Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-06-11
MILITARY GLORY DID
NOT Crafty DAVID
Spiritual Peace Concerned Him
More Than War Victories;
"The Blessed Forgiveness"
The International Sunday School Les
son For June Is Is 1.-THE Blessed
of ForgiveneSs."-Psalm 80.
(By William T. Ellis)

In some matters we bow to our
mentals of life we know that there
is no change. Essentials of life re-
main as they were milleniums ago.
What was most important in the
days of King David is still most i'm
portant to-day. Three thousand years
have passed since King David sat on
his throne of ~splendor, n in that
day his supreme concern was his re-
lation with Jehovah. Spiritual values
were placed higher han all mate
rial interests. The ~profoundest ut
terances of David had to do with the
state of the human soul. Spiritual
peace concerned him more than mill
tary glory.
some up-to-date youngster. These
modern days are more practical" Not
a bit of it, my boy. Look deeply
enough into life and you will find
the things which matter to-day are
the same things which mattered in
two stories to illustrate my points.
The first was old me by a good
friend with whom l lunched at the
Union League Club in Fifth Avenue
in New York. My friend had named
a big business man. known as hard
and cold and relentless in all his
transactions, a veritable money-mak-
ing machine. One day last February
he was going along Fifth Avenue
when he hailed my friend, saying,
Look here. You are the very man
/ want to see. l want to talk with
somebody. 1 was over in Phiiadel-
phia the other day and I went to
hear hat man BILLY" Sunday. L
thought l was past all ~emotionalism,
but Sunday stirred depths in me that
! didn't know existed. The spiritual
emotions that I had experienced as a
young man came flooding over me
again. l confess to you that l wept
this man of millions whose time was
so precious, was spending daylight
hours n sitting on a board bench
listening to an untutored preacher
talk about sin and forgiveness and
the love of Christ? All, my friend,
money who would give their last dol
lar to know the secret of peace which
the Gospel proclaims.
When the Millionaire WcpJ
Here is another story, and it, too,
is related to Billy Sunday. 1t was
told me by n millionaire concern
ing another. / had seen them both
at the Billy" Sunday tabernacle In
Philadelphia while the preacher was
swaying a multitude. The crowd
was moved nightly by him; bur
then. say the critics, they were only
the gullible masses. Yet these two
have such a standing
that there is no businessman in
America who would not admit their
practical shrewdness and modern eff
hciency. Both are a power in the
national life.
The older, himself an active Chris
tian, said to me a few days later, "I
never saw x so affected as he was
that night. Tears ran down his face.
He was touched to his deepest heart
by that simple message. After the
meeting he went with me to my
home and we talked for a long while
about h sermon, and about faith in
Christ and about what ii means"
Spiritual peace is still the supreme
concern of mankind. There are I'M
numbered lives to-day, which out
wardly seem brilliant prosperous
and favored. which nevertheless
carry breaking hearts because of the
spiritual unrest and consciousness OF
unforgiven sin. Verify nothing else
counts but being right with God.
That alone is real success. Mans re-
lation with his Maker is the one
worth agonizing over, as King