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REV. DR. TALMAGE.
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The Brooklyn vine’s Sun-
day Sermon.
Subject : “What Trouble is For”
The Rev. T. Da Witt Talmage, D. ID,
preachsd to an overflowing congregation ub
the Brooklyn Academy of Music
Batore preaching he said that a mistaken
aotion was abroad that the insurance on his
destroyed church was enough to rebuild. The |
repetition of disasters left us in debt. Wa
huve practically built three churches since T |
same to Brooklyn. First, the eriginal Taber« |
ascle. Soon after that we made an enlarges
ment that cost almost as much as a church.
A few vears after it all burned. Then we |
put up the buikling recently destroyed, and |
rearad it in a time when the wholes country
was in its worst financial distress.
ft was these repeated disasters that
left us in dabt My congregation have |
done magnificently, but any church would be
im dent alter so many calamities, Now for
the first timo we ars out of debt But we
asad at least one hundred thousand dollars to
build & church large enough, and we call |
on psople of all cresds and all lands to help.
Belore I help dedicate a new church wa must |
have every dollar of it paid. 1 will never
again be pastor of a church in debt It has
erippied us in all our movements, and |
shall never again wear the shackles. I have |
for the Inst sixtesn years preached to
about 353000 people sitting and stand
ing, twice a Sabbath, but everybody knows
that we need a placa that will hold 5000 I |
shall not be surprised if some man of wealth
shall say: “Here are a $100,000 if you will |
put up & memorial structure, and call it after
the name of my departed father or child |
whos memory I want put before all nations
and for all time." and so it will be done.
Text: “God shall wipe away all
from their eyes.” —Rav. vii, 17. |
Riding scross a western prairie, wild |
flowers up to the hub of the carriage wheel,
and while a long distance from any shelter,
there came a sudden shower, and while the
rain was falling in torrents, the sun was
shining as brightly as I ever saw it shine;
and I thought what a beautiful spectacle |
this is! So the tears of the Bible are
not midnight storm, but rain on pansied
prairies in God's sweet and golden sunlight.
‘ou remember that bottle which David |
.absled as containing tears, and Mary's
tears, and Paul's tears, and Christ's |
‘ears, and the harvest of joy that is to |
toring from the sowing of tears. God
pixes them. God rounds them. God shows
i. em where to fall. God exhales them. A
©¢ us is taken of them and thers is a record
as Yo the moment when they are born, and
as |) the place of their grave. Toars of bad
mea are not kept. Alexander, in his sorrow,
bad the hair clippsd from his horses and
mule, and made a great ado about his grief;
but fu all the vases of heaven there is not one
of Alexander's tears. 1 speak of the tears of
de good. Alas! me! they are falling all the
Funs. In summer, you sometimes hear the
yrowling thunder, and you see there is a
storm miles away; but you know from the
drift of the clouds that it will not come any
where near you. So, though it may be all
bright around us, there is a shower of trouble
somewhere all the time. Tears! Tears!
What is the use of thers anyhow? Why
no. substitute laughter? Why not make this
a world where all the people are well and
eternal strangers to pain and aches’ What
is the use of an eastern storm when we might
\ave a perpetual nor'wester? Why, when a
amily put together, not have them all
stay, or if they must be transplanted to make
other homes, then have them all live? the fam-
ily record telling a story of marriages and
births, but of no deaths. Why not have the
harvests chase each other without
fatiguing toil? Why hard pillow, |
the hard crust the hard struggle!
It is easy enough to explain a smile or a
sucossd, or a congratulation: but, cote now,
and bring all your dictionaries and all your
pitilossplies and all your religions, and halp
me expisin a tear. A chemist will tell you
that it is made up of salt and lime and other
component parts; but he misses the chief
isgredients—the acid of a soured life, the
viperine sting of a bitter memory, the frag
ments of a broken heart. I will tell you
what a tear is: it is agony in solution
Hear me, then, while 1 discourse to you of
the uses of trouble
First—It is the design of trouble to keep
this world from being too attractive Some.
thing must be dons to make us willing to
quit this existence. If it were not for trouble
tis world would be a ugh heaven
for me, You and I would be willing to take
a lease of this life for a hundred million years
if there wors no trouble. The earth cush-
ioned and upholstered and pillared and chan-
deliered with such expense, no story of other
worlds codld enchant us. We would say
“let well enough alone. If you want
to die and have your body disintegrated in
the dust, and your soul goout on a celestial
adventure, then you can go; but this world
is good enough for me.” You might as well
£0 to a man who has just entered the Louvre
at Paris, and tell him to hasten off to the
picture galleries of Venice or Florence
“Why,” he would say, “what is the use of
my going there? There are Rembrandts and
Rubens and Rapbaels here that I haven't
looked at yet.”
No man wants to go out of this world, or
out of any house, until he has a better house.
To cure this wish to stay here, God must
somehow create a disgust for our surround-
ings. How shall He do it? He cannot afford
to deface His horizon, or to tear off a flery
panei from the sunset, or to subtract an an-
ther from the watey lily, or to banish the
ngent aroma from the mignonette, or to
g the robes of the morning in the mire
You cannot expect a Christopher Wren to
mar his own St. Paul's cathedral or a Mich-
asl Angelo to dash out his own “Last
Judgment.” or a Handel to discord his ‘Israel
in Egypt,” and you dannot expect God to
spoil the architecture and music of His own
world. How then are we to be made willing
to leave? Here is where trouble comes in.
After a man has had a good deal of trouble,
he says: “Well, I am ready to go. If there
is a house somewhere whose roof doesn’t leak,
¥ would like to live there. If there ican at
mosphere somewhere that does not distress |
o lungs, I would Hke to breathe it. If there
is asocinty somewhere wheres there is no tittle
tattle, I would like to live there
there is a home circle somewhers where |
ean find my Jost friends |
would like to go there” He used to read
of the Bible chiefly, now he |
the last part of the Bible chiefly Why |
s changed Genesis for Revelation? Ab! |
to be anxious chiefly to know how |
world was made, end about ite geo |
construction. Now he Is chiefly anx- |
’ ow the next world was made, |
it looks, and who live there and |
dress. He reads Revelation ten |
iste he reads Genesis once. The |
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and the earth” does not thrill |
much as the other story, |
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fiouse. Lt is the ministry of troubles to make
this world worth less and heaven worth
mora,
Again, it is the use of trouble to make us
feel our complete dependence upon God.
ent at the creation he could have made a bet-
ter world than this. What a pity ha was not
present !
until God shows them they do noth-
We lay our great plans and we
fi Tooks big.
As Prometheus
had threatened his death, and he got well
pendence upon God until we get trouble, 1
was riding with my little child along the
road, and she asked if she might drive. I
“Certainly.”
I hauded over the reins to her, and I bad to
turnout. The road was narrow, and it was
sheer down on both sides. She handed the
reins over to me, and said: “I think you had
better take charge of the horse.” 8So we are
all children: and on this road of life we like
to drive. It gives one such an appearance of
superiority and power. It looks big. But
after a while we meet some obstacle, and we
have to turn out, and the road is narrow,
and it is sheer down on both sides; and then
we are willing that God should take the
yoins and drive. Ah! my friends, we get up-
sot 50 often bacause wa do not hand over the
reins soon enough
Can you not tell when you hear a man
ray, whether he has aver had any trouble?
can. The cadence, the phraseology indicate
it. Why do women pray better than men!
Because they bave had mores trouble. Be.
fore a man has had any trouble, his pravers
are poetic, and he begins away up among the
sun, moon and stars, and gives the Lord a
must be highly gratifying. He then comes
sy g yng
rover and aver, amen But af
had trouble, prayer is with
him a taking hold of the arm of God and ery-
ing out for help. I have heard sarnest pray-
ers on two or three occasions that I remem-
ber,
Unce, on the Cincinnati express
going at forty miles the hour,
train jumped the track, and we were
near a chasm eighty feet deep; and the
men who, a few minutes before, had been
swearing and blaspheming God, began to
pull and jerk at the bel rope, and got
up on the backs of the seats and cried
out: “0 God saveus™ There was another
tims, about sight hundred miles out at sea,
on a foundering steamer, after the last
lifeboat had been split finer than kindling
wood. They pny then. Why is it you
50 often hear peopls, in reciting the last ex-
perience of some friend, say: "He made the
most beautiful prayer [ ever hoard? What
makes it beautiful’ It is the earnestness of
it. Oh, I tall you a man is in earnest when
his stripped and naked soul wades out inthe
soundless, shoreless bottomless ocean of
eternity.
It is trouble, my friends that makes us feel
our dependence upon God. We do not know
our own weakness or God's strength until
the last plank breaks. It is contemptible in
us when there is nothing else to take hold of,
that we catch holdof Go wmly. A mans
unfortunate in business. ie has to raise a
eat deal of money, and raise it quickly
fi. borrows on word and note all he can bor-
row. After a while he puts a mortgage on
his houses, After a w uta a second
mortgage on his house. Then i puts a lien
on his furniture. Then he makes over his
life insurance. Then he assigns all his prop-
erty. Then he goss to his father-in-law and
asks for help
Well, having failed everywhere com-
pletaly failed, he gots down on his knees and
says: ‘O Lord, I have tried everybody and
everything, now help me out of this finan
wial trouble.” He makes God the last resort
instead of the first resort. There are men
who bave paid ten cents om a dollar who
could have paid a hundred coats on a do
if they had gone to God in time. Why, you
do not know who the [ordis He is not an
autocrat seated farup in a palaces, from
which He smerges once a year, preosded by
heralds swis swords clear the way
No, Buta willing, at our call to
stand by us inevery crisis and predicament
of life
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make me t
from home
with his
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out man goes off
fortune He wi
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wealth; but be wants to make
He goes far away, falls
MOONY He ssnds for the
i Kooper where he is starving, asking
roe, and the answer he gets is: “If you
y¥ up Saturday night you'll be re
moved to the hospital” The young man
sends to a comrade in the same building N
help. He writes to 8 banker who was »
friend of his deosased father No relief. He
writes to ar 1 schoolinate, but gets no help
Saturday night comes and be is removed
the hospital
Getting there, he is frenzied with grief: and
he borrows a sheet of paper and a postage
stamp, and be sits down, and he writes home,
saying: “Dear mother, I am sick unto death
Come.” It is ten minutes of 10 o'clock when
she gots the letter At clock the trairs
starts. She ix five minutes from the depot
She gets there in time to have five minutes &
spare. She wonders why a train that can ge
thirty miles an hour cannot go sixty miles an
hour. Bhe rushes into the hospital. She says
“My son, what does all this mean® Why didn’t
you send for me? You sent to everybody but
me, You knew [ could and would help you
Is this the reward I get for my kindoess to
ou always™ She bundles him up, takes him
ome, and gets hin well very soon
Now, some of you treat God just as that
young man treated his mother. When you
t into a financial perplexity, you call on the
nker, you call on broker, you eall on your
creditors, you eall on your lawyer for legal
pounsel; you call upon everybody, sand when
you cannot get any help, then you go to God
fou say: ‘UO Lord 1 come to Thee, Help
me now out of my perplexity.” And the
Lord comes, though it is the eleventh hour
He says: "Why did you not send for Me
before? As one whom his mother comforteth,
so will I comfort you." It is to throw us back
upon an all comforting God that we bave
this ministry of tears
| Again, it is the use of trouble to capacitate
us for the office of sympathy. The priests
under the old dispensation, were set apart by
having water nkled on their hands, feet
and bead; and by the sprinkling of tears
ipeopie are now set apart to the office of
i" mpathy. When we are in prosperity we
like to ve a great many young people
around ns, and we laugh when they ah,
when they romp, and we sing
ng: but when we have trouble
plenty of old folks around. Why?
now Ror to talk. Take an
seventy yoars of age, and she js al-
most omnipotent in comfort. Why? She
has bean through it all. At 7 o'clock in the
morning she goes over to comfort & young
mother who has just lost her babe,
nows all about that trou.
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{ although you may have heen men and women
thirty. forty, fifty vears of age, you lny on
the coffin Hd and sobbed as though you were
only five or ten years of age. O man, praise
God if you have in your memory the picture
of an honest, sympathetic, kind, self sacrific.
ing, Christ-like mother. Oh, it takes these Jee.
nle who have had trouble to comfort others
in trouble. Where did Paul get the ink with
which to write his comforting epistie? Where
ret the ink to
They
man
Paalms? Where did John
write his comforting Revelation?
When a
| it out of their own tears. ns
4 course of dungeons and imprisonments and
shipwrecks, he is qualified for
{iymopathy.
‘he subject of trouble were all
lami-blank verse: but God knocked the blank
put that I cannot comfort
inyself have been trouble
Lhe son of consolation to the people,
God make me
1 would
{urbed spirit to-day, than to play a tune that
lance, 1am a herb doctor. 1 put into the
valdron the Root out of dry ground without
form or comeliness,. Then 1 put in
Rose of Sharon and the
if the Valley, Then 1 put
she caldron some of the leaves from the Tree
Uf Life and the Branch that was thrown into
the wilderness Marah, Then I pour in the
tears of Bethany and Golgotha: then I stir
them up. Thenl kindle under the caldrona
fire made of the wood of the cross and one
drop of that potion will cure the worst sick-
ness that ever afflicted a human soul. Mary
and Martha shall receive their Lazarus from
the tomb, The damsel shall rise
the darkness shall break the morning, and
Liod will wipe all tears from their eyes
You know on a well spread table the food
becomes more delicate at the last. I have
ted you to-day with the bread of consolation
OF INVEREST TO WOMEN.
Axnin Besanr, the Socialist, one of
the most discussed of English women,
whom half Loodon adores and the other
half shudders at as a dangerouselement
in society; an alien to state and creed,
is perhaps coming to New York this
winter. It is her present intention to
beginning per-
to a study of the
condition of American working women,
and to visit
‘ork and New England,
Kansas, observing the
are run
Besant
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ficials, Mrs,
Link, a labor pa
children, and the American tour has
been planned by her friends to avert a
of scene. Mrs, Besant is a sister-in-law
of Walter Besant, the novelist, Bince
her election to the School Board by
East London, which idolizes her, she
has directed the education of the little
people of the world’s metropolis while
nuch
Thore who are invited to
winter will
fis BOO.
this
Ba
yn the chalice of Heaven, Let the King's
cup bearers come in. Good morning, Hea-
Yen! “Oh.” says souse oritic in the audience,
“the Bible contradicts itself, It intimates
gain and again that thers are to be no tears
in heaven, and if there be no tears in heaven,
wow is it possible that God will wipe
any away” 1 answer, have you
whose sweet mouth, large eves
be beautiful
if
the next: and while she was laughing, you
paw the tears still on her face! And perhaps
You stopped her in the very midst of her reo
sumed oy and wiped off those delayed
tears, , 1 think, after the heav enly rap
“ures have coms upon us, there may be the
The last time
I saw her she
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msthetio style.
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convention of the
next April. Miss
tears are glittering in the light of the jasper
tien, God will wipe them away.
an do that,
Jesus had enough trial
sympathetic with all trial
wat verse in the Bible tells
“Jesus wept” The soar on the back
of either hand, the soar on the arch of
pither foot, the row of scars along the line of
the hair will kesp all heaven thinking
that great weeper Is just the
silence all earthly trouble, wipe
| all stains of earthly ief, Gentile! Why,
His step is softer than the step of the
dew. It will not be a tyrant bidding you to
hush up your crying. It will be a
who will take you on His left arm, His face
gleaming into yours, while with the soft tips
of the fingers of the right hand, He shall wipe
away all tears from your eyes. I have no
ticed when the children get hurt, and their
mother is away from home, they come to me
for comfort and sympathy: but 1 have no-
ticed that when the children hurt and
their mother ix at home, they go right past
me and to her; 1 am of no account
So. when the soul comes up into heaven «
of the wounds of this life, it will not stop Ww
look for Paul, or Moses, or David or John
These did very well once, but now the soul
shall rush past, orving: “Where ix Jesus?
Where is Jesus™ [| Lord, what a magui-
fiosnit thing to die if Thou shalt thus wipe
AWAY Our ears # 3 it wili take
some time to got en: the fruits
of God without one the fresh pastures
without : orchestra wilthou
one suapped string river }
without one torn bank; the soife
saffron of sunrise and sunset swall
the »ternal day that beams fron
countenance’
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heaven! How wrest
news there of & Christian's death
it ia howe. It is the difference between ain
barkation and coming port. Everything
depends upon which f the river you
stand when von hear of a Christian's ¢
If vou stand on this sides of the river you
mourn that they go if you stand
other side of the river you rejoice that they
ot Oh, the difference a funeral
on earth and a J in heaven hatween
requiem here and triumphial march there
mrting here and reunio
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there Together!
shit of it? They are togethe
aight of it are together
bw en { time of colo-
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and another in another land; but
in different rooms of the same house—the
house of many mansions. Together!
together,
pa when we laid away in her
ny sister Sarah
» cemetery, | looked around and said
' re is father, there is mother, there fs
grandfather, there is grandmother, there are
‘whole circles of kindred” and I thought to
myself: “Together in the grave together in
glory.” [am wo impressed with the thought
that I do not think itis any fanaticism when
some one is going from this world to the
pext if vou make them the bearer of dis
patches to your friends who are gone, say-
Ing: “Give my love to my parents give my
jove to my children, give my love to my old
comrades who are in glory, and tall them 1
am trying to fight the good fight of faith,
and I will join them after awhile.”
I believe the message will be delivered; and
§ believe it will increase the gladness of those
who are before the throne. Together are
thay, all their tears gone. No trouble getting
ood society for them All Kings, Queens,
E rhiomm, and Princesses, In 1751 there was a
bill offered in the English parliament
posing to change the almanac so that the 1st
of March should come 1mmmediately after the
15th of Februs But, oh, what a glorious
| change in the calendar when all the years of
your earthly existence are swallowed up in
the eternal year of God!
And, my friends, if we could only appre
ciate she loti that are to come, we would
with enthusinam that no power of
earth or hell could stagd before us; and at
our first shout the opposing foross would be
and at our second shout they
into
the promise of such a scheme by
ining personally the market
She will probably 5
industrial ontlook for women
ption. Miss Faithfull has hved
her return five years ago from her
wanderings in Colorado snd California
in an unpretending tenement le
pressing street of Plymouth Grove, one
of the least pretentious suburbs of Man-
Charlotte Hobinson, who
home art decorator by special appoint
ment to th :
and has
study whieh
for women's
abor. eak on the
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Jueen, Wer housemate,
carefull lanned the cozy
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and drawing Troon.
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mance,
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prineiples of
nest stage in the nds
wnt of hinmanity, ]
this country, and no part of it is believ
od by the author to be better supported
by the indications of probability tha
the implied prediction that the dawn o
the new era is already pear at hand an
day will swiftly
Does this seem at first incredible in
view of the vastness of the chan
supposed? “What is the teaching
history,” asks the author, “but that
great national transformations, while
ages of unnoticed preparation, when
inaugurated, are accomplished
with a rapidity and resistiess momen-
tam proportioned to their magnitude,
not limited by it.”
low,
Of
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A Photogranhic Neat.
photography on record is the photo-
graphing the terrible es
werp, or, if not the eon the im.
moment. The curreat
like an inverted Flo ence flask, when
the explosion occurrod. It has been
estimated as being 1700 or 1800 feet
across and, according to the journal
quoted, the cloud remaived motionless
for about a quarter of an hour, pre-
serving the form reccrded by the pho-
ah. It seem: vory remarkable
that just at the instant some one should
have been ready with camera and plate,
and quick whitted enough, notwith-
standing the shock, to secure the view
in time. The author of the negative is
iven ns M. L. Van Neck. British
Journal of Photography.
“What
Do yon
Tr was Foxxy.--Burglat:
aro you langhing at, you fool?
see this gun?”
Awakened farmer: “I was laughing
to see you hunt in the dark for the
money 1 ean't find io broad daylight.”
To wxrror a man to be as much of
a man without a wife as with one, is
just as reasonable as to expect a
finished house to be as beautiful as a
finished one,
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SUNDAY SCHOOL LESSON, |
Buspar Novesuun 10, 1953,
David's Grief for Absalom.
LESSON TEXT.
@ Bam. 18 : 18-83. Memory verses, 32, 53.)
LESSON PLAN.
Toric or THE QUARTER ;
and Adversity.
Gorpes Text voi THE QUARTER. As |
long as he sought the Lord, God made |
him to prosper.—2 Chron, 26 : b.
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Lessos Toric : The Bitterness of
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1
A Wicked Son's End, vs, |
A Loving Father's Dis
tress, va, 24-90
3. A Bereaved Father's Bit
terness, vs, 41-8.
LESSON OUTLINE: 4
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Gorpex Texr: A foolish son is a
PAR
that bare him.—Prov. 17 : 2
Damy Hove BEApINGS ©
M.--2 Bam. 18 : 18.33
ness of parental grief,
2 8am. 17 : 1-14. Con
ting against Absalom.
W.—2 Sam. 17 15-29,
peril.
T. 2 Bam. 18
final battle.
19
urn desired
14
urn welecon
<2 Sam.
T.
: 3-11.
- Sam
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24
Crance,
LESSON ANALYSIS,
I. A
I. His Name Cut Off:
I have no
membrance (18),
Unto Absalom t
ns (2 Sam. 14
hast blotted
Pea, 9
his posterity be cut
13).
The name of the wicked shall rot (Prov.
13 = 73
His Crimes Punished :
The rd bath avenged
% {19
wl SON'S EXD.
RED
a
Th
ever and ever
u
off (Psa. 100
Ener ie
He will aveng:
ants (Dent
aven
mpense, saith the Lord
fil, His Death
5 he k
Behold
Assured:
on is dead
Absalom
i 1
i. Waiting In Anxiety:
Now David
RG VATHED
i 3
di Deitweon
Hoping Against Mope:
He is a good man }
wl tidings (27
He looked
land went up (Ges
Hope deferred mas
rov. 13: 12).
Nevertheless the men rowed hard to get
them back Jonah 1: 13).
Who in hope believed against hope
{ Rom. 4: 18).
111. Burdened for Absalom:
I= it well with the
lom?
Deal gently for my sake with the young
man (2 Sam
Beware that none touch the
Absalom (2 18: 12)
Like ns a father pitieth has children, so
the Lord (Psa. 103: 13).
His father saw him and was moved with
compassion (Luke 15: 20),
1. “David sat between the two gates.”
{13 The ansions king; (2) The ex
pectant attitude; (3) The painful
ontocome
. “All is well”
from Ahimaaz: (2) Sorrow for the
king. (1) Good for Israel; (2) Woe
for David.
3. “Is it well with
Absalom?"
(2) Bupreme. concern.--{1)
venerable king; (2) The rebellious
youth; (3) The deep concern.
117. A BEREAVED FATHER'S BITTERNESS,
I. The Sad Story:
All that rise up againstthee,.... be as
, RNG
rom
the heart sick
young man Absa
2
n 18: 5)
nH young man
’
Sam
a
LE
the
Sanl and Jonathan his son are dead (2
Sam. 1: 4).
It fell upon the young men, and they
were dead (Job 1: 19),
Thy daughter is dead (Mark 5:35).
Lazarus is dead (John 11: 14).
11. The Bitter Tears:
The king was much moved,....and
wopt (33).
Mine eye poureth out tears (Job 16:
20).
1 aan my couch with my tears (Psa.
: 6).
Brive eyou a fountain of tears (Jer. 6:
3.
Rahel weeping for her children (Matt,
: 18),
111. The Woful Lament:
(ould God 1 bed Sind for Shee! 39.
1 ot me, 1 ee, oul o
book (Exod. 82: 82). Hy
The king covered his face, and. . . cried
with a loud voice (2 Sam. 19; 4),
Lover and friend hast thou
from me (Pea, 88: 18),
My God, my God, why hast thou for-
saken me? (Matt. 27: 40).
1, “Tidings for my lord the xing,
(1) The messenger; (2) The king;
(3) The message.
2. “The enemies of my lord the king
be as that young man is.” (1)
The young man's condition; (2) The
Cushite's prayer {1} A report im-
plied; (2) A desire expressed.
8. “Would God | haddi ed for thee!”
{1, The bereaved king; (2) The
overwhelming grief; (3) The will-
np sacrifice.
put far
id
LESSON BIBLE READING,
YOUNG MEN,
’
13, 14).
a9
4).
(Gen
32 ; Zech.
soldiers 14
22 : 2 Bam 15).
As messengers (Exod, 24 + 5 ; Num. 11:
« Acts 23 : 16, 17).
<8 .
oF a 8
4
1:24 ; 1 Ban
18
27
Prosper by industry
Way
Titus 2 : 6).
Should praise God (Psa. 148
LESSON SURROUNDINGS
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withdraws from J
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him.
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vites:
same tine
from the eit}
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son of hithophel, 1 prays that
nt to nought.
pount he meets
1d desires him to
{ Ahit-
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provisions.
order 0
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4. 3
uniain, he
Belving his
HAVIN U8
David the
himei: assails the
salem, prob-
receives Hushal,
Ahithoj
bhorrent
hithophel
hel,
3 } | § w
fhe puiar refiex
: :.%
8 Unie
a ister
between
date.
Mahanaim
bearing the
battle was fought
the Jordan, in a forest
name of Ephraim, The of
Mahanaim is disputed, but it was south
of the brook Jabbok (Gen. 32:1, 2),
probably in the territory of God. David
was between the inner and
of the city, looking toward
field
Time, —A few months, or possibly a
few weeks, after the last lesson; that is,
probably about B. C. 1023 or 1025,
Persoss. Absalom, Ahimaaz
the son of Zadak, the Cushite (Auth
Ver,, *“Cushi”) or Ethiopian, the watch-
man of Mahanaim, David.
Iscroests, — Absalom erects a mem-
orial pillar, Ahimaaz desires to carry
tidings of the victory to David; Joab
anda
exact sit
outer gate
the battie-
Joab,
mission to follow, and out-runs the
i
tells the king. He then discovers the
second runner; he recognizes Ahimaaz,
who comes and tells of the victory,
equivoeating when asked about Absa-
Jom: the Cushite comes, and tells, when
asked, in courtly language, that Absa-
Jom is dead; the king wails for Absa
lom.
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