The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1896-03-25

| but David saved Gods people from des-
| truction in critical hour, and God took
| him from the sheep-cate and made him
king of Israel.
| DECISION, COURAGE AND FAITH.
LET US notice some of the obstacles
David had to overcome on the way to
victory.
First, the ridicule of his brother. "a
| mans foes are they of his own house
| hold This is one of the most difficult
| things to overcome, and one of the
| most common things to meet. The
young people fear their associates.
COWARDICE OF GODS ARMY.
"Oh, how many men we have who
are afraid to stand by what they know
to be right, for fear of loss. This spir-
it Of cowardice is the curse Of the church
today. If moral courage is the greatest
then moral cowardice is the lowest and
meanest. There are men who can lead
the army into the most dangerous
places, and yet too cowardly to lead
their own trembling soul to Christ.
They have fought with the bravest Of
men, but are afraid to fight with self.
They have manfully and bravely fought
for the liberties and honor of their coun-
try, but have never rescued their own
passion; hosts of vile passions, like
CHASTITY spectres, peopled their souls
and they have never dared to open a
fight with them and determine to con-
quor them at any cost, instead of drag
ging them to the altar Of God and STAY
ing them they have been led like the
most menal slave at their will, even to
the disappointment of their highest as
pirations and best desires. 1t is la
mentable fact that some of earth's
greatest heroes have been, and are to-
day the basest towards. The gems
were all outside, no stars of virtue beau
tifying the heart. Beneath the glitter
ing robe of worldly honor and elevated
rank, there is a heart that is filed with
foulest crimes, and stained with awful
guilt. They are towards before high
Heaven.
Il want you to notice some special
lessons to US today from this victory.
81. What God will do for those who
trust Him fully; (a) He will deliver the
Sinner from the power Of the devil; (b)
He will deliver His own out Of the hand
of the enemy; (c) He will never forsake
him.
"2. The contrast between the world
and the true people of God; (a) as to
power, the world boasts and adorns
with position and reputation and makes
a great show, 1t is power in appearance
but not in reality; OBJ as to spirit, the
world is proud and self-reliant, naughty
and deceitful; the people of God hunm-
BILE and meek, gentle and loving, sacri-
ficing and crossbeaning; with the world
it is limited and transient, for evil and
discOrd; with the people of God it is
unbounded, everlasting, for good and
harmony, peace and happiness.
SO. What one man can do when he
depends on God alone. The weakest
child of God is stronger than the strong
est man of the world. If God be for US
it is more than all that can be against
US; (a) what a lesson this is to the dis
couraged child of God; (b) how David
arose from the humblest occupation to
the kingdom; George Peabody, a gro
Gerry clerk, philanthropist; William E.
Dodge was born in a home where econ
omy and industry alone were king and
queen; James Colgate, a poor soapmaker
at 81 per day; James Garfield was too
poor to have trade; General Grant
managed to learn tanning and some
thing about a canal boat; Abraham
Lincoln knew the art of splitting rails;
Charles James Fox was in parliament
at nineteen; the great Cromwell left the
University of Cambridge at eighteen;
John Bright was never at school a day
after he was fifteen years old; Glad
stone was in parliament at twenty-five
and at twenty-four was lord of the
treasury; Webster was at college at
fifteen, gave evidence of his great fu-
ture before he was twenty-five and at
thirty he was the peer of the ablest man
in congress; Napoleon at twenty-five
commanded the army of Italy at thirty
he was not only one of the most illus
trious generals of the time, but one of
the great lawgivers of the world, and
at forty-six he saw Waterloo.
God has work for us all and He calls
you and me into His service"
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