Owingsville outlook. [volume] (Owingsville, Ky.) 1879-192?, 1899-03-02
SPRlNGTIME OF LIFE.
A Sermon on the Scenes of Youth
by DR.. Talmage.
Mans True Character win Come
Out Reside the FIreSidc-iiomr
should he the brightest
Place ON Errth.

| ManN tender rccullcctioue are stirred
10y Dr. TalmHrc'> discourse. and scenes
of hoy hood ana girlhood CaN- will he
lived over again; text. Timothy. T. 4.
Let them learn first TO show pict, at
home"
| During III, summer months he tend
rncy j. Ia The fields. visitation. 10 for
rign travel ami the Watering places.
| and the ocean steamers are throngcd
but in the winter il j. rather to gather
in domestic circles. aud, during these
months we spend many of the hours
within Goors. and the apostle comes
To us and says that We ought To rNcr-
else Christian behavior amid all such
| circumstances. Let them learn frs [
Ia show pictN al home.
There are great man! people long
ing for some grand sphere iT which
To serve God. They admire Luther at
the diet of Worms and only wish they
had some such great opportunity in
which To displa, their Christian prov
ess. They admire Paul making Felix
tremble. and they only wish that they
had some such grand occasion in which
To preach righteousness, temperance
and judgment Ia come. All they want
is an opportunity 10 exhibit their
| Christian heroiSm. Now the apostle
practically says: Il will show YOU a
place where you can exhibit all that
il grand and beautiful and glorious
in Christian character and that is the
domestic circle. Let them learn first
To show pittN AT home" If one is not
faithful in an insignificant sphere. he
will not br faithful in resounding
sphere. II Peter will not help the
cripple at the gate of the temple, he
will never be able to preach 5000 into
the Kingdom at the Pentecost. II Paul
will not take pains TO instruct in the
WAY of salvation the iailcr of the Phil.
ippian dungeon. he will never make
Feli> tremblc. lie who j. not faithful
in skirmish would not he faithful in
an Armageddon. The fact is. we are
all placed in just the position in which
we can most graudly serve God, and
we ought not To he chiefly thoughtful
about some sphere of usefulness which
we may after awhile gain. but the all
absorbing question with you and with
me ought TO he: Lord. what wilt thou
have me now and here to do"
| There j. one word in ST. Paul's adj
iuration around which the most of our
thoughts will revolve. That word is
home" Ask ten different men the
meaning of that word. and they will
give YOU ten different definitions. To
one il means love nj the hearth. plen-
" at the table. industry at the work
stand. intelligence at the books. devo-
ton at The altar. In that household
discord never sounds its warwhoop and
deception never tricks with its false
face. To him il means a greeting at
the door and a smile nj the chair. peace
lowering like wings, joy clapping its
hands with laughter. Life is tran
quill lake. Pillowed on the ripples sleep
the shadows. Ask another man what
looking out of a cherries fire CRATE.
kneading hunger in an empty bread
tray. The damp air shivering with
| curses. No Bible on the shelf. Chill
dren robbers and murderers in embryo.
Obscene songs their lullaby. Every
face a picture of ruin. Want in the
background and sin staring from the
front. No Sabbath wave rolling over
that doorsill. Nestibule of the pit.
Shadow of internal walls. Furnace Tor
forging everlasting chains. Fagots for
an amending funeral pile. Awful word.
II j. spelled with curses, it weeps with
ruin. il chokes with woe, il swears with
the death agony of despair. The word
home" in the one case means every
thing bright. The word home" in the
other ease means everything terrific.
| | shall speak now of home as a test
II character. home as a refuge, home
as a political safeguard. home as a
school and home as a type of Heaven.
And in the first place home is pow
| srful test of character. The DISPOSE
ton in public may be in gay costume.
while in private il is dishabille. AS play
actors may appear in one way on the
| stage and may appear in another way
behind the scenes. so private charac-
ter may he different from public char
acter. Private character is often pub
lie character turned wrong side out. 4
man may receive you into his parlOr as
though he were a distillation of smiles
aud yet his heart may he swamp of
nettles. There are business men who
all day long are mild and courteous and
genial and good natured in CONNER
cial life. damming back their irritabili-
" and their petulance and their dis
content. hut NJ ni2htfall the dam
breaks and scolding pours forth in
floods and freshets.
| Reputation is only the shadow Of
character. and a very small house some
times will east very large shadow.
The lips may seem 10 drop with myrrh
and cassia and the disposition to be as
bright and warm a. a sheath of sun
beams. and yet they may only he a
magnificent show window for a wretch
ed stock of goods. There is many a
man who il affable in public life ami
amid commercial spheres who in a
cowardly way takes his anger and his
petuianrc home aud drops them in the
| domestic circle. The reason men do
not display their bad temper in public
is because they do not want to be
knocked down. There are men who
hide their petulance and their irrita-
bi!ity just for the same reason that
| they do no, lat their notes go To pro-
test-it does not pay--or for the same
reason that they do not want a man in
their stock company to sell his stock
below par lest il depreciate she value.
| As at sunset sometimes the wind
rises. so after a sunshiny day there may
be tempestuous night. There are
people who in public act the philan-
thrOpist who at home act the Nero will
respect to their slippers and theirgown.
Audubon, the great ornithologist, with
gun and pencil went through the for
ests of America to bring down and to
sketch the beautiful birds. and after
years of toll and exposure completed
his manuscript and put il in a trunk
in Philadelphia and went of. for a
few days recreation and rest. and came
back and found that the rats had utter
ly destroyed the manuscript, but with
| out any discomposure and without any