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LESSON FOR APRIL 25
DAVID AND GOLIATH.
LESSON TEXT-I Samuel 17:3-51.
GOLDEN TEXT-If God be for us, who
Is against us?-Rom. 8:31 R. V.
For forty days (v. 16) Goliath defied
Saul's army, encamped near Bethle
hem. Three of the gone of Jesse were
in Saul's army and to them David is
sent with food (vy. 13, 18, 19). Those
brothers scornfully reproached David
when he expressed a willingness to
light Goliath, accusing him of pride and
reminding him that he was but a shop.
lierd (vv. 26-29). David's words are
carried to Saul and he is introduced to
the king.
I. Boastful Pride, vv. 38-44. Fear
knd dismay were aroused at the very
sight of this proud Philistine (vv. 11,
14, 32), yet such fear was foreign to
David, for his eyes were not upon man
lut upon God (v. 37). He related to
saul his exploits not as boasting but
is giving him assurance that God was
ible to deliver him out of the hand of
this Philistine. Saul, who had once
been a man of like simple faith, is now
Is much in fear as any of his army.
David was perhaps about twenty years
:f age and verse 56 calls him a "strip
ling," hence it was that Saul's armor
would not fit him (cf. 10:23). Human
ly speaking, it was an impossible thing
David offered to accomplish single.
lianded. Even Saul (v. 32) sought to
lissuade David, but David was not
trusting in man nor depending upon
the armor of the king (v. 39; Ps. 27:1
; Isa. 12:2; Rom. 8:31). David took
is familiar staff and sling (see 1
Phess. 5:21) and sallied forth, "strong
ii the Lord, not inshimself; armed not
vith steel but with faith." Crossing
'the valley" (v. 40 marg.) he prepared
'is sling, with which every Israelite
,vas skilled (see I Sam. 13:19-23). On
3ame the giant, a man about nine feet
:all (v. 4), "a stalking mountain, over
aid with brass and Iron," preceded by
lis protector (v. 41). Why such a sol
Her after his period of triumph should
lesire this added safety is not quite
:lear. It suggests, however, the sin
ier's timidity which reveals his essen
:al weakness in that he trusts him
self, takes no chances, and is even sus
picious of his own supporters. What
x contrast! This armored giant and
.his ruddy-faced, unarmed youth, car
rying only the staff, wherewith he was
wont to fight wild beasts, and his
fling! When God calls a man lie uses
that weapon with which the man is
nost familiar, and when the church or
he Christian soldier seeks to fight in
hie armor of another, or by using the
veapons of the world, it is foredoomed
o failure (Ex. 4:2; Judges 3:31).
II. Conquering Humility, vv. 45-51.
)avid acknowledged Goliath's su
)orior armament, yet armed with the
lame of the God of the army of Israel
vhich Goliath had injiulted, his confi
hence overtops that of the Philistine
Lnd he hurls back his broud boast.
F'urthermore, the victory was to be an
mn~ediate one, "this day" (Zech. 4:6;
Fames 4:7). With calm assurance he
nuforms Goliath of the outcome of
heir conflict, but takes no credit to
imself. David had naught but naked
alh and the sense of a just cause to
:trengthen his arm. He would do to
iollath and the Philistines the things
liat Goliath had boasted he would do
o David (vv. 44 and 46) "that all the
barth may know that there is a God
n Israel;" see also v. 47. David's
eemingly insufficient preparation is
iow revealed to 'be abundant, for he
uad four stones more than he needed
v. 40). It is thus that God chooses
he weak things to confound the mighty
(I Cor. 1:27).
iii. Summary. We have before us
bhree lessons. First the lesson of indi
ridual responsibility. A sinful king had
)aralyzed the effectiveness of the
trmy of Israel. David, "a man after
lod's own heart," refused Saul's ar
nor, crying out "I cannot go in these."
saul, bound by tradition, must use
~onventional weapons. Every great
Ldvance in the history of the church
ins been led by some man who struck
mut boldly, insensible alike to the con
rentionalism of his friends and the
gibes of the enemy. God would have
avery man work according to himself,
uot copying, not imitating, but with his
wn equipment. Second, all the giants
f sin have not yet been overthrown.
bWe still have the giants of Intemper
mece, Unchastity, Graft, Selfishness,
ambition and the Inequalities of our
:ivic and social life. These can only
de overcome in the strength of God.
Bunyan mentions three giants,
Pride, Grim and Pagan; to these we
uuay add, Anger, Untruthfulness, Self.
shness and Sullenness.
Third, Our Helper. See Golden
r'ext. Of all the graces David pos
;essed, faith was the root of each one
-faith in a living God.
is active faith caused him with
uimble feet to attack this blasphenmous
glemy (v. 48),
His inith in God characterizes his
mntire life, resounds in his songs and
iti'ength~ened his life of service for Je
iovah.
It is such faith that strengthens the
irnm of the true saint of God, that en
ibles him to "overconlie" in his own
life, to undertake for God and to go to
thie ends of the earth in his name.
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Congressiiatt Aiken's
Reply to Mr. Tilman
Mr. Editor: Senator Tillman 's
statement a few days ago in
reference to the establishment,
of .the new federal 'dourt, In the
light of the facts known to all
the delegation, Is amusing and
amaring. His painstaking ef
fort to deny me credit for the
passage of my own bill would
seem to leave no question but
that the underlying pft'pose of
his article is to minimize my.
work in the interest of some one
in whom he may be more vitally
interested. This taken in con
nection with the announced pur
pose of his own son to offer for
congress in this district next
term might, in the minds of un
charitable people, lead to the con
clusion that the senator is usine
this juicy federal pie, indirectly,
in the interest of still another of
his personal or political family.
Some people might think that
Mr. Byrnes' residence in another
district added something to the
glory of his work in the sena
tor's mind.
That Congressman Byrnes was
Very active and helpful in the
passage of the bill no one will
deny; but that he deserves more
credit than I, its author and
promoter he will not even clai.n,
with his knowledge of the facts,
for Mr. Byrnes is a fair minded
man who would not attempt un
justly to rob a colleague of that
which is due him
I am charitable enough to be
lieve that Senator Tillman could
not have been thoroughly con
versant with the facts further
than that Mr. Byrnes was gen
erally the mediary between the
senate and the house negotia
tions, in all of which Mr. Byrnes
and I had a thorougJh under
standing and a mutual interest!
along with all the other mem
bers of the delegation.
Nothing is so distasteful to
me as toi recite my work as a
public servant., and especially IN,
in doing so, there is the slightest I
seeming of taking aught of
credit from any of my colleagues.
However, the fact that I was
the author of the bill, coupled
with the further fact that the
senior senator, whom the state
has honored exceptionally, andi
for whom I have entertained
great respect and even admira
tion, should publish an article
to all intents and purposes ig
noring my part in its )assage,
should at least call forth a public
statement from me. I have
waited several days before pub
lishing this statement, in vain
hope that the senator in some of
his addendumns would make
amends for what seems to have
been his sin of omission if not
of commission. Since he has
not done so, "icandor compels
me," even with the more or less
frequent use of the pronoun "I"
to say a wor'd in defense.
Th~le fact is the effort to p~ut
through this new district 1)111
has engaged the attention of
the delegation for more than
two years, with varying chances
of success. Some months prior
to the last general election the
whole scheme- seemed to have
fallen to the ground with little
hope of resurrection. ~The chair
man of the judiciary committee
in the house (Mr. Webb) was
very much op~posed to it and
while he expressed a friendly
sympathy with my efforts to
obtain a favorable report of my
bill, he designated it as a steal.
Hei said the diata presented to
the committee was totally in
sufficient. Upon this hint, I
wvent to wvork and dug up all
the facts going to show that by
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comparison1Wth. other " s:
South CarolIna who hAt.tiedt
anothr' 'district. which fCAts9
subsequently' prin ted In the Rec
ord; and I say. u 1 hesitatingly,
but for this data, furnished by
me, there. would bay beexinno
favorable action n.30-,bJil.In
the house and there wU d hve
been no new federal. district
court in South Carolina.
Senator Tillman claims credit
for removing the opposition of
the Republican leader in the
house, whose influence in the
press of time might have killed
the bill. The senator is utterly
oblivious of the fact that strong
Republican Influences in South
Carolina had been brought to
bear on Mr. Mann to withdraw
his opposition, as the new judic
ial district was really a public
necessity. So the question of
who silenced Republican leader
Mann, his Republican friends
in South Carolina, or Senator
Tillman, may be settled aside
from this controversy by those
claiming the honor.
Senator Tillman makes use of
the following broadside, in the
beginning of his publised state
ment. ' Wyatt Aiken intro
duced the bill early in the year,
but it lay asleep in the judiciary
committee of the house. I in
troduced Aiken's bill in - the
senate, and tried to get it out of
the judiciary con mmitte there,
but failed because of an unfa
vorable report from the attorney
general and the objection of a
western senator whose state
needed a judge much more than
South Carolina." It would seem
then, by his own admission,
that his bill slept some, too. In
fact, it slept the sleep unto death,
for."candor compels the admis
sion" that it is the Aiken and
not the Tillmian bill that has be
come law. A few facts imme
diately associated with the final
passage of the district bill might
turn the light on at least a little
more space than that seen from
the senator's viewpoint.
There are twenty-two senators
now serving in congress with
whomi I have served in the lower
house. I approached every one
of these on the question of the
bill and after making a fair pre
sentation of our case secured
either their support of it or their
promise not to oppose it. ,Sena
tor Walsh of Montana was op
posed to the bill and I reached
him through Mr. Evans, of
Montana, whose office is next
door to mine.
SenatorOverman ofNorth Car
olina was opposed to the bih to
the very last, but a member of
the SoutIh Carolinia (telegation,
at my suggest ion, got Represen
tative Page of Nort~h Carolina
to present the matter to Senator
Overman, and in this way the
senator's opposition w as allayed.
Senator TLillman seems to be
laboring under the impression
that he handled1 both the senate
and the house in the manage
ment of this bill, when if he had
known the facts he must have
admitted that the senate action
was directed to sonme extent~ by
house influences, and that Sen
ator Smith, too. rendlered most
valuable and telling assistance
in the final passage of the act,
which fact he seems entirely to
have overlooked.
Recurring to that profound
sleep of my bill in the judiciary
committee of the house, I have
already shown how it became
necessary to meet the opposition,
and especially of the chairman
of the committee, Mr. Webb,
with a fuller statement of justi
fying figumes in the interest of
the bill. But even this did not
allay the opposition of the chair
man, and it was only on my
earnest personal appeal that he
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4hq hoq.e&judJi1at jcot toe
as e.iator Tilliman;* p0 0 t,' it
was bn 'tp advife boff*. 1lo Id,
of Arkanas, chNirma. of' th
.Oub-committee in charge of the
V1ll; 'not to Push the bill the)
bto wait till the short session
and he would do his best for a
favorable report. Subsequent
events proved the wisdom of the
suggestion. In the closing hours
of the session members were less
critical about local affairs.
Although Messrs. Mann, Re
publican, and Cull9p Democrat,
objected to the immediate con
sideration of. my bill, which
temporarily took it off of the un
animous consent calendar, I had
the bill put back on that same
calendar to save time, as time
was everything for th6 life of
the bill. When I finally called
up the b11 Mr. Onllop did not
object, but offered an amend
ment, as it was thought, with
the hope of defeating it. It was
to require the publication of the
names ofendorsers of applicants
for judgeships. I saw no ob
jection to the amendment, and
so accepted it, thereby silencing,
any objection that Mr. Cullop
might have to the bill.
The fact is I have nursed and
petted the district bill till at
times my patience has been well
nigh exhausted. For instance,
even after the bill had passed
the house at about 3 o'clock in
the afternoon. I immediately
hurried to the engrossing clerk
and urged him to have it back
on the speaker's table as early
as possible. He said it would
be probably 8 o'clock at night
before he could do this. I would
take no denial, however, and
stayed with him and had the
bill returned to the speaker's
desk by 5 o'clock.
Moments were golden and I
stayed to see that none were
lost, While I was attending to
this Mr. Byrnes said that, he
would go over and inform the
senators that the bill had passed
the house. Later I went to the
senate and saw Senator Tillman
and suggested to Mr. Byrnes
and later to Senator Tillman
that as soon as my bill reached
the senato for him to move its
passage withoutJ reference to a
committee. He said he ivould
consult a senatorial friend, and
later I saw him talking to Sen
ator Gallinger, the Republican
floor leader, presumably as to
whether or not the procedure
would be parliame itary. Senator
Tillman, after claiming all the
credit for its passage, frankly
admitted that he (1id not expect
it to pass, andl we must take
him at his word1. Others did ex
pect it to pass. becauise they
knewv the way had been smooth
er for its passage. In order that
Senator Tillman miighit get this
b~ill pun ctu all y a fter it ha d passed
the house and beeni engrossedI, I
in formed his clerk t hat the honse
engrossing clerk had promised
me to sit right'at his dleskc until
Senator Tillman sent a page for
him and1 the bill, and1 he salid he
wouIld stay until daylight if
necessary.
Of course these details are not
interesting to the public, but
"candor compels'' their recital
to prove, as the lawyers would
say, "that I was around there
when the new district bill was
(daddied.''
Senator Till man deniies with
a vehemence bordering on hys
teria tha~t the parceling out of
the court's positions was a
''family matter.'' 1 think Mr.
McGowan's suggestion along
that line was unfortunate and
uncalled for, but I also think
t h a t when Senator Tillman~
rushed into print about it, he
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A. A. ODOM., A. I. SUlA F,,
Pres. Sec. and Treas.
CONSULTIN OPToM ltrs'IrSTS
should haye been frank and fair.
It is true that the parceling out
of the positions was not a family
matter. but Senator Tillman de
serves no credit on that account.
Rumor about the capital had it
that he became very much
wrought up when he could not
exact a pledge that his son, B.
R. Tillmau, Jr., should have the
clerkship. I pr6sume he will
not deny that for more than a
year his son, Henry C. Tillman,
counted confidently on being
made assistant district attorney,
upon which position he held so
tight a grip as to be able to trans.
fer it to his law )artner, Mr.
Mayes. It is stated that Sena
tor Tillman's private secretary,
J. B. Knight, will be appointed
clerk. I don't know whether
Mr. Knight will be appointed or
not, and I don't care, but the
point I am trying to make is
that when Senator Tillman
undertakes to make a statement
in regard to this matter he
should not only tell the truth,
but the whole trut.h.
Now, if I have failed to give
clue credit to others of my as
sociates in congress in the mat
1er of the p ssage of the disttet
bill, it has been for the reason
that it wN'o il( have drawn out
thii art'ol ntirely too long.
Tl'hey 'et ' Ympathetic and
active as fNarY, s their time would
permit in aiding in the passage
of the federal district bill. in
portant committee work claimed
the attention of some while Mr.
Blyrnes andl I were engaged on
dletails, but the delegation was
of one mind( for its passage. Of
course Mir. John1soni could not
and did not take part in the
wvork for the passage of the bill,
as he had had intimation that
he would he endorsed for the
judgeship. Mr. Lever wvas bus
ily engagedl on the committee
of con ference on the agricultural
appropriation bill, and could
spare but little time from his
work. Mr'. Finlecy was simiilarly
engaged on the conference com
mittee on the postoflice appro
priation bill, bu t aided material
ly in the final passage of the
bill. Mr. Whaley, with every
local reason for opuposing the
bill, and against the protest of
some of his home peole, renl
dered invaluable service in many.
ways, and was especially help
ful in a parliamecntary way.
Mr. Johnson was endorsed for
judge by the entir'e delegation,
while Messrs. T~huP.mond and
L yon were named, th'?'27
by SenatQr T~illman, the latter
by Senator Sith, under an
agreement made at the opening
of the DeI ocratic congress, that
South Catilina representatives
should leave the naming of
state-wide oificers to the two
senators, while t h e senators
should leave the naming of post
masters to the representatives.
And there I trust you have at
least enough of the story of the
passage of the district bill to
convince you that I was in
WVashington wv h e in m y bill
passed1, which could hardly have
been inferred from reading Sen
ator Tilman 's published state
ment. Respectfully,
WYATT AIKEN.
A bbeville, S. C'. March 24, 19153.
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