The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1902-08-02

the anger OF the LOru anu HE host eR
camped round about him to deliver
him. Alone In strange land, with
unfriendly heather about him, and no
companion in whom to trust and con-
fide, he turns to the Lord with all the
intensity of his lovablei nature and
finds in Him a satisfying portion; and
turning to you and me he pleads: 70,
taste and see that the Lord is good:
blessed is the man that trusteth In
Him."
The experiences of life under the
hand Of the Lord will blossom into
beautiful fruits of spiritual JOY and
satisfaction so that the soul can de-
clare with David: "My soul shall
make her boast in the Lord" but
the soul that puts It's Lord on pedes-
tai and makes Him an object OF
worship at appointed times and sea-
sons and in set places, and does not
take Him into the everyday expsri-
ences in the shop, IN the home, on
the street, misses the very heart
Of religion and the purpose of God.
He may be able boldly to say in
meeting that his boast Is In the
Lord, but IL he has not learned what
It means to stand with his Lord in
the heat of the everyday conflict
and peril, 1t is but an idle boast
and he knows not whereof he speaks.
The Worlds Boast.-And II David
made his boast in the Lord, in what,
think you, does the world boast
itself? It's boast does not reach up
into the heavens, where God has His
dwelling place, but Is found within
itself, and is of the earth, earthly.
1t boasts of the riches, gold, silver,
precious stones, which ore taken
from it's bosom; it boasts of its pow
er, and in it's strength Expresses the
weak; it boasts of it's learning and
wisdom and speaks unto itself great
things and Understanding phrases,
forgetful of the fact that the fool
ishness of God is wiser than men; it
boasts of its culture and refinement,
so-called, and fails to see under the
polished surface the seething mass
of corruption which has ultimately
wrought the destruction of every ma
ton which has yet in the worlds
history held sway for time. Per-
STA, Babylon, Greece, Rome have
flourished in their day, and made
their boast each in it's turn of their
wealth, and power, and wisdom, and
culture, and refinement, and then
persisted miserably by means Of the
very things in which they put their
trust.
The world is an awful boaster. Il
boosted of its own security and pros
perity even while Noah was busy
building the ark and God was fill
ing the heavens with rain with which
to deluge the sin-cursed earth. 1t
boosted itself in, the rearing of the
build into the heavens and above
another possible food, and even
while il wrought in the vain imagin-
ings of it's own heart the wrath Of
God fell upon the foolish boosters
and scattered them hither and
thither. But they carried their
boastful spirit with them, and if they
no longer all spoke the same Ian
guage, this one thing they had in
common.
Friend, where is thy boast? In
what are you putting your trust?
In the things of time, which perish?
Goliath boosted in his strength, and
in the many gods of his nation, and
what was he and what were they
before that supplemented youth
who makes his boast in the Lord?
The Philistine said: II will give thy
flesh unto the fowls of the air, and
to the beasts of the field" David
said: "Thou contest to me with a
sword, and with a spear, and with a
shield; but / come to thee In the
name of the Lord of hosts, the God
of the armies of Israel. whom thou
hast defied. This day will the Lord
deliver thee into mine hand" And
the Lord did. AS the Psalmist says:
at is better to trust in the Lord than
to put confidence in man. 1t is better
to trust the Lord than to put con.
fidence in princes" Is It not time
that the world began to learn the
lesson? Is it not about time that
you began to learn the lesson, too;
The people of the world are like the
little boy who, when asked IL he die
not pray God to take care of him dur
ing the day the same as he did at night
replied that he didn't have to, as h,
could take care of himself then very
well. But, thank God! all hearts arr
not blind to the greatest need Of tn,
soul. and the boast of David in thu
Lord sets other hearts to vibrating t,
| the same blessed tune, for our tex
goes on to say: "For the humble sh al
hear thereof and be glad" And !
didn't make the mighty warrior, tn
great king. the wise ruler sorry
bit to feel that his followers wer
found in such class. Jesus Chris
Himself thanked His Father that thes
things were hid from the wise and pru
dent and had been revealed unto babes
Why so? Not because He wanted
so, but because the pride of the huma
heart decreed It so and would not yiel
its will to the will of God.
"The humble shall hear thereof an
be glad" The boast of David in tn
Lord Who never failed him did nc
move the heart of King Saul, who