Owingsville outlook. [volume] (Owingsville, Ky.) 1879-192?, 1898-05-12

The lines commencing. On Linden
when the sun was low, are not up to
our standard. Poetry is not T. C.'S
forte. g.. IL - il rough road 10 any
kind of valuable success. 80 the pri-
vations and hardships of your life may
ON a smaller scale he the preface and
introduction tn usefulness and Wet, ry.
see al.u in this call of Moses that
tod has great mcmory. Four hum
drcd Years eforc he had promised the
dciivcrancc of the oppressed israrlitrs
of Egypt. The clock of time has struck
the hour. nnd now Moses is called to
the work Of rc>ctir. Four hundred
years i IA very Ion" time. but you see
tod can remember "A promise 100 years
as we'll as you remember 100 minutes
Four hundred wear, Includes all Your
ancestry that you know anything
about, and all the promises made to
them, and we may expect fuliillmcnt
IN our heart and life of all the bless
ings predicted to our Christian ances-
try centuries ago. You have n dim re-
mrmbrdncc. il any remembrance at
all, of Your grrat-grand Tut
'iod secs those who were On their
knees in I59N ~ wei, rs those on their
knees in ls?S, and the blessing lie
promised the former AMI their de-
>c"ndants have arrived or will arrive.
While picty il not h ,rrditlry. il : a
grand thing Ia hav' piou ancestry.
- tod In this chapter calls up tn ucd-
gree of the people whom Moses wa, 10
L
them: ''Th' Lord tod Of YOUR fathers,
the God of Abraham. the God Of Isaac
and the tod of Jacob hath sent me unto
| you. II that thought bc divinciy ac-
curatc. let me ask, what are w doing
/ by lrLycr and by holy lifc for tn. re-
dcmption of the next iOl years? Our
/ work Is not only with tn people of
| the latter part nf til, nineteenth CEN
fury, but with those in the closing of
the twentieth century. and the closing
of the twenty-iirst century. ami the
/ closing of the twenty-S 'cond century,
and the Closing of the twenty third
century. For 400 years. If the world
continues to swing until that time. or
/ If it drops. then notwithstanding the
| influence will go on in utEcr laIitudcs
and lougitudcs of Gods universe.
No one realizes how great he is for
| good ar for evil. There are branch.
ings out and rebounds. and rcverbera
| tious, and Celebrations of influence
/ that can not be estimated. The 30 OF
/ 100 years of our earthly stay is only Il
small part of our sphere. The Flap OF
! the wing of the destroying angel that
smotc the Egyptian opprcs,orS. the
wash of the Red SEA over thr head, OF
the drowned Egyptians, were all fu,
| ailments of PROPHECIES four centuries
old. And things occur in your life and
/ in mine that we can not account for
They may he the echoes of what was
promised in the sixteenth or seven
teenth century. oh. the prOlongatior
of the divine memory.
Notice, also, that Moses was 81 Y. ar
of age when he got his call To bccom,
the I>raelitish delivcrer. Forty year,
he ha lived i'm palaces as a yrincc; an
other 40 years he had lived in the viii
derncsses of Arabia. | should not won
der Il he had said: Take yougcr mar
for this work. Eighty winters hav,
exposed my health; 50 SUNNI RS havt
poured their heats upon my head; there
are the 30 years that | spent among
the cncrvating luxurics of palac,
and then followed the 40 years o
wilderness hardship | am too old
Let me off. Better call a man in the
fortics or tifties, ami not one who ha,
entered upon the eighties Never
thclcss, he undertook the work and i
we want to know whether he succeeded
ask the abandoned brick kilns q
Egyptian taskmasters an the splinter
ed chariot wheels strewn on the bcacl
of the Red sea, and the trimbrcl
which Miriam clapped for the Israel
ties passed over the Egyptians gon,
under.
Do not retire too early. Like Mos $
you may have your chief work t. IL
after so. 1t may not be in the higl
places of the field; it may not he whcr
strong arm and an athlete foot and
clear vision are required, but there j
something for you yet to do. Perhap
il may be to round off the work you
have already done; to demonstrate tn
the patience you have been recon
mending all your lifetime; perhaps L
stand as "A lighthouse at the mouth q
the bay to light others into harbor
perhaps to show how glorious a sunsc
may come after stormy day.