Owingsville outlook. [volume] (Owingsville, Ky.) 1879-192?, 1898-01-27

sanctionco go, -. u passing
laws in defense of race tracks, aud
many young men have lost all their
wages at such so.called meetings. :"
Every ma vino voted for such infa.
nous bills has on his hands and fore.
head the blood of these souls.
hut in this connection some young
converts say To me: lis il right To
play cards? Is there any harm in a
game of whist or cuchrc?' WE'LL know
good men who play whist and cuchre
and other styles of games without any
waters. had "a friend who played
cards with his wife and children and
then at the close said: Come now, let
us have prayers | will not Judge
other mems conScicnccs, but I
tell You that cards are in
my mind So associated with
the temporal and spiritual ruin of
splendid young men, that | would as
soon say To- my family: Come. let us
have Il game of cards" n would go
into a mcnagcric and say: "CoIhc, let
us have a game of rattlcsnallcs," or in
To a cemetery. and sitting down by Il
marble slab, say To the grave diggrrS:
Come, let Us have game at skulls
conscientious young ladies are silently
saying: 'Doyou think card PLAYING will
do Us any harm?' Perhaps not. but
how will You feel if i'm the great day of
eternity. when we are asked to give
an account of our influence, some man
should say: Il was introduced To
games of chance in the year 1895. at
your house. and | went on from that
sport To something more exciting, and
went ON down until | lost INV business,
and lost my morals, and lost my soul,
and these chains that you see ON my
wrists and feet are the chaius of n
gamcStcr's doom and | am on nv way
to gamblers hell Honey at the
start, eternal catastrophy at the last.
The poet lIcsiod tells of an ambrosia
and nectar, the drinking of which
would make men live forever, and one
sip of the honey from the eternal rock
will give YOU eternal life with Gol.
Come of the malarial levels of a sin
full life. Come and live on thr uplands
of grace, where the vineyards sun
themselves. 'Oh, taste AMI see that
the Lord is gracious he happy now
and happy forever. For those who
take Il different course the honey will
turn To gall. For many things have adj
mircd Percy Shelley, the great English
poet, but | deplore the fact that it
seemed Il great sweetness to him
to dishonor God. The poem
Queen Nab" has in it the maligning
of the Deity. Shelley was impinus
enough To ask for Rawland Hills SUR
rcy Chapel that he might dcnouncc the
Christian religion. lie was in great
glcc against God and the truth. Tut he
visited Italy. and one day on the Med
iterrauean with two friends in boat
which was II feet long he was coming
toward the shore when an hours >quall
struck the water. \ &c Itlcman
standing ON shore through glass
saw many boats tossed i'm this squall,
but all uutrolc the storm except one,
in which Shelley and his two friends
were sailing. That never came ashore.
but the bodies of two of the occupants
were washed up on the beach. one of
them the poet. a funeral pyre was
built ON the Scashore by some classic
friends and the two bodies were con-
sumed. Poor Shelley! lie would have
no God while he lived. and fear had
no God when he died. The Lord
knowcth the way of the rightcous, but
the way of the unguily shall perish
Beware of the forbidden honey"