Owingsville outlook. [volume] (Owingsville, Ky.) 1879-192?, 1898-06-09


whom he had maltreated seemed to
haunt him, so that he kept crying tc |
his attendants: Keep them off, gen
tlemcni for Coos sake, keep them Off
The chickens had come home to rooSt |
The body of bradshaw. the |
English Judge. who had been |
ruthless and cruel in his decisions. was J
taken from his splendi | tomb in West. !,
minister Abbey, and at ryburn hung on |
a gallows from morning until night in
the presence of iccring multitudes. |
Humans gallows cam, little late, but |
it came. Opportunities ly in a straight |
line, and just touch u as they pass
from eternity to eternity, but the
wrongs we do others fly in circle
ami however the circle may widen out,
they are sure to come back to the point
from which they started. There are
guns that kick.
Furthermore. let the story of Hannah
teach us how quickly turns the wheel
of fortune One day, excepting the
king, Hannah was the might, $ man in
Persia; but the next day. lackey. 80
we go up and 80 we com. down. You
'
same circumstances. of those who in
political life 20 years ago, were the
most prominent, how few remain in
conspicuitv. Political parties make
certain men do their hard work,
and then after using them as
hacks turn them out on the commons
to die. Every four years there is a
complete revolution. and about 5000
men who ought certainly to b. the
next president are shame fully disap-
pointed; while some, who are this day
poor and povcrty-strick, will ride
upon the shoulders of the people and
take their turn at the admiration and
the spoils of office. Oh, how quickly
the wheel turns. Ballot boxes are
the steps on which men come down
as often as they go up of those who
We're long ago successful in the ac-
emulation of property how few have
not met with reversesi While many
of those who then were straitcned
in circumstances now hold the bonds
and the bank keys of the nation. OF
all tickle things in the world fortune
is the most tickle. Every day She
changes her mind, and woe to the man
who puts any confidence in what she
promises or proposes! She che, r, when
You go up and she laughs when you 90
down. Oh, trust not moment Your
hearts affections to this changcful
world! Anchor your soul in God.
From Christ'S comprehensive gather
your satisfaction. Then. come sorrow
or gladne>s. success or defeat, riches
or Poverty, honor or disgrace, health
or sickness, life or death, time or eter-
nifty, all are yours, and We are Christs,
and Christ is Gods.
Again; this Humans history shows
us that outward possessions and cir
cumstances can not make a man happy.
While yet fully vested in authority
and everything that equipage and
pomp and splendor of residence could
do were his, he is an objtct-l ION
of wretchedness. There are to-day
more aching sorrows under crowns
of royalty than under the ragged
caps of the houseless Much of the
worlds affluence and gayety is only
misery in colors. Many woman
seated in the street at her apple stand
is happier than the great bankers. The
mountains of worldly honor are cover
ed with perpetual snow. Tamerlane
conquered half the world, but could
not sublue his own fears.
Ahab goes to bed sick, becaus.
Naboth will not sell him
his vineyard. Herod is in agon' ne
cause n child is born down in Bethe-
hem. Great Felix trembles because a
poor minister will preach righteous
ness, temperance and Judgment to
come. From the time of Louis MI. to
Louis XVIII. was there straw bot
toned chair in France that did not sit
more solidly than the great throne on
which the French kings reigned?
Were called to sketch misery in
its worst form would not go up to
the dark alley of the poor, but up the
highway over which prancing Buce-
phali strike the sparks with their hoofs
and between statuary and parks of
stalking deer. Wretchedness is more
bitter when swallowed from gemmed
goblets than from earthen pitcher or
pewter mug. III there are young peo-
pie here who are locking for this posi-
ton and that circumstance. thinking
that worldly success will bring peace
of the soul, let them shatter the de-
fusion. 1t is not what we get, it is
what we are. Daniel among the lions
is happier than King Darius on his
throne.
And, when life is closing, brilliancy
of worldly surroundings will be no
solace Death is blind and sees no diff
ference between king and his clown,
between the bookless hut and nation
al library. The frivolties of life
can not, with their giddy laugh,
echoing from heart to heart. en-
tirely drown the voice of a tre-
mendous conscience which says:
Il am immortal. The stars shall
die, but l am immortal. Ole wave
of eternity shall drown time in
its depths, but l am immortal. The
earth shall have shroud of flame and
the heavens flee at the glance of the
Lord. but | am immortal From all
the heights and depths of my nature
rings down, and rings up. and rings
out the word Immortal A good
conscience. and assurance of life eter.
nal through the Lord Jesus Christ are
the only securities.