. The culture of Christian manhood; Sunday mornings in Battell chapel, Yale university . from his hand,And lowering crept away and left the came the kings son, wounded, sore bestead,And weaponless, and saw the broken sword,Hilt-buried in the dry and trodden ran and snatched it, and, with battle-shoutLifted afresh, he hewed his enemy downAnd saved a great cause that heroic day. 29 The Part We Know By Alexander McKenzIe, Minister of the First Church in Cambridge Silver and gold have I none; hut such as I have give Ithee.—Acts Hi. 6. THESE are very simple words. Thethough
. The culture of Christian manhood; Sunday mornings in Battell chapel, Yale university . from his hand,And lowering crept away and left the came the kings son, wounded, sore bestead,And weaponless, and saw the broken sword,Hilt-buried in the dry and trodden ran and snatched it, and, with battle-shoutLifted afresh, he hewed his enemy downAnd saved a great cause that heroic day. 29 The Part We Know By Alexander McKenzIe, Minister of the First Church in Cambridge Silver and gold have I none; hut such as I have give Ithee.—Acts Hi. 6. THESE are very simple words. Thethought is neither original nor pro-found, but it has always been a popular this is because we are so often askedto give what we cannot give, or we requireourselves to do what we cannot do, that thereis special encouragement in being told onhigh authority that we can only do what wecan and give what we have. The incident itself is familiar. A manlame from his birth was laid at the BeautifulGate of the T-emple at the time of the even-ing worship. He saw the two Galileans, 30. /^o^^ -J^^ /^S.€^<._/:^^ -O The Value of Money-Peter and John, entering in, and he looked tothem for an alms. They fastened their eyesupon his longing eyes, and Peter said, Sil-ver and gold have I none. It was silverand gold the man wanted, and his rising hopefell into disappointment. But Peter finishedhis sentence, Such as I have give I thee,and the man was content. The first wordsare of little account, save as a natural beginning. The latter words hold the force of thesentence. It was of no consequenceto Peteror to the man what the apostle had not; thestrength was entirely on the positive side.* What I have is in itself a strong , that which he had was in itself ofmuch greater value than that which he and gold are of great worth, but theycannot do all things. They can build a hos-pital, but they cannot create can endow a college, but they cannot
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