The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-07-14

He restored Captain John Calender to his original position, making his commits sion date from the degradation at Bun ker Hill So we find our young Cap tain Jchn Callenders everywhere. They are young men of brain and force and power. By the inJustlces and jealousles of their fellow men they are kept In the background, and younger men with half their capabilities are pushed to the front. Was this not young Davids experience?
 Read the story of his offer to fight the giant. What do you now find? Young David is i'll the camp of King Saul Be- fore him stalks tho great Goliath defy ing the armies of Israel What did David do? Why, he said, 'If no one else will go forth to meet this giant l will go." Had he not earned the right to go? Was he not one of the keenest if not the most expert marksman with the sling in all the Hebrew nation? Had not his bravery been tested again and again? Alone with the sheep, way off among the foothills, had he not defied the wild beasts and the Bedouin rob- bers? And yet when young David said, "l will go and fight the mighty Goliath" what happened? His elder brothers, who were honored soldiers of Sauls army, began to sheer and to laugh. Aha" they i'd, you had better go home and hang oil to your mothers apron strings, You are a pretty faced baby to come here and talk like a braggart' Listen: let me read you the literal words: And Aallab's anger was kindled against David and he said. why earnest thou down hther, and with whom hast thou left those few sheep in the wilderness? know thy pride anG the -naughtness of thJ heart; for thou are come down that you might see the battle" Thus young David had to struggle to get his foot hold ib life. Has not King David a right to come to our young folks. battling and struggling to get a foothold in life, and say Young people. 1 know your trials. l know how hard it is to make the world recognize your powers. But struggle on. God will SC you through. The darkness and despair are sure to be Weeping may endure for night, but joy cometh in the morning. Yes, young foiEs, keep on in your struggles; all will yet be we'll"
 David's Second Goliath.
 But today David comes to bring us gospel coffort which he has found in the crises of his palace as well as in the trials and misrepresentation and struggles of his early life. Whea--Dayid was a mature. well developed man. with the kngly crown upon his head and the royal purple robes about his shoulders, he had a Goliath to fight more formd- able than the one he encountered when he wa3 a rugged faced shepherd boy. And when David met this second Go Hath he became not the conqueror, out the conquered. And yet today, as a repent6ant libertine and murderer, he comes to us and says: Friend, your earthly success may have been the means of destroying your spiritual life. But Christ can save you yet for he has saved me, the chief of sinners" Has af Il haa that of King David? With a kingly crown upon your shoulders, have you never been compelled to shed repentant tears over some spiritual fall, some mean, disgraceful thing you have done under strong temptation?
 The material conflicts of a noble youth cannot be compared to the spiritual struggles of the human heart when fac ing some terrible sin of middle life. Some time ago 1 saw in the home of one of my elders a most suggestive picture. Its subject was Darkness and Light" In the foreground of that picture is the young woman with baby in her arms and a sturdy child of five summers tug ging at her skirts. has brought a we'll filled lunch basket to her young hus- band working as day laborer. He Is a magnificent specimen of a man. With his abounding health and laughing face he semes to say: Life is a battle, but my bare arm is strong enough to fight it. Life has it's burdens, but my shol- ders are broad enough to carry them" There he stands, holdsing out his hands to take the baby from her mothers arms. Life may be a struggle but if triumph ant joy was ever pictured in a mans face and in a womans bearing and in her child's smile, it is to be found in the foreground of that picture.
 A Significant Picture.
 But hardly has your eye studied the four happy figures in the foreground than you look into the background of the picture. There under the trees shadow in a beautiful garden stands a young woman in widows weeds She has an open book in her hand which she Is listlessly carrying. She has been walking, but her mind is far away with the dead Suddenly she turns and catches glimpse of that happy family group. If her sad mournful eyes and pathetic face mean anything, they seem to say; "Oh, if l could only give up my money and my home and my diamonds and my wealth and have my dear ones to love like that O God. can ever be as l once wasp Some of us seem to