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

ute To weigh preferences ~ tO whether
he or she had better go with the uncnn-
Ncrtcd companion la this or that church
or denomination has no religion ut all,
and never has had. aud | fear never will
have. You are loaded up with what
You suppose to he religion, but YOU are
like Capt. Frobishcr, who brought back
from his voyage of discovery "a ship
load of what he supposed valuable min
erals. Yet. instead of being silver and
gold, were nothing but common stones
of the field. to he hurled out as finally
useless.
Mighty God. In all Thy realm is there
one man ar woman processing religion.
Vet ~ stolid, ~ untitled. 80 far gone
unto death that there would u" any
hcsitancy in surrcnderinE all prefer
rucrS before such an opportunity ot
salvation and heavenly reunion? If
YOU, II Christian wife. are an attend
ant upon any church and your uncon-
vcrrcd husband does not go there be-
cause he does not like it's preacher, or
its music. or its architecture, or It's TN
comfortable crowding. and goes not To
any house of worship. but would go if
You would accompany him somewhere
else, change your church relations.
Take your hymn book home with You
to-day. Say guod-by to your friends M
the ncighbOring pyws and 90 with him
to any one Of hundred churches till
his soul Is saved and he joins you in the
march Ia Heaven. More important
than that ring on the third finger Of
your left hand il is that your Heaven
| " Father command the angel of mercy
concerning YOUR husband at his con
version. rs In the parable of old: Put
u ring ON his hand"
No letter of more Importance ever
came to the great city of Corinth. stu
atcd on what was called the "l'ridgr of
the Sea-" and glistening with sculpture,
| and gated with IA style of brass the mag
niiiccncc Of which the following ages
have not been able to successfully imi-
tate. and overshadowed by the Aero
| CoTinthuS. u fortress of rock 1000 feet
I high say no letter ever came tn that
! great city of more Importance than that
letter in which Paul puts the two
| startling questions! "What kuowest
thou. q wife, whether thou shalt save
| thy husband? Or how knowest thou,
| O man. whether thou shalt save thy
wife," The dearest sacrifice on the
part of the one is cheap if il rescue the
| other. Hetter go To the smallest, weak
| est. most insignificant church on earth
and I've copartners in eternal bliss than
| pass YOUR earthly membership In most
! gorgcously attractive church while
/ Your companion stays outside of evan
gclical pri, ilcEc. BETTER hate the
drowning saved 10y a scow or a sloop
than let him or her go down while you
sail by in the silded cabins of a Ma iestic
or Campania.
Second remark: II both of the mar
ricd couple he Christians. but one is so
naturally constructed that il is impos-
siblc to enjoy the services of a particu-
| lar denomination and the other is not
81 sectarian or punctilious. let the one
| less particular go with the other. who
is very particular. As for myself. feel
rs much ut home In one denomination
of evangelical Christians ~ another.
and think must have been born very
near the line. ! like the solemn roll of
the Episcopal liturgy. and like the
! spontancity of the Methodists. and
like the importance given to the ordi-
nance of baptism by the iaptists. and
| | like the freedom of the Congrega-
tionalists. and ! like the government
and ,he sublime doctrine Of the Prcsuy-
terians. and like many of the others
| just as much as any have mentioned.
and could happily live and preach and
die and he buried from any of them.
| Rut others are born with n fixing so
stout. so unbending. no memorable for
some determination that IL is a positive
necessity they have the advantage Of
thai one. What they were intended to
he in ecc,eSiasticism was written in the
sides of their cradle. II the father and
mother had eyes keen enough to see IT,
They would not stop crying until they
had put in their hands as a plaything
| Il Westminster catechism of the Thirty
nine Articles. The whole current of
| their temperament and thought and
, character runs into one sect of reli-
| si"ni>ts as naturally as the James river
into the Chesapeake. II would he
torture to such persons To be anywhere
outside of that one church.
Now, let the wife or husband who is
not so constructed sacrifice the milder
| preference for the one more inflexible
and rigorous. Let the grapevine follow
the rugosities and sinuosities of the oak
or hickory. Abram, the richer in fiocks
of Christian grace. should say To Lot.
who is built on a smaller scale: "Irt
there be no strife, pray thee. between
me and thee, and between nv her,lmen
and thy herdmen. Is not the whole land
before thee? AS YOU can he edited
and happy anywhere. go with your com
panion to the chur, II to which he or she
must go or he miserable.
Remark the third: II both the mar
ried couple are very strong in their see
tarianism. let them attend the different
churches preferred. 1t is not necessary
that Won attend the same church. Re
ligion is between your conscience and
your God. Like Abram and Lot. agree
to suffer. When on Sabbath morning
YOU come out of YOUR home together
and one goes one way and the other the
other. heartily wish each other a good
sermon and Il time Of profitable devo-
ton. and when You meet again at tie
monday repast let il he evident. each TO
| each and to your children and to the
hired help. that yOu have both been on
the Mount of TRANSPORTATION, although
YOU went up by different paths. and
that you have both been fed by the
bread of life, though kneadcd by diff
ferent hands in different trays and
baked in different ovens. But how
about the children?' I am often asked
by scores of parents. Let them also
make their own choice. They will
grow up with reverence for hot II the de-
nominations represented by father and
mother if YOU by holy lives commend
those denominations. II the father lives
the better life. they will have the more
favorable opinion Of his denomination.
And some day both the parents will.
for ut least one service. go to the same
church. The ncig hbors will say: "Iwon-