The Anglican pulpit library, [sermons, outlines and illustrations for Sundays and Holy Days] . fold goodness, andthat of the sort easiest to discern. Not only thefearless bravery of the three men themselves,—that seems an easyand commonplace virtue compared with the rest,—but their tenderand loving loyalty towards their chief, the way that they heeded hisleast word, and grudged no toil or danger for the satisfying hiswishes. And in David also we may notice, not only the religiousgenerosity of his offering the water before the Lord, but the tenderhome-sickness that led to the wish he uttered at
The Anglican pulpit library, [sermons, outlines and illustrations for Sundays and Holy Days] . fold goodness, andthat of the sort easiest to discern. Not only thefearless bravery of the three men themselves,—that seems an easyand commonplace virtue compared with the rest,—but their tenderand loving loyalty towards their chief, the way that they heeded hisleast word, and grudged no toil or danger for the satisfying hiswishes. And in David also we may notice, not only the religiousgenerosity of his offering the water before the Lord, but the tenderhome-sickness that led to the wish he uttered at first. In the wilder-ness, a wanderer and an outcast, he cared not to drink of the waterthat came nearest, for mere natural thirst of the body. He thirstedwith a nobler, a spiritual thirst. We read the psalm which he wroteat this time, 4 when he was in the Wilderness of Judah:1 it begins, O God, Thou art my God, early will I seek Thee. My soul thirstethfor Thee, my flesh longeth greatly after Thee, in a barren and dryland where no water is. And even where, as in the text, we find a242. HOLY DAYS more merely human and natural longing in his heart, it is still adesire, not for self-pleasing only, but for memories of love. What helonged for was something that should speak to him of the home ofhis childhood; his thoughts ran back to the well of Bethlehem thatwas beside the gate. I. To-day our minds are turned, as Davids was, to the memoriesof Bethlehem ; and if we consider the likeness between David and theSon of David, we may not find it unfitting to remember this act ofDavids life, and consider it as a type of what the true Champion andKing of Israel has done, and what His soldiers and servants havedone for Him. To-day we keep the memory, not of mighty menafter the flesh, but of Christs little ones; but let no one say that wehave no right here to look for mighty deeds. Though we walk in the flesh, we do not war after the flesh, for theweapons of our warfare are not carnal. T
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