The Red Cloud chief., 1892-06-03

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Lord" So there are mercies behind us,
and there are going to be mercies be-
fore us. 1t is good for us that God halts
us In our fortunes, and halts us with
physical distress, and halts us at the
graves of our dead. More than once
you and I have been halted by such a
Selah. You wrung your hands and
said: II can't see any sense in this
Providcnce; / can't see why God gave
me that my child II He Is so soon going
to take 1t away. o my desolate home! o
my broken hcart!" You could not un-
derstand II. But IL was not a Selah Of
overthrow. 1t gave you greater ap-
probation of the blessings that have
gone; 1t will yet give You greater ap-
probation of the blessings that will
come.
o, IL Is good that the Lord sometimes
halts us. David says: at is good that I
have been afflicted. Before I was af-
fiicted l went astray, but now have 1
kept thy word" Indeed, we must not
stop. Scientists have improved human
longevity, but none Of them have pro-
posed to make terrene life perpetual.
But the Gospel makes death only a
Selah between two Observation-Disclosures
dying triumph on the one side of the
grave and celestial escort on the other
side OF the grave. Going out Of this
life, to the unprepared, is great horror.
give me more l%audanum," said dying
Mirabcau; ''give me more laudanum,
that l may not think of eternity and
what Is to come" And dying Hobbies
said: ~ leave my body to the grave,
and my soul to the great perhaps" II
was he discord Of an infdel's life
breaking down into the jargon Of de-
spair; but the Gospel makes the death
OF the Christian n Selah between re-
demption and cnthronement. almost
WE'LL" said dying Richard Baxter; ''al-
most we'll" "Play those notes over
again-thosc notes which have been SO
great n delight and solace to me-" said
the dying Christian Mozart. "None
but Christ, none but Christ" exclaimed
dying Lambert.
Richard Cameron, the Scotch cove
hanter, went into the battle three times
praying: Lord spare the green and take
the ripe. This is the day I have longed
for. This is the day 1 shall get my
crown. Come, let us fight to the last.
Forward" 50 you see there Is only IA
short pause, n Selah of intermission, be-
tween dying consolation on the one side
and overlapping raptures on the other.
NV flesh shall slumber In the ground
TIL tho last trumpet's joyful sound:
Then burst tho chains with sweet surprise,
And In my Saviour's image rise.
next speak of the Selah Of cmpha-
sis. Ewald, the German oricntalist and
theologian, says that this word
to ascend; and wherever you find it, he
says, you must look after the modula-
ton of the voice, and you must put
more force into your %uttcrance. 1t is q
Selah OF emphasis. All! my friends,
you and l need to correct IL emphasis.
We put too much emphasis on this
world, and not enough on God and the
ncxt world. People think these things
around us are so important, the things
OF the next are not worthy of our con-
sideration.
The first need for some of us is to
change u emphasis. Look at wretched-
ness on n throne. Napoleon, while vet
emperor of France, sat down detected,
his hands over his face. A lad came in
with n tray of food and said: Eat, it
will do You good" The emperor looked
up and said: "You are from the coun-
try?" The lad replied, Eyes" "Your
father has n cottage and u few acres of
ground?" Eyes" ''There is happi-
ness" said the detected emperor. An.
Napoleon never put the emphasis in the
whit ,,1ann ,rN1 L. -
ing at st. Helena. On the other
hand, look at satisfaction amid
the worst earthly disadvantage. 81
never saw until l was blind" said u
Christian man. ~ never knew what
contentment was while l had my eye-
sight, as ] know what content Is now
that l have lost my eycsight- I affirm.
though few would credit it, that /
would not exchange my present posi-
ton and circumstances for my circum-
stances before I lost my eycsight."
That man put the emphasis in the right
place. We want to put less stress upon
this world and more stress upon our
God Us an everlasting portion. David
had found out the nothingness Of this
world and the all suficiency of God. No
ticc how he intcrjects the Selahs. '"Trust
in the Lord ut all times; We people, pour
out your heart before Him. God ID a
refuge for us. Selah." blessed be the
Lord who daily loads us with benefits,
even the God Of our salvation. Selah."
1.-THE Lord shall count, when He writeth
up the people, that this man was born
there. Selah." Let the world have its
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