their own, just as much as to assert that their wisdom, or any other
part of their being, is their own, is to deny the primary fact of
their existence--that in God they live and move and have that being.
And therefore Milton's Satan, though, over and above all his other
grandeurs, he had been adorned with every virtue, would have been
Satan still by the one sin of ingratitude, just because and just as
long as he set up himself, apart from that God from whom alone comes
every good and perfect gift.

Settle it in your hearts, young men, settle it in your hearts--or
rather pray to God to settle it therein; and if you would love life
and see good days, recollect daily and hourly that the only sane and
safe human life is dependence on God himself, and that--


Unless above himself he can
Exalt himself, how poor a thing is man.



SERMON III. DAVID'S ANGER



Psalm cxliii. 11, 12. Quicken me, O Lord, for thy name's sake: for
thy righteousness' sake bring my soul out of trouble. And of thy
mercy cut off mine enemies, and destroy all them that afflict my
soul: for I am thy servant.

There are those who would say that I dealt unfairly last Sunday by