The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1892-03-30

Every OHc Vi JncIu proves lOrtlOn III
duo season to those who lean not on
their own understanding. This psalm
Is a cup OF cool water, offered to us at
the gate OF the interpreters house. A
very good introduction il 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 it,
for it 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 lives! Good men, wicked
men. Every mans life is living epis-
tie, known and read Of all, and it
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. Lit rally, o, the
felicities. From the verb to be straight;
hence, prosperous. Deut. 3d. 80; Prov.
20: 1S.-Walket not. Douay: hath
not walked First mean
ing fractions or rebellious. Margin,
wicked. Job a. 29.-Sinners. Greek:
Amartano, to miss the mark
fpi. From the root TO stammer, to
mimic, used especially of hooking
foreigner. Notice the two-fold climax
here. Ungodly - sinners = scornful;
standeth-sitteth.
Delight. From the verb to bend over.
Law. Hebrew: Torah. From the
verb to point out, to direct. Such is
Gods law sign board, pointing toward
heaven.-Meditate The root means
to say over, to enumerate; to murmur
as in coming lesson.
The ungodly. Same word as in v. 1.
A peculiar form. Literally,
for il, two words in the Hebrew. Like:
Tell M if. CHAT. Douay, dust.
In contrast with the living tree of v. 3.
1t is from the verb to crush off or sep
rate.-Driveth The word is trans
lated differently at Job 80: 13. The
Douay adds: from the face of the earth.
1t also renders, the ungodiy are not so,
by not so, the wicked, not so, bringing
out the expressiveness OF the original
little more clearly.
By the rivers. Or, upon the rivers.
Douay: running waters; from the verb,
to fiow.--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. strong word. Literally,
on account of so.-Stand. Not the
same word as that in V. 1. Here it
means to rise up, make a stand, de-
fensive. The Douay understands it to
mean rise again. Congregation. Lit
orally, the sitting, or session, /. e., coun-
Gil. Contrast with stitch of " /. See
Lev. A: 10.
Knoweth. In the sense OF TO respect
or cherish. Job 8: 81. In this last case
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
Bible is to us as separate and independ
ent souls. We have our mutual rela-
tons, 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." Individualism. Suppose we take
this psalm, then, very personally. Is 1t
tho preface to my life? Can you and l
put our names here, and bend our heads
reverently before God and over his book?
Then it shall be a 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 it. The 10y is bending over his
toy, he delights in it. The student is
bending over his problems, or his Ian
guages, they are his inspiration and re-
joicing. What a man delights in he
bends over; ! know the passion of his
soul by the posture Of his body. You
tell me you love the Bible. What are
you doing with it? If your delight is in
it, 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 and over, as in the
of n lesson in the school-room.
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 Scripture! They
said to Harry Morehouse, whom they
used to find late in the night reading his
Bible: DO you understand it all,
Harry, as you read?" NO, no, he used
to answer, "but l keep going over it and
over it, and presently 1t all comes to
me-" Why not another Harry More
housep
But the way OF the ungodly shall per-
ish. 1t is the law written in our men,
bers and i'm 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, lost way. Without God" is the
same as having no hope" look along
the sinners way, and 1 see blackness of
a way that loses itself in thick
night. 1 look along the way of the believ-
ing, and 1 see it growing brighter and
brighter unto the perfect day. Excuse
me, man of the world, but 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