Delaware City press. (Delaware City, Del.) 1913-19??, 1913-05-02
FOR SPIRITUAL LIFE
Beautiful Words of David Should
Find Echo in the Hearts OF
All Christians.


Amy one who reads the Book Of
Psalms reverently surely must be I'm
pressed by two things. First, the
spirit of prayer which pervades them;
and, secondly. their great spiritual
fly.
The spirit of prayer which pos
sessed the heart of David, brought
him, without a doubt, into more in
innate relationship with, and gave
him better knowledge of God, than
any man. excepting Jesus Christ. ever
enjoyed.
So great was Davids experience
that even today, the world loves to
listen to his beautiful words of tes-
timony. We love to listen while he
says with so much feeling: THE
Lord is my work and my fortress and
my deliverer" MY buckler and the
horn of my salvation. and my high
tower THE Lord is my stay" He
shall hide me in his pavilion; in the
secret of his tabernacle, shall he hide
me" "He shall set me upon a rock"
when my father and mother forsake
hast been shelter and strong tow
err from the enemy will trust in the
covert of thy wings" THE Lord is
my shepherd" What wonderful words
are these They show to US that God
was living, potent factor in the life
Of David, In the hour of darkness,
when sorrow came. when .doubtings
he To- &c
ward and cry out: 1.-THE Lard is my
light and salvation, whom shall
fear?" What the sunlight is to all
natural life, God was to David in his
spiritual life Absolutely essential
Take sunlight out of the world, and
all natural life will shortly cease.
Take God out of the soul, and all
spiritual life is at once at an end.
But even with all this knowledge
the Psalmist was not satisfied.
Knowledge alone was not what he
wanted. His desire scared above mere
4 knowledge of God He wanted to
dwell in the house of the Lord all the
days of his life; he wanted to behold
the wondrous beauty of the Lord.
This was his one desire. His chief
thought and aim was to be, above all
things, spiritually minded. Let me
walk in poverty's vale, let me suffer
the Affections of Job; let me be for
saken by all my friends, If need be,
that l may dwell in the house of the
Lord all the days of my life. This
was the one desire of David
ent lot had been appointed him. He
knew that he would one day sit on the
J throne of Israel and go forth as theiI
leader and captain, to battle. Yet hi
would gladly give up the royal dia
dem and scepter, for it was not honol
and power and glory that he desired
but it was great spiritual life
Now. David was determined to have
this spiritual life at any cost. HI
says: zone thing have desired
that will seek sfter," I'll not quit
because of discouragements, but IL
seek on until find that for which
am looking. Oh, how often men hay,
become discouraged and gone back t,
the world, the next day, or week, o
month, after they were converted, be
cause they failed to receive the vii
ness OF Gods spirit with theirs tina
they were his children. When,
, they had gone steadily on seekin
| that one thing, God would have som
! time, somewhere, opened the yer.
doors OF heaven to their souls eye
/ and they could have beheld the beaut
r Of the Lord,
/ The spiritual life never came I
any man Just as an unexpected gil
> from God Neither do men stumbl
upon it by accident. For this life
the pearl OF great price" which mus
S be sought after diligently in praye
!. and meditation He who would hay
J. this kind of life must have the SAN
J. desire in his heart which David ha
o He who would be spiritually minde
g must dwell in the secret place of IL
Most High and abide under IL
r shadow of the Almighty
h No man has even been great
IS spiritual who has not been a gre,
e prayer. The worlds greatest spir
ual leaders have been its create
$ prayers: Paul the apostle, Martin L
W Their, who faced Romanism alon,
k John Wesley, who fired England wi
a great revival spirit; John Kno
n whose heart was breaking for SCI
a land. and who saw her brought
Id Christ in answer to his prayer, al
ID Gypsy Smith, the marvel of the tive
IN tieth century. Born in a gypsy tie
ID In the sIums of London, and raised
is abject ignorance. yet the nations
Of the world proclaim him today t
is greatest evangelist of modern tim,
lie And Gypsy Smiths one desire a
prayer after his conversion was; &C
Tx God, cannot read your Bible, but
ct ma ,,.ith rnnr snirit -