Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1882-07-27
&eadina fur the Sabbath.
CONDUCTED BY
REV, ROBERT LATHAM.

a. The psalms have much of their power
in that they are the utterances of real life in
it's changes. The men believed, knew, felt !;
therefore they wrote We see the hand of
God and the heart of man. Such men have
never ceased to be. Names change, life keeps
it's course. The thoughtful man, whose years
are many, can sing the psalter and set his
own name for the pronOuns. 1t has been
called the ''sacred book of the world" How
old it. is, and yet ever young. The churches
have worshipped in its inspiring strains, rising
in it's eXultation, bowing in it's confession and
lament. The people have sung it's melodies
merchants, sailors, ploughmen sages, SOL
diers, priests: mothers with their children,
kings with their people. Cromwell led his
men to victory at Dunbar with the sixty
eighth Psalm; Luther strengthened his heart
with the vgor of the Psalms. Wallace had
his psalter hung before him at his execution,
and died with his eyes fixed upon it. Poly
carp, Hildebrand, IIuss, Columbus, Xavier,
Melancthon, Jewell, gave their last breath to
the words of psalm. On plsalm alone has
engraved itself on the hearts of men. The
penitence of the cOntrite souls has loved to
breath out miSercre. Thomas Arnold had the
ffty-frst psalm read to him when he lay
dying, and John Rodgers recited it as he went
to the stake. Jeremy Taylor transformed it
cry for mercy as she ascended to the scaffold,
and Sir Thomas Moore, as he laid his head
upon the block. Augustine had written on
the wall opposite the bed where he lay sick,
| "The sacrifices of God are a broken spirit, y
and Bernard died with the verse on his lips.
We draw with these instances from other
days. They might be found nearer to our time
and in our time. The Hebrew parchment
| lives in the reverent sentence which looks
down from the Royal Exchange in London,
down on the busy streets and the hurryiug
| thrOng Of men claiming ownership and hold
ing in brief possession in this world: ''The
earth is the Lords, and the fulness there
Of."-Dr. Mckenzie.
A HINT TO PASTORS.-Edward Irving sue.
ceeded in getting the sympathy and respect OF
an inidel shoemaker by the knowledge OF
leather, which he as Il tanners son. had ac'
uuired. He discoursed so skillfully Oh the
lShoelnaker's fabric, that he charmed him into
laying down his hammer and lapstOne, and en-
terng into conversation with him. Next he
was won to church and to the ministry, eXcus
ing himself to his inlidel friends by the excla-
nation 'IIes a sensible man. He kens
aboot leather ~
At one of Mr. Moody's meetings, a minister
related the following incident
| Il was nOllllS a IllSSlOU III Il COllltly uio
trict, and in the course of the morning, when
I was inviting people to the evening meeting
knocked ut Il door and found woman at d
washing-tub. l said to her : 81 called to tell
you am holding mission services at such and
such a chapel will you and your family join
us ?'' "Chapel," she said 'T am up to my
eyes in washing. I have three black men
coming in, and there's that wringing- machine
gave fifty shillings for it, and it's broken tlH
first round" She was in a towering passion
and thought would not say any more tc
her, so looked at the machine and found il
was not broken, but had only slipped out OF
it's gear l set it right, and then said "NoW
you have been hindered, so I'll just take turr
at the wringing." SO | went to work-turn
turn; turn At last she looked up and said
'Where did You say the chapel was ?" I tolt
her. She said, "Ill tell my husband tonight
and We'll Gomez That woman was saved
and her husband and all the family, and sht
became the best worker in the village, an(
there was blessed awakening in that place
She went from house to house saying, "Comt
and hear the minister it's he as mended thu
machine.'n