The Wilmington daily Republican. (Wilmington, Del.) 1890-1902, 1900-06-18

the worship OF the AllniS N.Y. 1AS
could seek and find God, through
the adaptation of ply ysical effort te
a man endowed with reason, heart,
conscience and immortality. Would
that all laborers were Hezekiahs
The hum Of industry would then RI
val the warblings of the birds un'
der the first CLEANS OF the morning S
sun.
(2) Hezekiah was the ideal poll
ticlan. He was the leader of the
Israel party in Judah; and without
caucuses, aud patronage and hench'
men, and intrigue, he dictated the
political order and policy Of the
kingdom according to'the law. He
was 10y al, patriotic and true. He
hewed to the line of law, enforced
il, defended it, stood by it, never
once misinterpreted it nor violated
It. He was thoroughly staunch and
obcdient to law, and that was the
policy of his administration.
Would you see political jobberies
and frauds and corrupt politicians
disappear? Would you see an ideal
municipal government? Put men
in office who will have holy respect
for law, and who would enforce 1t.
Constrain obedience to law by the
knowledge that public officials will
execute it.
III. Hezekiah was an ideal gen.
eral Sennacherlb, king of AS
syria, entered Judah and encamp-
ed against the fenced cities expect
ing to force their surrender, but
Hezekiah stormed his whole army
with thirst; he depleted the waters
from the cities and left Sennacherib
to fight thirst. While this battle
was in progress he fortified his po-
sition, built up the broken down
walls, repaired the Milo fortifica-
tion in the city OF David; made
darts and shields in great abund-
ance; gave his captains their posi-
tons; issued his orders all alon G
the line, and babe his army "be
strong and courageous. and for
get not this; Sennacherlb REIN
forcements were arms of flesh but
our reinforcements is the Lord
God; and on the battle came; to
rout the enemy west, and the peo-
pie of Judah brought gifts to the
altar Of God, and presents to Heze-
kiah, and he was magnified in the
eyes OF all the natives. AS a gen.
eral he was thorough lsrael's great
est communicable Cromwell Of
Judah.
". Hezekiah was energetic;
energy, meaning internal and IN
herent power;-for all the mental,
moral, physical and spiritual forces
in a man gathered as it were, into
ball and hurled against an OBJ
iect. What he did he did thorough
ly and with all mis- heart. The
slumber of energies is the slumber
OF man. A man whose energies
slumber begins everything and
finishes nothing; squanders his
little force that is awake on va
riety of aims, and never focuses
them on a single point he reminds
me of the idle warrior made OF tin
on the top of weather cock, brave
ly bending to his gun and ready to
fire, but the swinging around to
every point OF the compass, and OF
no use whatever save to tell which
way the wind blows. Put an ell
ergetic man there or anywhere else
and his gun will be rapid firer.
Recall the battle between the
Spanish and the American fleets
at Santiago. The Spanish fleet
creeps out Of the harbor as if only
half awake; instantly the Ameri-
can fleet is after it; we see the
mighty men Of war roll the ocean
into storm, and hear the deep moan
of machinery maddened into energy
and roar of guns concentrated OH
the Spanish fleet until all go down
under hot iron and blazing fire.
That was 10y yalty, patriotism, and
energy concentrated in the vindica.
tion Of the Flag and the cause of
humanity, capture or destroy the
Spanish fleet in Manila Bay, was
the Governments orders 10 Dewey
at Hong Kong.
At st. Paul's M. E. Church yes
terday morning the Rev. W. l.. S.
Murray preached on the SUBJECT,
"My Fathers House. Mr.. Muir
ray took his text from John l4:2
In part Mr.. Murray said;
God reveals himself in many
ways and by many terms we under
stand. But no term is palmer or
more endearing than that of the
father. The Old Testament scarce
" made known the fathcrhood and
heart OF God but the New Testa-
ment dwells uron it and makes it
plain. John speaks of God the
Father one hundred times. So that
nothing in the New Testament Is
better esta ablished than the Father
hood of God. This dignifies man,
exalts him and lifts him above the
animal creation about him. He is
a son OF God, not the dcscende1t OF
the monkey. His father bestows
upon him wealth and provides for
his wants. He not only created
HIM in his own image, but he is be-
gotten again to living hope by the
resurre ction of Chgi, rom the dead.
God recognizes man as his child
and looks for response. The con-
verted newborn. soul does speak
out of the innermost heart, abba
Father How earnestly the mother
looks for the sign OF intelligence IN
the child. Ranger and thirst as
sert themselves and she is glad.
When the door slams the babe
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