Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1915-10-17
Billy" Sunday breaches Sermon
on the TOenty- Third Psalm

Psalm
Three thousands years have rolled into
history since David wrote IT,
The harp upon which he used 70 play
to charm King Saul in his melancholy
moods; the book Of the law out OF which
he read and from which he received his
Inspiration to do the win OF God; the
cling which he used to hurl 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 OF research. yet this
Psalm IL just a. inspiring TO me as the
day he wrote II.
LATHE children have lisped 1t at their
mothers side. Pilgrims. pushing their
way over roads hard and rough to travel
have received the inspiration. prisoners
in their cell have forgotten their chains
as they says
The Lord is my Shepherd"
Martyrs have gone to the stake and be-
came insensible to the pain. Old men
and women, young men and msidens.
have pillowed their heads upon His ON
nipotent. Interchangeable words and have
swept into glory to meet the Lord, whom
not having seen, they love.
A friend OF mine was preaching In
Illinois and was being entertained in the
lhoms Of q supersnnuatsd Baptist min
lister. and the old man lay dying.
They came in the morning and Awak-
ened my friend and asked II he would
come down.
He went and said, Good morning.
Father Chaplin, how are your
The old man would stare blankly and
say. II never saw you before; who are
your
My friend would tell him, and he would
say:
Psalm Awoke Dying Man.
'Oh. yes. how easily forget"
My friend would return at noon and
step to the bedside and ask the same
question:
How are you. Father Chaplin and
the old man would gaze and say:
How did you get in the house2 l
never saw you before"
My friend would tell him who he was,
and then he would smile and say:
Yes, I remember you."
One morning about 2 o'clock they came
to my friends room and raped and
said:
Hurry up. Mr.. Hauserl Come down.
Father Chaplin Is dying"
| He hurriedly dressed and rushed to the
bedside. The wife and children we're
standing by. The wife brushed the hair
from the old mans forehead, kissed him
and said:
Father, do you know me?"
The old man stared blankly and uttered
never word. Then his daughter Ruth
came. (She Ia married now and lives
| just across the street from where we
were holding meetings in Freeport, Il)
She came and said;
Father. do you know met" and he
looked and said:
who are your"
II am Ruth. your daughter Ruth"
The old man said:
mo, no, God never gave US a child
Their hearts were breaking. and my
friend bent low and said:
! Father Chaplin. do you know Jesus
Christ?'
! And at the mention of His name the
old man almost leaped from the bed. He
sat upright. looked about and said:
WHO said Jesus? Know Him?
preached His blessed gospel for forty
five years, and 10, though l walk through
the valley OF the shadow OF death
will fear no evil"
| 1 believe there are people today stand
ing by the grave, 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.
| pray God there will be a resurrection.
Some of you stand by the graves in
which your loved ones sleep. and yet the
song will be sweet to you, for the graves
will beautify on the resurrection morn
when sepulchers and tombs will crack
open like chestnut burrs, and you will
meet again those that have gone on be-
fore.
Christianity II the biggest asset YOU
ever looked at when II comes to COM
munity. sit down and take a Retrospective
view OF life. Think what a good-for-
nothing. Goddess, degenerate reprobate
you would be II 1t wasn't for Christian
ity Then don't sneer and scott at God.
sit down and review It little bit.
The position of the 23d Psalm is sig
nificant. II follows the ed. 1t follows the
Psalm of the cross. You have to roach
the point where you see Jesus crucified
on the cross for your sins, accept Him
as your Savior. before you can ever say:
THE Lord is my Shepherd"
God 10 the Shepherd Of none but those
that are Christians.
Then It is followed by the Ath Psalm.
That has been called the Psalm OF the
futures
Lift up your heads, o. ye gates; even
lift them up. ye everlasting doors; and
the King OF Glory shall come in"
So you see this one l am talking about
IS for you tonight.
want you to have the experience and
the only way to get that is to give your
heart to God and be Christian and then
you eLn say:
THE Lord Is my Shepherd"
The Lord is my Shepherd" The word
Lord" is printed In italics. II means
Jehovah"
So greatly did the Jews respect and
reverence God that the name Jehovah"
was pronounced only once a year and
that on the great Day OF Atonement. and
then only by the high priest after he had
gone into the holy Of HOLES, screened
and shielded By the blood OF the sacri-
flee.
II the Jews saw a piece of parchment
on the street they never would step on it
without STOPPING down and looking on
tho under side lest the name Jehovah"
be written there and by stepping on that