The Bolivar bulletin. (Bolivar, Tenn.) 1888-1946, 1903-07-10

a great need outside of himself and
have asked for Divine wisdom in adj
ministering the responsibilities of the
kingdom. He must withdraw from the
rush of human activities, he must get
out of the sound of human voices that
he might realize that God was a factor
in every human activity and that he
might hear His voice speaking 1t is so
always. The king on his throne and
the humblest peasant in the realm; the
public official directing the affairs of a
nation, and the most obscure citizen; the
man in whose hands rest great finan
cial, commercial and industrial inter-
ests, and the struggling clerk; the
skilled artisan, and the commonest la
borer; the gifted and cultured woman
with her wide social and charitable OBJ
legations and responsibilities, and the
shut-in housewife who bears, single
handed, the burdens of her home: the
business woman, struggling amidst the
trials and temptations of the business
and Industrial world, and the factory
hand whose weary toll keeps her at the
machine in mOnOtOnOuS servitude; the
boy or girl on the playground or in the
wisdom which cometh down from the
God of all wisdom, and the realization
of that need is felt only as one with
draws for quiet meditation and prayer.
eff any of you lack wisdom James
says and we would add: If you feel
no lack, seek God at Gibeon-the place
of retirement and worship-and in the
midnight watches the voice of God will
be heard speaking and the soul will cry
out: Lord. I am but a little child;
give me wisdom for the duties and the
responsibilities which rest upon me-"
e OURCE of Wisdom.-1t is not in
y man, that is certain. The united
wisdom. skill and energy of the peo-
pie of the world after the food but
plunged them headlong to the disaster
and confusion of the tower of Babel.
All the learning of the Egyptians, which
in our day appears as a marvel of hu-
man achievement, was as nothing be-
fore the faith and the rod of a Moses
who, following God, led the children of
Israel in great wisdom and skill out Of
Egypt to the promised land. All the
astrologers and wise men of the far
east could not aid the king of Babylon
in his perpleXing dreams and troubled
thoughts but a Daniel who was in touch
with the all-wise, all-powerful God was
not only able to foretell the events of
the future. but to administer the vast
interests of the extensive kingdom in
a manner never before experienced. All
the rabbis and scribes and keen-witted
"a nf
rested neither day nor night in their eff
forts to frame questions that would en-
tangle Him and trip Him up. were like
chaff before the wind, as His God-given
wisdom swept them aside and He passed
on with undertaking step.
We are told that the "foolishness of
God is wiser than men" God is called
the God of all wisdom and Paul, in
his letter to the Romans, exclaims: 20
the depth of the wisdom of Cod" One
question which the neighbors and coun-
trymen asked concerning Jesus was:
Whence hath this man this wisdom?"
The united arguments of the scholars
and advanced thinkers from every sec
ton of the world we're not able to stand
before the wisdom with which Stephen
with the God of all wisdom is always
more than a match for the wisdom of
the world. God is the source of all wis
dom, both for temporal as well as spir-
itual things. Solomon did not search
the world for the wise men who would
be able to help him administer the king
dom, he did not trust to human abilities,
but sought out God alone at Gideon,
whom he knew was the source of all
wisdom, and obtained from Him the
wisdom he needed. 1t must be so with |
you and me. Human advice, human |
and your own human wis |
dom must not be allowed to crowd God /
out, or obscure your sense of depend |
ence upon the God of all wisdom. No. )
ASK of God, that giveth to all men lib |
orally and upbraideth not"
\ EQUEST for Wisdom.-To my mind |
y one of the most charming pictures |
We have of Solomon is this where, in the |
'ore the Lord. One might prefer the
scene of the matchlesS splendor and |
ichness of his palace, his throne, and
MS gorgeous apparel and stately dig
lity, but l love to picture the young
King at Gideon clothed with beautiful
humility, and stirred by pure earnest
purpose for the right, talking with God,
md asking, not something for himself,
mt something for his people and ma