Devils Lake world. (Devils Lake, N.D.) 1914-1915, 1914-08-13

Ioh. 464:4--y L Will l1HC UP mine
eyes unto the mountains, from whence
shall my help comet Ny help cometh
from Jehovah, who made heaven aud
earth"
The King James or ordinary yer,
sion reads: 81 will lift up mine eyes
unto the hill from whence cometh my
help" the punctuation indicating
that the help is expected from the hill
instead of from Jehovah who made
the hill and everything else.
To go by way of Denver, Colorado
Springs, and Salt Lake to San Fran
cisco; thence over the Shasta Route
to Portland and Seattle; thence north
and over the Canadian Pacific thru
the Selkirks or Canadian Rockies up
on which lies the Great Glacier; look
ing upon Pixies Peak, Mt. Shasta,
Mt. Hood and Mt. Rainier by the way
will give one a greater appreciation
of some Of the imagery Of the Bible
and amid the rocky grandeus one
cannot fail to have new and larger
thoughts of God.
The thousands of farmers whose
valley ranches Of grain and fruit are
watered from ting melting SHOWS in
the mountains; the people in the ci-
ties whose water supply is from these
same mountains; the operators of fac
tories, power plants and light plants
which are run by these anne streams
from the mountains; and all the null
titudes who gain their livelihood and
wealth from the mines among the
hills-all these may literally say, "we
will lift up our eyes to the hills from
whence cometh u help" Without
help from the hills their lands would
be a barren waste.
There are Is Psalms from the 12(
to the 1874 which in the King James
version are called "songs of De
grees,' but in the American Stand
ard version areI called "songs Of
Ascent
They were especially suitable to be
sung by the patriotic Israelites wher
they were about to begin the ascend
ing journey up to Jerusalem to a.
tend the great annual festivals.
AS with devotion they turned thelI
1000 nv "a 1api1calnp, ,tnTp fhc fo,
gaze iowa i Jerusalem upon the IA
off mou3ta1us where jehovah sat On
throned, how appropriate this song,
1T will lift up mine eyes unto the
mountains:
From whence shall my help come'
Ny help cometh from Jehovah who
mdae heaven and earth.
He will not suffer thy foot to bt
moved:
He that Keepeth thee will not slumb
or.
Behold, he that keepeth Israel
Will neither slumber nor sleep.
Jehovah is thy keeper:
Jehavah is thy shade upon thy RICH,
h nd.
The sun shall not smite thee by day
Nor the moon by night.
Jehovah will keep thee from all evil,
He will keep thy soul.
Jehovah will keep thy going out
and thy coming in
From this ,lme forth and forever.
more" (Psa. 1917.
This might properly be called a
song Of Jehovah is our helper and
Defender.
They looked to him to defend them
from all evils along the journey, ano
he would assist them till they shoulc
arrive at the goal of their ambition
where the thousands from every par
Of Palestine would gather to worshriI
the God who had given them theil
goodly heritage.
As they encamped In patriotic re
union around the city of their de>.
ton, how joyously they sang tie IL
Psalm which begins, 81 vas GLAI
when they said unto me, Let us go III
to the house Of Jehovah . Our fec
are standing within thy gates, o Jer
usalem.'
Wherever the devout Israelit
might wander, and whatever his COZ
dition, his heart turned ever towar,
Jerusalem established upon the i'm
movable mountains, and which wa
thus a symbol Of the permanence o
Gods church and work among men
But it is not to Jerusalem or to tn
church where Gods honor dwellet
that men are to look for help and de
tense; 1t is rather to u God an,
Father who is our all mighty frien'
that we are to look.
Jerusalem was the rallying cente
for Israel as the church is the rallyin
center for christians; and as the
loved Jerusalem so we should love tn
\ church univarsa1 an1 all ra11v IN r.