The National tribune., 1896-11-26

was governed more by ambition than by dis
position to obey Gods commandments. His
plurality of wives absorbed too much domestic
attention to the detriment Of tho Nation.
which suffered from want of care on the part
of the King. Their influence led him to forget
| loyalty TO God. Poygamy and monotheism
would not agree A man cosmopolitan enough
to select hundreds of foreign women for wives
saw no difficulty in arranging Pantheon over
| the crest of Mt. Moriah A man ambitious for
wealth could tolerate heather worship. strnc-
| lures, ETC., if only such liberality might en-.
courage foreign trade. Human wisdom is al.
most omnipotent along correct ethical lines,
but feeble indeed when it attemps to traverse
| the good.
DR.. Chaplin wrote: as not this very melan-
choly spectacle? man standing in some high
place of intellect and honor, splendid as ever in
the brain. but on one side of him-the moral
side-stricken clear down with paralysis.
| man saturated with the finest cultnre-with
the most delicate sensbilities playing in his
nature, with the escutcheon Of pride in eye and
forehead, flushed with the heraldry OF genius,
beating upward like an eagle toward some lofty
point; yet carrying hard, cold, selfish heart,
and marked as a deserter from the right"
Men may have knowledge, keenness, smart
ness, business capacity. political sagacity, and
yet lack in spiritual delicacy, conscientious
| ness, moral courage, sense OF essential right
| ness, ethical insightness.
serious defect with Solomon was sensnality.
Many of his connubial alliances had doubtless
more of political significance than of excessive
passion, and yet he showed a lack of regulatiVe
capacity not becoming strong character. Men
should not submit themselves to carnaiity, but
to reason and conscience.
Suggestions.
/. Learn to obey. This is basel, funda-
me tai qualification in the home, state. church,
society. Do not tolerate anarchy. Never take
law into your own hands. Join no mob. Have
| no part in lyuching. Parents and teachers must
cultivate in children reverence for authority.
| There is no text in any school which has les
sons to impart that can be 80 helpful in the way
of education as the enforcement kindly, but
firmly, of subjectivity to law. If not particular
| about your requirement OF obedience to your
lawful commands, you will be in danger OF
turning out not an obedient citizen but an
| anarchist
2. We notice the principle of mediation. vs..
! IL. IL. 1t runs all through human affairs. A
| third party derives benefit through the sug-
| gestions or earnest solicitations of a second
| party. We help many an undeserving child
! for the sake of our regard for its father or
| mother. Many place, many Jerusalem, is
| saved for the sake of the good who reside
| therein. Often mediation sitnates things so
! that it is possible for consistently to do a
| favor for G, which could not be rendered with
ont the solicitation of b. This principle is
| recognized in the Bible. Our Savior is called
our Mediator, because he as second party
helps US as a third party by acting in our in
| terest with God the first party. All the King
| dom over which Solomon reigned was favored
by being spared for years from the rendng of
! the tribes into two divisions spared for the sake
! of David Good people are a blessing to com.
| munity. Even dead persons are considered in
| the manipulation Of human affairs We often
do favors to the living out of regard for their
parents now deceased. The dead yet speak. In
memory of them we do favors to their surviv-
ors, because we think that if they were alive
they would be pleased to see US thus kind to
| their kin.
| There is talmudic saying: For the sake
of ono righteous man the whole world is pre-
| served in existence" Toma, fol. 49, col. g
| This principle is recognized in every religion.
| Even savages are at times sensible OF it.
| Christians in some sense and degree
mediators of sinners. They go between God
and the wicked, soliciting from the Que mercy
| for the other.
| We know how much in prayer the express
sion is used for Christ's sake" and we see at
once it is based on the principle of mediation.