Owingsville outlook. [volume] (Owingsville, Ky.) 1879-192?, 1899-01-19

ntlt Hir it'H a W no DN
interchangeable toll has reared large
family of children, cquipfing them for
the duties of life with good manners
and large intelligence and Christian
principle, starting them out. who has
done more for the world than many a
woman whose name has sounded
through the centuries. ] remember
when kosSuth was in this country there
were some ladies who got honOrabl4
regulations 10y presenting him very
gracefully with bouquets Of flowers on
public occasions. But what was all that
compared with the plain Hungarian
mother who gave TO truth and civiliza-
tion and the cause of universal liberty
Il Kussuth? Yes, this woman of my
text was great in her simplicity. When
this prophet wanted to reward her for
her hospitality by asking some prefer
mcnt from the king, what did she say?
She declined il. She said: IL dwell
among my own people" rs much as to
say: II am satisfied with my lot. All
| want is my family and my friends
around me. dwell among my own
people"
oh, what n rebuke to the strife for
precedence in all ages! How many
there are who want to get great archi-
lecture and homes furnished with all
art, all painting. all statuary, who have
not enough taste To distinguish be-
tween Gothic and Byzantine, and who
could not tell Il figure in plaster of paris
from Palmcr's White Captive" and
would not know boys pcnciling from
Bicrstadt's Yosemite" Men who buy
large libraries 10y the square foot, buy
ing these libraries when they hav.
scarcely enough education to pick out
the day of the month in the Almanac
Oh, how many there are striving &c
have things as well as their neighbors
or better than their neighbors, and il
the struggle vast fortunes are exhaust
Ell and business firms thrown into bank
ruptcy and men of reputcd honesty
rush into astounding forgerirs! OF
course say nothing against refinement
or culture. Spiendor of abode, sumptu-
BUSINESS of diet, lavishness in art. neat
them in the Bible or out of the Bible
God does not want US to prefer mud
hoyel to English cottage. or Unframed
sheep>kin to French broadcloth, or
husks to pineapple, or the clumsiness Of
{ boor to the manners of gentleman.
God, who strung the beach with tinted
she'll, aud the grass of the field with
the dews of the night, and hath en-
quisitely tinged morning cloud and
robin redbreast, wants us to keep our
eye open to all beautiful sights. and
our ear open to all beautiful cadence>
and our heart open to all elevating sen
timentS.
But what | want to impress upon
you, my hearers. is that You ought not
10 inventory the luXuries of life among
the indispensablcs, and you ought not
To depreciate this woman of the text.
who. when offered kingly prefermeD,
responded: Il dwell among my cwp
people" Yea. this woman of the text
was great in her piety. Just read the
chapter after you go home. Faith ir
God, and she was not ashamed to talk
about it before idolaters. An. woman
will never appreciate what she owes
10 Christianity until she knows and
sees the degradation of her sex under
raganism and Mohammedanism Her
very birth considered misfortune
Sold like cattle on the shamblc>
Slave of all work, and, at last. her body
fuel for the funeral pyre of her hus.
band. Above the shrek of the fire 1or-
slippers in India, and above the rumbliue
of the juggernauts, | hear the million
voiced groan of wronged, iBsulted.
broke n hearted, down-trodden SOmau.
Her tears have fallen in the Isle and
Tigris, the La Plata. and on the steppcs
of Tartary. She has been dishoro red
in Turkish garden and Persian palace
and Spanish Alhambra. Her little ones
have been sacrificed in the Indus and
the Ganges. There is not groan. or a
dungeon, or an island, or a mountain.
or river, or lake. or a sea. but could
tell story of the outrages heaped upon
her. But, thanks to God, this glorious
Christianity comes forth. and all the
chains of this vassalage are snapped,
and she rises from ignominy to exalted
sphere and becomes the aifectionata
daughter, the gentle wife. the honoreG
mother, the useful Christian. Oh, il
Christianity has done so much for WON
an. surely woman will become its most
ardent advocate and its sublimest exem-
plitication.