Old Events and Modern Meanings: And Other Sermons (Classic Reprint)

Excerpt from Old Events and Modern Meanings: And Other Sermons

Look at the story and you will find that it is no confession of failure. It is the war-shout Of Victorious men. It is not the sigh of valorous souls well-nigh defeated in the battle of life, yet rallying their despairing energies for one struggle more. It is the exultant song Of conquerors seek ing more worlds to conquer. These men were flushed with success. They were weary; but it was through piling triumph on triumph. They had driven their enemies before them. They had scat tered them as the dust of the highway. Yet still they pursued, and, determined that nothing should block their onward march, pressed forward to greater deeds. They were faint, it is true, faint with the strenuous effort which had brought Vic tory to their banners, yet pursuing greater glories than the glory they had won.

This is the true reading Of the text. SO read it is prolific in suggestion. It stands for a heroic ideal. These faint yet pursuing warriors, do you not know them well, and do you not admire them? The poor woman who had lived a starved and narrow life, when for the first time she saw the sea, thanked God that at last She had seen some thing Of which there was enough. These men look upon their accomplishments and never see enough of them. Are they preachers? They never see the crowd that is big enough, nor conversions that are sufficiently numerous to satisfy. Are they Church workers? Heaven be praised! Nothing is good enough for their Church. Theirs is the divine discontent. They always want something better.

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