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THE TYPES OF GREAT MEN
SERMON At THE HOWARD AVENUE
CONGREGATIONAL CHURCH.
Rev. MIR. Mutch ID rn WIS from Older Types
Lessons for the Citizen of To-day
Signs of Awakening Conscience
Types TO Choose for Legislators.

| Signs of Awakening Conscience
Types to Choose for Legislators.
At the Howard avenue Congregations
church yesterday morning the pastor
Rev. w. j. Mulch, preached the seventh
of his series Of Under the Rod" ser
mons, the subject of yesterdays sermon
being Types of Great Men" One Of
| the largest congregations of the season
was present. He spoke from the text
ii. Sam, j., 49, Thy glory, Q Israel, is
| slain upon thy high places! How are
the mighty fallen" The platform was
decorated with plants and cut flowers
from the greenhouse of N. H. Hoyt
Miss Sadie Thompson, solo soprano was
unable to sing and her place was ably
| filled by Miss Esther Blydenburgh,
daughter Of ex-Judge Blydenburgh. Mr..
Mulch spoke in part as follows:
The calling Of Washington GLADDEN. to
a seat in the city council of Columbus.
Ohio against the protest of vested in
terests is a sign of awakening con-
science. Shall we continue to choose for
our local legislature the types of citi-
zenship represented by Absalom-the
fawning, contemplate boodler, the
criminal and outcaSt, who is and ought
to be ostracised by the community of
homes and schools and churches--or
shall we choose types of character who
have in them the real elements of po-
litical uprightness and strength?
We do well to honor David. but let it
not be for merely formal distinctions
such as being the ancestor of his greater
Son or for literary refnements which it
is more than doubtful if he ever posses
sed, but let him be honored for the
greatness which was really his, of a
type so much in demand now that we
could have no more profitable lesson
taught to this generation out of the his
tory of the past than the lesson of
craftsmanship. Let David the King
stand as our instructive inspiring and
informing type of political greatness
molding for good the common life and
character of the community.
Occupying smaller place in the an
nails of history than either Saul or Da-
vid is one who may fifty stand at the
close of these discourses as the best
type of human nature after it has pass
ed under the rod of Gods discipline
Jonathan, the type of moral greatness.
1t is not biographies or chapters of his
tory that make one great, nor is 1T the
fame which he carries with his contem-
poraries or in after time that measures
his greatness. Therefore we may be
permitted to think that the picture
which the Scriptures gives of Jonathan
affords us as rare and perfect type of
noble soul as can be found in the
whole story of humanity.
1t is needless here to recount his mil
itary exploits, which We're startling in
their audacity and likewise in effective
ness They showed him to be a soldier
of Judgment and cool strategy unsur-
passed. In physical strength, beauty
and activity, In Workmanship and IN
similar accomplishments he was no
doubt distinguished; but it was as
peacemaker and friend that he stands
chiefly distinguished. The son and nat
ural heir of King Saul sees David being
prepared for the throne, and yet their
two souls are knit together in friend
ship that no exigency of time can sever.
He stands between David and the kings
angry jealousy; he does no injustice to
the king, and yet he saves for his coun-
try the friend who became her greatest
king and benefactor. One wonders why
Jonathan himself might not have made.
as good king for Israel as Davis prov
ed to be, but then we are reminded that
good kings are few and rare, and that
political greatness and moral greatness
are not the same.
If Davis was the type Of king, then
Jonathan was the type of a. citizen. He
was loyal to the king his father, yet
with firmness and kindness he foiled the
madness of the king. To both the king
and to David he shows splendid exam
pie Of true friendship marked by such
elements as warm affection, helpfulness
fidelity, constancy
Such friendship meets in him the fate
which is common to it in life-rudely
rated from David, the tears of two
friends mingle together as the emblem
Of united love which still mingles when
those who shed them are sundered far
from each other; and by his loyalty to
The king he with the king is borne down
in the battle of Gilboa to an untimely
1eath Two of Israefs great ones are
fallen together 1.-THE glory O Israel.
8 slain upon thy high places! How are
The mighty fallen!" One Of them was
not yet recognized as being great; but |
lis was a greatness which the sword
could not destroy, greatness which the
crave could not contain, a greatness of |
he same kind as that which broke the
ponds of death and made forever this
Caster day its memorial. The other |
vas known as greatness, but it was the |
mere image of it which breaks to pieces |
lnder the rod. If any Of these types of |
greatness were to serve as prototype |
If the Christ life, it must be Jonathan, |
Who yielded himself for another and |
Who was true and unwavering as a man |
md friend. He, the prince, exchang- |
ID places with David, the. private citi-
zen. David became the greatest Of |
,ings, and Jonathan became the model |
tizen. ~ ......
Each of these types has its lesson for
he life of to-day; but especially is the
asst one rich in It's instruction. In the
and unofficial ranks of
ife where he permitted his lot to be
asst he is the faithful friend, the loyal
itizen, the true man. AS friend he rep