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the ark, the white-robed choirs, the cymbals, harps, the psalteries, the cap tains with their thousands, the multi tudes shouting! David’s heart was overflowing with joy. He danced to the glory of God. His wife (daughter of Saul) didn’t like it. She couldn’t un derstand It. There are three Psalms which owe their birth to this event,— the Fifteenth, the Sixty-eighth and the Twenty-fourth. The Fifteenth, has reference to the death of Uzzah; the Sixty-eighth is a pro cessional; the Twenty-fourth, the final, sung at the entering in at the gate. Now read these Psalms, especially the Twenty-fourth, and read into them the spiritual significance of this scene. * PRACTICAL POINTS (1) God will have His own way with His own work. (2) Abinadab was not a believer; therefore the ark brought him no bles sing. (3) God maintains His character by manifesting His displeasure of man’s ir reverence. (4) It is an awful thing to put a finger upon the doctrine of the Deity of Ihrist. (5) Where the ark (Christ) rests, there the blessing is bestowed. (6) Dancing is not dangerous, if it is done before the Lord. (7) “ How shall the ark of the Lord come to me? v. 9. Answer: By sacri ficial blood, v. 13. (8) “ Lift up your heads, O ye gates; even lift them up ye everlasting doors, and the King of glory shall come in.”
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LESSON singing i n Welsh ILLUSTRATIONS they repeated it in W. H. Pike English, and just as they finished t h e line, “ Safe into the Haven guide,” the Captain on the bridge tapped three bells; the watchman on the first lookout re peated the three taps on his larger bell, and sent out over the decks and out over the water the cry, "All’s well.” Far up in the crow’s nest, nearly a hun dred feet from the deck, the watchman in the second lookout'caught it up, “ All’s well!” The Ark is the symbol of the presence of God and when it entered into Jerusalem “ All is well.” “ All’s well” if the presence of God is in every heart. David Danced in Worship. This kind of dancing is always per missible. Dancing before the Lord in worship. The poet Carpini once asked his friend Haydn how it happened that his church music was almost always of an animating, cheerful, and even gay description. The great composer re plied: “ I cannot make it otherwise. I write according to the thoughts I feel; when I think upon God, my heart is so full of joy that notes dance and leap, as it were, from my pen; and, since God has given me a cheerful heart, it will be easily forgiven me that I serve Him with a cheerful heart.” “No Ark of Worship, No Blessing.” Think of the loss to Israel when they had no ark. A man once stopped a preacher in a street of London and said, “ I once heard you preach in Paris, and you said something which I have never forgotten, and which has, through God, been the means of my conversion.” “What was that?” said the preacher. “ It was that the latch was on our side of the door. I had always thought that God was a hard God, and that we must do something to propitiate Him. It was a new thought to me that Christ was waiting for me to open to Him.” If the
Subject Illustration. One evening a large group of Welsh men were singing some of their favorite hymns on an ocean liner where some 2000 passengers enjoyed their music. Just at dark they sang, “ Jesus, Lover
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