Owingsville outlook. [volume] (Owingsville, Ky.) 1879-192?, 1899-08-10


never gamble again and. gentlemen.
h, the help of God have kept those
three VOWS to this time. ] soon after
that became Il Christian, and that de
ridcd my fate for time and for ctrr-
nifty
Another captive of this great Chris
tian dclusion. There goes saul of
Tarsus on horseback at full ga!lop
Where is he going? To destroy Chris
taus. lie wants no better pla! spell
than To stand aud watch the hats and
conts Of the murdcrcrs who are mas
sarring Gods children. There g"c~ III"
same man. This time he - ntn"t.
Where il he going now" tninG on the
road to O>tia to die for Christ. They
tried To whip il out of him. they tried
tn scare il out al him, they thought
the, would give him enough of II 10y
putting him ON small diet, and denying
him Il cloak. aud coTdcmning him a. a
criminal. and wiling at him through
the streets; but they could not freeze
il out Of him, aud they could not sweat
il out of him. and they could not pound
il out of him. 81 They tried the surgery
of the sword. aud one summer day III
III lac WAS drcnpitatcd. Perhaps the
mi"htcst intellect of the 5000 years
OF the worlds existence hoodwinked,
cheated. raiolrd, duprd 10y the Chris
rian religion.
Nh. that is the remarkable thing
about this dclusion of Christianity! II
oNcrpowcrs the strongest intcllc"t>.
Gather the critics secular and rcli-
"iuus. at this century together and put
"A vote to them as To which is the
greatest book ever written. and by
large ma ioritN they VIII say paradise
Lost" Who wrote Paradise LOST?
One al the fools who believed in this
Bible John Milton. benjamin Frank
| lin surrendered To this drlusiun. II YOU
may Judge from the letter that he
wrote To Thomas Paine. begging him
| To DESTROY THE Age of Reason" in
manuscript and never let II go Into
| type. and writing aftcrward. in his old
| DAYS: "Df this Jesus Of Nazareth |
| have To say of the system of morals
| lie left and the religion lie has given us
are the best things the world has ever
seen or il likely to src." Patrick Henry.
the electric champion of liberty. en-
| shaved 10y this dclusion. 50 that he says:
"Thc book worth all other books put to-
| .cthcr il the bible" cuiamin Rush,
| the leading phy Siulogist and anatomist
of his day. the great medical scientist
what did he say? The only true ami
perfect religion is Christianity Isaac
| Newton, the leading philosopher of
his time-what did he say? That man
surrenlcring to this dclusion of the
Christian religion. crying out: THE
sublimcst philosophy ON earth is the
| philosophy of the Gospel" David
| brewster. at the pronunciation of whose
name every scientist the world over I'M
covers his head. David brewster saying:
oh. this religion has been great light
To me. very great light all my days"
President Theirs. the great French
statesman. acknowledging that he
PRAYED when he said: IL invoke the
Lord God. in whom am glad to be-
li"yc." David Living stone. able To con
qucr the lion, able Ia conquer the pan
thcr, able To conquer the savage, vet
conquered by this dclusion, ills hal
lucination, this great swindlc of the
ages. 50 when they find him dead they
find him on his knees. William +. Glad
stone, the strongest intellect in Eng
land, unable to resist this chimera, this
fallacy. this delusion of the Christian
| religion. went to the house of God
every Sabbath, and often, at the invi-
tation of the rector, read the prayers to
the people. If those mighty intellects
are oycrborne by this delusion. what
chance is there for you and me?
Besides that. | have noticed that
first rate intidels cannot be depended
on for steadfastness in the proclama-
ton of their sentiments. Goethe, a
leading skeptic, was so wrought upon
by this Christianity that in a weak
moment he cried out: My belief in the
Bible has saved me in my literary and
moral life" Rosseau, one of the most
eloquent champions of infdelty.
spending his whole life warning
against Christianity. cries out: THE
ma icsty of the Scriptures amazes me. g
.\ltcmont. the notorious infdel. one
would think he would have been safe
against this delusion of the Christian
religion. Oh. no, After talking against
Christianity all his days, in his last
hours he cried out: "Oh, Thou bias
phcmcd but most indulgent Lord God.
hell itself is a refuge if il hide me from
Thy frown." Noltaire. the most talent
ed iniidel the world ever saw. writing
go publications.. and the most of them
spiteful against Christianity, himself
the most notorious libertine of the cen
tury-one would have thought he could
have been depended upon for stead
fastness in the advocacy of intidelity
and in the war against this terrible
chimera, this delusion of the Gospel.
But no; in his last hour he asks for
Christian burial and asks that they
give him the sacrament of the Lord
Jesus Christ. Why, you cannot de-
pend upon these first rate infidels: you
cannot depend upon their power tn re-
sist this great delusion of Christianity.
Thomas Paine. the god of modern
skeptics. his birthday celebrated in
New York and Boston with great en-
thusiasm Thomas Paine, the paragon
of Bible haters-Thomas Paine. about
whom his brother intidel. William
Carver, wrote in Il letter which have
at my house. saying that he drank Il
quart of rum Il day and was too mean
and too dishonest To pay for it-Thom-
as Paine. the adored of modern inf
delity-Thomas Paine, who stole an
other mans wife in England and
brought her to this country-Thomas
Paine. who was so squalid and 50
loathsome and so drunken and so prof
ligate and so beastly in his habits.
sometimes picked out of the ditch,
sometimes too filthy to he picked out
Thomas Paine, one would have thought
that he could have been depended on
for steadfastness against this great de-
fusion.
but no. In his dying hour he bees
the Lord Jesus Christ for mercy. Pow
crful dclusion, all conquering delusior