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Calm age
Sermon
By Rev.
Frank De Witt Talmatfe, D. D.
If -*4
Los Angeles, Cal., Sept. 15.—In this
sermon the preacher shows that to the
man or woman who Is living aright
and lu harmony with God’s laws
those laws are no longer a burden, but
are transformed into a continual song
of encouragement. The text Is Psalm
cxlx, 54, “Thy statutes have been my
songs in the house of my pilgrimage.”
Never did sculptor's chisel create
two statues of more opposite charac
ter than are Michael Angelo’s “Moses"
and “David." When you study these
two wonderful figures It doer, not seem
possible that the same human brain
could conceive both. They are differ
ent as the storm cloud and the sun
shine, as the rumbling onrushing ava
lanche breaking loose from Its anchor
age and the bubbling, laughing, leap
ing, happy brook gurgling down the
mountain side. They are different as
the shrieks and the groans of the car
nage of battle and the soft cooing lul
labies of a mother rocking her baby
to sleep. In other words, the one stat
ue represents power aud the other
love. The one represents the crags
and the cliffs and inoccesslble heights
of old 8inal, with its bare rocks in
dented by the sword cats of the Ugbt-
uliUP, and the other represents the
melodtotiH hsrp of the young shepherd
boy singing to his sheep among the
wild flowers of the valley and the
dreamy relaxation of the poet while,
lying upon a couch of softest leaves,
he watches the parent birds feed their
young among the swaying branches
overarching his noontide resting place.
Never did Phidias' colossal statue of
"Zeus" at Ells or Panova’s “Theseus"
at Vienna represent greater strength
than‘does Angelo's “Moses" at Koine.
Never did Praxiteles’ “Aphrodite" at
Cnidus or the “Sleeping Ariadne" at
Home reveal more love or poetic sym
metry than does Angelo’s marvelous
statue of “David” at Florence.
But, though we have a perfect right
to think of David the musician. David
tin* poet, David the imaginative ycfUth,
who is always singing the praises of
God, I wonder if we have not some
times overlooked the fact that David
sang his songs of triumph under the
shadow of old Mount Sinai and that he
had hut a vague and shadowy idea of
the tenderness of the cross of Jesus
Christ. The jKietlc eyes of David in
the statue may not search us from out
of deep sockets or from under over
arching forehead, as do the |>enetratii)g
eyes of Moses the lawgiver, hut the
same thought that teemed In the brain
of Moses lived and throbbed In the
brain of David. \.ll through the Psalms
I find that the Ten Commandments of
Mount Sinai are the skeletons upon
which David the psalmist based his
praises. When David writes his most
l»eautiful songs he seems to be echoing
In rhyme what Moses, the great law
giver, had written 500 years before in
the books of the Pentateuch. Davld’a
poetry Is only Moses’ laws and com
mandments set to music.
The Law of God.
It was so with the other poets whose
compositions are in that great hymnal.
Turn almost anywhere lu the Psalms
aud you eau find this fact illustrated.
What Is the burden of the One Hun
dred and Nineteenth Psalm? It is the
law, the rock ribbed law of God. “Oh,
how I love thy law! It Is my medita
tion day and night," is the song. What
Is the burden of the First Psalm? It
Is the law of God. What is the burden
of the Thirty-seventh Psalm and the
Fortieth Psalm and the Seventy-eighth
Psalm? It Is the law of God. And
today lu the words of ray text the
shepherd tells us that the statutes
of God have been his songs in the
house of his pilgrimage ail through his
life. The law of Moses is here fouud
to lie the theme of the sweetest singer
Israel ever produced.
Did you ever stop to think that the
laws of God could be set to music?
Oh, how prosaic a hook of common
law is to the average man! When
my brother was a young student In
the law college he one day came to
my father aud placed before him a
lawlKxik and said: “Father, read that.
Did you ever read any set of rules so
dry or so uninteresting?*’ Truly, for
a young man a lawbook Is a dry and
uninteresting l>ook, but when the
young man has mastered those doll
codes aud uses them In his practice
they are changed from dry skeletons
Into living forces. Then he sees how
those legal enactments are the great
barriers by which the rights of men
are protected against the assaults of
evildoers. So with David. When he
mastered the principles of God’s laws
be was able to clothe them with poetic
Imagery. He saw the far reaching ef
fect of those laws. Instead at being
a collection of skeletons bleaching In a
cemetery they liecame to him a living
power. As living principles they wel
comed him at the cradle. They guid
ed him through childhood's hours.
They led him forth into the struggle of
young manhood. They were the crown
of glory of his old age. Thus as an
aged servant of God he celebrates the
glory of old Mount Sinai as he sings,
"Thy Ht tutes have been ray songs In
the house of my pilgrimage.’’ Now let
us try to understand how God's laws
have become the keynotes of David’s
songs.
His Lullaby Song.
lu the first place, the statutes of tb*
Lord were the psaimisl’s cradle souk?.
They were the lullabies with which Ida
mother used to sing him to sleep. They
were the divine promises with which
God adopted him as his child. The
covenant with which Abraham’s chil
dren and children’s children became
part of God’s great redemption plan
was the same covenant with which
Christians enter into adoption as God’s
children. And they are the same di
vine promises with which our children
enter Into covenant relations with God.
Now, the great practical question
which comes before us today Is, How
can a child of Christian parents be
come a child of the covenant? In the
old dispensation the rite of circumci
sion made a child a partaker in the
covenant. Abraham was a child of
God. He was to inherit Palestine, and,
liesldes this, he was to have the divine
protection. His descendants were to
enjoy the same privilege so long as
they obeyed God’s law. The promises
of God were to be continued from one
generation to another to all of Abra
ham’s descendants who fulfilled the ob
ligations of the covenant. It was a
bargain, and the seal of it was the out
ward rite which marked the child as
an heir of the covenant. In other
words, circumcision In the old dispen
sation was the sealing of a parental
compact with God. Let me illustrate.
You come to me and want to buy a
tract of land for $10,000. I say, “Mr.
Jones, why are you buying this land?"
“Oh, ’ you answer, “I am buying this
land for a homestead where I can live
and my children can live after me,
generation after generation.’’ “All
right,” I say, “I can sell you the land,
but you will have to pay the taxes and
fulfill your obligations to the county,
aud your children will have to do the
same when they Inherit.’’ You under
stand that, and I say: “Then in con
sideration of $10,000 I will give you a
deed of that laud for yourself and your
heirs forever. That deed will seal the
bargain.” Just so the descendants of
Abraham entered into covenant with
God. They were under obligations of
which the rite w’as the visible sign.
But the rite counted for nothing If the
obligations were not fulfilled. The
later history of Abraham’s descendants
proved that the real condition was obe
dience and that when this was not
rendered the outward sign was not ac
cepted. It became a mockery when it
no longer represented a change of
heart.
My brother, do you wonder that Du
vld said, “Thy statutes have l»een my
songs when I was a baby In the cra
dle?” Was not David consecrated to
God when he was a child by a godly
father and mother? Will you not ai
low Christ to take you and hold you
(■lose to his loving heart because your
Christian mother gave you to him by
prayer and pledge when you were a
little innocent child? Thou divine Fa
ther, by the sacred mounds of my fa
ther’s and mother’s graves, I thank
thee that thou art and always wilt l>e
a covenant making Christ and wilt
save me In answer to the prayers of
my loving parents for Christ's sake.
The Songs of Childhood.
But the statutes were more than the
guardian angels which sang the songs
of the Nativity over the manger of
Bethlehem of Judaea. They sang for
David the happy songs of childhood.
The statutes became songs of rejoic
ing. They were the conditions of son-
ship and inheritance which It was a
Joy to fulfill. They were the sweetest
recollections of the old homestead
when he was a growing boy. They
were the songs which made his father
and mother and brothers one at the
family altar. They were the songs
which taught him how to say bis
evening prayers at his mother’s knee.
They were the songs which made him
as a child study the old Mosaic laws.
They were the songs by which he was
corrected when he did wrong. Aud
they were the songs which taught him
faith lu God as well as faith in bis
fellow men. In other words, they were
the same laws by which you and I as
boys ami girls were developed In a
Christian home for our life’s struggle.
If you did not learn these statutes of
God when you were young, then you
are poor indeed. If you did learn the
laws of God when you were young,
then the memory of them makes you
rich Indeed.
The happiness of our childhood days
was not dependent upon the size of our
father’s pocketbook. But to a great
extent It was dependent upon whether
our parents obeyed and made us obey
the statutes of our Lord in the bouse
of our pilgrimage. Some time ago a
sorrowing sou was on the way hack
to the village of his boyhood to bury
an aged parent. “How much was your
father worth when he died?” asked one
of his friends. “Nothing; I think he
was worth less than nothing. I sup
pose I shall have to bury him.” But
the day after the funeral the young
man was going down the village street
As he walked along he met an old man,
who held out his hand and said: “God
bless you, my boy. Jim, you bad a
good father. I knew him for over
forty years and I never knew him to
do one act which did not stamp him as
a noble, brave Christian hero.” And a
little farther on a young girl stopped
him and said: “Jim, your father waa
the best friend my mother ever had.
When papa died he gathered in all our
harvests and has made it possible for
us to live.” A little farther on he
met another man, who said. “Jim,
there is not a man, woman or child in
this whole region who has not been
brought nearer to God on account of
the noble life of your father.” When
the young man turned his atepe toward
the old home he said to himself:
“Well, my father did not have much
money, but he was rich. He lived rich
in God’s grace, and he died triumphant
In God’s love, and t guess I have In
herited as much good as any boy
could receive from any parent."
Sweet Memories of Heme.
Tell me, friend, was not the religious
training of your boyhood the sweet
est memory yon have of the old home
stead? When yonr parents were bring
ing you up you thought those statutes
of God were awfully strict It did
seem at times as though Sunday would
never get through. When you got up
early in the morning there were the
new baseball and the fine bat. “No, no,”
said mother; “you cannot use them
today. Better put them away in the
closet end then you will be out of
temptation.” And then when the oth
er boys were ready to go off fishing
you had to come back for family pray
ers. Then those long tramps with the
delicate food for the sick neigbb .rs—It
did seem that mother wa* always
sending food to some one. And then
those Bible stories you had to learn
when “Kobinsou Crusoe” and that new-
book of Jules Verne w-ere lying so
near—my, how- you did grumble and
twist and fume and worry! And then
it seemed as though your father kept
a regular hotel for all the ministers
who came to your town. Then your
father would never let you play cards
or go to the country dances. The oth
er boys went, but not you. Ob, how
strict those old folks were! Why, your
mother would not even let your sis
ter wear a low necked dress, because
she said It was Immodest. But, tell
me, do you not today glory in those
strict ways of your old home? Those
old folks were so strict that they
would never do anything they thought
the statutes of the Lord forbade them
to do. But did not those strict laws
of God bring a peace to your old home
stead which not any of the so called
liberal Ideas of the present time have
ever produced? Yes, I think we have
a right, like David, to sing, “Thy stat
utes have l>een my songs In the happy
days of my childhood.”
Singing to Keep Step.
But the statutes of the Lord were
more than a sacred memory of the
scenes of David’s boyhood. They were
the songs by which the young man
and the middle aged man kept step in
the Journey of life. Just the same as
the German soldiers when on a line of
march invariably start up one of their
national airs and sing as they tramp
along and all in unison keep step to
the music, so this marvelous man of
my text kept step to the laws of God
during his journey of life and sang
as he walked along. I am very much
impressed with this figure by an ex
perience i had some years ago in the
German capital.
At that time I was a young boy and
physically very much fatigued from
sightseeing. I had crawled Into bed
thoroughly tired out and almost In
stantly had fallen Into one of those
deep sleeps which come to healthy
boys and girls after a long day’s
tramp. Suddenly I awoke In the early
hours <ff the morning. Like Paul in
his vision, 1 knew not at first whether
I was In the flesh or out of the flesh.
From everywhere and yet from no
where there seemed to roll Into my
room great tidal waves of harmony.
The volume was so great and yet the
time so i>erfect that the voices sound
ed like the chorus of many waters.
Louder and louder swelled the song.
I leaped out of bed to see what waa
the matter. Then I beard the tramp,
tramp, tramp of a long line of soldiers
marching. As these soldiers marched
they sang with their deep, powerful
Teutonic voices. As they sang they'
kept step to the music. So in Davld’i
journey of life the laws of God were
the songs by which he kept step after
be had left the old homestead.
David the Anointed.
In the first place, there was that
overwhelming bugle call by which Da
vid was set aside when yet a mere lad
as the future king of Israel. Ob, could
David ever cease to praise the law of
God for that tremendous day in his
history when Samuel came into the
home of his father Jesse and poured
the anointing oil upop his head? For
days and weeks and months do you
not believe ht; pondered over his com
ing glory? When he was an aged
king, with his hair white ns the al
mond tree lu blossom, do you not be
lieve he still gloried In the fact that
God had set him aside as one to fill
a throne? And yet has there no
anointing come to us? Has not each
one of us Iteen set apart to do some
special work which cannot be done by
any one else? We have not been called
to fill a throne, but we have been call
ed, as David was, to serve our genera-
tiou and to testify to others that it Is
good to obey the statutes of God.
Then, like Davkl, we should glory
in the fact that God lias not only de
tailed ns for an especial work of life,
bat also because God baa cared for us
and guided us and protected as while
we are doing tlmt work. That would
be a careless father who would tell a
son to go and do something and then
not care for the welfare of the child
while he was carrying out the paren
tal orders. So God’s divine protection
daring ail of David’s life and daring
all of our lives has been hovering over :
os and helping us upon our feet when
we have fallen and bringing us back
.to the straight path of virtue when we ;
have wandered away and been caught |
In the entangled thickets of sin. Do
you wonder that David gloried in the
old divine commandment which said,
“This book of the law shall not depart
oat of thy mouth, bat thou shaft modi
tate therein day and night that thou
mayeet observe to do according to all
that is written therein, for thoa shaft
make thy way prosperous and then
thoa shaft have good success f’
It Does Not Roy.
And today I would especially im-
pceaa upon the young the fact that
God still protects and cares for those
who obey bis laws. Sometimes the
yoong are so nearsighted that they
cannot understand this. Life in Its
earlier days ■seme to be such a strag
gle for moot youag people that at
times they do not think it pays to be
feed. Thus some of them ptay th*
fool, as did David down lu King
▲cbish’e court. But, my young friend,
I have a wide and varied experience,
and I want to tell you that it never
pays to break one of God’s laws. And
I also want you to know that some of
the trials and troubles of life of which
you are now complaining are yet to be
the keynotes which are to sound forth
your most glorions and happy songs of
praise.
But there Is one word In reference
to my text to which I want to draw
your attention. It is the last word:
“Thy statutes have been my song lu
the house of my pilgrimage.” Now,
what is the pilgriimyrc? “Oh,” you ]
answer, “a pilgrimage Is a Journey; It .
Is a long tramp; It is a long, wear!- '
some, tiresome trip.” Is that your
definition of a pilgrimage? Then, my
friend, It Is a wrong definition, for you
have only told me half the truth. TIs
true, a pilgrimage is a Journey. But it
is distinctively a Journey to a shrine.
Now, what w-as the sacred place to
ward which the pilgrimage of David
was heading? Why, there Is only one |
rational answer: It Is the sacred place
of heaven. It was toward the sacred
place where Christ and all David’s
dear ones were to greet him. It was
not a pilgrimage which began at the
cradle and ended at the grave, but It I
was a pilgrimage which began at the
cradle and ended at the great white
throne of God. Oh, was It not a glori
ous destiny toward which the ancient
psalmist was beading? It was to en
ter the presence of the God whose stat
utes had become songs to him. That Is
the man who will enjoy heaven. Not
the man to whom the laws of God are
burdensome and painful, but he whose
delight It Is to obey and serve God.
To him, even in this world, there come
echoes of the songs of heaven. His
ears acquire a miraculous power. Why,
as he listens he can hear all the re
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deemed of heaven singing their songs
of triumph. Yes, the statutes of the
law have been his song so long that
he can catch the songs of the heavenly
lar Is. Christian, as you are now,
ea; you not catch a faint whisper of
your dear ones singing In the other
w »rld?
T trough the harsh voices of our day
A low, sweet prelude finds Its way;
7 hrough clouds of doubt and creeds of
fear
light Is breaking calm and clear.
' hat song of love now low and far
lire long shall swell from star to star;
That light the breaking day which tips
The golden spired Apocalypse.
[Copyright, 1907, by Louis Klopsch.]
Georgs Bernard Shew as He Seems.
I doubt if any man suffers less than
George Bernard Shaw from the vaga
ries of our climate. He looks under-
vitalized, and his extraordinary vital
ity is perhaps the most amazing thing
about him. You would certainly any
that his health was chronically bad—
If you did not know that be never
confesses, if he can possibly help it, to
any least indisposition. He looks anae
mic, and the flesh of bis face la in
clined to flabbiness, as If be were a
man who shirked his fair amount of
exercise ajxi was careless about his
diet. IIUrriOM* would have been appro
priate to the poet Byron, who drank
gin./Yle has ibe mouth of a voluptu
ary, the brow of a Madonna and the
eyes of a soldier. If you saw the back
of his head from behind a counter aa
he turned away to lift down a cannla-
ter of tea, it would look quite like the
back of the head -Immensely long and
narrow and showing a lot of nape—
of any usual grocer. And I have been
shaved by his very double and twin
in a barber’s shop in the old Hamp
stead road. Indeed, Bernard Shaw far
more resembles some respectable
tradesman or decent artisan or even a
Methodist preacher than what be la
the most brilliant epigrammatist and
daring revolutionary of his time.—T.
P.’s Loodon Weekly.
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Halt!
Just stop and think
one moment about your
printed stationery. “A
firm or individual’s
Abner’s Luck.
“Yes," said Mrs. Taft, “I’m afraid
Abner’a going to be the unlucky kind."
She gazed after her son’s retreating
figure and sighed so deeply that the
new boarder looked at her inquiringly.
“Nothing awful In that line,” Mrs.
Taft hastened to say. “I don’t mean
that But in little atinglng ways that
kind o’ take the heart out of him and
touch his pocket at the same time.
I’ll tell you. Most aa noon aa he went
to Boaron to work Abner fell in love
with a girl that worked in the same
store.”
“That may have been good, not bad
luck,” ventured the newcomer.
“In Itself you couldn’t say it waa one
or the other." Mrs. Taft said impar
tially. “But the girl lived in one of
the towns a litUe ways out of the city,
and soon as he made up his mind he’d
like to keep company with her Abner
up and bought a fifty trip ticket to her
place”—
“Yes, and”-
“And got turned down at the second
call," concluded Mrs. Taft with a wan
smile, “and the ticket left on his
bands."—Youth’s Companion.
A Roar From the Kaiser.
A Hamburg paper tells this story
•bout the kaiser’s attention to detail:
"Shortly after his arrival at Swine-
munde the kaiser was standing on the
bridge of the Hobenzollern when be no
ticed that the sentry, a member of the
Stettiner royal grenadiers, on duty near
the customs officer, wore a topcoat,
bat had bis trousers over his boots.
The kaiser shouted to the lieutenant of
the guard, ‘Lieutenant when toi>coats
nr* worn the trousers must be worn
Inside the boots.’ The officer, an ex
tremely youthful fellow, became con
fused and did not know what to do or
say, and the emperor called lu louder
tones: ’Lieutenant, I again call your
attention to the regulation. Boots most
be worn over the trousers by men who
wear topcoats.’ The command then
•ew from post to post and pedestrians
wondered why th* sokUecs suddenly
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