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their own understanding. This psalm
Is alcup OF cool water. offered TO us at
the gate OF the Interpreters house. A
very good introduction 1t makes to the
Christians song-bcok, as we have chosen
TO name the psalms. Who wrote It, we
do not know. Yes, we do; God wrote 1t,
for 1t speaks to the heart. Only he who
made the heart can speak to its inner
most self. But the penman is out of
sight. And yet how many men have
reinscribed the truth Of this psalm In
their own livesl Good men, wicked
men. Every mans life is a living epis-
tie, known and read of oil, and 1t
speaks for the truth Of Gods word.
May this psalm, as restudied. kindle in
many hearts new love for the precious
Bible.
WHAT THE LESSON SAYS.
Blessed, or happy. Literally, o, the
felicities. From the vorb to be straight;
hence, prosperous. Deut.' 33: 30; Prov.
30: 1S.-Walketh not. Douay: hath
not walked.-Ungodly. First moan
ing fractions or rebcllious. Margin,
wicked. Job "a: 29.-Sinners. Greek:
Amartano, to miss the mark.--Scorn-
full. From the root to stammer, to
mimic, used especially OF hooking a
here. Ungodly - sinners seornful;
-standeth-sitteth.
Delight. From the verb to bend over.
Low. Hebrew: Torah. From the
verb to point out, to direct. Such Is
Gods law a sign board, pointing toward
heaven. --Meditate. The root means
to, say over, to enumerate; to murmur
as In coming a lesson.
The ungodly. Same word as in v. l..
But. A peculiar form. Literally,
| for II, two words In the Hebrew. Like:
Tell me II. "--Chaff. Douay, dust.
In contrast with the living tree OF v. 8.
| It is from the verb to crush off or sep
arate. The word is trans
lated differently at Job so: ID. The
| Douay. adds: from the face Of the earth.
| 1t also renders, the ungodly are not so,
| by not SO, the wicked, not so, bringing
out the expressiveness Of the original a
little more clearly.
BY the rivers. Or, upon the rivers.
Douay: running waters; from the verb,
| to fow.-In his season. Or, in Its
| time, In due time. Wither. Verb: to
droop or fade. Douay: fall off.-Pros-
| per. 1t is suggestive that this word
means, literally, to cut its way through,
the price of all success. The revision,
margin, prefers: In whatsoever he doeth
he shall prosper.
Therefore. A strong word. Literally,
on account Of Stand. Not the
same word as that in V. 1. Here 1t
means to rise up, make a stand, de-
fensive. The Douay understands 1t to
mean rise again. -Congregation. Lit
orally, the sitting, or session, l. e., coun-
Gil. Contrast with stitch Of v. /. See
Lev. A: Is.
| Knoweth. In the sense of to respect
| or cherish. Job 8: 81. In this last case
signifying regard Meaning
to disappear, or to stray, as of lost
sheep. The same word is to be found at
Deut. 26: 5.
| WHAT THE LESSON TEACHES.
| Blessed is the man. We are sought
out, one by one. The message of the
TO- eA have C our t mn mutual afn rsla-
lions, we stand in families, In churches,
In social groups. But behind all, God
speaks to us as isolated souls, standing
alone and before him. Blessed is the
man. Individuelism. Suppose we take
this psalm, then, very personally. Is 1t
the preface to my life? Can you and I
put our names here, and bend our heads
reverently before God and over his book?
| Then 1t shall be happy thing for the
| church and the world. The blessed
ness OF man collectively depends upon
! the blest-ness Of the individual.
! His delight is In the law OF the Lord.
The word delight means, literally, to
bend over. Yes, have seen It so. The
mother Is bending over her babe, she
loves 1t. The 10y is bending over his
toy, he delights in it. The student is
bending over his problems, or bis Ian,
! guages, they are his Inspiration and re-
1oicing. What a man delights In he
bencs over 1 know the passion of his
soul by the posture of his body. You
tell me you love the Bible. What are
you d6lKg With itp II your delight 10 in
1t, we will see you daily porting over it;
this is the best way to prove your de-
votion. And that word mediate is sug-
gestive. 1t signifies in the original to
keep saying over ard over, as In the
learning Of lesson in the school-rooTn.
Are we doing that? Do we take the
sacred sentences out with US to the
days work to repeat them to ourselves
as we perform our tasks? There are
some lessons out of the divine word
that are only thus apprehended. o for
more coming of the Scripturel They
said to Harry Morehouse, whom they
used to find late In the night reading his
Bible: DO you understand 1t all,
Harry, as you read?" NO, no, he used
TO answer, but keep going over it and
over 1t, and presently 1t all comes to
me-" Why not another Harry More
house?
But the way OF the ungodly shall per-
ish. 1t Is the law written in our mem
bers and In all nature. ITO be carnally
minded is DEATH" We have but to go on
In our goddess way, and we go the way
OF perishing. 1t Is another word for
lost, a lost way. without God" Is the
same rs having no hope" 1 look along
the sinners way, and see blackness of
darkness; a way that loses itself In thick
night. look along the way of the believ-
ing, and see it growing brighter and
brighter unto the perfect day. Excuse
me, man Of the world. hut you provoke
me; you make my blood hot. Why do
you ask me to go such course? Pleas
ure, Just now? Yes but look at the
end. Il see no end" Neither do ], and
that is the reason prefer the lighted
path. For the Lord knoweth the way
of the righteous. but the way Of the un-
godly shall perish.