The daily morning journal and courier., 1907-09-03
REV. W. W. W. WILSON
 T0 LAD0RING MEN Serving Ones Own Genera tion the Topic of His Eloquent Sermon. EXAMPLES IN BIBLE March of Progress in Last Hundreds of Years
 Traced.
EXAMPLES IN BIBLE

tion.' He took his text from Acts, 18th chapter, 36th verse: And David after he had served his own generation by the will of God, fell on sleep, and was laid unto his fathers and saw corrup- tion."
 There is instituted here a distinction between David and Christ, or between David and great David's greater son, the whole passage reading, And Dav- i'd after he had served his own genera ton by the will of God fell on sleep and was laid unto his fathers and saw corruption but he whom God raised up saw no corruption The occasion of the distinction was Paurs sermon at Antioch, where the disciples of Jesus were first called Christians in derision as the followers of Wesley were called Methodists at Oxford from the same cause, and where Paul and Barnabas had just arrived from Perga and where they entered the synagogue and sat down as was their wont on the Sabbath day, And after reading of the law and the prophets, the rulers of the synagogue sent unto them say- ing, Ye men and brethren, if ye have any word of exhortation for the peo- pie, say on. Then Paul stood up and becnoning with his hand said Men of Israel and ye that fear God, give audi dience.'
 He then proceeded to give them an epitome of their history, how that God had chosen their fathers, exalted their people, brought them up out of Egypt, suffered their manners" for forty years in the wilderness, destroyed the seven nations of Canaan, divided their land unto them by lot, appointed ijudges to rule over them for the space | of four hundred and fifty years, until Samuel, the prophet, afterward appoint ed Saul. the son of Kish, as king over them at their own request, who was succeeded by David, of whose seed ac- I ccrding to the promise, he raised up Jesus, whom John declared and whom l they had murdered but who could not be holden of death, nor, because of 1 his sinlessness could see corruption, but David did and hence the contrast. ! It Is not so much to the contrast between David and Christ as to what is said of David, as apropos to the present occasion, that we call atten- ton though 1t serves the purpose of a human background to the portralture of Christ as a divine parsonage which is here beautifully painted by the in- l spired apostolic artist
 The text is an epitorne of a great 1 life. No time is lost in dwelling upon 1 details such as his birth, his early surroundings, his menial employment his encounter with lion and bear and his destruction of both, his an nointing by Samuel, the prophet, ant the precedence which was thus giver | him over the rest of his brethren, his staying of Goliath, the celebration oi the event by the women, the conse- quent jealousy of Saul and his mar. velous deliverances from death at hi: hands as well as his feigned madness in the camp of Achish and deliverance from the Phillistines who wished tC avenge the death of their chieftain his ultimate coronation, valor in thu field, merit as poet, and his collec
 tion of material for the house of Goo and supreme devotion to him, and his triumphant and glorious death, but simply postulates his name, as Nose did that of God at the beginning O.
 the Pentateuch, presuming that thos,
 whom he addressed were perfectly familiar with the man, and needed
 not a formal and extended introduc
 ton to him or any proof that what ht
 said of him was true. And the frs
 thing that is affirmed Of him is that
 i. ''He served We have all heard O,
 the gospel of industry, that "the god
 give nothing to man without labor,
 that "by the sweat of his brow h
 shall eat bread
 Everything is at work about us. Tn
 four cardinal elements. fire, air, eartl
 and water, in all their departments ar
 at work The forces of nature neve
 rest. We are simply bewil6ered as W
 think of what is going on about us even while we sleep. Let universa
 likeness prevail and we would instan
 taneously die The animal kingdom i
 no less busy. Tn fact it is tntoleran
 toward the indolent. The worke
 among the bees kills the drone in tn hive, and the industrious ant tn
 sluggard in the hill, and man Is n less unkindly disposed toward the id, The penitentiary with its hard 1abo
 is provided for tramps as well g
 criminals, and all our organized chal \ tiles make careful inquiry into the aI tecedent and present condition of a
 claimants upon their bounty, and faith fully exclude, as they should do, a who are not worthy of their kind ] benefactions, so that a person who wi | not work is permitted to suffer. 3l
 compared with the laboring class ho
 few they are. Imagine, if you can u 1 industry of a single day. It Is sure an age of marvellous toll. The air ) filled with the chatter of machiner 5 the noise of the looms, the puff1ng ar g l whistling of engines, the rumble
 l wheels and the sound of tools. But t is not simply labor of which the apo tie speaks, though this Is included, b. it is affirmed of David that he serve I or ministered This was unself1sh, ou g wardly directed, the highest and mol lest work of man. You remember ho
 Jesus rebuked the disciples for the overwhelming ambition to know wi . would be the greatest in the kingdo 3 of heaven by girding himself with r towel and taking basin of water ar 5 proceeding to wash and wipe the 9 feet, telling them that he who wou . be the greatest among the
 should be the servant of tl