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SUNDAY MORNING. A SERMON FOR SUNDAY AN ELOQUENT DISCOURSE ENTITLED “A GREAT VICTORY.” The Bct. J, Wilbur Chapman Preaches Upon the Soul's Deep Longing After r God—Faith Will Conquer in the End / —God is Our Strength and Life. , New York City.— The Rev. Dr. J. Wil bur Chapman has furnished to the press a xnost striking and popular sermon which is intended for all those who would rise to better things. It is entitled “A Great •victory, and is preached from the texts: As the hart panteth after the water crooks, so panteth my soul after Thee, O kod.” Psalm 42: 1. “Hope in God, for T shall yet praise Him who is the health of iny countenance.” Psalm 43: 5. The first verse is a lamentation in the wilderness, the second is a shout of re joicing when victory is won. The terri toif stretching out from the wilderness in the one text to the presence of God in the other is not only the story of the expe rience of David, out of the most of ChrU tians. My message last week was to those who occasionally fall under juniper trees and ivar.t to <hc; ho? it is to all who .would rise to Letter thine?, r The Psalms are divided into five books, and the ancient Rabbins say in these five books in the Psalter we have the image of the five books of t-he law. or in other a kind of a second pentatench, the echo of the first. In the first God speaks and in the second the voice of the people is heard. God presents with ttie law, and grateful Israel resends with a shout of praise. These two Psalms form -the firil division of the second book. They ahe dedicated towho master mu>i ejans or the £CT3 of flotab. They were the celeb.ated musicians and singers of the day; they were in David's time the keepers of the threshold of the tabernacle, and still earlier in the time of Moses they were -watchmen at the entrance of the camp of the Levites; they were a part of that band that acknowledged David as leader at Ziklug; they were warriors with faces like lions, and who for speed were like gazelles on the mountains. Mr. Spurgeon says that although David is not mentioned as the author of these psalms they must be his, for the truth is eo him. It has the character of his style and the work of his experience in every letter. 1 had sooner question the authorship of Runyan’s second part of the “Pilgrim’s Progress” than to question Da vid's right to these psalms. Whoever wrote them has given a name to the soul’s deep longing after God and made a sigh a melodious thing. There are three divisions in the psalm, each closing with the refrain, “Why art thou cast down, O my soul?” The whole psalm is the picture of a soul climbing Godward, not without backward slips, but climbing nevertheless, until the sigh of the first text gives way to the shout of the second. Perhaps the singer during his exile on the eastern side of .lordan had seen some gentle creature with open mouth and heaving flanks eagerlv seeking water in the dry river bed, and be saw in this a picture of liimsolf. The whole psalm is like what we lrive seen on some early spring day. when the sun was warm, the skv blue, the trees ready to burst into bud and the birds were singing, but only for a day, then the clouds returned, the at mosphere was chilled, the birds are all stilled and the sun was under a cloud. nViewed in one way it is a psalm of gloom, in another way it is a psalm of glory. Streaks of biightncßH are ever Hashing •through the gloom. First there is a sigh as of a breaking heart, then conies a word of hope like a rainbow spanning the water fall; once again the contending enemies meet as in verses 0 and 10. but finally above it all comes the refrain without a complaint, “I shall yet praise Him who is the health of my countenance.” There are certain expressions most strik ing in the psalm. Three times docs David say “Why art thou cast down, O my 60111?” as tbotfgh he were two men. The psalmist talks to himself. John Trapp says it is David chiding David out of the dumps. To search for the cause of sorrow is often the best surgery for grief. In verse 8 notice the words. '‘The Lord will command llis loving kindness in the day time.” No day has ever dawned in which an heir of grace could be utterly forsaken. In the same verse we read “hi the night His song shall be with me.” Affliction may put out. our light at times, but if it does not silence our song the light will come again. Verse 3. psalm 42, “Send out Thy light and truth.” These are like an gels to guide him to the object of his af fections. hut finally above all sounds the note of victory. “Hope thou in God.” This is like the singing of Paul and Silas, it looses chains, shakes the prison walls and sets the prisoner free. Two graces men tioned in this psalm were used frequently by Christ, hope and faith. Faith tells ns what Christ has done: hope tells us what He will do. and hope is like the sun as wo journey toward )t; our burden is cast pack of us. Faith may have many a f'truggle with fear, but it. will conquer in the end. These two psalms arc really one; there is n constant unfolding of expe rience and rising to a higher appreciation of God. and as faith acquires more strength you will notice that not only David but ourselves come to think of God in a differ ent way and address Him in more endear ing terms. There ia no better illustration of this than these two psalms. !■ i. 1 “O God.” Debarred from public wor ship David is heart sick. He is not seek ing ease, he needs God. lie is not alter comfort, but like & traveler whose water bottle is empty and who finds the well dry, so he must have God cr he will faint. When it is as natural for us to long for God as for an animal to thirst, it is well with our souls. "O God,” we hear him paying. It is as if he can scarcely breathe for th rst. He does not know just what he is needing or just how God re veal Himself to him, but he must have God. All unrest or thirst or outgoing of desire are but the reaching out of the soul after God. We shall be satisfied only when we find Him. 11. “The Living God.” My soul thirsteth for God, for the living God. This :i advance upon the first expression, and this is Jehovah’s name of power. Ancient Israel was accustomed to use it before every victory, since it is higher than “O God!” In the first cry we naturally find it followed with a shout, of victory. “1 shall yet praise Him.” Hunger and thir-t are God’s instruments to call us to Him self. When the prodigal was an hun gered he said. *T will arise.” it i:> a pic ture of one who has tried other things in tho world, pleasure, wealth, and then cries out, “O for the living God. But thirst is better than hunger; you may pa-liate hunger, but thirst is? a perpetual appetite. The next best thing to being m the light of God’s love is to be unhappy until you have it. He is the living God because He has life in Himself and because He bestows that life to others. , in. ; “0 mv Goil.” Appropriation comes next, and once it is taken it is never dropped. He says. "God of mj- nte, and God mv rock.” there are five ‘nip m the forty-third psaim. "my cause, my strength.” “my joy,’ “mv son., my God. You n. ver real.y appreciate God until vou begin to apply Him to your lire, and He will be to you just what you wish. He is like a looked cesket Piled with jew els. You mav have such a casket in your possession. Only the key unlocking it can reveal to vou the preciousness of j our possession. This possessive pronoun is the icev ia this case, “my God, and when once yen have gaasped it nothing can stand agaitist you. David speaks of Jor dan, the Hermonites and Mizar. At Jor dan th* water rolled back on the iler- monites. the kings were defeated near to Mizar, the law was given, and he may have meant to say difficulties as great as Jordan, enemies as strong as the kings, none of these things shall move me, He is my God; or it may mean that since these j places are farthest from the tabernacle | David is saying, “What if I am afar off, no trial can be too severe for me.” IV. “God of my life.” This is further on in the line of truth. You will notice that the two preceding expressions are thus put together. One who is learning of God is like a child learning his alphabet. He knows his letters, but who is there that knows all the words into which the letters may bo shaped, and who has read all the books which they can make up. It is so with God. lie is the God of my life. What if I am forsaken. He is my Father; what if I am comfortless. He is like my mother; what if I am cast down. lie is my re storer; what if 1 am hopeless and undone, He is mv hone. V. “God mv rock.” David was a fugitive ' and had little means of defense. He is continually pursued bv his enemies, and since the country is full of mountains and caves of refuge are on every side of him they become to him the picture of God. He calls Him my rock. The names of God are suited to every circumstance in life. Nothing is more fitting for us than to cet hold of this expression of David's. You will be tempted on every side, the enemy is too strong for you, but literally David’s expression is. “God is my cliff.” That is. He rises above the tilings of this world, and He wants His children to understand tHat wherever there is a heart big with sorrow, wherever there is an eye filled with tears or a lip quivering with agony His ear is wide open to all their cries. He marks down every necessity in His j memory; He will not forsake His own. vi. “God my strength. ’ This means my strength belongs to God. and 1 must use it only for His gloiy. He is taking note of all that I do. and one day 1 shall be called to an account. God might if lie pleased wrap Himself about with night as a gar ment. He might dwell alone far above this world, and look down with indiffer ence upon the doings of II is creatures. We might look up into the heavens and behold the stars and say. “I am nothing compared with these, and God does not cage 4 or me.” but not so. He notices every one of ws. He knows our names, has numbered the hairs of our head, ami not a sparrow falls to the ground except beneath the gaze of llis eye. Whatever we do or bear or suffer the eye of God is upon us. One of the most interesting pictures in the. Jxmvre is that of Christ with eyes so wonderful that walk which wav you will the gaze is upon you. and so God is the God of my strength and one day 1 must answer to Him for it. VII. “God. my exceeding joy.” This includes all that has gone before, and it exceeds all others-, first, in its nature, for it is not happiness, that depends unon circum stances. It is joy of which David speaks which may he ours, though the night is upon us and the burden is really too heavy for us to bear. It exceeds all others in its duration, for it never ends. This can be said of no other experience, all others have their boundaries, hut this is an illimitable sen reaching beyond the bonds of time and lasting through eternity. “O God.” this is a soul's cry, “the living God.” no one else can satisfy. “My God.” He is mine, and nothing can separate me from Him. “God of my life ” He -will be whatever f long to have Him be. “God my rock.” He is mv defense in every time of need. “God my strength.” All that I have is His. “God. my exceeding joy.” He is be yond all that the world can give, and when that joy fills the soul earth is changed to heaven. Cave Cp All Tor Christ. There is a most impressive story related of the conversion ol an old lady of seventy years, in a little town in Western China through the. instrumentality of a Bible woman. One market day, as she was sell ing her v“s she heard a Bible woman talking about a God who loved and eared for people of every race and land. Becom ing rnlicit interested in this message the old lady began attending the Sunday serv ices conducted by the missionaries, walk ing four miles each way in order to do it. At last she was converted to Christ, a step which meant much to her, for in sur rendering herself to the Master she must give up her idol worship, which she real ized fully would bring upon her persecu tion and hatred. After destroying all of her idolatrous pictures on the walls and her many other idols chore yet remained in the centre room of her house a tablet to “Heaven and Earth,” which she dared not touch, for it belonged partly to a nephew whom sir' feared to offend. One night she had a wondeful dream. She thought she saw .1 cs.uk Christ coming across the valley to her house, and she cried our, “Saviour of the people, 1 am a sinner; come arid save me. ’ But though He drew near Her house it was only to look sadly in and pass sorrowfully by. On awakening she could not forget her dream, and every time she looked at the idola trous tablet she felt that perhaps this was keeping .Jesus out of her h'*usc. !S< she determined, at whatever cost, to get rid of it. and accordingly wrote her nephew to that effect, and was given permission to do with it what she felt inclined. But this wa £ s not all. So earnest was she in the new faith that she insisted that her house be whitewashed throughout that the Lord might not smell any trace of the in cense. Thus was born into the kingdom what proved 1o lie one of the most devout of Christ's followers. A Safe Uefnge. The day may be one of calamity. Dark clouds mav be over u:s and a terrible storm about to break upon us. Where shall we find safety? The providence of God may fill us with alarm, and v.e may iecl our selves left destitute and helpless. Where mav we hide our.-eives from the impending evil? Or. while all is peace about us, while others are rejoicing because of great good, wc are depressed in spirit, and in trie thought oi ourselves see only r.iu and judgment. llow sh.tii we escape? The 7Li:t of God has given us the answer: • God is our refuge; a help in trouble mo t readily to be found.” He is at hand and His ear is open to every cry of distress. ]Je is the Almighty, and within His loving care we are sate. He is the faithful, un changing One. and. therefore, will not for sake us. Hasten to the open door and to the outstretched arms of Him v/ho.-e love infolds you, and whose arm will guard from every harm.—United Presbyterian. Kvery Day's Bleiiinj. All that God gives to us day by day is, as it were, anew creation. We never re ceived it oefore. It never was our need until row. We may have received some thing like it before, but that was not this, nor could that have filled the place of this. Every day's blessing are to each of U3 as a special miracle froi.* the hands of the ever loving and the Almighty God, As John Banyan says, “Things that we receive at God's hand come to us a.s things from the minting house—though old in themselves, yet new to us.” What should we do if our Father failed'to give us current coin of his minting day by day?—Sunday-School Times. Divine and Spiritual. Our Lord speaks of things divine and spiritual just as if He tv ere speaking of things human and material. When danger lias passed over joy arises, nay, even greater joy than if the danger had never been.—The Rev. J. J. O’Neill, R. C., Brooklyn, N. Y. THE BRUNSWICK DAILY NEWS. 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