The weekly intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1891-1901, 1894-01-06

Nave to go through it,"
So l reason with myself, and so you
will find it helpful to reason with your
selves. David lost his son. Though
David was king, he lay on the earth
mourning and ~inconsolable for some
time. At this distance of time, which
do you really think was the one to be
congratulated, the short lived child or
the long lived father2 Had David died
as early as that child died, he would in
tho first place have escaped that particu-
lar bereavement, then he would have es-
=csS UOrso b~e,saSeanent OF Absa-
lom, his ~recreant sony Snd the pur-
suit of the PhillistiA and the
fatigue of his military cd paign, and
the Jealousy Of Saul, and Nthe perfdy
of Ahithophel. end the curl sof Shimei,
and the destruction of hA family at
Ziklag, and, above all, he y pld have
escaped the two great calamity of his
life, the great sins of uncleannAss and
murder. David lived to be of vaht use
to the church and the world, but SO far
as his own happiness was concerned.
does it not seem to You that 1t would
have been better for him to have gone
early?
Now, this, my friends explains some
things. that to you have bsen inexplic-
able. This shows you why when God
takes little children from a. household
he is very apt to take the brightest, the
most genial, the most sympathetic, the
most talented. Why? 1T is because
that kind of nature suffers the most
when it does suffer and is most liable
to temptation. God sakv tho tempest
sweeping up from tho Caribbean, and
he put the delicate craft into h first
harbor Taken away from the evil to
come"
Again, my friends, there is a blessing
in an abbreviated earthly existence in
the fact that it putt. n soone in the
center of things. AL astronomers, in-
fdel as well as Christian, agree in be-
lieving tina the universe swings around
some great center Anyone who has
studied the eartl, and studied the
heavens knows that Gods favorite
figure in geometry is q circle. When
God put forth His hand to create the
universe, He did not strike hat hand
at right angles, but He waved it in a
circle and kept on waving it in a circle
until systems and consultations and
galaxies and all worlds took hat mo-
ton. Our planet swinging around the
sun, other planets swinging around
other suns, out somewhere q great hub
around which the great wheel of the
universe turns. Now, that center ia
Heaven. That ia the capital of the
universe. That is the great metropolis
of i~mmensity.
Now, does not our common sense
teach us that In matters of study it is
better for US TO move out from the CEN
ter toyard the circumference, rather
ths be IN the circumference, where
mo!X9orld now is? We are like those
who study the American continent
while standing on the Atlantic beach,
The way to study the continent il TO
cross it or 60 to the heart of ii. Our
standpoint In this world IL defective.
We are at the wrong end of 1.-THE tel
Escape. The best wav to studty u piece
of machinery "a not to STAND on the
doorstep and try to look in, but to go
I'M with the engineer and take our
ptace right amid the saws AID the cyl.,
ihdsrs. We wear our eyes Gut andA
brain out from the fact that W
studying under such great
itages.
4 Millions of dollars
to study things 9
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