Evening capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1888-1893, 1892-05-23

power, and the blood red earnestness, and
the fire of religious zeal, and ! do Tot
know Of any way of doing it as well as
through The dramatic. Attention. Be
holdl Harki Selahi
Next speak of the Selah of perpetu-
ity. The Targum, which is the Bible in
Chaldee. renders this word Of my text
forever" Many writers agree in be-
lieving and stating that one meaning Of
this word is forever" In this very
verse from which | take my text Selah
means not only poetic significance and
intermission and emphasis, but it means
eternal rberation-foreverl Gods
government forever. Gods goodness for
ever. the gladness of the righteous for
ever. OF course you and | have not
surveyors chain with enough links TO
measure that domain of meaning. In
this world we must build everything on
a small scale. A hundred years are a
great while. A tower five hundred feet
is great height. A journey of four
thousand miles is very long. But eter-
nityl If the archangel has not strength
of wing to fly across it. but flutters and
drops like a wounded seagull, there is
no need of our trying in the small
shallow Of human thought to voyage
across it.
AN ELOQUENT PERoRATIoN.
A skeptic, desiring to show his con-
tempt for the passing years and to show
that he could build endulingly, had his
own sepulcher made of the finest and
the hardest marble, and then he had put
on the door the words, "For time and
for eternity, but it so happened that the
seed Of a tree somehow got into an un-
seen crevice of the marble. That seed
grew and enlarged until it became a
tree and split the marble to pieces.
There can be no eternalization of any
thing earthly. But foreverl Will you
and live as long as that? We are apt
to think of the grave as the terminus.
We are apt to think of the hearse as our
last vehicle. We are apt to think of
seventy or eighty or ninety years, and
then a cessation.
Intead of that we find the marble slab
of the tomb is only a milestone, mark
ing the first mile, and that the great
journey is beyond. We have only time
enough in this world to put on the san
dals and to clasp our girdle and to pick
up our staff. We take our first step
from cradle to grave, and then we open
the door and start-great God, whittier?
The clock strikes the passing away of
time, but not the passing away of eter
nifty Measureless, measureless! This
Selah of perpetuity makes earthly inc
qualities so insignificant. the difference
between scepter and needle, between
Alhambra and hut, between chariot and
cart, between throne and curbstone, be-
tween Administer and bare floor, between
satin and sackcloth, very trivial.
This Selah of perpetuity makes our
getting ready so important. For such
prolongation of travel what outfit of
guidebooks, of passports and of escort?
Are we putting out on a desert, simoom
swept and ghoul haunted, or into re-
gions of sun lighted and spray sprinkled
gardens? Will it be Elysium or Ge-
henna? Once started in that world, we
cannot stop. The current is so swift
that once in no oar can resist it, no helm
can steer out of it, no herculean or
titanic arm can battle it. Hark to the
long resounding echo, "forever" Oh,
wake up to the interest of your death
less spirit Strike out for heaven. Rouse
ye, men and women for whom Jesus
died. Selah! Selah! Forever! Foreverl