Owingsville outlook. [volume] (Owingsville, Ky.) 1879-192?, 1899-01-12

places. We want men in TIL, nation
with faith enough for all. We want
here and there IA David worth 10000
men.
\ vast majority of men have no sur
plus OF confidence for others and hardly
enough confidence for themselves.
They 90 through life saying depressing
things and doing depressing things.
They chill prayer meetings discourage
charitable institutions, iniure com
mcrcc aud hill churches. They blow out
lights when they ought To be kindling
them. They hover around Il dull fire
on their own hearth and take up 50
much room that no one can catch the
least ca'oric, instead of stirring the
hearth into blaze, the crackle of
whose backlog would invite the whole
Ecighburhuud to come in To feel the
Astounding warmth aud see the trains
tiguration of the faces. As We all have
To guess great deal about the future.
let Us guess something good, for it will
he more encouraging and the CUES will
he Just as apt To come true. What n lot
81 ingratrs the Lord has AT His table
people who have had three meals a day
Tor 30 years and yet fear that they will
soon have to rattle their knife aud fork
ON an empty dinner plate. How many
have had, winter and spring and sum
mcr and fall, clothing for 80 years, hut
expect an empty wardrobe shortly.
How many have lived under free insti-
buttons all their days, but fear that the
United States may he telcscOpcd in
some foreign collision! oh. but the
taxes have gone up. Yes, hut. thank
God. 1t is easier, with money, to pay the
taxes now that they are up than il was
without money To pay the taxes when
they were down. We want a few men
who have faith in God and that mighty
future which holds several things,
among them millennium. Column
banus said to his friend: "Dcicolus.
why are YOU always smiling" The re-
ply was: because no one can take my
God from me-" We want more men to
feel that they have a mission Ia cheer
others and to draw up the corners of
peoples mouths which have long while
been drawn down-more Davids who
can shepherd whole flocks of bright
hopes and play harp of encourage
mcnt and strike down a Goliath of de-
Spair, and of whom we can say: Thou
art worth 100000 of us"
admit that this thought of my text,
fully carried out. would change many
of the worlds statistics. Suppose viii
lage is said to have 1000 inhabitants
and that one-half of them-nameiy, 500
have for years been becoming less in
body. and through niggardliness and
grumbling, less in soul. Each one of
these is only one-half of what he once
was, or one-half of what she once was.
The original 800 have been reduced one
half in moral quality, and are really
only go. Suppose that the other 500
have maintained their original status
and are neither better nor worse. Then
the entire population of that village j.
$50. But suppose another village of
1000. and 500 of them as the years go
by, through mental and spiritual cul-
ture, augment themselves until they
are really twice the men and women
they originally were, and the other 500
remain unchanged and are neither bet
ter nor worse, then the population of
that village is l,500. Meanness is sub
traction and nobility is addition. Ac
cording as You rise in the scale of holt
ness and generosity and conservation,
you are worth or 10 or so or 100 or / 900
or 10,CC0.
Notice, my friend. that this David.
warrior, strategist, minstrel, master of
blank verse and stone singer at the
giant, whom the soldiers of the text cs-
timated clear up into the thousandfold
of usefulness, on this particular occa-
sion staid at home or in his place of
temporary residence. Gen. Joab, Gen.
Abishai and Gen. lttai, who commanded
the boys in the right wing and left wing
and center, did their work bravely aud
left $4,000 of the Lords enemies dead on
the field. and many of the survivors got
cntangled in the woods of Ephraim,
and mixed up in the bushes and STUN
bled over the stumps of trees. and fell
into hogs, and were devoured 10y wild
beasts which seized them in the thick
cts. But David did his work at home
We all huZza for heroes who have been
in battle, and on their return what pro-
cessions we form. and what triumphal
arches we spring, and what bauquet>
we spread, and what garlands We
wreathe, and what orations we deliver,
and what bells we ring, and what can
nonades we fire! But do we do jus ticc
to the stay at homes? David, who was
worth 10000 of those who went out 10
meet the Lords enemies in the woods of
Ephraim that day did his work in re-
tirement.
Oh, the world needs a day of iudg-
ment TO give many of the stay at homes
proper recognition. In the different
wars the sons went to the front and on
ships deck or battlefield exposed their
lives and earned the admiration of the
country. But how about the mothers
and fathers who through long years
taught those sons the noble sentiments
that inspired them to go and then gave
them up, when perhaps few words of
earnest protest would have kept them
on the farm aud i'm the homestead? The
day of final reward will reveal the self
sacrifice and the fidelity of thousands
who never in all their lives received one
word of praise. Oh, We unknown, We
faithful and Christian and all enduring
stay at homes. ! have no power now To
do you justice, but tell you of one who
has the power, and of the day when lie
will put il forth. 1t will be the day
when the thimble, and the ladle, and the
darning needle, and the washtub, and
the spinning wheel. and the scythe, and
the thrashing machine, and the ham
mer, and the trowel, and the pillow, will
come TO as high an appreciation rs n
74-pounder, or the sword, or the batter
ing ram that pounded down the wall,
or the flag that was hoisted on the
scaled parapets.
The warrior David of my text showed
more self-control and moral prowess in
staying at home than he could have
shown commanding i'm the field. He
was natural warrior. Martial airs
stirred him. The glitter of opposing
shields fired him. lie was one of those
men who feel at home in the saddle
patting the neck of a paving cavalry
horse. But he suppressed himself. lie