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

unaccountable panic?" No" This is
the secret: The Lord God has set up His
throne of iudgmcn mt in the exchange. He
has summoned the righteous and the
wicked To come before him What
was 1851? A day of Judgment What
was 1872 day of Judgment! What
was the extreme depression of two
years ago? day of Judgment! DO
YOU think that God is going to wait
until lie has burned the world up be-
fore lie rights these wrongs? tell
you nayi Every day is day of judg-
mcnt
The fraudulent man piles up his
gains; bond upon bond, United States
security above United States security,
cmolument above cmolument, until
his property has become a great pyra-
mid; and as he stands looking at it,
he thinks it can never he DESTROYED;
but the Lord God comes, and with His
little finger pushes it all over.
You build a house and you put into
it rotten beam a mechanic stand.
ing by says: at will never do to put
that beam in; it will ruin your whole
building" But you put it in. The
house is completed. Soon it begins to
rock. You call In the mechanic and
ask: What is the matter with this
door? What is the matter with this
wall? Everything seems to Toe giving
out" Says the mechanic: "Iou put
rotten beam into that structure, and
the whole thing has got to come
down" Here is an estate that seems
tn IN NIL -i.rht
building great many years. But Ii
years ago there was a dishonest trans
action in that commercial house. That
one dishonest tran saction will keep on
working ruin in the whole structure,
until down the estate will come in
wreck and ruin about the posscssor's
ears-one dishonest dollar in the es-
tate demolishing all his possessions /
have seen it again and again; and so
have you. Here is your moncy-safe.
The manufacturer and yourself only
know how it can he opened. You have
the key. You can touch the lock
and the ponderous door swings back
But let me tell you that, however firm
y bolted your money-safe may be, you
can not keep God out. lie will come,
some day, into your counting room,
and He will demand, Where did that
note of hand come from? How do You
account for this security? Where did
you get that mortgage from? What
does this mean?" IL it is all right God
will say: well done, good and faith
full servant BE prospered in this
world. BE happy in the world to
come" II it is all wrong He will say:
Depart, We cursed. BE miserable for
your iniquities in this life; and then go
down and spend your eternity with
thieves, and horse jockeys and pick
pockets"
You have an old photograph of the
signs on your street. Why have those
signs nearly all changed within the
last 20 years? Does the passing away
of a generation account for il? oh, no.
Does the fact that there are hundreds
of honest men who go down every year
account for it? Oh, no. This is the
secret: The Lord God has been walk
ing through the commercial streets of
our great cities, and lie has been ad-
justing things according to the prin-
ciples of eternal rectitude.
ne tllnt Will come Wnen, through
the revolutionary power of this Cos
pei, a falsehood, instead of being called
eXaggeration, cquivocation and eva
sion; will be branded lie! And steal
ings, that now sometimes go under the
head of percentages and commissions,
and bonuses, will be put into the cata-
logue of state prison offenses. Society
will be turned inside out and upside
down. and ransacked of Gods truth,
until business dishonesties shall come
to an end and all double dealing; and
God will overturn, and overturn, and
overturn; and commercial men in all
cities will throw up their hands, cry
ing out, These that have turned the
world upside down are come hither."
The religion of Jesus Christ will
produce a revolution in our churches.
The noncommittal, do-nothing policy
of the church of God will give way to
a spirit of bravest conquest. Piety in
this day seems to me to be sailed down
just SO as to keep. 1t seems as if the
church were chiefly anxious to take
care of itself; and if we hear of want,
and squalor, and heathenism outside,
we say, What pity" and we put our
hands in our pockets, and we feel
around for a two-cent piece, and with
great flourish we put it upon the
plate, and are amazed that the world
is not converted in six weeks. Sup
pose there were a great war; and there
were 800, 900 soldiers, but of all those
SOC, 900 soldiers, excepting 10 men, were
| in their tents, or securing their mus
kets, or cooking rations. You would
say, "Of course defeat must come in
that case" 1t is worse than that in
the church. Millions of the professed
/ soldiers of Jesus Christ are cooking
rations, or asleep in their tents, while
only one man here and there goes out
| to do battle for the Lord.
But" says some one, I'VE are estab-
! fishing great many missions, and
think they will save the masses" No,
they will not do it. They are doing a
magnificent work, but every mission
chapel is confession of the disease
and weakness of the church. 1t
is making dividing line be-
tween the classes. 1t is saying to the
rich and to the well conditioned: If
You can pay your pew rents come to
| the main audience room" 1t is say
ing to the poor man: Your coat
is too bad and your shoes are not good
enough. If you want to get to Heaven
you will have to go by the way of the
mission chapel" The mission chapel
has become the kitchen, where the
church does its sloppy work. There
are hundreds and thousands of
churches in this country-gorgeously
built and supported-that, even on
bright and sunshiny days, are not half
full of worshipers, and yet they are
building mission chapels, because, by
some expressed or implied regulation,
the great masses of the people arc kept
out of the main audience room.
Now l say that any place of worship
which is appropriate for one class is
appropriate for all classes. Let the
rich and the poor meet together, the
Lord the Maker of them all. Mind you
that say that mission chapels are a
necessity, the way churches are now
conducted, but may God speed the time
when they shall cease to be necessi-