The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1917-08-03
The international Sunday school
Lesson for Aug. II 10 "Josiah's
Good Relsn."-il Chron. Sails.
~ WILLIAM 7. ELLIS

Like all other wars. the present is
being fought by young men. An old
er authority than Or. osler says:
Young men for war" and II Was a
ripe oil oman whose inspired pen
wrote TO young men because you
are strong" With age comes eau
ton and conservatism; there Is
something victorious In the very ma
ture OF youths impetuous, Needless
and dauntless courage. Heady and
inconsiderate the young man may be
and bound TO get many a bump from
the stones OF experience; but, after
all, he brings things 10 pass The
one virtue OF the enthusiast. FOR
which we forgive him many faults.
Is that he really achieves.
Anything is preferable 10 the dead
ly somnOlence OF the stand patter"
who sits down amid greatest evils
and helplessly inquiries: Well,
what can you do about TT" and then
endeavors 20 get all the profit pos
sible out OF the situation for him
self The call 20 the deepest and
noblest in human nature which has
millions is hailed by many AZ "A de-
liverance from this soul-deadening
self-interest. Better for a glorious
fling az the great adventure OF life
than a dull and dreary promngation
OF mere existence as cautious.
thrifty. prudential time-server
There Is considerable analogy be-
tween the situation I'm the world OF
our time and the conditions which
young King Josiah successfully con-
fronfed In both cases, tremendous
and long entrenched evils seemed 10
defy opposition. but the high-souled
heralds OF truth persisted in seem
ingly quixotic course, and today the
high places are being hewn down
and false idols and standards are
topping, even az in Josiah's time.
This Is the iconoclastic wax II IL
ehattering idols that have been wor.
SHIPPED for ages. Were IL not for the
general conviction that new and
better order OF existence Ia being
ushered in. few OF US would have
heart for the struggle
The Son Of His Remote Ancestor
Shining deeds on the part OF tn"
boy king were a reversion 10 an
older type. His own father had
been bad, his grandfather Manas-
sch, save for brief period OF re.
pentance AZ the end ot his life. had
been worse. Yet Josiah walked in
the ways Of David his father"
There ir so much good in the worst
OF us" thai We every one OF us have
light and power and inherited ten
denotes enough 20 be vastly better
than we are Baby Johns profile
sets aunts and uncles 10 exclaiming
over his startling resemblance to
Grandfather Baker But there Ia a
trick OF raising his right eyebrow
which came TO him straight from
Grandfather Sharp He shares With
Uncle Frank a peculiar way OF Alb
sently holding on to his left ear He
had my fathers forehead" exclain-
ed Grandmother Sharp. Bahy's faith
er Gees that he has ravishinE way
OF making love with his eyes such "a
no other mortal except his mother
ever possessed-and 40 II goes.
Every one OF us IL a compound OF
al who have gone before
Untt personality and God enter
In: then the leading strings OF
heredity become weak and inefec-
tive. alongside OF the strong rope OF
VIII No Josiah is bound 10 60 his
fathers way ne may skip a David
in whose footsteps he may walk
The old Adam Il strong in his sons,
but the new Adam Ia stronger. All
OF Gods plans make provision for a
person following his noblest I'm
pulses and nature. We are truest
10 ourselves when we are truest 10
God. Josiah best represented the
royal line when he was most like
David.
The Preachers Part
Tho wonder r. that this youthful
king should so early revolt against
the idolatry and wickedness TO
which ne had fallen heir IA Judah's
king but the wonder abates when
we recall that man is made by his
/, friends Kingsley's wise explanation
OF all that he had done or become
was sufficient: II had a friend .
Josiah was surrounded by many
forms OF evil and evil counselors;
but there was also In the land no
BILE company Of prophets OF the llv-
ing God 10 whom his heart warmed