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less as a block of stone. Be strong but “ be strong in the Lord.” Napoleon, the Great, a lonely prison er, musing at St. Helena, said, “ Alexan der, Caesar, Charlemagne, and myself founded empires. But on what did we found them? On force! Jesus Christ alone founded His on love, and today there are millions who would die for Him.” V MS' v. 1. Jonathan said to armorbearer. It is probable that Jonathan was led into the hazardous enterprise he here pro posed by an immediate Divine impulse, and by the same COMMENTS FROM influence w a s MANY-SOURCES kept from in- Keith L. Brooks forming the sol diers and his father.-^—Treas. Scr. Knowledge. Come, let us go. The best hearts are ever the bravest.— Sterne. Courage consists not in blindly overlooking danger but in seeing it and resolving to conquer it by the help of God— Richter. When moral courage feels that it is in the right, there is no personal daring of which it is ' incapable.— Hunt. Opportunity re veals greatness in small places and_ smallness in great places.— Sel. Told not his father. All the world would have run to stop him insanely throwing away his life, but a voice spoke fer vently in his bosom, “ I am not throwing away my life.’’-r-Blaikie. Jonathan seems to have lost confidence in 'his father. He knew that he would be dis couraged if not forbidden to go on the errand that God prompted him to un dertake.— Torrey. v. * . Saul tarried under tree. This was no place for Saul when his people were in the hands of the enemy. He had six hundred soldiers and one priest. What a mockery of form. How many times has that spectacle been repeated -—the devil flourishing over the Lord’s people and they cowed before him try ing to keep up appearances.— Eliott. Surely Scripture is right when it makes the sin of sins unbelief which at bot tom is a refusal to take God’s deliver ance. No sharper grief can be inflicted upon the Spirit of God than when we leave His gifts neglected and unappro priated.—Maclaren. v. 3. Ahiah the priest. Saul still
Adoniram Judson from New England to Burma and it was the reading of Dr. Dick’s “ Philosophy of the Future State” which sent - David Livingstone as the Evangel of Christ into the dark Conti nent. When a soul follows God’s lead ing he starts a stream of blessing around the world. Jonathan was a courageous soul. Like the wife of a bankrupt merchant whose courage upheld her husband in time of need is this courage of Jonathan and his armour-bearer. On returning home one night a Banker said to his noble wife, “ I am ruined; everything I have is in the hands of the sheriff.” Aft er a few minutes of silence his wife looked into his face and said, “Will the sheriff sell you?” “ Oh, no.”* “Will hd sell the children?” “ Oh, no.” “ Then do not say that we have lost everything. All that is most valuable remains to us -—manhood, womanhood, and child hood. We have lost but the result of our skill and industry. Hope on, and look up.” Golden Text illustrations. Be sure you have real strength and power. “ I am a giant,” said a big siege-gun. “ I require thirty-six horses to drag me along the road.” “ X,” said the little aeroplane, “ carry my horse power inside myself and can go where I please.” “ 1 am firmly founded’,’ said the big siege-gun. “ I have a concrete base, while you have beneath you only the empty air.” "But my swift mo tion,” answered the aeroplane, “ gives me all the stability I need.” “ I can hurl a shell for 15 miles,” the siege-gun bragged. “ I can carry a shell 200 miles,” the aeroplane responded. Then the big siege-gun with an angry crash sent missile against a distant fortress, demolishing a massive wall. Instantly the little aeroplane dropped a shell upon the big siege-gun, which destroyed its firing mechanism and made it as use
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