Peninsula enterprise. [volume] (Accomac, Va.) 1881-1965, 1892-05-28
seem to know no more about it than q

and in Pullman sleeper, tho two
characteristics of the journey, velocity
land somnolence. 1t is not the number
sof times you go through tho Bible, put
1.-The number of times the Bible goes
through yor. Pause, reflect. belah
/ ]; SO, also ON the scroll OF yunr life and
1'inind. We go rushing on in the song Of
-Four prosperity from note Of juf to note
tffof joysand it is long drawn out legato
land we become Indifferent and unappre-
lciatiye when suddenly we come upon
l::blank in tho music. There is nothing
1sbetWeen those bars. A pause. God
will Fill it np with sickhed. or u COM
lSmercial disaster. or grave. But. thank
I.God.tit is not II breaking down. 1t is
lsorly pause. 1t helps us to appreciate
3the blessings that arc gone. st gives us
Ehigher appreciation of the blessings that
iyare to.come.
The Selah of Habak!,uls and David is
II a.diyiding line between two anthems
David begins his book with the words.
Blesssdsis the man" and after seventy
!sea1r Selahs he closes his BOOK with the
/ W6fds. Praise ye the Lord. -, So there
are mercies behind ua, and there are
5going to he nercies before us. 1t is good
flor MS that God halts US in our for
tunes, and halts rs with physical dis.
$tress and halts us ut the graves of our
dead. More than once you and have
been halted by snch Selah. You
wrung your hands and said. 81 can't
see any sense in this Providence; can't
see why God gave me that child. if he is
SO soon going to. take it away. Oh. my
dosolate homel Oh. my broken heartl"
! You could not understand it. But it
was not Selah of overthrow. 1t gave
you greater appreciation Of the bless
| ings that have gone; it will yet give you
greater appreciation Of the blessings
that will come.
HISTORICAL CITATIONS.
When the Huguenots were being very
muclrparsecuted in France father and
mother were obliged to fly from the
country, leaving their child in the pos
session OF comparativGstranger. They
did not know whether they would ever
return. or returning. if they would be
able to recognizes their child. for by that
time she might he grown. Tho mother
was almost frenzied Mt the thought Of
leaving the child,.and then, even if COM
ing back again. not being able to know
her. I;efore they left the father drew
his sword and he marked tho wrist Of
that child with deep cnt. 1t must
have been great exigency to make q
father do that.
Years OF absence passed on ind after
awhile the parents returned, and their
first anxiety was Ia find their lost child.
They looked Up and down the land. eS-
amining the wrists of tho young people,
when 10. after awhile the father found
a maiden with sctr upon her wrist.
She knew him not, bnt he knew her.
And olN the Joy Of tho reunionl So it is
now. Whom the Lord loveth he chas-
tencth." 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 tronble, know
them by the stroke of their desolation.
| Oh. it's goWi that the Lord sometimes
halta IFS. David says, at is good that
| lzhave been, afflicted. Before was
afflicted | went astray, but now have ]
kent thy word. Indeed. we Must all
soon stop Scientists have improved
human longevity, hut more of them
have proposed to make teirenc life per-
retual. But the Gospel makes death
only Selah between two bcatitudes--
between dying triumph on the one side
Of the grave, and celestial escort on the
other side of the grave. Going ont of
this life. to tho unprepnred, is a great
horror.
"t4ive me more laudanum. said dying
Milubeau; "give me more laudanum.
that | may not think of eternity ard
what IL to came" And dying Hobbies
said, ii leave my body TO the grave and
my soul to the great perhaps" 1t was
the discord Of all infdel's life breaking
down into the iargon Of despair; but the
Gospel makes the death Of the Christian
Selah between redemption and EN-
thronemeut. almost we'll" said dying
Richard Baxter. almost we'll" "Play
those notes over again-those notes
which have been so great a delight and
solace TO ne. said the dying Christian
Mozart None Init Christ, none but
Christ" exclaimed dying Lambert.
Richard Cameron. the Scotch cove
nanter. went into the battle three Times
praying: Lord. spare the green and
take the ripe. This is the day have
longed for. This is the day. Snail get
my crown. Come, let MS fight it TO the
last. FcrwardI" So yon see there is
only short pause. Selah Of internlis-
zion, between dying consultations. on the
pne side and overlapping raptures ON the
other.
Ny flesh shall sumher III the ground
TIL the last trumpet's joyful sound;
Then burst the chains with sweet SURPRISE
And In my Silviunr's lInngr rise.
AS AN EMPHATIC WORD.
next speak of the Selah of emphasis.
Ewald. the German orientalist and theo7
Logan, says that this word means to as
rend; and wherever you find it, he says,
you must look after the motlulation of
the voice and you must pnt more force
into your utterance Ii is a Selah of
emphasis. All. my friends, you AMI !
need to correct our emphasis. We put
too much emphasis on this world and
not enough on tiM and the next world.
People think these things around MS are
80 important. the things Of the next are
not worthy of our consideration.
The first need for some of us is to
change our emphasis. Look at wretch
eilness on n throne. Napoleon. while
| get emperor of France, sat down de-
iected, his hands over his face. A lad
came in with tray of food and said.
Eat, it will do you good" The en-
| raror ln,kci Nh nnd said lyon arc from