The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1899-11-07

the r@W" MINI OF Supplcatlon Ihat
Kruger Has Done. D
president Kruger, in the course Of
I interview today regarding the crisis
I'd he regarded the Boer position best
fined by the eighty-third Psalm"
s1is CHRONOLOGICAL from South Afri-
Z reminds Us that this is not the first
sme that statesmen have found COM
rt in the Book Of Psalms. The first
influential congress met at Philadel-
\ lila in September, 1774. 1t was pro-
Used that the proceedings should be
e,ened with prayer. Mr.. Joy Of New
ork and Mr.. Rutledge of South Caro-
zna objected on the ground that the
E@legates were not sufficiently united in
ieir religious sentiments, some being
piscopalians, some being Anabaptists.
hers Presbyterians, and still others
g0ngregationalists. A false report had
asst reached Philadelphia that Boston
ad been bombarded by the British.
What followed is thus narrated in a
tier written by John Adams to his
life under date of September 16, 1774:
"Mr. Samuel Adams arose and said
e was no bigot and could hear a
rayer from a gentleman Of piety and
trtue who was at the same time a
lend to his country. He was a strang-
4 in Philadelphia, but he had heard
siat Mr.. Duche (Dushay they pro-
ounce it) deserved that character, and
le~refore he moved that Mr.. Duche, an
piscopal clergyman, might be desired
) read prayers to the congress tomoT-
s)w morning. The motion was second
and passed in the affirmative. Mr..
andolph, our president, waited on
Er. Duche, and received for answer
lat IL his health permitted he certain
, would. Accordingly next morning
e appeared with his clerk and in his
o~ntificals, and read several prayers in
re established form, and then read the
0llect for the seventh day of Septem-
er. which was the thirty-fifth Psalm.
GU must remember that this was the
ext morning after we heard the horri-
lie rumor of the cannonade of Boston.
never saw a greater effect upon an
udience. II seemed as if heaven had
srdained that Psalm to be read on that
forming"
There is a singular likeness between
ONE of the verses which thus impress
d the continental congress of 1774 and
ortions of the eighty-third Psalm,
1hich Dom Paul finds so expressive of
is W feelings in this year, 1899. In
he eighty-third Psalm, to which the
loer president appeals. we find these
lords:
Keep moi thou silence, o God; hold
OF thy peace, and be not still, o God.
For 10, thine enemies make a tu-
quit: and they that hate thee have lift
d up the head.
20 my God, make them like a wheel;
s the stubble before the wind.
"As the fire burneth a wood, and as a
anne setteth the mountain on fire.
$50 persecute them with thy tempest,
nd make them afraid with thy storm.
Let them be ~confounded and troub-
ed forever; yea, let them be put to
hame and perish"
While in the thirty-ffth Psalm which
drilled the continental congress OF
TIA. we read:
plead my cause, o Lord, with them
hat strive with me; fight against them
hat fight against me.
let them be confounded and put to
lhame that seek after my soul; lei
hem be turned back and brought to
~onfusion that devise my hurt.
Let them be as chaff before the
wind; and let the angel of the Lord
.hase them.
Let them be ashamed and brought
o confusion together that rejoice al
nine hurt"
Thus the same sentiment expressed
n different portions of Holy Writ has
Afforded solace to the troubled states,
men of America and of Africa in the
after days of the eighteenth and nine
zenith centuries.