The farmer and mechanic., 1915-06-08
r,ltN \ KING FOUND HIS SONG.
M International Sunday School Les
son for June 18th is The Blessed
of forgiveness" 81
BY William L. Ellis. }

Ia some matters we bow to our
n, ,unus modernity; hut in all fun
Ia fnentals of life we know that there |
lis 40 change. Essentials OF life re-
main IS they were milleniums ago. |
\Eha was most important in the |
dt,s Of King David is still most i'm
paftant today. Three thousand years
| b4y. passed since King David sat on
h, throne in splendor. and in that
dst his supreme concern was his re-
| laton with Jehovah. Spiritual val
ue.s were placed higher than all ma
tpelal interests. The profoundest ut
t.r,nces Of David had to do with the
state If the human soul. Spiritual
peace concerned him more than mill
ttry glory
Ah. but that was long ago" says
/ spur up-to-date youngSter These
modern days are more practical" Not
hlt Of it, my boy. Look deeply
enough into life and you will find
tn. things which matter today are
~. same things which mattered in
th- days Of Noah. Let me tell you
twp stories to illustrate my points
The first was told me by a good
friend with whom | lunched at the
tnion League Club on Fifth avenue
iu New York. My friend had named
and cold and relentless in all his
transactions, a veritable mOney-mak-
ius machine. One day last Febru-
ary ne was going along Fifth avenue
when he hailed my friend, saying,
Look here. You are the very man
want to see. | want to talk with
somebody | was over in Philadel-
phis the other day. and I went to
| hear that man Billy Sunday. /
thought 1 was past all emotionalism,
| but Sunday stirred depths in me that
| ! didn't know existed The spiritual
emotions that l have experienced as a
young man came flooding over me
again. | confess to you that l Wep1
a. listened to him. Can it be thai
this man of millions, whose time was
81 precious. was spending daylight
hours and sitting on A board bencf
listening to an untutored preacher
tatk about sin and forgiveness ant
the love Of Christ? All. my friend
| there are many men Of might am
money who would give their last dol
lar to know the secret Of peace whicl
the Gospel prOctaimS.
When the Millionaire Wept.
Here ia another story, and it, toe
is related to Billy Sunday. 1t wa
told me by one millionaire concern
ing another. l had seen them bot
at the Billy Sunday tabernacle i
Philadelphia while the preacher wa
swaying multitude. The crow
was moved nightly by him; bu
then, says the critics, they were onl
the gullible masses. Yet these tw
miilionaires have such a standin
that there is no business man
America who would not admit the
practical shrewdness and modern e
| ficiency. Both are power in tf
national life.
The older. himself an active Chri
n faxxy
never saw x so affected as he VIZ
that night Tears ran down his fac
lie was touched to his deepest hea
by that simple message. After tt
meeting he went with me to II
home and we talked for long whi
about the sermon, and about faith
Christ and about what it means
Spiritual peace is still the supren
concern Of mankind. There are u
numbered lives today, which GU
wardly seem brilliant and prospero
and favored, which neverthele
carry breaking hearts because of t
spiritual unrest and consciousness
unforgiven sin. Verify nothing el
cunts but being right with &c
That alone is real success. Mans
lAtion with his Maker is the o
theme worth agonizing over as kl
David agonized and wept over 1t
THIS Thrty-second Psalm.
The Master of Music.
There is a piano in a certain hon
which is a good piano according
market standards. but for the fam
1t had never produced any great m
sir The baby thrummed on it,
the boys played mechanically
bored tunes Occasionally que
would perform conventionally UP
II Then one day there came to VI
that home a real master of music
great performer Then followed
revelation of the possibilities or
piano. IL seemed as if the t1ood-Sa
az harmonV were opened. The Wn
room was transformed. The inst
utnt itself seemed new Great
after ouce the master touch had b.
upon its keys
All the while the music was tn
"tth,n the piano. 1t only needed
tu3al hand In bring il forth. -