Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1884-03-06

cantered, ON ahead with Lucy Ross, who
rode Seneca at MariOn's request
TO BE CONTINUED.
NOTABLE PSALMS.
One of these is the first Psalm, in which
the righteous is compared to a tree plant
ed beside one of those channels in an ORR
entail garden into which irrigating streams
were introduced. The nineteenth is anoth-
er; in this the Psamist makes an abrupt
transmission from the glory Of God as it
shines in the heavens to the glory dis
played in his Word, that sun which is
more radiant than even the glorious lumi-
nary of day. 1t is great eulogy on Gods
Word But a still more extended one is to
be found in the hundred and nineteenth
Psalm, the longest of the Psalms, called,
from its peculiar structure in the Hebrew,
the Alphabetical Psalm. Almost every one
of the hundred ad seventy-siX verses of this
wonderful Psalm refers to some distinguish
ing title or property Of Gods Book.
Who does not admire the twenty-third
Psalm: 1t has sometimes been called the
children's Psalm, because so readily under
stood by children; but what child of God,
young or old would be willing to fOrego
his part Of it? The hundred and twenty
first has been called the Travellers Psalm.
1t is good to be read at the outset of jour
ney. The hundred and third is one Of the
grandest of the many Psalms of Thanks
giving. The second and seventy-second are
Missionary Psalms. These have also been
classed with the twentysecOnd, the sixty
ninth, and various others. as Messianic
Psalms, because they are so full of Christ.
Very often in his Psalms, David, led by the
Spirit of Christ, mingles the joys and sor-
rows of the Messiah with his own, but more
particularly in the Psalm just indicated.
The first is a morning Psalm, the fourth an
evening Psalm, and the ninety-second is a
Psalm for the Sabbath day. The ninetieth
may be called the funeral Psalm. The nine
ty-first is the family psalm. The ffty-frst
is the chief of the penitential Psalms ev-
cry verse of this Psalm is the wall OF bro
ker, lear tvvi, ponitcIrt rr1pturtiig Il gracious
pardon.
have written about these notable Psalms
for the benefit of those not much familiar
with their Bibles, but, he it remembered,
all the Psalms and all the Scriptures are
notable.
"Whatsoever things are written for our
learning that we, through patience and COM
fort might have hope" In the last inter-
view of our Lord with his diciples he said,
''These are the words which | spake unto
you while was yet with you, that all things
must be fulfilled which were written in the
law of Moses, and in the prophets, and in
the Psalms, concerning me-" 1t is added {:
'"rhen opened he their understanding that
| they might understand the Scriptures" 1t
! is the precious privilege of every prayerful
student of the Scriptures to enjoy a like en-
| lightenment with these favored disciples.
Let not God ever have to say to you what
he said of Ephram: 81 have written to
him the great things of my law, but they
were counted as strange thing. g."-1rkdn-
SOS Et0nga.
MAN AND THE SUN.-One hundred years
ago the diameter of the sun was four miles
greater than it is at present. One thousand
years ago the sun was forty miles greater
than it is at present. Ten thousand years
ago the diameter of the sun was four hum
dred miles greater than it is now. The adj
vent of man upon the earth took place no
doubt long time ago, but in the history of
the earth it is a comparatively recent phe-
nOmenOn. Yet it seems certain that when
man first trod our planet the diameter Of
the sun must have been many hundreds,
perhaps thousands of miles greater than at
present. We must not, however, overesti-
mate the significance Of this statement.
The diameter Of the sun is ut present $780,
600 miles, so that Il diminutiOn of 10000
dredth part of it's diameter. If the dame
ter, of the sun were to shrink tomorrow to
the extent Of 10000 miles the change would
not be appreciable to common observation,
though even a much smaller change would
not elute delicate astronomical measure
ment. The world on which the primitive
man trOd was certainly illuminated by Il
larger sun than that which now shines upon
us. 1t does not necessarily follow that the
climate must have been hotter then than
now. The question of warmth depends
upon other matters as well as sunbeans, so
that we must be cautious III any intercnceS
drawn in this way, nor any such differences
needed for our present Purpose.-Logn'o"'s.
CONVERSATIONAL talent for convers;l-
ton has an extraordinary value for common
every day life. Any one who has this gift
enters in Il social circle anywhere. How
every ones face brightens at his entrance.
How soon he sets all the little wheels in mo-
ton, encouraging the resources of the re-
served and shy, substituting the facile, and
making everybody glad and happy.
TO converse we'll is not to cngross the con-
versatiOn. 1t is not to do all the talking.
Itisnot necessary to talk with very great bril-
liancy. 4 man may talk with such surpass-
ing power and splendor as to awe the rest
of the company into silence, or excite their
envy, and so produce cnlll Wnere his ann
should be to produce heat and sunshine.
He should seek the art Of making Others
feel quite at home with him, so that, no
matter how great may be his attainments
or reputation, or how small may be theirs,
they find it insensble just as natural and
pleasant talking to him as hearing him
talk. The talent for conversation, indeed
more than anything else in life, requires one
to have more varied knowledge, and to
have it at instant and absolute disposal, so
that he can use ust as much or just as little
as the occasion demands. 1t requires the
ability to pass instantly and with ease from
the playful to the serious, from books to
men, and from the mere phrase of courtesy
to the expression of sentiment and passion.
TREATING DYSPEPSIA WITH SAND.-Dr'
g. kurus argues, from the facts Of COM
parative physiology, that fine sand is good
thing for dyspeptics to take with their food.
HerbiverouS animals all eat a little dirt
with their regular food, and it makes it
more "pOrOus.' Fowls and birds of all
kinds also take sand with their meals.
Why not therefore man? says DIR. Kerlus.
Putting this brilliant piece of inductive rea-
soning into practice, he administered finely
ground sand with the food Of his patients,
and of course reports cnres.