. Christian herald and signs of our times . mbition was served, he stop-ped at nothing, the wisdom of the arch-enemy was in his counsels, and David hadprobably at one time leaned too much uponhim (II. Sam. 16: 23) instead of inquiringof the Lord. But Hushai, Davids friend,offered counsel to Absalom which shouldbe more acceptable than Ahithophels,which, had it been carried out. might havebeen fatal to king David. The sons ofZadok too were on Davids side, and car-ried the news of what was doing in Jeru-salem to the king. The crisis approached;the father and the son were prepared forbattle, and p
. Christian herald and signs of our times . mbition was served, he stop-ped at nothing, the wisdom of the arch-enemy was in his counsels, and David hadprobably at one time leaned too much uponhim (II. Sam. 16: 23) instead of inquiringof the Lord. But Hushai, Davids friend,offered counsel to Absalom which shouldbe more acceptable than Ahithophels,which, had it been carried out. might havebeen fatal to king David. The sons ofZadok too were on Davids side, and car-ried the news of what was doing in Jeru-salem to the king. The crisis approached;the father and the son were prepared forbattle, and perhaps never was there an en-counter into which David went with lessheart and yet with more consciousness thathe was in the way of right. LESSON POINTS. Suggestions and Illustrations for the Iseof Sunday School Teachers. WELL worth careful study are thefive chapters from the fifteenth tothe nineteenth of this secondbook of Samuel which describe the eventsthat form the subject of the lesson. Thepurely literary skill of the writer is master-. ft THE MAUSOLEUM OF ABSALOM, NEAR JERUSALEM. ,/?>-,.,„„ rh-tograph. dence which he had abandoned ! Perhaps,also, with the addition of a brokenness ofspirit which only those who have beendeeply convicted of their sin, and whohave suffered intensely on account of itsconsequences on others, can know. NowDav id could not count his wicked son Ab-salom, nor yet the cursing Shimei, nor yetthe treacherous Ahithophel, greater sin-ners than he was himself. And yet hemust no longer sin by laxity in his deal-ings with his children, as he had done ;his sons rebellion was not only againsthim, it was open revolt against God whohad chosen his father to sit upon thethrone. It was Gods cause, and not apersonal one, that David must maintainagainst his rebellious son. If he had beentrue to his God in his dealings with Am-11 on nnd with Absalom before, tilingswould never have come to this pass. Ev-erv man of God who is a father mustserv e God first in all
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