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A SCHOLARLY SUNDAY SERMON vY DR. S. EDWARD YOUNG. ubj9ct: Mountain Taught People. Brooklyn, N. Y.-Every, seat oi ZPAIn .floor and in the gallery was 1illed Sunday in the Bedford, Presby terjan Church, and chairs were placed In every available space to accommo date the large audiences that wished to hear the new pastor, the Rev. Dr. S. Edward Young. His subject was: 'Wanted---People . Taught on the Mountains of God to Toll in the Low lands of Sip." . The texts were from St. Luke 9:38, 37 and 88: "Master, it is good for.us to be here; and let us make three ta'bernacles. * * * When they were come down from the bill,. much people met -Him. Arid behold, a man of the company cried out, saying, 'Master, I beseech Thee, tookc upon my son.'" Dr. Young .said: Wanted---People taught on the mountains of dod to toll in the low lands of sin. Our beat training, our noblest service, is neither up th.ere altogether, nor down here altogether; but consists in uniting wisely the dreamer and the doer, the mystic and the practical man. -How many art reprints cut- Raphael's sermon in the middle by showing only the top ha)f of his "Transfigpration!" You may well extol the composition of that portion, its design, its expression, its grace. Above the adoring trio of disciples see that portraitur.e of Christ beyond which human genius probably cannot go. Yet witlf you 'ought to linger quite as persistently the scene Raphael crowds at the foot 4of the mount-,the pitiable lad, the agonized father, the eager multitude, the mockers and the sorely harried nine disciples-Raphael's way of writing underneath "The upper glory is needed down here." Let helpers come from the highland country. Oft times off the material hills men have dashed into earth's valleys for daring conquests. Their lungs had, the ozone and their limbs the litheness and their wills the boldness born of lofty altitudes. From Sinaltic plateau Moses will break into low-lying Egypt and redeem his race. From Tabor or Olivet or some other prayer-mount Jesus will arrive every morning in spirit renewed. . The missionary en terprise is never from dead level to dead level, but always from the heights of God to the quagmires of men. To be most useful In the hurry and struggle of our twentieth century life you require a Hermon Summit of the mind, a spiritual sanctuary where unto you again and again resort. No mor.tal's steady work can be beautiful or sublime enough to escape the need of this he4venly retreat. Would you not say that. Charles Dickens sank further than some of his characters and remained merely a character sketcher, not a character-builder, be cause he lacked the. relief that comes by being away awifle from one's task' and one'. self? He was buoyed up b! the popularit'. of his books, by the thunder he made, Ly the monev he: got, by thL. cheer of his frit as 4.-Lse gone, his cup was empty. Happy are those who find surcease of the world's clan.-i in reading au thors who uplift and 3o shelter in the sanctuary of literature. Blessed arc such nature loving spirits as can at tain fine elevation and a serene out look if only they catch a glimpse of blue sky or feast their eyes upon the luster of .the stars. Most blessed are they who, wheresoever placed, have learned to meet with God, to keep their tryst with Him, to see His face and be filled with His vision for them. - No recent'religious movement prom ises more, I am p)ersuaded, than the world-wide banding together of a few disciples here and there to observe the morning watch, the first half hour on waking from sleep each new day being devoted to reading the Scrip Turee, to meditation and prayer-a sort of holy exorcising of the evil spirits and fleshly lusts, a washing ou.t of the fret and soreness of the heart, the anointing of the inner self with heavenly ideas. I entreat you to establish this morning watch. Keep your. Jerusalem windows open. Believe the presence of the Almighty about you and hear Him say: "I will be to them as a little sanctuary in tihe countries where they shall come." Shall we not esteem our mountain top our castle for refuge? In olden times in Germany or France or EDng land at the morning light .through the castle gates issued the people, each to his farming or trading or journeying. When enemies came, or nightfall, into the castle they hied for safety. Castle-surrounded is my soul while I keep unprofaned a tryat:a -ing p)lace with God. Assaults are made-I separate the world by haul ing in across the moat the drawbridge of worldly thought. I let the port cuilis call. I hide within the protec tion of Him wvho is my fortress. Come hither, tempted men iind womn en1 Come, any Margaret cast off by any Faust! Come, every Simon Peter who falls! Make haste to the castle! sShall we not consider~ our mountain top a communion closet? Christ dlis closed the first secret of prayer thus: "When thou prayest enter into thy closet, and wlien thou bast shut the door pray." We simply must some times leave the world out there. Grant yourself g little release from our terrible New York turmoil. Oc casionally shut outside your secret prayer-door even your dearest earthly friends. Depths of divine communion wait in which you cin..enter only when alone. A,n often used' prayer cell woiild,be the beat posSible fteature .in a New York office building and would prevent many a -tragedy of cbaracter sad enough to zMake (an arch'angel wveep. ~Shall We not snel1 oui fideutsta ation? our a. stagnant needing .b lftpd In looms light and *Vtivenli6-avapors, reborn In the sky, to descend in benedictions on the land? What inspiration, what ex altation, whit sense of. other worldli ness the transfiguration brought to Christ and the three disciples! De tached It seemed they were from earth-there in exhilarance. De tached from time they were-eras of Moses and Elijah and Jesus merged -there is the atmospherie of eter nity. Detached from fear-even death spoken of Is an exodus, a .transit out of,Egypt into Canaan there is fullness of joy. And what more shall I say?--of that Shekinah light.that clothes the Mount? Of the Master's raiment white from the woofs of God? Of His sunlike shin ing face? Of the voice ethereal trumpeting: "This is My beloved Son?" Of the rapture well nigh past endurable? But yonder is an afflicted boy, down in thb mountain's shadow-pity that poor, lad. Any moment a convulsion takes him, hurls him into fire or water. His body now is rigid, now is limp. His teeth chatter and-Why does he not speak? Disease has slah his power of speech. No sound hears he. A demon tyrannizes over his spirit. From childbood's days, year on year his malady has been to him a living death. Take back your moun tain top.words, Simon Peter, "It is good for us to be here-And let us make three tabernacles." Could ye sit and sing yourselves away to ever lasting bliss up there and let thie tortured youth go on dying- and yet not dytng?-Christ snd His three disciples descend .the mountain and 'behold the lad unshackled from his agony! Granted are the mountain top experiences that all may render the lowlands better service. "Freely ye have received; freely give." Have you a kindness shown? Pass it on! Pass it on! 'Twas not given for you alone, Pass it on! Pass it on! Let it travel down the years, Let it wipe another's tears, Till in heaven the deed appears, Pass it on! Pass it on! Have you found the heavenly light' Pass it on! Pass it on! Souls are groping in the night, Daylight gone! Daylight gone! Hold your lighted lamps on. high, Be a star in someone's sky. He may live who els6 would die. Pass it on! Pass it on! But down there waits a father, dis tressed. His very soul groans itself out for this, his only son. He has tried everything and everybody. He despairs. Stay forever up in those radiant heights and permit this broken-hearted father to perish in his heroic struggle? Not you who are touched with celestial fire! Christ and the three go down-soon that father's happiness mounts on eagle's wings. Dear church people, by what right call we ourselves Christians. if we desire Jesus Christ and the sanc tuary and spiritual seasons all to ourselves with never a thought of sharing with the yet unblessed? I doXot know where that wretched boy of the lowlands Is; but I know he is somewhere und that he needs you. I know not the whereabouts of that suffering father yearning for your as sistance. I know he i.somewhere. But down there are a multitude of people tossed ly dioubnt, eILmg te believe on dii' -vi-ence, ready to -e ceive the real 1v 1 tiLum o.ien -it the Christ spiriL. inca--na.o again; still weak and worried till one come with the breath of mountain top to hearten and lead upward. Oh, the thousands here at hand so waiting! Yes-and rise your chivalry now! Down there are nine disciples doing .their utmost to keep the boy and his father and the people; and these nine are scorned, jeered, taunted by hateful bystanders who more than hint that the disciples and the Master, too, are fakirs and deceive the unwary. Show me the coward shirker who would everlastingly hang around up here on the mountain top while those brave valley heroes battle against such odds. Remain exactly long enough on your mountain top to fix in your mind the ideal from God and in your heart the resolve to go down and made the Ideal glorious fact. As Moses saw the tabernacle on Sinai's summit, tabernacle built of mist tim bers away in the dreamy haze, to be reproduced thereafter by solid tim bers on the fiat ground for the peo4 ple's salvation. The sin country can be bettered only by a life a little elevated above itself in purpose and purity. Be with God some and then go. Sufficient the number of men who look out upon humanity with entire indifference; sufficient the few who see mankind but to despise them; sufficient the abominable many whose ruling interest in their fellows is to use them for private advantage--Be thou, 0, larger souled believer, one to hold thyself and all thou hast In faithful trusteeShip for the rest of our brother humankind to slave for them, if youa choose to call it slaving. Our chiefest pleasure should be to serve with loftiest gifts the lowvliest needs of the wretchedest mortals for whom the God-Man caine to earth, went to Gethsemane and Golgotha. Ample recompense is found in the mere doing thereof, ample in our Lord's approval, amle in the long hereafter. "Let this mind be in you which was also in Christ Jesus; who, being in fhe form of God, thought it not. a p)rize to be snatched to be0 equal wvithi God; but made Himself of nol r'eputation and tool: upon Him the form of a servant. * * Whore fore. God also bath highly exalted lium andl given Htm a name which Is abmove every name." Wanted-Peo-~ pIe taught on .the mountains of God to toil in the lowlands of sinm. Mind Your Owni Business. There is no proisc~ of a crowvn of righteousness for proilciency in regu \atinig ygur neighbors. ,j INTRINATIONAL LICSSON COMZ. MENTS FOR DECEM1BERt 0. Subjecti Solomion ChIooses Wisdom, 1 Kings 3:4-15--Golden Text, Prov. 9:10--Cominit Verses 11, 12- -Comm'entary. TI"E. 9--1014. D. C. PLACE. -. Gibeon.. EXPOSITION, - I. Solomon's Prayer to Jehovah, 4-0. Solomon went to Gibeon because the Taber nacle, the place where Jehovah -pe culiarly manifested Himself to His people, was there (1 Chron. 21:29; 2 Chron. 1:3, 7, R. V.; Ex. 29:42, 43. R. V.). Until the Temie superseded it, that is where men who longed to meet God went, the place God Him self had appointed. The Tabernacle was a type of Christ (Jno. 1:14, R. V.), it is ix Him that we meet God (Jno. 14:6)., Each one of the thou sand burnt offerings that Solomon offered also pointed forward to Christ. In Hini there is a better ground of approach to God than in countless slain, beasts (leb. LO:1 22). The desire with which Solomon went to Gibeon was satisiled, God -anet him there. Twice in his life was it granted Solomon to meet God (cf. ch. 9:2; 11:9). To many of us it is granted to meet God far more fre quently than that. The appearance was in a dream, but it was a real ap pearance (cf. Gen. -28:12, 13; Nu. 12:6; Job 33:14, 15; Matt. 1:20; 2:13, 19; Acts 18:9, 10). That God really spoke to Solomon, and that the whole incident was no product of a disordered fancy, is evident from the outcome-Solomon really obtained what God promised at this time. It was a wonderful thing that God said to Solomon, "ask what I shall give thee"-God setting all the infiitte re sources of His pow,er at the disposal of a man. But He says the same won derful thing to each humblest child of God to-day (Jno. 14:13, 14; 15:7; Matt. 7:7, 8; Mark 11:24; Jno. 15:16; 16:23, 24; 1 Jno. 3:22; 5:14, 15). Before asking for anything, Solomon acknowledged the wonderful goodness of Jehovah already mani fested toward his father and himself (Of. Phil. 4:6; Col. 4:2). God's great "kindness" (R. V.) to his father in the past encouraged Solomon to ask great things for himself in the pres ent. God's dealing in kindness with David was acc%rding to David's sin cere, righteous and upright walk (cf. ch. 9:4; 15:5; 2 K. 20:3, 4; Ps. 15:1, 2; 18:20-24; 1 Jno. 3:22). A crown ing manifestation of God's kindness was that He had given him a son to succeed to his position and his work. Solomon speaks of his father by a more honorable title than king, "Thy servant -David.'- Jehovah Himself had conferred this title upon David (2 Sam. 7:5-. SbIonon recognized that he owed his own present exalted position entirely to God (cf. Dan. 2:21: 4:25, 32; 5:18, 21). He also recognized his own utter insufficiency for the position. He was perhaps n' .on y.ars of age at this time. h ilhis own eyes he was "but a little n4ild" (cf. 1 Chron. 29:1; Jer. 1:6; Lu. 14:11). He saw the greatneis of the responsibility that had been laid upon him. He asked, therefore, for a,n '"understanding heart"--literally, a "hearig heart," I. e., a heart that should hear the voice of God. What he asked is of more value than all honors and all riches (Prov.3:13-18; 16:16). His father's words to him and prayert for him had suggested to Sol omon this request (1 Chron. 22:12; 29:19). Those words had gone deep' into Solomora's heart. This great thing that Solomon asked we may all ask,.and get (Jas. 1:5-7). It was not for his own sake that Solomon asked for aa understanding heart, but for the people's good, and above all be cause they were Jehovah's people. In the final analysis the chief aim of the prayer was Tehovah'~s glory. That is the chief aim of all true prayer. II. Jehovah's Answer to Solomon, 10-15. God was pleased with Sol omon's prayer. He is always pleased with an intelligent prayer (Prov. 15:8). Hie mentions some of the things that Solomon might have asked, things that many would have asked had they had Solomon's oppor tunity. But Solomon's choice Was much wiser. A wonderful thing God says to him, "I have done according to thy words." Think of it, the in finite God1 doing according to the words of a finite man. But He often does that (.Jno. 15:7). Solomon got what ho had asked, but he got it in a more abundant measure than lie had asked. His wisdom became noted throughout the earth, and throughout all ages (v. 2X; ch. 4:29-34; 5:12; 10:3-8, 23, 24). God also gave himr exceeding abundantly above what he asked (cf. Eph. 3:20). If we seek the best thing, God will give us with it the minor th:ings (Matt. 6:33; .Ps. 84:11, 12; Ro. 8:32). His riches were enormous (chi. 10:23-29). wis domi which he sought caime bringing riches and hoior in her hand (cf. Prey. 3:16). God made Solomon still another promim, but this was condi tional upon h:is fuiturc' conduct (v. 14). The promise was lone life; the condition, Obedlien(ce. Obedience to God's laws is the great secret of longevity (Deui. ': 16; 25:15; Prov. 3:1, 2, 16; 1 Ti:un. 4:8). All (God's richegt blessings ar ci (ond(itionedl upon obidlence (Acts 5::'2; .Juo. 14:15-2:3). Solomon did not fuilfill the conditioni and missed the prouiised blessing, he dicd comp)ar'aLtiveir young (1 K. 11:42). HIe showedl his appreciationi of Jehovah's goodness in the only way known to himi. The sacrifihces that w e ofler are differ'ent (t 9. 13:15, 16, R1. YV) but have the so:mi nurpose Port P g h . 4 soft answer perWto you to fal an easy victim to the 'hrewd agent Kindness and courtesy" need elbom room and are smothered to death ii a crowd. The man who makes a great deal of his failures doesn't make much ol a success. . . 1.v. , Women don.'t have to swear tc show how mad they are. There are other ways. A new broom sweeps clean, but, alas, it stays a new broom such a little while. Industry is the parent to success, and the success belongs to the man who wons the industry. Most women are fond of men, but so many of them are so particular as to what men. It is extremely trying to be obliged to associate with people who 'always and invariably would rather not. The clocks in some households suf fer so mutch from congestion of the face that it seems impossible for any members of the household ever to be on time. When a woman says, ''And that's all there is about it," let no man -bo 'deceived in thinking that an end- li been made to much talking. Each mother thinks she has the eil est baby in the world, and, as a rVatter of fact, none is cheap. 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