Evening capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1888-1893, 1893-06-10

becoming low y tnifes the cessation of eet-
Ing as q means Of nouIishnlept Now the
figure OF the house is dropped. and the tenant
is referred TO. The old man is restless ard
sleepless; the least noise awakes him. the
song Of the early bird is enough to arouse
him from slunber Very plainly IL the
failure Of the voice alluded 60 in ''the daueh-
ters Of music" being brought low. The
elder Braham and Sims Reeves sang beauti-
fully after reaching 10. Gladstone IL an
orator at g. Lyndhurst delivered qbower-
/ ful speech OF an hours duration ut the age
n9o These were exceptions to the rule for
even well behaved men. Certainly the old
man here described Is rather type VI the
many who In old age have their "big, man
ly voice" turned again to Childish treble"
piping and whistling, as Shakespeare tells
us, "in the sound" This frail deaf, dim
sighted creature il very likely to be cx-
tremely cautious and timid, even to fear
fulness He avoids steep places and
rough roads and dangerous circumstances.
Blanched and thin are the once luxuriant
dark locks. DR.. Thomson says that the al
mond tree is the type Of old age, THE
white blossoms completely cover the whole
tree" Weak and trembling, even the light
est burden becomes irksome, like as mo-
tiop in stiff and ungainly grassbopper.
"Desire fails" This Is In Hebrew "the
caperhsrry fails" the caperbcrry being
used as stimulant to appetite. Lust is
dead in the wornout flesh OF the fast man
turned old, and no stimuIant can raise 1t
into life
8. Ruin. ta) At length comes the CON-
plete breaking up. The signs Of decay In
dicate the end-death. These signs occur
because man is going, on the point OF going,
to his eternal home. Very beautiful is the
English rendering-'long home" The He.
brew II "beth olamo"-the house Of his
eternity. Lewis calls 1t "his olamic house" /"
It Is the other world beyond the change
the streets-the custom Of the Hebrews.
See Amos v, 10; lisa. XIV, 80; Jer.
TX, 49, Math. tx, 23 These are hired
mourners lowering near to the place
where the dead Is lying, ready to howl for
pay at the funeral of the used up sensual.
ist (c) Then comes the last dread change.
The silver cord is loosed; the golden bowl
IL broken; the pitcher is shattered, and the
wheel at the fountain is smashed. In gen
eral these figures are easily understood-a
lamp broken with its light put out, pitch
er shattered, wheel ceasing to work
all show forth death; but it is not 80 easy
to assign each particular in the description
to an organ in the body. 1. Probably the
silver cord is the cord that suspends
in the mansion the golden bowled
lamp. Q. The pitcher is the vessel
that oft carried water, now no longer Of
use. 8. The wheel is the apparatus for
drawing water from the WELL But some
of the older divines compare the silver cord
to the spinal marrow, the golden bowl to
the brain and the pitcher, wheel and we'll
to the heart, circulating the blood. Then
comes the dread separation-death. As q
result the dust that was alive mingles with
the dust from which it came. Is that the
endf Oh, no, for tho spirit-ths living ten
ant--goes back to God, "the Father Of spir-
its, to render an account of its choices and
doings unto Him 1t, lives and continues
to live, sastained' 'by God, kept by Him, re-
served for thgASnt
III-MAkY F6LLs ORBED PERFECTION
Werses Is, NJ i.
/. The sum. Of all. (a) The word of ex-
hortation comes AZ last. "Whole" refers to
the entire book. Literally rendered. verse
13 would read, END of tho word. the whole,
let us hearn Benisch renders, 1.-THE con-
clusion of the orationNs Nsuhs up the whole +"
This is the introduction to the meaning of
the whole treatise. (b) 1.-THE whole of
man." The word duty" is not needed.
ITO fear God and to obey Him is the whole
man-constitutes mans being; that only Is
conceded to man. All other things, as this
book again and again teaches, are depend
ent on a higher incomprehensibls Being
(Herzfield)." In. other words, man finds
his completeness in his harmony with God
That man needs religion to make him q
full, a perfect man is what is here affirmed.
2. Religion as holy fear. (a) Fear" here
means not the fear Of the slave to offend a
cruel master, but the fear Of child to Of
fend a loving father. God II love-" to fear
Him is to fear to offend against love. o.
The law of love is expressed in the Ten
Commandments. All the moral law is con-
tained in the two duties of love to God and
love to man. (c) BY loving obedience to God,
man is at one with God and finds In that
oneness the perfection of his own nature,
Thus life becomes more than vanity--life
indeed, because life divine.