
come useless, ruined wretch. How
mary of those ladies that go to
church to pray for the cause of
temperance have spent more time
arranging their toilet than they
have in their secret devotIons?
How little they consider what God
will think. Their minds are filled
with what will be the opinion Of
man, and should they meet poorly
dressed persons on their way to
church or in it how easily they can
serve them up dish of cold Shout
der. They desire to make the poor
class understand where they belong
and to make them know that they
must not presume to get up to the
standard of well-dressed ladies, no
matter what their qualifications
might be. Ladies, you have a great
enemy to overcome in your own
hearts before you are qualified to
do much good for the temperance
or any other cause. First cast
out the beam in thine own eye and
then shalt thou see clearly to cast
out the mote in thy brothers eye"
Ladies. while your hearts are pulled
up with pride and you don't even
know the poor of your town or
neighborhood you surely can not
expect God to hear and answer
your prayers. We fear they are
very much on the Pharisee order:
81 thank God / am not like other
men," Remember, that God Is
father to the rich and poor alike.
and when be sent His only Son into
this world "to seek and to save
that which was lost" He did not
go among the gaily clad, but found
his friends in the class known rs
the poor fishermen. He was not a
friend to minister to their wants.
He had no pride. How many poor
families have you in your midst
that you have never noticed2 in fact
you have perfectly ignored their
presence? You have only known
them as people that were very poor
and shabbily dressed, and you
could never think for a moment of
asking that man or woman to go to
church with you. Why! you would
be disgraced If you did.
Ladies, If you will visit the poor in
your neighborhood and invite them
to church with you, make them feel
at home in your presence, and en-
courage them to try to become of
some worth, you will reform more
than you can by pray |
ing. The pride of the churches has
driven thousands to intemperance
and ruin. First east the pride out of
your churches and make it possible
for the poor to get employment at
living wages, and intemperance will
soon be unknown.
CLODHOPPER.