The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1906-07-26
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Sunday Sermon
A Scholarly Discourse BY
DR.. I. E. Dowling.

BROOKLYN. n Y.-Dr. Thomas
Edward Bowling, minister in charge
OF ST. Jamess p Il. Church, st. James
place and Lafayette avenue. preached
Sunday morning on the subject The
Secret of Peace" a study Of the Shep-
herd Psalm Dr. Dowllng said:
Thirty centuries ago there lived In
Palestine king. who In his boyhood
had been shepherd lad. And in his
old age, when he had seen life with
its SORROWS and its Joys, this king.
David, sang song. wbicn it takes less
than two minutes deliberately to re.
peat
Three thousand years have gone
since then; and to-day everything he
owned has turned TO dust except his
songs. The throne on which he sat
dust; the palace where he dwelt-
dust; the harp which his fingers were
accustomed 60 sweep. the banner
with which he led the hosts of Israel.
his charlOts. and bis chariOteers an
dust! But to-day that song goes sing.
ing its way 20 the universal heart.
in the cottage Of the poor and the
mansion of the rich. in the home OK
the learned and OF the un,earned. be.
cause it sings OF what an the world
is hungerIng for-peace.
When Edward Irving swept e. .ouch
the gates it was with this song upDn
his lips. Luther called il the "Litt,r
Bible" ana SO IL u.s. for 1t contains
an miniature the whole book Henry
Ward Beecher, who once made Brook.
lyn famous that greatest preacher
the world has ever known since Paul
stood on Mars Hll. called it tho
nightingale song. because it s.Aas
10 us IN the darNn5ss. Listen while
repeat lt 20 you. thal lt may once
again sing It's way into your heart.
(Dr Dowling here repeated dsliJer-
ately the Twenty-tnird Psaim)
NOW yield Hin nos simply 1'm ra
ton, but a10ration. Il Is the difference
between he ieadeth,' aAd 'iiH leal-
eth me. II you would Know what
GOD may be u You. learn TO appro'
pirate Him. Learn to think OF Hin
simply not as Cod, but yuur God.
not simply as friend, Dut Your
friend; not simply as a shepIerd, but
your shepherc
Now, when you receive a gilt there
are three things which you Do with
1t. You accept it, Non examine IT,
and you use IL. And Tie giit which
thls royal shepherd poet OF three lhou-
sand years ago makes TO MS In this
Shepherd Psalm may prove more pre-
cious to you thon any which you have
ever received, IL you deal with II IN
Just that way; the way OF approprla-
tlon, OF appreciation ana or appIca-
uon.
AS you n2uce how very easy 1t IS
10 appropriate II. because IL aoounds
with those personal and possess'Ye
DFOnOUnS. IN WINCH. Martin l.tiUAf
sald, lhe preclousness or the BlDle
consists: Ihe Lord is my shepherd.
He leadeth me. Yea, though / walk
through the valley
What great difference there Is be-
tween the mere apprehension OF 4 lact
ana the Appropriation or tHat iact. De-
tween knowing II ana claiming II,
When you see a enid IN a runaway
you are moved Dul suppose II ls your
chlid. mere Is the same dHlerence
lhat Jhere is between lne stately man
sion OF stranger and the little cot
taee IN Whlch your molher rocked
you IN her arms and crooAed TO you
tne songs or your baDyhod. 80, my
friends, you never can judge or a re-
Hglon until 1t has been transmitted
INTO personal experience, until II
mas become your religion. historl-
cal christ is, at the most, only
Chrlst can look upon Him with
admiration An! but when He has
become nine. and ! have heard His
voice, and ielt His touch, He Is no
longer simply a Christ but the Christ
And then, when you have appropr-
ated this psalm. seek TO appreciate IT,
Notice, TO begin With the perfect sp.r-
IT or trust which breathes through IT.
an. See how much it has TO say about
ttim and how little about ourselves.
Mark how every verse tells MS what
He is doing.
MY dear people, that is the whole
secret IAe secret OF peace is the
putting OF God between our troubles
and ourselves. know the dark hours
which have come into some Of your
lives; | know your DerpleXit.es; for
Though you are strangers TO me as
yet, the experience Of human hearts
Is lust the same the whole world
over, and the joys and the sorrows
OF the men and women whom | learn
ed so we'll t. know and 10 love on the
Pacific shores are just the joys and
the sorrows which rCl are having tc-
day. I know of the hour when some
young mother In this congregation sat
sobbing by the side OF her little one.
whispering blindlv, I do not know
why she should be taken from me-