Owingsville outlook. [volume] (Owingsville, Ky.) 1879-192?, 1898-09-15

the sky, and we have to look NJ to
see that, and when we look NJ no col.
or can do lis harm Why not plant
along the Taths of others the bright.
ncsseS Instead vi the loomf
Do not prophesy misfortune. IL
YOU must be n prophet at all, be an
Ez ,kiel. and hot a Jeremiah In al.
Client times prophets who forctold evils
were doing right, for they were d.
vincly directed, but the prophets of
evil in our time are generally false
prophets Some of our weather.
wise people prophesied we would
have summer of unparalleled heat
II has been n very comfortable sum-
mcr Last fall all the weather proph-
cts agreed in saying we should
have winter Of extraordinary sever
ity, blizzard on the heels of blizzard.
1t was the mildest winter | ever re.
member to have passed. Indeed the
autumn and the spring almost showed
winter out of the procession. Real
troubles have no heralds running
ahead of their somber chario'>, and
no one has any authority in our time
to announce their coming. Load
yourselves up with hopeful words and
deeds. The hymn once sung in our
churches is unfit 20 be sun, for it
saws:
We should suspect some danger near"
Where we POSSESS delight"
In other words, manage to keep
miserable all the time. The old song
sung at the pianos a quarter of a
century ago was right: kind words
can never de" such kind words
have their nests In kind hearts. and
when they are Matched out and take
wing they circle around In flights
that never cease, and sportsman's gun
can not shoot theIl, and storms can
not rutfle their wings, and when they
cease flight in these lower skies of
earth they sweep around amid
the higher attitudes of heaven. At
baltimore talked into photograph.
The cylinder containing the words was
sent on to Washington, and the next
day that cylinder from another phono-
graphic instrument, when turned,
gave back to me the very words
had uttered the day before, and
with the same intonations. Scold
to a photograph and it will scoid
back. Pour mild words into a phono
graph and it will return the gentle
ness Society and the world and
the church are Photographs. Give
them acerbity and rough treatment
and acerbity and rough treatment you
will get back. Give them practical
friendliness and they will give bach;
practical friendliness. 4 father asked
his little daughter: MARY. why 10 il
that every body loves your She an
swered: II don't know, unless it. is
because | love every body" "A man
that hath friends must show himself
friendly"
We want some thing like that spirit
of sacrifice for other, which was seen
in the English channel. where in the
storm boat containing three men wal
upset, and all three were in the water
struggling for their lives. A boat
came to their relief, and a rope
was thrown to one of them,
and he refused to take 1t. say.
ing: First fling it to Tom; he is
just ready to go down. l can last some
time longer" A man like that, be he
sailor or landsman, be he in upper
ranks of society or lower ranks. will
always have plenty of friends. What
is true MAYNARD is true Godwari. We
must be the friends of God if we want
Him to be our friend. We can not trea
Christ badly all our lives and expect
Him to treat us lovingly. was read
ing of sea fight in which Lori Mel.
son captured French fri-atc. AMI
when the French officer offered Lord
Nelson his hand, Nelson replied: FIRST
give me your sword, aud then give IN .
your hand" Surrender of our resist
ance to God must precede Gods proffe
of pardon to us. Repentance before
forgiveness. You must give up your
rebellioss sword before you can get a
grasp on the Divine hand.