The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1915-05-11

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loyalty, insults dishonor, enmities-of
such bitter herbs as these was brewed
that sweet draught Of poetry and in
Spiration which has refreshed
eG millions Of parched spirits. We
have said hat David was fitted for
a throne by his outlaw ordeals. Far
more than that. BY his sufferings he
was trained to be humanity'S poet
laureate. Eve at the uttermost cost,
the price vas small that he paid for
the privilege Of immortality Of ser
vice. All literature and life are
richer because David's soul was so
SOrely stOrm-tOSSed.
That is the royal lesson for US all:
out of our pain let us make a paen,
from our sorrow a song: from our
misery a ministry. The highest use
of suffering is to earn how to sympa-
thize and to serve. Our own day
needs interpreters of the highest ex-
periences of our fellows: alas that so
nue. contemporary literature is cyni-
/ cal n shallow and smart" and
frankly materialistic. Well cries
N;ehardt:
Out of the great wise silence brood
ing n latent SO long,
Burst on the world. O Master-sins
us the big nnan-sOng,
Full of the echoes of battle souls
crying up from the dust.
Hungry We cried to our singers-Oul
singers have flung us a crust,
"Choked with the smoke Of the battle
staggering weary with blows,
We cried for a goblet of music; they
flung US the dew of a rose
"Gewgaw goblets they gave us. jew
eled and polished and fine,
And filled with the tears Of a weak
ling: Oh. God. for a gourd-ant
wine,
go big wise Lyric Master. you VIII
= have seen us build.
: Moulding the mud with our tears an
blood into the thing we willed-
Z soon shall your %brooding be ovel
the dream shall be ripened. an
4 T~hunderous out of the silence-hul
us the Song OF Men"
How to Treat an Enemy. &,
VIII leDavid was growing bisge
e and bigger, because Of his adventul
e Gus, difficult life. King Saul wa
IS dwarfing steadily into pettiness. Mea
e passions INDUCED make the SO,
mean. Hates arrows are boomer
= angS SmallneSS of spirit Shrivels tf
soul. So Saul. once great and nobl
y became morbid and maudlin. fiert
q and gusty anger alternating wit
cringing self-abnegation and syCopl
e ancy. His word was no longer
~ kings word, but a slaves, and h
1T own retainers failed to respect
y, obey him. No~clearer illustration ca
lie be found in all history of the tru'
l. that it is not the sceptre but the so
m that makes the king.
-. A frenzy of fear and jealousy al
hate drove Saul far and wide in pu
~ suit of David, as his spies broug
hin word. He held himself up
"a popular ridicule, as with an army
three thousand men he chased hith
90 and you even into the desert faS
nesses, after David and his little bal
"a of six hundre followers. The dr.
matte contrast between the two
we'll put in David's complaint, viii
is almost a aunt: After whom
10 the king Of ISrael come out? Aft
;, a dead dog? After a flea Real
"a the king should have been asham
81 of such ignoble vindictiveness.
no Twice David spared Saul's Ii
g Once he was in the unseen back OF
Nv cave tfalcSllne Is Il ldIlu VI caves
np when Saul lodged near the entran'
~ He cut off the lower part Of the kini
Is robe while Saul slept; and then, Wi
this evidence of his mercy in
ba hand. he called from a neighbori
ia hillside and asked the king why
elf should hunt him as a wild amin
at A coarser nature than Davids wol
or have slain the enemy and ended I
-er pursuit. But DaNlu iao " iui'
mentally reverent spirit. and he
,ul specteo 'he III o1 anoih'ihs We"
had made Saul Jehovah'S man.
would not lay hands on the Lor
rlv anOinted.
nm This Cienency made the X
nd ashamed of himself for the nome
rv and he made aud promises
David. But the latter. who +
nd learned not to put his trust
,ok princes. still kept safely out OF Sa;