Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1892-05-28


thy praise" and it converted him. Will
liam Cowper made n long pause after
the verse: "Being freely justified by His
grace" and it converted him. When
God tell us seventy-seven times medi-
tatively to pause in reading two OF the
books of the Bible, he leaves to our
common sense to decide how often we
should pause in reading the other sixty
four books Of the Bible.
The Selah of Habalskuk and David is
a dividing line between the two
anthems David begins his book with
the words: blessed is the man," and
after seventy-four Selahs, closes his
book with the words: praise We the
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 have been halted by such
Selah. You wrung your hands and
said: II can't see any sense In TINS
Providence; / can't see why God gave
me that my child If He is SO soon going
to take it away. o my desolate home! 0
my broken heart" You could not un-
derstand it. But it was not Selah of
overthrow. 1t gave You greater APP
probation of the blessings that have
gone; it will yet give you greater APP
probation of the blessings that will
come.
o, it is good that the Lord sometimes
halts us. David says: 1T is good that
have been afflicted. Before was af-
flicted l went astray. but now have
kept thy word" Indeed, we must not
stop. Scientists have improved human
longevity, but none of them have pro-
posed to make terrcne life perpetual.
But the Gospel makes death only n
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 u great horror.
''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: Il leave my body to the grave,
and my soul to the great perhaps" 1t
was the discord of an intiders life
breaking down into the jargon OF de-
spair: but the Gospel makes the death
of the Christian Selah between re-
demption and enthronement. almost
WE'LL" said dying Richard Baxter; al
most we'll" ''Play those notes over
again-those notes which have been so
great delight and solace to me, said
the dying Christian 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 get my
crown. Come, let us fight to the last.
Forward So you see there is only
short pause, Selah of intermission, be-
tween dying consolation on the one side
and overlapping raptures on the other
NV flesh shall slumber In the ground
Till the last trumpet's joyful sound;
Then burst the chains with sweet surprise,
Andin my Saviours image rise.
next speak of the Selah of empha-
sis. Ewald, the German orientalist and
theologian, says that this word means
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 utterance. 1t is a
Selah of emphasis. All! my friends,
you and l need to correct our emphasis
We put too much emphasis on this
world, and not enough on God and the
next 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 our emphasis. Look at wretched-
ness on a 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, it
will do you good" The emperor looked
up and said: ''You are from the coun-
try?" The lad replied, YES" Your
father has cottage and few acres OF
ground?" eyes" "Thcre is happi-
ness" said the detected emperor. All!
Napoleon never put the emphasis in the
right place until he was expir-
ing Mt St. Helena. On the other
hand, look at satisfaction amid
the worst earthly disadvantage. u
never saw until was blind" said q
Christian man. 81 never knew what
contentment was while had my eye
sight, as know what content is now
that have lost my eyesight. l affirm
though few would credit it, that
would not exchange my present posi-
ton and circumstances for my circum
stances before lost my eyesight.
That man put the emphasis in the right
place. We want to put less stress upor
this world and more stress upon oul