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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

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"IS THE YOUNG MAN ABSALOM
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A SERMON

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SERMON.

2 SAMUEL xviii. 29.

"IS THE YOUNG MAN ABSALOM SAFE?"

The touch of nature comes out strongly here. And it is this touch of
nature appearing always in the Old Testament stories which gives to
them their reality. 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 g