Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-05-23

wit, and the epigrammatio power, and the
blood-red earnestness, and the fire of reli:
doing it as well as through the dramatic.
Attention Behold Harkl Selah!
Next, speak of the Selah Of perpetutty.
The Targum, which is the Bible In Chaldee,
renders this word of my text forever
Many writers agree in believing and stat
ing that one meaning of this word is "forN
YER" In this very verse from which take
my text Selah means not only poetic slgnl-
f1cance, and intermission, and emphasis,
but it means eternal observation-disclosures
Gods government forever, Goods goodness
forever, the gladness of the righteous lor-
ever.
A Comparison of Time and Eternity.
OF course, you and 1 have not surveyors
chain with enough links to measure that
domain of meaning. In this world we must
build everything on a small scale. hun.
dred years are great while. A tower 500 feet
is a great height A Ajourney of 1000 miles 1s
very long. But eternity! II the arcnangel
has not strength of wing to fly across IT, Dmt
flutters and drops like a wounded sea-guli,
there is no need of our trying in the small
shallow of human thought TO voyage across
it.
A sceptic desiring to show his contempt
for the passing years, and to show that he
could build enduringly, had his own sepul.
cher made of the finest and the hardest
marble, and then he put on the door the
words, "For time and eternity;" but 1t so
happened that the seed of tree somehow
got into an unseen crevice of the marble.
That seed grew and enlarged until 1t be-
came a tree, and split the marble 10 pieces.
There can be no LIBERALIZATION OF anytning
earthly. But forever! VIII you and i've
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
20 or so or 90 years, and then cessation. IN
stead of that we find the marble SLAB OF tine
tomb is only a milestone, marking the nrst
mile, and that the great journey IS Deyono.
We have only time in this world to put on
the sandals and to clasp our girdle ana to
pick up our staff. We take our first step
from cradle to grave, and then we open tne
door ana start-great God, whither2
The Selah of Perpetuity Measureless.
The clock strikes the passing away Of
time, but not the passing away Of eternity.
MeasurelessI Measurelessi This Selah OF
perpetuity makes earthly inequalities so in
significant, the difference between scepter
and needle, between Alhambra and hut,
between chariot and cart. between throne
and curbstone, between Administer and bare
floor between satin and sackcloth, very
trivial. This Selah of perpetufty makes our
getting ready so important.
For such prolongation of travel, what out
fl of guidebooks, of passports, and OF escort?
Are we putting out on n desert, simeon
swept and ghou1-haunted or into regions Of
sun-lighted and spray-sprinkled gardensf
Will it be Elysium or Gehenna? Once started
in that world, we cannot stop. The current
is so swift that once in, no oar can resist 1t,
no helm can steer ont of it, no herculean or
titantic arm can battle it. Hark to the long
resounding echo "foreverr'
o wake up to the interest of your deathless
spirit! Strike out for heaven. Rouse ye.
men and women for whom Jesus died.
Selab! Selah! Forever! forever