Milford chronicle., 1907-09-27
sinnina to Keep Step.

Singing to Keep Step.
But the statutes Of the Lord were
more than a sacred memory OF the
scenes of Davlds boyhOod. They were
the songs by which the young man
and the middle aged man kept step In
the Journey of life. Just the same as
the German soldiers when on line OF
march invariably start up one Of their
national airs and sing as they tramp
along and all in unison keep step to
the music, so this marvellous man OF
my text kept step to the laws Of Coo
during his journey Of life and sang
as he walked along. l am very much |
impressed with this figure by an ex-
perience l had some years ago in the |
German capital.
At that time l was young boy ana
physically very much fatigued from
sightseeing. I had crawled into bed
thoroughly tired out and almost IN
stantly had fallen into one Of those
deep sleeps which come to healthy
boys and girls after a long days
tramp. Suddenly l awOke in the early
hours OF the morning. Like PAU III
his vision, l knew not at first whether
| was in the flesh or out Of the hesh'
From everywhere and yet from no
where there seemed to roll into my
room great tidal waves of harmony
The volume was so great and yet the
time so perfect that the voices sound
ed like the chorus of many waters
Louder and louder swelled the song.
I leaped out Of bed TO see what was
the matter. Then l heard the tramp
tramp. tramp of a long line of soldiers
marching. As these soldiers marched
they sang with their deep, powerful
TeutOnic voices. As they sang they
kent step to the music. SO in David's
I Journey of life the laws of God were
the songs by which he kept step after
he had left the old homestead.
David the Amounted.
In the first place, there was that
overwhelming bugle call by which Da-
vid was set aside when yet mere lad
as the future king of Israel. Oh, could
4 David ever cease to praise the law OF
God for that tremendous day In his
history when Samuel came into the
home Of his father Jesse and poured
the amounting oil upon his headE FOE
days and weeks and months do you
NOT believe he pondered over his COM
ing glory? When he was an aged
+. king. with his hair white as the al
mond tree in blossom, do you not be-
lieve he still glorled in the fact that
God had set him aside as one to NIL
, a throne? And yet has there no
amounting come to us2 Has not each
one Of US been set apart to do some
special work which cannot be done by
any one else? We have not been called
70 all a throne, but we have been call
ed. as David was, to serve our genera
tion and to testify to others that 1t Is
good to obey the statutes Of God.
Then. like David, we should glory
in the fact that God has not only de-
tailed us for an especial work OF ire
but also because God has cared Tor US
and guided us and protected us while
we are doing that work. That would
he q careless father who would tell q
son to 20 and do something and then
not care for the welfare Of the child
e while he was carrying out the paren-
. tai orders. So Gods divine protection
! during all Of David's life and during
all Of our lives has been lowering over
us and helping us upon our feet when
we have fallen and bringing us DacK
to the straight path Of virtue when we
q have wandered away and been caught
in the entangled thickets Of sin. DO
: YOU wonder that David glOried In the
!. old divine commandment which said,
I This book Of the law shall not depart
4 out of thy mouth, but thou shalt medl'
8 tate therein day and night that thou
i mayest observe to do according to all
that Is written therein, for thou shalt
= make thy way prosperous and tnen
j thou shalt have good successF
4 It Does Not Pay.
T. And today would especially i'm
b press upon the young the fact that
h God still protects and cares for those
II who obey his laws. Sometimes th'
d young are so nearsighted that they
" cannot understand this. Life In IL
earlier days seems to be such strug
gle for most young people that a
:. times they do not think it pays to b
: good. Thus some Of them play thu