Owingsville outlook. [volume] (Owingsville, Ky.) 1879-192?, 1899-06-15


on the day when the Lord took her into
His heavenly keeping years ago.
! should not wohder il, after all.
these parents pass the evening of their
| life in the same church, all differences
of church preference overcome by the
JOY Of being in The house of tod where
their children were prepared for use
fulness and Heaven. But I can give
You a recipe for running your children.
Angrily contend in the household that
| your church is right and the church of
your companion is wrong. Firing sneer
and caricature to emphasize your Opin-
| ions. and your children will make up
their minds that religion is sham,
and they will have none of it. In the
northeast storm of domestic cOntrO-
versy the rose of Sharon and the lily
of the valley will not grow. Fight
| about apostolic succession. fight about
election and free agency, fight about
baptism, fight about the bishopric, fight
about gown and surplice, and the re-
ligious prospect Of your children will
he left dead oh the field. You will be
as unfortunate hs Charles. duke of Bur
gundy. who in battle lost a diamond
| the value of a Kingdom, for in your fight
YOU will lose the jewel OF salvation for
Your entire household. This is moth
ing against the advocacy of your own
religious theories. Use all fOrcible ar
| gument. bring all telling illustration.
array ali dcmonstrative facts. but let
| there he no acerbity, no singing retort,
nu mean insinuation. no supercilious-
ness. as though all others were wrong
and YOU infallibIy right.
Take n hint from astronomy. The
| rtolemaic system made the earth the
| center of the solar system, and every
thing was thought to turn round the
earth. But the Copernican system
came and made the sun the center
| around which the planets reyOlvcd. The
bigoi made his little belief the center
of everything. but the large-souled
| Christian makes the sun of righteous
ness the center and all denominations
without any clashing and each in his
own sphere revolving around it. Over
| the tomb of Dean Stanley in Westmin-
ster Abbey il the passage of Scripture:
THY commandments are exceeding
broad" Let no man crowd US on to a
path like the bride Al Sirat. which the
Mohammcdan thinks leads from this
world over the abyss of hell into para
disc. the breadth of the bridge, less thar
the web of starved spider or the edge
| OF n sword or razor. off the edges of
which many fall. No. While the way
| is not wide enough to take with us any
of our sins. IL Is wide enough for all
Christian believers 10 pass without
peril into everlasting safety. But do
not any of YOU depend upon what you
call IA sound creed" for salvation. a
man may own all the statutes of the
state Of New York and Yet not lie a
lawyer. and man may own all the
best medical treatise and not be ply
stefan. and man may own all the best
works on painting and architecture and
| not he either painter or architect, and
| n man may own all the sound crceds
, in the world and yet not he Christian.
Not what you have in your head and
on your tongue. but in your heart and
| in your life. will decide everything.
In oldcn times in England before the
modern street lamps were invented
every householder was expected to have
a lantern suspended in front of his
J hauS,. and the cry Of the Waterman
/ in London as they went along at even
tide was: ''Ilang out yonr lights.
Instead Of disputing in your home about
| the different kinds of lantern, as the
Waterman on the walls of Zion. | cry:
Let YOUR light so shine before men
that they. seeing your good works.
may .gloriGy your Father which is in
| Icavcn!" Hang out sour lights. You
may have a thousand ideas about re-
| ligiOn and vet not the great idea of
pa rdoning mercy. II is not the num-
her of ideas. but the greatness of them.
\ mouse hath ten offspring in her nest,
while the lioness hath one in her lair.
| vi ideas about forms and ceremonies
and church government put together
are not worth the one idea of getting
to Heaven yourself and taking your
family with you.
But do not reject Christianity, as
many do, because there are 50 many
sects. Standing in Westminster hotel.
| London. I looked out of the window
and saw three clocks, a. near as can
remember one ON the parliament
house. another on 81. Margaret's chapel,
another on Westminster abbey - and
they were all different. One said Il
Il
utes before u. another said five min
utcs after -. might rs well have con
| cluded that there is no such thing as
time because the three timepicces were
| different as for YOU 40 conclude that
there il no such thing as pure Christi
anity because the churches differ in
their statement of il.
But let us all rejoice that. although
part of our family may worship on
| earth in one church and part in an
other church or bowed at the same
altar in Il compromise of preferences.
we are. If redeemed, on the way to a
perfect church. where all our prefer
ences will be fully gratified. Great ca
| thedral of eternity, with arches of anne
thysts and pillars of sapphire, with
floors of emerald and windows aglow
with the sunrise of Heaven. What
| stupendous towers, with chimes angel
| hoisted and angel rung. What myriads
of worshipers, white robed and coronet-
ed. What an ofliciator at the altar,
even the great High Priest of our pro-
fesSion." What walls, hung with the
captured shields and flags. by the
church militant passed up to the church
triumphant. What doxologies of all
nations, Coronet to coronet. cymbal
to cymhal, harp to harp, organ to or
| gan, Pull out the tremulant stop tn
recall the suferings past. Pull out the
trumpet stop to recall the victory.
\ When shall these eyes Thy Heaven built
| walls
| Ard pearly gates behold.
| Thy bulwarks. with salvation strong,
And streets OF shining gold?
DEAD LETTER REGULATIONS.