The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1892-05-23

the man, ana 6IUSr eeV6Qby-tOuI Selduhs no
closes his book with the words, praise We
the Lord" 30 there are mercies behind US ,
and there are going to be mercies before u.s.
1t is good for us that God halts us in our
fortunes. and hslts us with physical distress,
and halts US at the graves OF our dead
More than once You and have been halted
BY such a Selah. You wrung your hands
and said, "a can't see any sense in this pro-
violence; 1 can't see why GOD gave me that
child, if he is so soon going to take il away.
Q, my desolate home o, my broken heart ~
You could not understand it, But 1t was
not q Selah of overthrow. Il gave you
greater appreciation OF the blessings that
have gone; it will yet give you greater ap-
probation of the blessings that will come,
When the Huguenots we're being very
much prosecuted in France, a father and
mother were obliged to fly from the coun-
try, leaving their child in the possession Of
comparative stranger. They did not
know whether they would ever return, or
returping if they would be able to recognize
their child, for by that time she might be
grown. The mother was almost frenAed at
the thought of leaving the child, and then,
even il coming back again, not being able to
know her. Before they left, the father drew
his sword, and he marked the wrist of that
child with deep cut 1t must have been
great exigency to make father do that
Years of absence passed on, and after a
while the parents returned, and their first
anxiety was to fiud their lost child. They
looked up and down the land, examining
the wrists of the young people, when 10!
after while the father found q maiden
with a scar upon her wrist. She knew him
not but he knew her. And o, the JOY OF
the reunion So it is now. Whom the
Lord loveth he chasteneth." He cutteth he
marketh, and when he comes to claim his
own the Lord will know them that are his;
know them by the scar of their trouble,
know them by the stroke OF their desolation.
o, lit is good that the Lord sometimes
halts us. David says, at is good that |
have been afflicted. Before l was afflicted
went astray, but now have kept thy
word" Indeed, we must all soon stop.
Scientists have improved human longevity,
but none OF them have proposed 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 hor-
ror. "Give me more laudanum )" said dying
Mirabeau: "give me more laudanum that
may not think of eternity and what is to
come" And dying Hobbies said. al leave
my body TO the grave, and my soul to
the great perhaps" 1t was the dscord
of an infdel's life breaking down into the
iargon of despair; but the gospel makes
the death of the Christian a Selah
between redemption and enthronement.
almost well,n said dying Richard Baxter;
~'almost well.n "Play those notes over
again-those notes which have been so
great delight and solace to me-" said the
dying Christian M Fart. None but
Christ none but Christ, exclaimed dying
Lambert.
Richard Cameron, the Scotch covenanter,
went into the battle three times praying
'Lord, spare the green and take the ripe.
This is the day | have longed for. This is
the day / shall get my crown. Come, let
us fight it to the last Forwardn So you
see there is only short pause, Selah Of
intermission, between dying consultations
on the one side and overlapping raptures
on the other.
My flesh shall sumber in the ground
IN the last trumpet's joyful sound;
Then burst the chains with sweet surprise,
And in my Saviors image rise
Inext speak of the Selah of emphasis.
Ewald the German orientalist and theo-
logan, says that this word means to ascepd,
and wherever you find it, he says, you must
look after the meditation of the voice, and
you must put more force into your utter
ance. 1t is Selah of emphasis. An! my
friends, you and need to correct our en-
phasis. We put too much emphasis on
this world and not enough on God and the
next world. People think these things
around us are 80 important, the things Of
the next are not worthy of our conSidera-
ton.
The first need for some of us is TO change
our emphasis. Look at Wretchedness on
throne. Napoleon, while yet Emperor OF
France. sat down detected, his hands over
his face. A lad came in with a tray Of
food and said, Eat, 1t will do you good"
The emperor looked up and said you are
from the country" The lad replied.
Yes" Your father has a cottage and
few acres of groundp Eyes" There is
hanY,fpaaz ~ said the daiactad
Napoleon never put the emphasis In the
right place until he was expiring as st.
Helena. On the other hand, look at Salts
faction amid the worst earthly disadvan-
tage. never saw until was blind, ;" said
a Christian man. Al never knew what
contentment was while l had my eyesight,
as know what content is now that have
lost my eyesight. l affirm, though few
would credit it, that l would not
exchange my present position and
circumstances for my circumstances
before lost my eyesiRhtn That
man put the emphasis in the right place.
We want TO put less stress upon this world,
and more stress upon our God as our ever
lasting portion. David had found out the
nothlngness of this world and the all-suffi~
cheney of God Notice how he interjects
the Selahs. Trust In the Lord at all
times; ye people, pour out your hearts be-
fore him. God is refuge for us. Selah."
with benefits, even the God of our saliva
ton. Selah." THE Lord shall count W hen
he writeth up the people. that this man was
born there. Selah." Let the world have
its honors and its riches and its pomp Let
me have the Lord for my light, my peace,
my fortress. my pardon, my hope, my
heaven.
What sinners value resign;
Lord tits enough that thou art mine.
shall behold thy blissful face,
And stand complete in righteousness.
This world is all an empty show,
But the bright world to which 90
Hath joys substantial and sincere:
When shall awake and find me theres
o, glorious hour! o, blest abode,
! shall be near and like my God,
And sin and sense no more control
The endless pleasures of my soul.
But when speak of the Selah OF emphasis
must notice it is startling. a dramatic
emphasis 1t has in it the bark, the hist of
the drama. That Weakening and arousing
emphasis we who preach or instruct need to
use more frequently. The sleepiest audi
ences in the world are religious audiences.
You Sabbath school teachers ought to
have more OF the dramatic element in your
instructions. By graphic scripture scene,
by anecdote, by descriptive gesture, by im-
persopatlOn, urge Your Glasses to right ac-