Milford chronicle., 1905-01-27

"a names and lnuuence 10 push them 4
IS success. God meant these doctors sons
e to be merchants or soldiers or mechan
It les or sailors. Young man, l care moi
e whose son you may be. find out what
7 God intended you to be. 1t makes but
little difference what your father wants
: you to be. What has God fitted you
to be? Do not be a man made lawyer,
doctor, minister, merchant or mechan-
ic. Be a God made David with his
sling Do not try to fight the battle Of
: life in your fathers armor. Gather
your own ammunition down by the rip
pling brook of Gods inspiration.
l But the errors with which young men
choose their line of work are no more
reprehensible than the means some Of
us use after our professions and career
In life have been selected. We then
show no more common sense in our
choice of weapons with which we are
e to accomplish that work than if the
explorer Robert Edwin Peary should
try to reach the north pole in a sail
boat fashioned after the hull of the
Santa Maria the flagship of Christie
pher Columbus, or to fight a modern
war with out of date weapons like
some of those antiques to be found In
the British museum.
1t would be a mistake for ministers
to say: I'VE will not talk to the people
in a plain common sense way, as Christ
talked to his audience in parable We
will not draw our illustrations from the
/ incidents of daily life and introduce
those fresh illustrations into our prac-
/ teal sermons, as Christ did when he
talked about the thieves on the Jericho !
road, or about the woman who lost a
part of her wedding dowry. But we |
will gather our materials afrom past /
ages and from the writers of old and +
from the sins of the Jewish people and |
not from the sins of the American peo-
pie. who live at our very door" There
are many doing this. The result is there
are hundreds of preachers who do not
WELD any modern 'slings." They do
not preach as Christ would have them
preach. They are ready to talk about
the lily of the valley and the rose Of
Sharon and the grapes Of Eschol, but
they are not willing to utter philippe
against commercial sins in our own
day, against the groceryman who has
false weights for his pound of sugar
and tea as well as against the wealthy
millionaire who is living a double life
and is breaking the marital vows which
he once made to the young girl when
the twain at the marriage altar became
one.
David Might Have Failed.
What we say about church work we
say about every other kind of work.
Young man, do not do thing as law
yer or doctor or merchant merely be- I
cause other lawyers or doctors or mer- {
chants have been accustomed il the q
past to do that thing and in that way. 7
1t was the novelty of onslaught which r
David used that was able to overthrow =
the mighty Philistine. If you are going r
to make a success in life you must \
have independent ways of doing your h
work. You must get out of the ruts. c
Do not use SauPs sword to fight your 6
Goliath merely because all other sol |,
liers are using swords to fight their a
Develop your craftsmanship Il
BY swinging your natural slings. Da- n
7id fighting his battles in an original n
way was a cOnquerOr; David using II
Saurs armor would have been a fail fl
Ire. a
There is another caution to the young
nan who is going out to fight the bat
les Of life. He must be careful about
he quality and temper of his weapons.
f we should discard the obsolete weap-
ms with which our ancestors fought -.
heir battles. how much more should -,
Ill of us refuse to go forth to battle ~
n life with the glittering blades of sin r.
n our hands which again and again =,
AVE proved impotent when the heat -
f the struggle is on. We have often "
ead of the duels in chivalric times. In ="
hose ElOrtal combats the trueness of
ladeL lecided whether the cOmbatants A..
hould live or die. We have read that =
7hen ome combatants We're just at "
he cr tical stage of the duel blade y. y
ad snapped. Then there was lunge ",
7ith = sword, and the man who once -, ~
elG Gle false blade in his hand drop ~
ed eS the feet of his adversary a blood =,
baked corpse When we take the -
iades of sin we have false weapons in
ur hands. In the heat of life's battles -.
lese uiades of sin will fail us every ~ ~
y = ~
FrT,o gvvowd - gau