The Press., 1894-03-29
w. (. T. U. DEPARTMENT.
The Ninety-Fourth Psalm.

cry had surely gone down to the very depths of soul travail in the interest of righteousness. It begins with the agon- ized prayer of one who has looked out up- on the contending forces of good and evil until his brain has reeled, and who tunrs from the awful conflict to Him who can alone give victory. 70 Lord God, to whom vengeance be- | longeth. o God, to whom vengeance be- longeth, show myself
 Lift mp myself, thou judge of the earth, render areward to the proud.
 ''Lord, how long shall the wicked, how 1 long shall the wicked triumph? How long shall they utter and speak hard things and all the workers of iniquity boast themselves ?"
 A generalization of anguish! A cry that Includes all earth and heaven in it's own oyermastering protest against the very existence of these things which had so wrung the heart and crazed the brrin. But the speaker goes from that cry to a deeper and closer analysis. From evil in the abstract he comes to evil in the con- crete. He sees that God has not forgot l ten that underneath all this sea of in- iquity there still flows the tide of the Di- vine purpose.
 He that teacheth man knowledge shall not he know?"
 And then comes the comfort of the thought: "The Lord will not cast off His people, neither wi O En lie inh
 But note, the Psalmist does not let this thought lead him 10 life of righteous ease. The very fact that God will not cast off His people rouse in his heart the cry:
 "Who will rise up for me against the evil doers, or who will stand for me against the workers of iniquity?''
 God will do His part, there is no doubt about that, but Gods part is dependent upon mans part. Even the Infinite One cannot make for Himself a way into the troubled Sea of human wrong and misery, save as He makes it through human be- ings.
 And then there comes that last ques- |
 "Shall the throne of iniquity have fel- lowship with thee which frameth mischief 1 by a law?"
 This Psalm belongs as fully to the ripe1 development of the Woman's Christian 1 Temperance Union as the Crusade Psalm belongs to it's inception. It should be in. scribed upon our banners, and written i1 living letters upon our hearts and lives. l We, too, have been looking out upor the compressed misery, the utter abiect ness of humanity, through the accurset i H1uor traffic, and it's accompanying evils until we have cried out our souls in the anguish of the vail, "Lord, how lons shall the wicked triumph?" ?"
 But, thank God, we have not stopped at this question, nor with the assurance that the Lord will not forsake His people Two questions we are laundering into the ears of the world to-day; into the ears O. the christian church: "Who will rise uE for me against the evil doers, or who vii stand up for me against the workers O. iniquity?" "Shall the throne of iniquity have fellowship with thee which frametl mischief by law?"
 Who will rise up? That is the answe to the question of "how long?" Whel enough men and women rise up against i the doom of the liquor traffic is sealed.
 Rise up how? In the strength of thu Lord of hosts and in the strength of thei own common sense, which shall consen to put practical business methods into tn
 Lords work.
 Oh, how our prayers and songs mus mock the ears of God We sing, "Res cue the perishing," and then we turl
 away in righteous indignation and hol disgust from the perishing ones in eu very midst, waiting, longing to be tres cued." We pray "Thy kingdom come,
 and act as if we expected it to drop straigh down from heaven without our once lift ! ing finger to bring it.
 , We "resolute'' like strong men armed we execute like the puniest of weddings t William T. Stead never uttered a true : word than when he said we crown Jesu Christ Lold of all in very much the sam way that the kings of England, for cen t turies, have been crowned kings of Eng l land and France.
 We gave Him the title, but what abou f the kingdom? | Oh, that we are quite content to SC l. wasted and despoiled. ''Rise up," where . Where evil is. We rise up valiantl }; where it is not. If even 8 small propol d tion of those who are on their feet in tn IT prayer-meeting would maintain an equa
 ly perpendicular attitude on the street, {
 their business, in their homes, in tn
 ward meetings, at the polls, we shoul
 soon sing the doxology over the kingdol
 of God, set up on earth. Somehow tf
 average christian is nightly like Jac
 in the box The lid is lifted and out
 pops in bravest attitude when the churc