Milford chronicle., 1905-12-08

and, like King David. that you have to
work all the time.
But there is another fact I want you
to notice about Joab's upbraidment and
denunciation He did not waste any
words about other peoples shortcom-
ings. He did not go to the king and
say: "Now, David, Absalom was an
ungrateful dog. You ought to have
hanged him long ago. And those peo-
pie who mTtinied against you and
made you flee from your capital ought
to be sought out and punished" Oh,
no, Joab did not bother himself about
crying over the departed past. He
practically said to David: Here. the
insurrection has taken place. An aw-
full lot of damage has been done. There
is no use of talking about who caused
the difficulty. The one great fact we
want to solve is how can we get the
kingdom back upon its Old, stable foun-
dation. 1t is not now a question who
set fire to your palace, but how we can
put the confagratiOn out. Now, you
had better get out of this room as soon
as possible and get back to your capital
and pick up the reins of government
without one moments delay" And
David returned and came to the JOr-
dan and went back to Jerusalem. Are
you and ready to do as did David?
Are you trying to jump in and over
come the evil deeds of others instead
Of sitting down and crying about them
and magnifying them?
The world will never be saved by our
proving that other people are liars and
ingrates. / read an article some years
ago, which l cut out of a paper and |
pasted in my scrapboOk, with the pur-
pose Of quoting it, but lost the article
and lost the book. The article, how |
ever, went something like this: "What |
is the use of men in business complain /
ing that their employees are slOthful |
and ignorant? What is the use of say
ing that your help is lazy and untrue
and selfish? Men have always been
lazy and untrue and selfish ever since +
the world was started. II is the strong
leader and the successful man who
takes his employees as they are and
them. The successful man in spite Of
uses all men for the best
purposes for which they can be used
AAh. yes I said when l read that ar
icle, "hOw true, how true! The sue
.essful merchant is not the merchant
Who has perfect clerks, but he takes
lis clerks as they are and drills them
md keeps on drilling them until in
pite of themselves they are compelled
o do his bidding. The successful cap
ain is a man who, like Paul Jones, can
inspire a mixed crew, made up of all
ifferent natiOnalities, to fight his bat
les as though they were made out Of
he stuff of heroes. And the strong
nan for God is not the man who sits
own and repines over the weaknesses
f his fellow men. He is like JOab,
eady to shut his eyes to other mems
lults and out of mems weaknesses
uild up his own towers of strength"
wen a lion can be strangled to death
nth spider webs if you can weave
nOugh of them together into one rope.
he sunbeams can change a ships hull
Ito Goals of fire if you can only focus
lie suns rays upon it by a powerful
urning glass.
What Gladstone Said.
But must not close without drawing s
our attention to one other fact. The
king was not a young man.
e was not even middle aged man.
think his hair was white and his step
as becoming slower with age and he
Jew it. William e. Gladstone said
st before he gave up his English pre-
iership, Il feel that the sands Of my
e are running out" King David
ust have felt his sands of life running
way also. His grown children proved
AbsalOm must have been grown
an. No mere boy could have had the
aims or the power to raise the insur-