Orange County observer. [volume] (Hillsborough, N.C.) 1880-1918, 1892-06-11
REV DIR. TALMAGE
TIE Brooklyn Divinc's Sun
day Sermon.
'irxr: ".Seloh." Psalms Xxi, 4.

'Irxr: "!Seloh.n Psalms Xxi, 4.
Tire majority Of Bible readers look upon
this word Of my text rs If no importance.
They consider IL q superiuIty, q mere filling
in, II meaningless inter lection, n useless re-
frain, an underlined echo. Seiahl But !
have 10 tel YOU that il Is no Scriptural ac.
cident. II occurs seventy-four times in the
Book Of Fsnims and three times in the Book
Of HabakkIl. You must not charge this
perfect bodk with seventy-seven .riylalitIes.
Nelnh' 1t j, an enthroned word. II, accord
ing 10 an old writer, some words are battles,-
fhen this word Is Marathon. a Thersnopy-
IL, a Sedan. a Waterloo. 1t Is a word de-
cisive, sometimes for poetic beauty, some
times tor grandeur, and sometimes for
eternal Imror,. Through 1t roll the thun-
dc:in& chiriois Of the OnPipotent cod
| take this word for nv text because [ am
80 often asked what is its meaning, or
whether il has any meaning at all. It has
an ocean Of meaning, from which l shall
TN, morning dip up only four or tive bucH-
rtfuiS. J wa speak 10 you. 50 far as | have
tfn", q TIC Selah Of poetic significance. the
Sclai Of ~injcrni>,,on, tn Selah Of emphasis
and III" Sr...n OF perpetlity.
Are You -ttr,ri>~i that | speak OF the
Sean Of pr =" siyiiicance> Surely the God
who eappii.ei the heavens aud made the
earth IN rosebud Of beauty, with oceans
banging to IL like drops of morning dew,
wpulA not rake a Bible without IhvtIfn,
i''i'A ~ a. =
boi knew tat eventually the Biblo would
be rl"td hy Il @rcat majority Of young PEG.
pie, Tor in this word nf malaria aud casualty
AN octnGchariGn j, exceptional, and astnirty
years Is ripr,. than the avtrage Of human
life. il tie Bible j. to be a successful! LooG it
must he adapted t. the young. Hence the
prosody OF lHc Blble-the drama Of Job, the
pastoral 81 Ruth, the epic Of .ju igcs, the
dithyraWbic Of iiabai:kuk, the threnoiy of
Jort iniah, the !yric Of Solonon's Song, the
o~ratpri0 OF tn" Apocaiypsn, the ilyI, the
strophe and aHtitroDh", AMI the Scan or
the Psalms.
Wherever YOU fnI this word Sea1 it
mean, That you are to rouse up to great
Sta1zi, that you are 70 open your soul to
great an"!oSlc,, that you are 20 spread the
wing OF your Imagination for great flight.
II ansSerc thee IN the secret place Of thun-
der; proved thee At the waters OF Merihah.
Sclah." The earth all all the inhabitants
thereof are di~a6lvri; ! bear No the pillars
OF 1t. Selah.' ''Who Is the KING of Glory:
The Lord Of Nosts, lie i thakln1 Of Glory.
Seial.' Thou shalt coin}ass me about with
songs of dcllyrranc-. ) -lah.o Enough
the waters Thereof roar and be troubled,
though the mountains shake with the swell
with us, the Goi of Jacob is our refuge.
Seinh. Thou hast given a banner to them
that fear Thee, that 1t NAV be displayed
because Of tine truth. Splah." Il will hide
under the covert of Tlv wings. Solah."
oh, Gpd, wn.n Thou wente>t forth before
Thy people, when Thou lilst march through
the wilderness. Selal.
Whoever You find TINS word it is a signal
Of warning hung out to tell you to stand of
the tract: wAile the rushing train goes 10y
with its imperial passenger, Poetic word,
charged with sunrise anu sunset, and tempest
AMI earthquake, and resurrectlDns and
millennlums.
Nnyt I fsGtr9n RI ~ IF tho Saloh Of n
tertni.sion. Gcsenius, Tholuck, Hengsten-
berg and other writer's agree in saying that
this word Selah means a rest III music; what
tho Greeks call Il diapsalma, 4 pause, a halt
III the SoleIiln march of cantlllatiOn.
Every musician knows the Importance Of
#. II You ever saw Julien. the great
musical leader, stand before five thousand
singers and players upon instruments, and
with ono >troke of his baton sillto the multi
tudinous halle!ujah into silence. and then.
soon after that, with another stroke Of his
baton rose up the fun orchestra to a great
outtlrst or harmony then you know the
mighty effect OF u musical pause. 1t gives
more power t. what went before, it gives
more power T. what is to come after.
SO God thru,ts tho Sel4h into His Bible
anl into our-llvcs, compelling us to stop ant
think, stop ana consider, stop and admire,
stop an pray, sop IN ! repent, stop and be
sick, stop aud die, 1t is not the great num-
her OF times TINT we read the Bible through
that make, Us Intelligent i'll the Scriptures.
We must pause. What though it take an
hour Tor ole word? What though it take q
week for one verse What though it take a
yenr for one chapters We must pause and
MEASURE the height, the Depth. ths length,
tina breadth, the universe, the eternity OF
meaning in ono verse.
! should like to seq some one sail around
one little miv@rb i'll the Bible, u little a lverb
OF two letters. during one lifetime-the word
$50 in the New Testament passage, God
SO lovcithc world" Augustine made q long
pause after the verse, Put We on the Lord
jesus Christ, " and 1t converted him. Mat
thew Henry made a long pause after the
verse, open Thou my lips, AMI my mouth
shall show forth my praise. = and 1t convert
ed him. William Cowper made a long
pause after the verse. Being freely justified
hy Ills grace and 1t convertoi him. When
: God tells Us oevcnty->even times me iItauyely
to pause IN reading two Looks OF the Bible,
Tie leaves To our coalm0n sense TO decide
how often We should pause IL reading the
other Slxty-iouc books OF tn" Bible.
We must pause and ask Tor more light
" must pause and ween owe" our SINS. We
must pause altt taSOrn tne Strength OF one
promise. I~ou timeS nnar peopl- Boosting
about how lnanH tulc> taev have real tht
Bible through. Miun They seem II know II,
more about Il tam = passenger woult know
about the Stlteut PENNSYLVANIA WLp Slouli
80 through II II a -. l.ontS lightning ex
,t,s, train ana III \ Pullman sleeper til
tw" characteristics ot the journey, veiocit,
and sosnupltuce. II Is not the number o
ot times Nnu "a, through the Bible, but tn
number Of tan : the Bible goes tirouCl Won
1au>c, reflect. Salah,
80 also oil Tie scroll 81 your life M min /
We go rushing p4. IN the song Of our pros
perity from not - joy y noteot joy, aud
l>n hong drawn put iegato, and We becom
indifferent an unappreciattvh when SUI