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man sleeper" the two characteristics of the journey, velocity and somno- lence. 1t is not the number of tunes you go through the bible, but the mum Der 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 a long legato. and we become indifferent and unappreciative, wheo suddenly we come upon a blank in the music. There is nothing between those bars. A pause. God will fill it up with a sick bed or a commercial disaster, or grave. But, thank God, it is not a breaking down; it is only a pause. It helps us to appreciate the blessings that are gone; 1t gives us higher appre- citations of the blessings that are 10 come
 The Selah of Habakkuk and David is a dividing line between two anthems. David begins his book with the words, Blessed is the man." and after severn ty-four Selahs, he closes his book with the words, Praise ye the Lord" So there are mercies behind us, and there are going to be mercies before us. It is good for us that God halts us in our fortunes, and hal.s us with physical distress, and halts us at the graves of our dead. More than once you and I have been halted by such a Selah. You wrung your hands and said, 'I can't see any sense in this Providence; can't see why God gave me that child, if he is so soon go- ing to take it away. o my desolate home. o my broken heart." You could | not understand it But it was not a Selah of overthrow. It gave you greater gone; it will yet give you greater ap- preciation of the blessings that will come.
 When the Huguenots were being very much persecuted in France, a father and mother were obliged to fly from the country, leaving their child in the possession of comparative stranger. They did not know whether they would ever return, or returning, 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. IL must have been great exigency to make father do that. Years of absence passed on, and after while the parents returned, and their first anxiety was to find their lost child. They looked up and down the land, examining the wrists of the young people, when To! after a while the father found maiden with scar upon her wrist She knew him not, but he knew her. And o, the joy of the re- union! So 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.
 | h StCBbiS oCSAiAhS tO ohO" LILO Noi' tempt for the passing years, and to show that he could build enduringly, had his own sepulchre 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 hap pened that the seed of tree somehow got into an unseen crevice of the mar ble. That seed grew and enlarged until 1t became tree, and split the marble to pieces. There can be nc eternalization of anything earthly. But forever! 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. Instead of that only a milestone, marking the first mile, and that the great journey is be yond. We have only time enough in this world to put on the sandals and to clasp our girdle and to pick up oui staff. We take our first step from cradle to grave, and then we open the door and start-great God, whitherf The clock strikes the passing away oi time, but not the passing away oi eternity. AIeasureless! Measureless This Selah of perpetuity makes earthly inequalities so insignificant, the differ ence between scepter and needle, be- tween Alhambra and hut. between chariot and cart, between throne and curbstone, between Administer and bare floor, between satin and sack. cloth, very trivial This Selah of per petuitv makes our getting ready Sc important. For such prolongation of travel, what outfit of guide books, of passports, and of escort? Are we putting out on desert, simoom m-swept and ghoul-haunted, or into regions of sun-lighted and typographical gar dens? Will it be Elysium or GeLenna? 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 titantic arm can baffie it. Hark to the long, resounding echo "foreverr' o wake up to the interest of your deathless spiriti Strike out for heaven. Rouse ye, men and women for whom Jesus died. Selahl Selah, Foreverl forever,
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