In the battle of Bull Run a lad had been dreadfully wounded, but he was borne to the hospital, where his father visited him. The surgeon was there probing for the bullet that had done its fatal work, and the father, as he seated himself by the bedside, said, "My poor boy you are terribly hurt, I see, in the back." "No, father, I am wounded in the breast. The bullet went in here," and he laid his hand on his breast, "not at the back." The bullet was not received in the back, though it was being searched for there. He showed the bleeding wound to his father, and it was in the breast. So with David. Whatever the issue be today, whether he kills Goliath or Goliath kills him, I know that his wounds will be in the breast. If you be slain before the foe, let your dead corpse tell that you died facing the enemy. Fronting the foe is a stiff position for the shepherd lad to take up. Whatever the issue, the fight will be a fair and square one; there will be no wounding in the back. David has committed his cause t o God, and that is better than committing it to man. Is David alone when He stands there before that giant? And, the living God, is with him, and he is all right. If your have God, what does it matter whether you have man or not. If you have Jesus Christ with you, let others applaud or hiss; it is all the same to you, you will go forward. -- J. Robertson.
By J. Wilbur Chapan, "Present Day Parables."