Owingsville outlook. [volume] (Owingsville, Ky.) 1879-192?, 1899-01-05

better how 10 clcw down the N
topsail than used To before ] -. ever
zen ship" AID tts.. .u .tim
cgotism when C....,,an man. fighting
the battles of the Lord. or if you will
have il, ,oyaging toward a haven OF
eternal rest. says: Il know more about
spiritual tactics and about Noyaging
toward Heaven than | used TO"
Why, there are those IN this presence
Who have measured lanc"s with man!
a foe and endorsed il. There are Chris
tim men here who have become
swarthy by hammering at the forge of
calamity. They stand on an entirely
different plane of character from that
which they once occupied. They are
measuring thoir life on earth by golden
gated Sabbaths, 10y pcntecostdl prayer
meeting. by communion tables, by bap-
tismal fonts, by halleluJahs in the tenn
pie. They have stood on Sinai and
heard il thunder. They have stood or
pisgah and looked over iato the prom
Used land. They have stood on Calvary
and seen the IS blcci. They can.
like Paul, the apostle, write on their
heaviest troubles light" and but for
4 moment" The darkest night their
soul is irradiatcd, rs Was the night over
Bethlehem, by the faces Of those who
have come to proclaim glory and good
cheer. They are only waiting for the
gate to open and the chains to fall OFF
aud the glory 10 begin.
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| wish there were mor2-who are cs-
timaiiag life by the good they can do.
John bradford said he counted that
day nothing at all in which lac had not,
by pen or tongue, done some good. III
man begin right, | cannot tell how
many tears he may wipe away, how
many burdens Le may lift. how many
orphans he may comfort, how many
outcasts he may reclaim. There have
been men who have given their whole
| life in the right direction. conccntrat-
ing all their wit and ingenuity and
mental acumcn and physical force and
enthusiasm for Christ. They climbed
the mountain and dclycd into the mine
and crossed the sea and dropped at last
into martyrs graves waiting for the
resurrection of the just. They meas
ured their lives by the chains they
broke of, by the garments they put up
On nakcdness. by the miles they trav-
eled 10 alleviate every kind of suffer
| ing. They felt in the thrill of every
| nerve, in the motion of every muscle,
| in every throb of their heart, in every
respiration of their lungs the magniii-
cent truth, NO man livcth unto him
self" They went through cold and
through heat, foot blistered, cheek
smitten, back scourged, tempest
dashed, TO do their whole duty. That is
the way they measured life-by the
amount of good they could do.
| Do you want TO know how Old
Luther was; how old Richard Baxter
was; how old Philip Doddridge was
Why, you cannot calculate the length
of their lives by any human arithmetic!
Add TO their lives 10000 times l0,eco
years and you have not expressed it
what they have lived or will live. On
what a standard that is to measure Il
mans life by! There are those g this
house who think they have oni' Lived
80 years. They will have lived 900
they have lived 1000. There are those
who think they are sc years of age
They have not even entered upon their
infancy. for one mus: become lahc in
] Christ to begin M all.
| New. | 90 not know what your ~
ivantages or disadvantages are; dc