The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1899-07-17
A MIZAR IN EVERY LIFE.
Rev. DR.. Fairs sermon at the indie
pendent Church.

pendent Church.
At the Independent Presbyterian Church
yesterday morning, the pastor, Rev DR..
Fair. preached from Psalm 42:6: Il win
remember Thee from the hill Mizar."
THE name MIzar," DR.. Fair said,
means the little hill We do not know
dark and troubled experience in David 5
life, some battle of the soul or fierce in
ward anguish or bitter humiliation.
The lesson DR.. Fair drew was that a
Mizar exists in the experience of every
human being. Every life, however happy
or prosperous it may seem, has its battles
and sorrows and humiliations. David, al
! though a King could not escape. He had
| his Mount Hebron where he was crowned
| and where the silver trumpets proclaimed
! jubilee through the land; he had also his
hill Mizar, where he lay PROSTATE in the
| dust, the voice of the trumpets hushed
| and his crown furnished
80 We" said DR.. Fair, look upon lives
that seem crowned with prosperity and
| filed with sunshine, but they have their
dark hours and seasons of detection. Some
| like David may have strength to conceal
their trouble and wear smil-
| ing face while the heart is
aching. To some the hill Mar
may be bad health; physical infrmity is
! the narrow place where they are shut IN
/ and cut off from the pleasures of life.
| To some the hin Mizar may be poverty;
they are narrowly straitened and sorely
pressed financially, the heart always shad-
owed and anxious and filled with gloomy
| forebodings To others the hill MiZar
may be religious doubt they have no
| comfort or enlargement of soul, no sweet
! repose, no clasping of the divine arms
Lon Oq T1tra he n /.
only gloom and spiritual depression. 70
others, egain, hill Mar may be Attic
| ton; only a mound of earth, q little hill,
| indeed; perhaps only the grave of a child,
and yet it is large enough to limit life
and 20 shut out all Joy. Truly Mar is
a gloomy place, whatever its differing ma
| ture may be. 1t is always desolate; no
flowers bloom there, no trees fling Their
shade, no birds sing.
"What are we to do asked DR.. Fair
when we come to the hill MiZaT? David
in the text answers that question lie
said he would remember God, His prom
Use and presence and owe Although Mizar
was far off in the territory beyond Jor-
| dan, yet from its Lonely summit
David could see the mountains round
about Jerusalem, the type aud pledge of
God presence with His people So in our
| troubles, let us remember God is ever
near, His eye is always on us and HIS
! eur OPEN 10 our cry. Let us remembef
| He created Mar as well as Ca.yary
| The last lesson was that in heaven our
| troubles will all vanish. The geography
I of the Holy Land has been accurately
mapped: we know where the land of Jor-
| dan and of the Hermonites was: we car
find every other hill, but Mizar seems tc
have faded out and been forgotten Its
name only remains, as the memory of a
| troubled dream in the night SO IN hea-
Ven our sorrows win disappear and only
their memory remains. 10 enhance, enjoy
and impart sweeer notes 10 the songs we
sing. We read of mountains of joy that
are there, of hills of salvation on which
shining ones walk, of rivers of delight
that ever flow: but in all its wide anc
boundiess plains no hill of Mizar lifts il.
gloomy head.
AT the night service. DR.. Fair breaches
from the text: The Kings Business Re.
CURED Haste" After the morning service
a new member was received by letter OF
| dismiss.on.
The Junior Order Of United American
| Mechanics has invited DR.. Fair TO preach
a patriotic sermon before that order. Thl.
sermon VIII he preached. in the Independ
ent church next Sunday morning. ana the
pews in front Of the pulpit viii he reserved
for the members Of the order and theu
friends.