Los Angeles herald., 1906-08-13
PENNILESS JACOB
MORE THAN KING
PREACHER COMPARES ISRAEL
WITH PHARAOH
Aged Patriarch Richer In His Cody
Life Than King With All His
Wealth, Says Rev. Mr..
sclatworthy

IAN Interview with Royalty" taken
from Genesis F:7, was the topic of
Rev. G. w. Clatworthy yesterday
morning at the Temple Babtist church.
He occupied the pulpit In the absence
of Rev. Robert ]. Burdette, the pastor.
He said In part:
1t was In the palace Of the Phara obs
that this attractive and impressive
scene took place. 1t can be easily pic
tured: stately presence chamber,
adorned and draped In rich and costly
fashion. on the throne sits the king,
SURROUNDED by his courtiers, and Jo-
seph, the prime minister, at his side,
richly clad in robes of state. Into this
commanding presence of royalty the
aged patriarch Jacob is ushered. His
age, his garb and his manner make
deep impression on all There was
something royal i'm his bearing that
made him greater than the king. He
lifts his hands to heaven and invokes
the blessing of heaven on the king.
The king holds audience with him. and
again aged Israel prays, God bless the
king
This is picture of godly old age:
age invested with a beauty all its own
an aged oak Of the castle.
Jacob Greater Than King
but of all the pictures that old Time
can draw, the most winsome and beau
tiful is the aged Christian with silver
locks and mellow features, looking
calmly back over the trodden years
and cheerfully across the border line
of the Beulah land, the light of heaven
glorifying the whitened head.
"A fruit tree is beautiful when burst
ing into bloom, beautiful in it's robes
of green, but most beautiful when
laden with its rich and ripe fruit all
ready for the plucking hand.
Cody character is always beautiful
in childhood, youth and manhood, but
most beautiful, perhaps, when age
experience and grace have ripened into
saintliness and the aged Christian
sits waiting calmly and peacefully to
enter the palace of the King.
I'm the days of youth and manhood
we sow the seed and reap the harvest,
and our last days, in Gods mercy, may
be our brightest and best.
Then we see, too, that the moral
is mightier than the material. The
king represents wealth, power, position
and everything that fortune can ever
bestow. Jacob was a stranger, a pill
grim, without influence and means,
and really dependent on the king for
physical support. And yet he has what
the king has not, and every one present
knows he is greater than the king
before whom he stands He has some
thing and can procure something which
makes the king less than he. What
was it? 1t was the blessing of God.
1t was that power, that influence from
and with heaven which always belongs
to virtue and goodness.
Prayer Greater Than Gold 81
Jacobs benediction was an endow-
ment, his prayer was of more value
than any purse of gold can buy.
"Piety has the power of prayer and
prayer enlists and wields the power
to have that power, not only for our
own sakes, but for the sake of Others |
whom our prayers shall bless.
Jacob calls his life pilgrimage |
How suggestive! From the first day |
of his baby life the journey had been |
constant. He made many mistakes,
but there was no possibility of going
back to begin again for a single day.
How significant this life
Jacob calls his days few 1t is ever
so; the longer the journey, the shorter
1t seems Yet his own conduct had !
largely to answer for his cares. His
sins were surely the seeds of his sor-
rows. as they will be in your life and !
mine.
Taught How to Die
"But Gods faithfulness and mercy
brought all things right at last. once,
in the bitterness of a bleeding heart,
he said: All these things are against
me-. But he lived long enough to see
that these sad things had been work
ing for his good, for when his sons
gathered around his bed to receive his
dying blessing, he said, God hath been
with me all my life long
Learn Of Jacob how to die. When
silver-haired and noble Lady Hunting
don received the Masters call at the
age of S4,. she said: Now have moth
ing to do but to go home to my Father
"The best of living brings the best
of dying. In that hour the hush will be
broken by the voice Of the Master:
Come, ye blessed of my Father, inherit
the joy prepared for you from the
foundation of the world"