The Hazel Green herald. [volume] (Hazel Green, Wolfe County, Ky.) 1885-19??, 1892-07-01

~" Ni'" Nh'n Nou tcllS ms sew
enty-sevcn times mcditatively to pause
IN reading two Of the books ~ the
biblc, lie leaves % our common sense
TO decide how often we should pnuse I'm
reading the other sixty-four books of
the Bible.
We must pause and ask for more
hight We must pause and weep over
our sins We mus, pause and absorb
the strength of one promise. | some
times hear people boasiing about how
many times they have read the Bible
through, when they seem to know no
moro about 1t than n passenger would
know about the state OF PENNSYLVANIA
who should go through 1t in ST. Louis
lightning express train and in Pull-
man sleeper" the .wo characteristics
OF the journey. velocity and Somnolcncc.
IL Is not the number of times YOU 20
through The bible, but the number of
times the Bible goes through you
Pause. reflect. Selah!
So also On the scroll of your life and
mind. We go rushing on, in the song
OF our prosperity, from note of joy to
note of JOY, and it is long.drawn-out
lCgato, and we become indifferent and
unapprcciativc, when suddenly we como
upon blank in the music There is
nothing between these bars. a pause.
God will fill up with sicll-bcd, or u
commercial disaster, or grave. hut,
thank God, IL is not n breaking down; il
is only pause. II helps us to apps,-
ciatc the blessings that are gone; il
gives us higher appreciation of the
blessings that are To come. The Sclah
of llabnllluk and David is dividing
line between two anthems, David
begins his book with the words,
blessed is the man" and, after seven
ty-four SclahS, he closes his book with
the words, Praise We the Lord" SO
there are mcrcies behind MS. and there
are going To 10 mercies before MS.
1t is good for us that God hats US In
our fortunes. and hats Us with physical
distress and haliS uS at the graves of
our dead. More than once You and |
have been halted hy such Scluh. lou
wrung your hands and said: Il can't
see any sense in this Providence; can't
sec why God gave me that child, If he is
So soon going to take il away. q my
dcsolate home! q my broken heart
You could not understand il, But il
was not Sclah of overthrow. 1t gave
YOU greater appreciation of the bless
inGs ;hat have gone; it will yet give you
greater appreciation of the blessings
that will come.
When the llugucnots were being very
much prosecuted in France father and
mother were obliged To fly from the
country, leaving their child in the pos
session of comparative stranger. They
did not know whether they would be
able 10 recognize their child, for Ivy that
time she might bc grown, The mother
was almost frcnzicd 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 marEcd the
wrist of that child with a deep cut II
must have been n great cNigcncy Ia
make father do that. Years of alb
scncc passed ON, and after II while the
parents returned, and their first anxiety
was 10 find their lost child.
They looked up and down the land,
examining the wrists If the young pco-
pie, when 10, after awhile the father
found maiden with scar upon her
wrist. She knew him not, but he knew
her. And oh, the joy of the reunion
So il is now "Whom the Lord lovcth
lie chastcncth." lie cuttcth, He mark
eth, and when lie comes u claim his
own the Lord will know them that are
His; know them 10y the scar OF their
trouble; know them 10y the stroke of
their dcsolatiCn.
oh, it is good that the Lord some
times haltS us. David says: 1T is good
that have been afflicted. Before was
afflicted 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 10 make terrcnc life per-
petual. But the Gospel makes death
only n Selah between two beauties
between 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 UMPIRE
pnrrd. is n great horror. GIVE me
more laudanum, said dying Mirabcau;
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
10 the great perhaps II was the dis
cord of an inlidcl's life breaking down
into the jargon of despair; but the Cos
pcl makes the death of the Christian
selah between redemption and en-
thronemcut. almost we'll" said dy-
inc Richard Baxter; "almost well.
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