The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-05-29
In the Religious World

danced before the Lord" 1t was an
act of religious zeal.
A Woman's Sheer.
There are some folk who think
that when a revival comes along the
correct and superior attitude is to look
on it from. a distance and from a
height, and to find fault with the par
Elephants. I should like to hear Billy
Sunday preach a sermon on Michal
and her successors who have sneered
at King David and all men since who
have been wrought up over religion;
for Mr.. Sunday has had ample expert
ence with these persons VINO sit IN a
window and sneer when they should
have been sharing in the revival. why
was not Michal, SauPs daughter and
David's wife. leading the procession OF
dancing women who went 1ofth TO
greet the Ark?
Perhaps we don't know enough
about MichaIS experience to judge her
fairly, although she had committed
band to shame. Michal, who had been
the bride of David's youth, and then
taken from him and given to another
husband by her father, Saul, had after
many years been returned to DAVID $
household. Apparently she would
have rather remained the only wife
of her second husband than a part or
the harem of her fathers royal sue
cessor. She seems to have lacked en-
thusiasm for and devotion to David.
We cannot wish that all who sheer
at revivals of religion might be pun
ished as SOrely as was M1cnal; IoI
there was visited upon her the worst
punishment that could come to He
brew woman; she remained ch1ldless
to the end. Her cheap sheer earned
her the swift, strong rebuke OF her
husband, and the badge OF dlshonor
among all the women of the palace.
An Early Revival Song.
This revival, which attended the re-
moval of the Ark, was accom- paniea,
festival of music. AS the GLORY Song
is forever associated with the Torrey-
Alexander revivals and the Brighten
the Corner with the Billy Sunday re-
vivals, so the Twenty-fourth Psalm is
a part of the history of the return OF
the Ark David wrote the song for
this occasion, and to this day in ortho-
dox synagogues it is chanted in the
weekly services as the law is carried
back to it's shrine.
Probably the song was USED
antiphonally, with solo and chorus
sufficient warrant for the modern
choristers' method of getting one part
of the congregation to sing to another
The New Century Bible suggests that
the Psalm was divided and sung some
what after the following arrangement:
The chorus in procession, approaching the
The earth is Jehovah's, and the fitness
The world and they that dwell therein
For he hath founded it upon the seas,
And established it upon the floods
Solo voice.
who shall ascend into the hill of Jehovah?
And who shall stand in His holy placer"
The Choir:
He that hath clean hands, and a pure
heart;
Who hath not lifted up his soul unto
falsehoood,
He shall receive a blessing from Jehovah,
And righteousness from the God OF his
Salvation.
This is the generation of them that seek
after Him,
That seek Thy face, even jacob
Solo at the gates of the city
And be We lifted up, ye everlasting doors
And the King of glory will come in
Voices within the gate =
''Who is the King of Glory?"
The multitude =
Jehovah strong and mighty,
Jehovah mighty in battle.
Solo at the gates =
Lift up your heads. We gates
Yea, lift them up, ye everlasting doors:
And the King of glory Will come H.
Voice within the gates =
Who is this King of Glory?"
The multitude
Jehovah of hosts,
He is the King of glory