DAY 113 Read 1 Chronicles 12:1-22; 1 Samuel 31; 1 Chronicles 10; 2 Samuel 1 and 2; Psalm 7.
Today's reading: Saul and all but one of his sons die in battle. Does David rejoice at the death of his enemy? No! Rather, he mourns. The people of Judah make David their king, but the other tribes at first accept Saul's son.
Memory gem: "I will praise the Lord according to his righteousness: and will sing praise to the name of the Lord most high" (Psalm 7:17).
Thought for today:
One of the most touching incidents recorded of the late Duke of Windsor, when he was Prince of Wales, tells of his visit to a small private hospital where thirty-six hopelessly injured and disfigured veterans of World War I were cared for. He stopped at each cot, shook hands with the veteran, and spoke words of encouragement to him. He spent about an hour doing this.
Finally the head nurse led him to the exit; but before leaving he said: "I understand you have thirty-six patients here. I have seen only twenty-nine." He was told that the others were hideously disfigured, and that was the reason he was not taken into their ward. On learning of this consideration for his feelings, he insisted on seeing them. He was led into the room and bent over every cot long enough to thank each soldier for the sacrifice he had made and to assure him that neither he nor England would ever forget it.
When he had finished, he said to the nurse: "I've seen only six men here. Where is the seventh man?" She replied that no one was permitted to see him. He was blind, maimed, hideously disfigured, and was kept alone in a room from which he would never go alive. "Please do not ask to see him, Sir," the nurse pleaded; but the prince insisted.
Reluctantly she led him to the darkened room. As the prince approached the bed, his face was white, his lips drawn. In that dim light he looked down and saw what had once been a man but now seemed only a horror. Tears came to his eyes. Then impulsively he bent down and kissed the cheeks of that poor broken hero. This was his tribute to the British Empire's 900,000 dead and her 2 million wounded men. You see, he did not forget his comrades in arms. He did not desert or betray them.
Today's reading: Saul and all but one of his sons die in battle. Does David rejoice at the death of his enemy? No! Rather, he mourns. The people of Judah make David their king, but the other tribes at first accept Saul's son.
Memory gem: "I will praise the Lord according to his righteousness: and will sing praise to the name of the Lord most high" (Psalm 7:17).
Thought for today:
One of the most touching incidents recorded of the late Duke of Windsor, when he was Prince of Wales, tells of his visit to a small private hospital where thirty-six hopelessly injured and disfigured veterans of World War I were cared for. He stopped at each cot, shook hands with the veteran, and spoke words of encouragement to him. He spent about an hour doing this.
Finally the head nurse led him to the exit; but before leaving he said: "I understand you have thirty-six patients here. I have seen only twenty-nine." He was told that the others were hideously disfigured, and that was the reason he was not taken into their ward. On learning of this consideration for his feelings, he insisted on seeing them. He was led into the room and bent over every cot long enough to thank each soldier for the sacrifice he had made and to assure him that neither he nor England would ever forget it.
When he had finished, he said to the nurse: "I've seen only six men here. Where is the seventh man?" She replied that no one was permitted to see him. He was blind, maimed, hideously disfigured, and was kept alone in a room from which he would never go alive. "Please do not ask to see him, Sir," the nurse pleaded; but the prince insisted.
Reluctantly she led him to the darkened room. As the prince approached the bed, his face was white, his lips drawn. In that dim light he looked down and saw what had once been a man but now seemed only a horror. Tears came to his eyes. Then impulsively he bent down and kissed the cheeks of that poor broken hero. This was his tribute to the British Empire's 900,000 dead and her 2 million wounded men. You see, he did not forget his comrades in arms. He did not desert or betray them.
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