The Baptist headlight., 1894-06-06

Icy come Dy the brook Rasor ~
pace Where staid the men sick and in
competent to travel, the Jewels and tht
FoDes and all kinds of treasures ar
! olV1ded among the sick as well q.
aLnng Ine wei. Surely the lame and
v AnauSed ought TO have some of the
t5 ures- Hefe Is robe for pale
4aGe4 warrior Here is a pillow for
LIE onis lying man Here is handful OF
really think that these men Who faint
ga by the brook Besor NAV have an
cured as much as those who went into
the battle. Some mean fellows oh.
lected TO the sick ones having anv Of
Ihe spolls- The Objectors said: ..Thesa
Lnen dld not fight" David, with a
magnanlmous heart, replies: "As his
pafI H that goeth uown to the battle
~ shal1 MS part be that tarrierh nv
the stuff III Oy
1hls subject Is practically suggestive
lo me. Thank God, in these times q
mar can 60 off on a journey and he
gone weeks and months and come hack
ana see his house untouched of incen-
diary, and have his family on the stem
70 greet him if by telegram he has
| 1oretold the moment of his coming
| put there are Amalekitish disasters
| there are Amalekitish diseases thai
sometimes come down upon ones
nome, making as devastating work as
the daY when Ziklag took fire. There
| are families you represent broken IN
NO Datterlng ram smOte in the door.
no lconOclast crumbled the statues.
no 1ames leaped amid the curtains, but
80 Tar as all the JOY and merriment that
once belonged to that house are con-
cerned the home has departed.
armed diseases come down upon the
quletness Of the scene-scarlet fevers.
or pIeurlsles, or consumption, or unde-
nheo disorders come and seized upon
some members of that family and car
ried them away. Ziklag in ashes |
ana you 60 about, sometimes weeDing |
ana sometimes enraged. wanting to oct |
back your loved ones as much as David |
and his men wanted to reconstruct |
thelr despOlled households. Ziklap in |
ia ashes. Some of you went off from
nome 4on counted the davs OF your
absence. Every day seemed as long as
a week Oh, how glad you were when
Ihe time came for you to 60 aboard the
steam DOat or rail car and start for
nome You arrived. You went nm
the street where your dwelling was.
ana 10 the night you put your hand on
the doorbell, and, behold! it was
wrapped in the signal OF bereavement.
ana you found that Amalekitish death.
which has devastated a thousand
other households. had blasted yours.
4 ou go about weeping amid the desc
!atlon Of your once happy home, think
ing "a the bright eyes closed. and the
noDle hearts stopped, and the gentle
hands folded, and YOU weep until you
nave no more power to weep. Ziklao
Ia ashes!
Rally Cry.
preach this sermon TODAY becausa
want 70 rally You as David rallied his
men, Tor the recovery of the loved and
me lost. I want not only to win Heaven.
out want all this congre cation TO po |
along with me. | feel that somehow 7
1ave responsibility in your arriving c
IT that great city. Do you really want a
p loln the companionship of your '
owed ones who have gone? Are you l
y anxious to Join them as David and a
lls men were to Join their families? 1
Then am here. in the name of God. t
2 say that you may and to tell YOU i
low. t
4 remark, in the first place, if YOU b
rant to join your loved ones in glory. s,
on must travel the same wav thev Il
-ent- No sooner had the half dead r
Egyptian been resuscitated than he q
O'nted the way the captOrs and the K
aptIves had gone, and David and his a
len followed alter. So our Christian IL
lends have gone into another country, IL
nd III We want to reach their com CT
anlnnshlp we must take the same bl
pad They repented: we must repent N
hey prayed: We must pray. They al
.lsled I'D Christ: we must trust in
hrist- They lived a religious life:
e mus i've q religious life. They de
ere In some things like ourselves. -
know, now that they are gone. there -
q halo around their names. but they -
All their faults. They SAID and did ~
llngs they ought never TO have said or
done They were sometimes re-
slIlous, sometimes cast down. They NJ
ere Tar from being perfect. So sup =,
,se fhat Wnen we have gone some W
lHgs ln us that are now only tolera- ciI
e MAJ De almost resplendent. But ~
they were like us i'm deficiencies we M
I2ht w De like them in taking a su- =,
.rflaI Christ tO make up for the de- ea
IT.. Had Ii not been for Jesus they ri III
Juid have All perished, but Christ on
them and said, II am the VI VI
sy. and they took It'll ~
/ HaFe also tO say to you that the wt
th that these captives trod was a 90,
Jublcd path, and that David and his Th tn
I'm had 10 20 over the same difficult 80
1y. While these captives were being bo
zen Off they said, -'Oh, we are so hr,
ed. VIZ are so sick: VIE are so hun ~
vi. But the men who had charge of ~,
sm said: stop this crying. Go on,'' An
Flu anu hi men also found it a hard az
huA
55raz L-, ~ l lrafel IT, Our els
-1a.,rh ... litlo slor9f anu IL Is tre
,.7. in.n Aao. .t. III ioulalioh 1hat we are thi
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