Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1915-03-01
Sunday Morning
LORD is MY
/ A NOT WANT

| SHALL NOT WANT"
"rhe Lord is my shepherd L hall not
want"
Three thousand years have rolled into
history since David wrote it.
"The harp upon which he used to play
to charm King Saul in his melancholy
moods: the book of law out of which he
read and from which he received his in
splration to do the will of God; the sling
with which he used to 'nurl the stone;
the giant walls of Jerusalem; the palace
in which he lived; the stone upon which
he sat when he governed the people, all
have crumbled into dust and they could
not possibly be found today by any pos
sibility of means or research, yet this
Psalm Ia just as inspiring to me as the
day he wrote it.
"To me nothing is sweeter than the
truth of it. 1t comes to me like the song
of many angels.
Different names have been assigned
this portion of Gods Word by different
commentators One man called 1t the
creed psalm. He was asked in a meeting
like this to stand up and give his creed,
and he repeated the 23d Psalm. He said:
That is all the creed 1 know, all 1 feel
I need. My mother taught me to repeat
- - SNGf'
and eve.
81 don't understand It,. I am just now
beginning to learn the A B c out of
which I can coin n few words which ex-
press, in a limited degree, the blessings
that have filed my soul because have
tried to follow the God that inspired
David to write it,
"Another man called II the minstrel
song, and that's a good name, too.
1t has been called the Song of the
Lark
That's a good name for it. It's song
has charmed you, its melody has charmed
me, That's the reason I'm trying to be
a Christian and preach to you.
"And l believe there are people today
standing by their graves, where you have
buried your manhood and womanhood
and the noble thoughts God gave you
to be decent. and you have piled the
earth on top of them.
THE Lord is my Shepherd. 1 choose
Him, and I'm going to Heaven. You
can go to hell If you want to. I can
give you the best spring tonic on the
market; 1t beats any patent medicine or
any other kind of treatment. It's the first
chapter of Joshua, the first ten verses.
Read it and take a good dose of 1t, sister.
1t tones us up morally and lifts us to a
higher plane.
NOW, we are certain that David wrote
this psalm, as we are certain that he
wrote Il others that bear his NAME.
There may be times in your life when
you feel: Well, now, the experiences
David had are just like mine, or mine
like his and the Pslams of David were
forged on the anvil of experiences in try
ing to serve and do the will of God.
$50 1 am sure that David wrote that
psalm. Possibly he used to sing IL,
1.-THE Lord is my shepherd; I shall not
want.
"'He maketh Me to lie down in green
pastures; he leadeth Me beside the still
waters
at never could understand Why Gods
sheep want to leave the green pastures
of God and go down the alleys to chew
tin a with the DEVILS billy goats.
God had dom all that for him and
that song was his experience.
you reach the place where you ac-
cept Jesus as you Saviour before you
accept the 23d Psalm.
st Is a great thing, sir, I don't care
who o are. Sit down and think of
the benefits that accrued to you by
and through Christianity.
you yourself may be an old cusser, an
old booze fighter, an old libertine. and yet
there are benedictions and blessings hat
surround you due to religion and because
you ave lived In a community where are
religious Influences.
$50 wonderfully did the Jews reverence
God that a jew would never step on a
piece of parchment without first looking
TO see If the name of Jehovah was writ
ten on the other side,
christianity is the biggest asset you
ever looked at when 1t comes to a com-
munity. Sit down and take a RETROSPECT
tive view of life. hin what a good for
nothing, goddess, degenerate reprobate
you would be IL 1t wasn't for Christianity.
Then don't sneer and scoff at God. Sit
down and review II a little bit.
The position of the 2Sd Psalm Is signlh-
cant II follows the ed, 1t follows the
Psalm of the cross. You have to reach
the point where you see Jesus erueihed on
the cross for your sins, accept Him as
your Savior, before you can say:
This Lord is my Shepherd"