The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1922-05-29

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aisle, and inside of twelve months, /
one hundred thousand people in I
that section of the country swept 1
into the kingdom of God. All by \
influence.
still is singing and winging its way up
and down this earth, causing people
to forget their sorrow and their grief.
and think it has charmed away more
grief, dried more tears, and driven
away more sinful thought from the
hearts Of men and women, sent more
comfort into the great army of the
discouraged and the dissipated, and
think it has charmed more drunk
ards from their cups, more gamblers
from their cards, more prostitutes
from their lives of sin, more infidels
from their blatant infidehty, and as
such it is still singing and winging its
way up and down the earth, and it
will never cease until, in the provi-
ldence Of God, its mission is complete,
and 1t will turn and wing its flight
back again to the throne of God like
a tired dove and fold it's wings, to go
up and down the land no more.
Other Names
For Psalm.
Another man called 1t the Psalm Of
the Lark. Well, that's a mighty good
name, for that bird, they tell me, never
sings except when on the wing. q
don't mean our common lark, but our
English songbird). AS the bird
mounts higher, the song increases in
sweetness.
Years ago in Detroit a man re-
ceived a cablegram to go over to Lon
don, to hurry to see his mother, who
was very i'll. He jumped on the
steamer in New York and hurried over
| to London, and three days after his
arrival she died. They carried the
body to the cemetery. They had the
grave near a cluster of shrubbery, and
as they were lowering the body, out
from it burst a bevy of larks, and they
started to circle round and round and
as they did, they began to sing; and
he said they forgot their sorrow and
grief and the occasion of their visit
to the cemetery, and they threw their
heads back and gazed off into the il
limitable space and watched the birds
as they mounted higher, and after they
q had passed the point of vision, they
Lstood with their hands behind their
S ears, straining to catch the sweet song
9 that fell upon their ears.
There are men and women today
! who stand by the graves where they
!, buried their ambition, their hopes and
= virtue, and buried the things that are
y noble But there can be a resurrec
: ton through the song that will cheer
= and inspire.
5000 Years
, Have Passed.
: Three thousand years ago he wrote
these words. We are positive tina
=, David wrote It, and that he wrote
seventy-two other psalms that beal
= his name. I remember hearing Johr
/ Mcneil say that he thought if David
hadn't written that Psalm, he mus
Il have written 1t, for it was perfec
counterpart Of Gods dealings will
- him.
;, After you have read the pselm, yol
:, say, there is man who was subjec
- to all the passions that were, ant
:, therefore you feel that somebody i
> more in sympathy with you than ever
- because there is a man that passet
= through the various experiences t
" which human flesh is heir He ma
have written it when youth, watch
a ing the sheep He may have write
= it as a song to sing for old King Sau
- and | have often tried to imagine tn
- sweet singer of Israel, David, with hi
ruddy cheeks, standing before this oil
- grouchy Saul, singing his psalm
u = and many of the psalms were write
- and sung as songs in the temple
have tried to imagine hearing Davi
~ put the emphasis on the personal pre-
:, nouns. for this psalm had been forge
- on the anvil of experience.
~ Some fellows, when they give thei
- experience, stand up and pull thei
! = bird-tail whiskers, clear their throa
g and say, We'll, forty years ago
:" started, brethren, on this good oil
way" Yes, and he hasn't gotten thre
miles from where he started
David wrote this psalm and the
- sang it as a song:
G ;e 1.-THE Lord is MY Shepherd; | sha
>, not want.
!: "He maketh ME- to lie down in gree
Is pastures: He leadeth NE beside tn
of still waters"
~ That was forged on the anvil or e.
AZ perience. And when he was singin
that song. he was only telling in me
~ ody what God had done for his sou
~ Has
% Shepherds Room.
a. | read the other day Of the Persia
~ monarch, who had been elevated
his high position from very humb
:. surroundings, and as Kipling say
- Lest we forget" he had in the pa
- ace what was known as the "She
~ herds Room" and in that room /
~ had reproduced every hill and vale
~ ~ rock and tree and water course, ju
~ as he had known them when a Ia
~ herding his sheep and leading tt
sheep to Craze in the pasture. Ar
al he used to go into that room and 6
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