Owingsville outlook. [volume] (Owingsville, Ky.) 1879-192?, 1898-09-15
BOUND TO HAVE ENEMIES
Goodness Rcbuke 10 Those Inclined
Toward UIgodliness.
The Making aud Retention OF Friends
Not an Acc drnt-Frirndly Men VIII
Have Many Friends-sermon
by Rev. Dr. Talmage.

Have Many Friends-sermon
by Rev Dr. Talmage.
DR. Talmage in this sermon shows
To b,. a matter of intelligent selection
Text: Proverbs xviii, "a, "A man that
hath friends must show himself friend
ly."
About the sacred and Divine art of
max ~ and keeping friends ! speak
subject on which | never heard Of
anyone prcaching-and yet God
thought it of enough Importance to
put in the middle of the Bible, these
writings of solomon, bounded on one
side by the popular Psalms of David,
and on the other by the writings of
Isaiah. the greatest of the prophets.
1t seems all matter of haphazard
how many friends we have. or whether
we have any friends ut all, but there
is nothing accidental about it. There
is law which governs the accretion
and dispersion of friendships They
did not lust happen 80" any moe
than the tides just happen tn rise or
fall, or the sun just haprens to rise or
set. 1t is a science, an art, n God-givcn
regulation.
Tell me how friendly you are to 9TH
crs, and will tell you how friendly
others are to you. do not say you
will not have euemiesi indeed, the best
way to get ardent friends is to have
ardent enemies, if you get their en-
nifty in doing the right thing. Good
men and women will always have enc
mics, because their goodness Is a per-
petual rebulle to evit; but this antag-
onism of foes will make more intense
the love of your Tdherents. Your
friends will gather { o,cr around you
because of the attacks of Your assail-
ants. The more your enemies abuse
you the better your coadjutors will
think of you.
The best friends We have ever had
appeared at some juncture when we
were especially bombarded. There
have been tunes in nv life when un =
just assault multiplied my friends, as
near as could calculate. about fifty a
minute. You are bound to some peo-
pie by many cords that neither time
nor eternity can break, and | will
warrant that many of those cords
were twisted by hands malevolent
Human nature was shippedwrecked
about fifty-nine centuries ago, the
captain of that craft, one Adam, and
his first mate running the famous car
go aground on a snag in the river Hid
dekel; but there was at least one good
trait of human nature that waded
safely ashore from that shipwreck,
and that is the disposition to take the
part of those unfairly dealt with.
When it is thoroughly demonstrated
that some one is being prosecuted, al
though at the start slanderous tongues
were busy enough, defenders finally
gather around as thick as honey bees
on a trellis of bruised honesuckle.
If, when set upon by the furies, you
can have grace enough to keep your
mouth shut, and preserve your equi-
poise, and let others fight your battles.
you will find yourself after awhile
with n whole Gordon of allies. Had
not the world given to Christ on his
arrival at Palestine n very cold shout
der. there would not have been one
half as many angels chanting glory
out of the hymn books of the sky.
bound in black lids of midnight Had
it not been for the heavy and jagged
and tortuous cross, Christ would not
have been the admired and loved of
more people than any being who ever
touched foot on either the Eastern or
Western hemisphere. Instead, there
fore, of giving up in despair because
you have enemies, rejoice in the fact
that they rally for youihe mos help
full and enthusiastic adv crs n.e.ss
er words, there is no vIruleuce that
can hinder my text from coming true:
"A man that hath friends must show
himself friendly"
1t is my ambition to project espe-
cially upon the young a thought which
may benignly shape their destiny for
the here and the hereafter Before
you show yourself friendly YOU must
be friendly. l do not recommend a
dramatized geniality. There is such
thing as pretending to be en- rap
port with others, when we are their
| dire destructants, and talk against
them, and wish them calamity. Judas
covered up his treachery by a resound-
ical. Better the NEUROLOGICAL Gerber
us, the three-headed dog of he'll,
barking at us, than the wolf in shee p's
clothing, it's brindled hide covered
| up by deceptive wool, and its deathful
howl cadenced into an innocent bleat-
ing. Disraeli writes of Lord Manfred,
who, after committing many outrages
| upon the people, seemed suddenly to
become friendly, and invited them to
banquet After most of the courses
of food had been served he blew a
horn, which was in those times a sig
nal for the servants to bring on the
dessert, but in this case it was the sig
nal for assassins to enter and slay the
guests His pretended friendliness
was cruel fraud; and there are now
people whose smile is a falsehood.
Before you begin to show yourself
friendly you must be friendly. Get
your heart right with God and man,
and this grace will become easy. You
may by your own resolution
get your nature into SEM
blance of this virtue. but the grace
of God can sublimely lift itintdit Sail
ing on the Thames two vessels ran
| aground. The owners of one got 100
horses and pulled on the grounded
ship, and pulled it to pieces The own
ers of the other grounded vessel wait
ed until the tides came in, and easily
foated the ship out of trouble. So we
may pull and haul at our grounded
human nature and try to get it into
better conditions; but there is nothing
like the oceanic tides of Gods
uplifting grace. If, when under
the flash of the Holy Ghost, we see
our own foibles and defects and de-
pravities, we will be very lenient, and
very easy with others We will look