Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1892-06-02
"SELAH. !"
The Majority of Bible Readers Lo6b
Upon This Word as Of No
Importance.
But DR.. Talmage Improves the 0ppor.
tunity to Disabuse His Peoples
Minds of the Idea.

BROOKLYN Special. Rev. DIR
Talmage took for the subject of his
sermon a single word OF frequent oc.
currence in the Bible, and whose
Meanings but little understood. From
it he drew profoundly impressive
description of the varied and ma.
jestic purposes of certain parts
of scripture, and practical
Lessons for Christians generally.
The text WAS Psalms kid: "Selah."
The majority OF Bible readers look
upon this word as of no Importance.
They consider it superfuity, mere
filling in, q meaningless interiection,
useless refrain, an underlined echo.
Selah! But have to tell you that it
is no scriptural accident. It occurs
"a time in the book of Psalms and
3 timesin the book OF Habahkuk. You
must not charge this perfect book
with II trivialities. Selah! It is an
enthrohed word. If, according to an
old writer, some words are battles
then this word is a Marathon, a
Thermopyl9, a Sedan, a Waterloo.
1t is q word decisive, something, for
poetic beauty, something for grandeur,
ind something for eternal import.
Through it rolls the laundering char
lots OF the omnipotent God.
take this word for my text be.
cause l am so often asked what is
it's meaning, or whether it has any
meaning at all. 1t has an ocean OF
meaning, from which I shall this
morning dip up only four OF five
bucketfuls. | will speak to you, so far
as l have time; OF the Selah of poetic
significance, the Selah OF intermission,
the Selah of emphasis and the Selah
OF perpetuity.
Are you surprised that speak OF
the Selah ofpoetic significance? Surely
the God who sapphired the heavens
and made the earth.
AROsEBUD OF BEAUTY,
with oceans hanging to it like drops
OF morning dew, would not make a
Bible without rhythm, without red
olence, without blank verse. Where
ever you find this word Selah it
means that you are to rouse up to
great stanza, that you are to open
your soul to great analogies, that you
are to spread the wing of your
imagination for great flight.
Wherever you find this word it is
signal of warning hung out to tell you
to stand off the track while the rush
ing train goes by with it's imperial
passengers. Poetic word, charged'with
sunrise and sunset, and tempest and
earthquake, ami resurrections and
mlllenniums.
NeA1 come W speak 10 tn ne Helan
u iilIeln1'sslon ueselilus' 1hol'lck,
- . .ii: o. s,l, "eree
40 10y :ne eneo 'liiH WHY ~, oets'il 'lietlll Is
t I ~ n,os'o' Mis'U ol'e' wrecks t..ll
solaai,, n ~ P",a,e' ~ l;al' II LIE
soieiil!l 'i','ien VI L"i;.l'i''Cloh' Every
musician ~ SHOWS Cl'e Importance OF IL:
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ne nns,.s eneto ., h ~ nnus, t pause:
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Eve l,l4re powIr &c wnI'! IS come aver.
~ ~ ,aus.i .me oe,.n ni'so ms oloie
ala ii 4t,;' our 'peiling US 10 stop
any any o .nanN, svop any CONSIDER, stop
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l ivpela'i s.op Mlu W slck, sCop ana a'e'
t Mngll ~ .eiis us ~ Ilmes meal 1I
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oooAs VI 'i'e o'o'e' ''e leaves 10
OUR COMMON SENSE.
to decide how often we should pause
in reading the other 81 books Of the
Bible. We must pause and ask fer
morelight. Wemust pause and absorb
| the strength OF one promise. some
times hear people boasting about how
many times they have read the Bible
through, when they seem to know no
more about it than passenger would
about the state of Pennsylvania who