Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1892-06-03


that have gone; it will yet give you greater
appreciation ot the blessings that will come.
When the Huguenots were being very
much prosecuted in France a father and
mother were obliged to a. from the country,
leaving their child in the possession of a
comparative stranger. They did not know
whether they would ever return, or return
ing, 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 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. It must have been a
great exigencv to make father do that.
Years OF absence passed on and after
awhile the parents returned, and their first
anxiety was to find their lost child, They
looked up and down the land examining the
awhile the father found maiden with a scar
upon her wrist. She knew him not, but he
knew her. And oh, the joy of the reunion!
80 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
Oh, it is good that the Lord sometimes
halts us. David says, 1T is good that have
been afflicted. Before was afflicted went
astray, but now have kept Thy word" In
deed, 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 a Selah between
two Observation-Disclosures diving triumDh
on the one side of the grave and celestial es-
cort on the other side of the grave. Going
out OF this life to the unprepared is a great
horror.
''Give me more laudanum" said dyinS
M1rabeau; give me more laudanun that
may not think of eternity and what is to
come" And dying Hobbies said, 81 leave
my body to the grave and my soul to the
great perhaps" It was the discord of an in
fideps life breaking down into the jargon of
despair; but the Gospel makes the death Of
the Christian Selah between redemption
and enforcement. almost WELL" said dy-
ing Richard Baxter, 'almost WELL" ''Play
those notes over again-those notes which
have been SO great a delight and solace to
me" said the dying Christian Mozart. 'None
but Christ. none but Christ" exclaimed dy-
ing Lambert.
Richard Cameron, the Scotch covenanter,
went into the battle three times praying:
"Lord, spare the green and take the rip3.
This is the day I have longed for. This is
the day shall get my crown. Come. let us
fight it to the last. Forwardp So you see
there is only short pause, Selah OF inter-
mission, between dying consultations on the
one side and overstopping raptures on the
other.
My flesh shall slumber in the ground
Till the last trumpet's joyful sound;
Then burst the chains with sweet surprise,
And in my SaViour's image rise.
next speak of the SeIah of emphasis
Ewald the German orientalist and theolo.
gian, says that this word means to ascend:
and wherever you find it, he says, you must
look after the incubation of the voice and
you mustpu more force into your utterance.
1t is a Selah of emphasis. ALL nv friends
you and need to correct our emphasis. We
put too much emphasis on the world and not
enough on God and the next world. People
think these things around us are so import
ant, the things of the next are not worthy
OF our consideration.
The first need for some of us is to change
our emphasis. Look at wretchedness on a
throne. Napoleon, while yet emperor of
France sat down detected his hands over
and said. Eat. it will do you good" The
emperor looked up and said, You are from
the country% The lad replied, Eyes"
Your father has cottage and few acres
of groundY' Yes" "There is happiness"
said the detected emperor. All! Napoleon
never put the emphasis in the right place
until he was expiring at st. Helena.
On the other hand, look at Satisfaction
amid the worst earthly disadvantage. Il
never saw until was blind" said a Chris
tian man. II never knew what content
ment was while l had my eyesight as know
what content is now that [ have lost my
eyesight. [ affirm, though few would credit
it, that [ would not exchange my present
position 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 upon this world
and more stress upon our God as our ever
lasting portion.
David had found OFT the nothingness of
this world and the all-sufficency of God.
Notice how he interjects the Selahs. Trust
in the Lord at all times; ye people, pour out
your heart before Him. God is 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
pomp. Let me have the Lord for my light,
my peace my fortress my pardon, my hope,
my heaven.
What sinners value resign
Lord! It's enough that Thou art mine.
shall behold Thy blissfuI face,
And stand complete in righteousness.
This world is all an empty show,
But the bright world to which go
Hath joys substantial and sincere
When shall wake and find me- there2
o glorious hour! o blest a5ode
shall be and like my God,
And sin and sense mora control
The endless pleasures Of my soul.
But when 1 speak of the Selah of emphasis
I must notice it Is a startling, dramatic
emphasis. 1t has in it the Harlz the Hist
of the drama. That Weakening and arousing
emphasis we who preach or instruct need
to use more frequently. The sIeepiest
audiences in the world are religious
You Sabbath-school teachers ought to
have more of the dramatic eIenent In your
instructions. By graphic Scripture scene, by
anecdote. by descriptive gesture, by i'm
personation urge your classes to right action
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