Omaha daily bee., 1915-10-09


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hid himself among the stuff"
Il Is with some reluctance speak !
about how a man failed. I would much I
rather tell you OF some signal success in
life. but sometimes the study OF failure
Is more fruitful than the study Of oon-
quest.
l am speaking tonight with the hope
that whero Saul went wrong you'll so
right 90 that when you are called TO
be king or queen OF that inner kingdom
Of men and Of women you may be one OF
Gods noblemen, and come to your coro-
nation. not like Saul allowing the STUFF
OF the word to cover up kingliness and
queenliness.
II arouses ones contempt 60 see q big
man, q man born for big things, doing
small. mean. contemplate things. There
are some things we can almost excuse
IN a little. weak. puny, weazened man.
that would be an objectionable sin for
a big man.
We can forgive zaccheus for climbing
a tree in order to catch a glimpse OF
Jesus. but we cannot forgive Saul for
crawling into a hole and pulling the
camp luggage In after him. Before We
get him out, now that we know where
CFirst) do not like his ancestry. Hts
father was a man OF wealth and OF
power He ard his son had no thought
about things which counted most in life;
they were too busy breeding asses to
think much about the hope OF Israel
and who the God that made the nation
was.
In all the years that Samuel ruled the
nation and stood as Gods representative.
Saul never heard Of him. didn't know
him. had never met him. Kish, Saul's
father never said, Come. my son. the
Lords prophet is to pass. let US listen
TO his words. hear his judgments"
busy on Farm.
No; Kish was too busy with his stock
farm. He never went to church on Sun
day; that was the day he looked over
the stock. He cared more for his farm
stock than for Gods tabernacle. Sunday
was q good time to plan and figure up,
but he never solved the problem what
shall II profit man II he gain the whole
world and lose his own soul?'
The descendants OF Kish are like many
who live on the streets In this and every
other town, too busy six days a week
Co think OF souls. and on the seventh
they say. TOO tired to go to church
pipe, put on their slippers and sit down
idly by while people are going down
20 hell. They grow sodden and surfeited
by the mercies of God. they spurn Christ
and purity.
Oh. Klsh. breeder of asses. too busy to
go to church. let me show you a SON
passed over Gilboa. marked the place
where he fell a suicide. The Philist ines
cut off his head and nailed his body to
the wall.
Here is a young scion OF responsibility
staggering along with boisterous mates
blowing whiffs OF foul cigarette smoke
into the faces OF decency. Somewhere
there's a mothers hair whitening with
grief over a wayward son. but he hai
had taste OF helIs poisonous broth. hi.
blood is tingling with the virus of damna
tion. with which he has been lnoculateC
in the cesspools OF shame; to him
mothers love, to him a fathers hope.
sisters tears are as nothing He hai
passed the rubicon OF virtue. and the
bridge has been burned behind him.
OJd-FRshioned Mothers VaniShlnE
There goes fallen angel. once the pure
beloved idol Of happy home: out OF hei
eyes vanished gentle modesty. once hei
sweetest charm. In It's place has come
look of bold intensity. glitterlng glare
which resembles the deadly gleam In th'
eyes of the sinuous snake as 1t coils q
strike its prey. -
She loved not wisely but too well
Cllnging hands could not stay the MAD
hight down the toboggan into hell
She mas thrown away all that was deaI
TO woman's pure ambition. The worl'
knows her only as one to avoid. Re
spectabiity pulls It's garments aside a
she passes. Her gaudy rsiment and se
ductive glances attract none but the de
praved.
Ny hope and prayer Is that some OF tn
fathers and mothers who may be listen
Ing to me tonight will not live to rea'
the black headlines which will tell o
the shame OF children whose bodies the.
have nourished. but whose souls hav
been starved in their own parlors Thanl
God there are stlll few old-fashione
mothers left. but. like the veterans of tn
civil war. they are becoming q vanishin
remnant.
Saul was called to a crown. but wa
found hidden among the stuff You ma
say the reason he hid is because he wa
so modest. Perhaps that may be, bu
it's an awful thing for a man to be a
face with the duties and hardships {
this life.
can tell you what your life Is goin
70 be by the way you start When v
have to do common things is when ii
yellow shows in you, II you have stres
of IT,
Judging Saul by his after life. a
compelled to view his act az that of
man shirlins from ton, because 1t wa
strenuous and difficult. II was not
breakfast job to be king OF Israel.
was almost as big a task as being pres
dent OF Mexico.
There are mountains 10 climb. the
are hills and precipices. cataracts. ca
erns and pitfalls and slime pits all aIoT
the way. but 1t ls also true there q
shady valleys. cory hooks. gardens
flowers and days radiant with the sui
light. There will be storms and cloud
there will be days when the cares al
sorrows will press heavily and slmo
crush us into the grave there are steel
70 climb II we ever reach the pinnac
of success; there are streams TO ford
We would grasp the crown Of victory.