Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1892-05-26
halted by such a Selah.

been halted by such a Selah. You
wrung your hands and said, II can't
see any sense IN this Providence; I can't
see why God gave me that child, if he is
so soon going to take it away. Oh, my
desolate home! Oh, my broken hearth
You could not understand it. Bat 1t
was not a Selah of overthrow. 1t gave
you greater appreciation of the bless
ings that have gone; il twill yet give you
greater appreciation of the blessings
that will come.
HISTORICAL CITATIONS.
When the Huguenots were being very
much prosecuted in France a father and
mother were obliged to fly from the
| country, leaving their child Ill the pos
session of a comparative stranger. They
did not know whether they would ever
return, or returning, if they would be
able to recognize their child, for by that
time she might be grown. The mother
was almost frenzied at the thought of
leaving the child, and then, even if COM
ing 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 a deep cut. 1t must
have been a great exigency to make a
father do that.
Years of absence passed on and after
awhile the parents returned, and their
frst.anxiety was to find their lost child.
They looked up and down the land, ex-
amining the wrists of the young people.
when 10. after awhile the father found
a maiden with a scar upon her wrist.
She knew him not, but he knew her.
And oh. the JOY of the reunion! So it is
now. ''Naon1 the Lord loveth he chas-
teneth." 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.
Oh. it is good that the Lord sometimes
halts US. David says. 1T is good that
1 have been afflicted. Before l was
afflicted I 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 per-
petual. But the Gospel makes death
only a Se!ah between two beatitudes-
between dying triumph on the n side
OF the grave. aud celestial escof, on the
other side of the grave. Going out of
this life. TO the u~nprepared, is a great
horror.
Give me more laudanum." said dying
Mirabeau: give Inc more laudanum.
that / may not think of eternity ara
what is to come" And dying Hobbies
said. Il leave my body to the grave and
my soul to the great perhaps" 1t was
the discord of an infidel's life breaking
down into the .iarSon of despair: but the
Gospel makes the death Of the Christian
a Selah between redemption and Ell
thronement. almost we'll" said dying
Richard Baxter, almost we'll" Play
those notes over again-those notes
which have been SO great a delight ard
solace to me-" said the dying Christians
Mozart. None but Christ, none but
Christ exclaimed dying Lambert.
Richard Cameron, the Scotch cove
nanter. 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 l shall set
my crown. Come, let us fight it I the
last: Forward" So you see there is
only a short pause, a Selah Of intermis-
sion, between dying consultations on the
one side and overlapping raptures on the
other.
Ny flesh shall slumber in the ground
TIL the last trumpet's joyful sound:
Then hurstth chains with sweet surprise.
And in my saviour image rise.
AS AN EMPHATIC WORD.