The evening times. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1895-1902, 1901-12-28
Topic. numbering Our Days,

Topic Numbering Our Days
Psalms 80 4. LoTd Thou hast been
cur dwelling place in all generations
?. Before he mountains were brought
forth. or ever Thou haest formed the
earth and the world, even from everiast-
ing 10 everlasting. Thou art God.
8 Thou turnest man 70 destruction; and
sayest. Return. We children Of men.
4. For a thousand years in Thy sight
are but as yesterday when it is past and
as a wasch in the night.
.. Thou earliest them away as with
flood; they are as a sleep: in the morn
ing they are like grass which groweth
up.
6. In the morning it hourisheth, and
froweth up; in the evening it is cut down,
and withereth.
I For We are consumed by Thine anger,
and by Thy wrath are we troubled
S Thou hast set our iniquities before
thee. our secret sins in the light OF thy
eountenance
., For all our days are passed away in
Thy wrath: We spend our years as tale
that is told
ID The days OF our years are three
score years and ten; and If by reason Of
our strength they be fourscore years. yet
is their strength labor and sorrow; for
it is soon cut of. and we fly away.
IL Who knoweth the power CT Thine
anger? even according to thy fear, 50 is
Thy wrath
u. So teach US TO nUmber our days, that
we may apply our hearts unto wisdom
49, Return, o Lord, how long? and let
it repent Thee concerning Thy servants
IA o satisfy Us early with Thy mercy;
that We may rejoice and be glad all our
DAYS
Is Make US glad according to the days
wherein Thou hast afflicted Us, and the
years wherein We have seen evil
10. Let Thy work appear unto Thy
servants, and Thy glory unto their chill
dren.
L. And let the beauty of the Lord our
God be upon Us: and establish Thou the
work OF our hands upon Us; yea, the work
of our hands establish Thou it.
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Parallel PassageS-
job IL. Job SO; Job 1886; Job 2i:13;
Job 32:7-g: Proverbs 5:13-16, Ecelesiates
6:l2; EccIesiates 12:1; Mark 1853;
James 4:12.14-
Noses, the great teacher, praying 20 DC
TAUGHT The man Of God, the law-giver,
the prophet. bowling in the suppiiant hu-
mility OF a little child The iron-hearted,
clear-headed. far-sighted leader, rich with
the multiplied wisdom OF many years. ask
ing to be led II is only what We should
expect TO ind IN Moses. The greatest
men are not great in their own eyes
Through this whole psalm rings the same
minor chord of sad humility, the keynote;
the brevfty aud uncertainty Of human life.
Its days and dangers, its swift passage
ana subtle periIs are numbered in detail,
but this is done IN no weak sentinentaIity,
but rather that there may be furnished 10y
# q high strong motive for better, wiser
life.
Very evidently the psalm was written
after years of wandering in the wilderness
It pictures for US the incidents Of the
march. the quickly swollen, dangerous
mountain food. the night watch Of the
camp sentnels, the fresh grass witheTed
in an hour by the intense heat Of a desert
sun Thou earliest them away as with q
food" Who can stand alone on the mar
gin OF the river and not think that Just
so his own particular current Of life Is
bearing him swiftly away toward that
"unfathomablc gulf where all is stilIz'
I'm the morning they are like grass
which groweth up" The whitening heaps
left by the mowers scythe drying away.