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You may copy it, give it away or +re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included +with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.org + + +Title: Is The Young Man Absalom Safe? + A Sermon Preached in The Church of St. Mary Magdalene, + Stoke Bishop, on Sunday, July 19th, 1885 + +Author: David Wright + +Release Date: August 19, 2008 [EBook #26357] + +Language: English + +Character set encoding: ASCII + +*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK IS THE YOUNG MAN ABSALOM SAFE? *** + + + + +Produced by Gerard Arthus and the Online Distributed +Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net (This book was +produced from scanned images of public domain material +from the Google Print project.) + + + + + + + + + +THE FOLLOWING IS A LIST OF + +Cabinet and Carte-de-Visite Photographs + +OF + +HAWORTH + +AND + +THE BRONTE FAMILY. + + +_Cartes-de-Visite._ + + CHARLOTTE BRONTE + MR. NICHOLS + MR. BRONTE + MR. 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The writer of ordinary histories has for the most +part his favourites. These are the heroes of his imagination, and the +history of their doings is unconsciously tempered by this partiality. +And there are others whom he holds in disfavour. And the figure of +these on his page is darkened accordingly. And the book of another +historian passes over the same ground. But his sympathies are all the +other way; and the lineaments are altered; and the heroes are +displaced; and forms which are not heroes stand where they had stood. +And so the readers of history are mystified. They _do_ get at events. +But the actors in them wear no fixed shape. Their form varies. + +It is not so with the figures in the Old Testament. It is true they +are seen upon that page only. No second historian of the least +authority has any place in those scenes. But yet the narrative shows +its faithfulness apart from any such test. There are no signs anywhere +of favour or of disfavour interfering with fidelity. It is not certain +who the author was of the Books of Samuel. But whoever he may have +been he was certainly an admirer of David. That illustrious king stood +on a pedestal of his own before all the nation. And this writer tells +the principal events with which David's life and reign were mixed up. +But we can discover without a critical eye that he tells them with +rigid and inexorable adherence to nature and to fact. One of the very +darkest transactions belonging to that life, or indeed to any other +life in those past ages, is related point by point with no attempt at +alleviation: only with this comment at the end: "But the thing which +David had done displeased the Lord." If the pen of the writer who +tells the story of Absalom's rebellion had been guided by favour or +flattery, the fact would have been suppressed or at least toned down, +that the King's first word to the breathless messenger who brings +tidings of the victory which has saved his crown is this, "Is the +young man Absalom safe?" It is natural, it is human, it is fatherly, +it is pathetic and beautiful, but it is not heroic. + +This young man Absalom comes upon the page a few chapters back, and +gathers upon his name quickly the dark stain of murder. It is true he +has received most awful provocation, and the victim of that crime has +little of our sympathy. But there is no sign of penitence or of sorrow +in the mind of Absalom for this deep offence, by which he has violated +God's most holy law. His course runs on; it is a selfish, wilful, +violent, and graceless course, unredeemed, as far as we can see, by +any trace of better things. And it ends in base rebellion against the +throne and life of the father who had shown to this son more favour +and affection than to any of the rest. And the king fled before +Absalom and went over Jordan, and the rebel host followed, and there +was a great battle. And the servants of David conquered in that fight; +and we know the fate of Absalom. But who shall tell the king of this? +He was lodged in a stronghold called Mahanaim not far from the field +of battle; and had taken his place in the chamber between the inner +and the outer gate. And a watchman on the roof of this chamber kept +watch. + +Who shall tell the king of what has happened? Two messengers ran--one +following the other--the first the shorter way by the hills; the +second the longer way by the plain. But this one outran the other, and +the eye of the watchman on the roof of the chamber caught sight of +this single figure hastening over the plain, and then of the second in +the farther distance; and it did not need the sagacity of king David +to know that both of these brought tidings. And how would the tidings +be given in these days? "We have won the battle," or words like that. +And how were the tidings given in those days? "Blessed be the Lord thy +God, which hath delivered up the men that lifted up their hand against +my lord the king." The difference is worth observing. + +But we are looking upon the king and listening to his word. The +messengers have told the good tidings, and the king is speaking to +them very eagerly. "In what state is the army? Was the slaughter +great? Have any of the captains fallen?" He is not asking these +questions. The king of the people--the commander of the hosts--might +be expected to ask such questions. And David was both these. But David +was _the father of Absalom_, and all things besides gave way to the +yearning of the father's heart. "Is the young man Absalom safe?" The +first messenger cannot answer: or rather he evades the answer, for he +does know the fact. And then quickly comes up the second messenger. +And again the king is forgotten, and the interests of the nation are +forgotten, and everything else is forgotten, and the voice of the +_father_ speaks out again, "_Is the young man Absalom safe?_" We +remember the answer. It is gently said, but very finely, "The enemies +of my lord the king, and all that rise against thee to do thee hurt, +be as that young man is." + +We shall not need to follow the history further now. We are listening +to this same word from the lips of the fathers of the earth, and the +mothers of the earth, and all whom care for young men and young women +chiefly touches and most nearly concerns. Are they safe? We bring the +question down from the watch tower of Mahanaim, or from the chamber +between the walls, and give to it shape and interpretation after the +times in which we live. From the mouth of David it meant I think only, +Does Absalom still live? Is he not among the slain? We are not to +anticipate the revelation of later ages and say, as some have said, +that it was the thought of the future for his son after death which +moved the king of Israel so deeply. It was just the sorrow of another +father at an earlier time, also in the first throes of its bitterness: +"I will go down unto the grave unto my son mourning." And yet I think +that without anticipating any revelation, the man whose thoughts about +God and holiness were those which the Psalms of David disclose, cannot +have lost his best-loved son in the very act and deed of direful +guilt, without an aggravation of his anguish because of this sad +thing. If Absalom in the midst of upright walking and works of +righteousness had been stricken by disease and had died in his bed, +the tidings of this when it reached the father might and would no +doubt have moved him to deep sorrow. But I think we should not have +heard that wail of grievous lamentation from the roof of the chamber, +"O my son Absalom, my son, my son Absalom, would God I had died for +thee, O Absalom, my son, my son!" + +We sometimes hear of the world growing old. Brethren, the world can +never grow old. If by the world is meant the generations of men, it +can never grow old. Its seed is in itself; while it decays it +germinates; as it withers, it grows. The elders fall off, but their +place is filled and more than filled. The world is and must be while +things remain as they are now, for ever young. But of what kind is +its youth? That is the awful and tremendous question. Shall the +Absaloms abound? or the Josephs and the Josiahs? + +The elders have much to say to this. We bring no charge against the +father of Absalom. He was not fortunate indeed as to any of his sons, +of whom any record remains. Even of Solomon it can only be said that +he began well. But the ways of an Eastern court are past our knowledge +and judgment. We have to do with English homes. The youth of the +world, that which is now its youth and is keeping it from growing old, +of what kind is the influence upon it which they are bringing to bear +with whom the influence lies? And not the influence only, not that +only which comes from example and (as it were) unconscious agency, but +from counsel, from authority, from particular guidance? This must of +course vary according to the age. The young man or the young woman +does not brook the treatment which is fitting for the child. And the +attempt to enforce it will surely show itself wrong. Just as setting +the child on the footing of the young man or the young woman is +mistaken also; and that too will appear. As to the mode of treatment, +discretion, and (if I may use the word, for there is no other which +answers to it) _tact_, must decide upon this. But as to the principle +of it, as to that which should be the governing purpose of all +treatment of the young, its intention and its end, let us take from +the lips of the father of Absalom his word "safe." If it meant only in +that case, is he alive? still the word is to be noted: Is he safe? Or +is it well with him? It is the safety of the young--its being well +with them--which all who have their interests in charge should to the +utmost of their power care for. + +And what do we mean by their safety? We know there are some in these +days who ask the question--"Are you saved?" meaning by that, "Have you +the eternal salvation?" It is a presumptuous question, and if answered +at all is answered presumptuously. It is forestalling the everlasting +things. Safety as we speak of it is not that. But--peril tracks the +course of the young, peril in some way perhaps of deeper hazard than +our fathers knew. There is that peril as old at least as Solomon, and +which he expressed in this way: "Rejoice, O young man, in thy youth, +and let thy heart cheer thee in the days of thy youth: and walk in the +ways of thine heart, and in the sight of thine eyes." Follow, that +is--putting the poetry aside--follow the life of selfish pleasure and +indulgence to which thou art inclined. There has always been that +peril. It has run upon the courses of the world's youth all down the +ages. But now its lines are darker--at all events than they were in +the days of the writer of Ecclesiastes--"Know thou," _he_ said, "that +for all these things God will bring thee into judgment." And we may +say this too. But there is a large number of young persons now who +will answer: "We do not know this: we know nothing about God: who He +is, or _whether_ He is. If we are not to walk in the ways of our heart +and the sight of our eyes, to please ourselves and care for nothing +else, you must say to us something beyond this, that God will bring us +into judgment." + +Brethren, here is the greatest peril of this age. We may find one here +and another there who, with atheism at his heart, is still upright in +life. But break down the belief in God, and what the morals of the +people shall be, let that nation answer which set upon her altars now +nearly a hundred years ago the image of the goddess of reason. Let +faith in God fall out of the young man's heart or the young woman's +heart, and with it all fear of God, and what shall you put in its +place? What instead of this shall keep them straight in their way? +shall hold them safe? + +There is reputation. But this is a shifting authority. It changes with +conditions. It has no fixed standard. It depends on opinion. That +which makes the young in the most disastrous sense of the word +_unsafe_, may in no way interfere with their reputation--but quite +otherwise--with those among whom they live. + +Then there is what some have called the enthusiasm of humanity. We +cannot form any estimate of this as a power over men, because we have +no sort of understanding what it means. + +And there is civilization. Is it civilization which makes laws or +admits of laws and finds accommodating administrators of laws, under +the action of which the most sacred charge of a State--its helpless +and innocent childhood--is left a prey to vile associations of men and +women, from whose soul within them is obliterated all that was Divine, +and all which is not devilish? + +Civilization goes on its soft way, and takes under its smiling +protection persons who walk upon the earth's higher places, and finds +for them kind excuse and screens them from harsh frown, as they pass +from their pleasures back to its silvery paths, leaving behind them as +the price of their pleasures misery and ruin of which we may not speak +in this place. No fouler crimes debased old Rome in its worst days +than the crimes which the civilization of England's metropolis +condones. But the heart of the people does not condone them: and if a +great voice does not say this, we shall wonder and be sorry. In the +mean while let the parents and guardians of the young, and let the +young themselves, shrink back from civilization as a guide to their +way and as a power for keeping them safe, in the place of the Living +God. + +And our closing word shall be to the young. I said just now that the +world could not grow old. And because of the world having within it +the seeds of a ceaseless vitality, that is true. The world as it now +is cannot grow old. But a nation may grow old, may decay, and die. And +the youth of a nation--its young people--carry with them its +destinies. If there is in these more of wilfulness, of selfishness, of +slothful and luxurious bias--less of energy, of gentleness, of +kindness, of manliness, of purity--than there was in those who were +young twenty--thirty years ago, then decrepitude is growing upon the +nation. It is sinking. The sap of its life is drying up. + +But the young are not likely to think much of what they do or of what +they are, as it concerns the nation. Let them think of it as it +concerns themselves. My younger brethren, shall the life that you are +living be a blessing to you and not a curse? Shall it be to those +around you a blessing and not a curse? Then hold fast your faith in +the Living God. Is it drooping in some minds? Do they ask where they +shall find Him? The Jews of old time wore fringes on the borders of +their garments, and upon these were written some words of the law. It +was an ordained thing. "And ye shall look upon this fringe," it is +said in a noble passage of the book of Numbers, "it shall be to you +for a fringe, and ye shall look upon it, and ye shall remember the +commandments of the Lord your God, and do them, that ye seek not after +your own heart and your own eyes, but that ye may remember, and do all +my commandments and be holy unto your God." + +We wear no fringes on the borders of our garments. But the law is +written in every heart. Look upon it, young men and young women, and +remember--_That is God_: not a stream of tendency or any such vague +and fantastic shadow. But, _That is God_--the Father of our Lord Jesus +Christ, and in Him your Father. + +Are you astray from Him? not fulfilling His word? We are all astray. +But is your eye towards Him, and your heart and your foot moving that +way? We see no messengers running with tidings in their mouth, one +over the hills and the other over the plain. The father of the son who +is astray waiteth not in the chamber between the walls until he may +ask of the messengers who come, Is my son safe? But the Father _runs +Himself_: "when he was yet a great way off his father ... _ran_." The +distance between these two is lessening hour by hour. Let the son who +was and is still astray, bend his steps with earnest will on the track +by which the Father comes; and--it is not my word--it is the greatest +of all words which has been spoken upon this earth, the Father shall +receive him "_safe_ and sound." + + + +I.E. 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