The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1923-11-08
SUNDAY SCHOOL LESSON
Prepared especially for The Republi,
can by Rev. U. S. Wright, D. D.
SUNDAY, NOVEMBER II.
SOME MISSIONARY TEACHINGS
OF THE PSALMS

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Jehovah has set the world singing.
Examine your monograph records
and you will find no great voice out
side the limits of His influence nor
will you be thrilled by the song from
any other source. And that is not
true because we are too patriotic or
too race-conscious to seek them, for
it IS purely commercial venture, and
if there was a singer or a song that
might be exploited for price it
would be done Not until the heart
knows the God revealed most fully n
Jesus Christ does its melody become
a part of the music of the world.
There seems no other source of song.
It was at His touch that the morning
stars sang together and at His pres
ence that a throng that no man could
number in the vision viii make heav-
en- resound with praise. The jew knew
Him, and therefore the Jews hymn
book IS the outstanding song book for
all the world. In the words of Roland
Prothero The Book Of Psalms con-
tains the whole music Of the heart Of
man, swept by the hand Of HIS Maker.
In it are gathered the lyrical burst OF
his tenderness, the moan Of his pen
itence, the p&thos Of his sorrow, the
triumph of his victory, the despair
Of his defeat, the frmness Of his con-
tidence, the rapture Of his assured
hope. In it as Heine says, are collect
ed sunrise and sunset, birth and
death, promise and fuIfllmeut-the
whole drama Of humanitvn"
Composing such universal charac-
teristics it would be strange indeed
if this collection Of $50 hymns should
not hold The missionary appeal. With
the most nationaistic intent and the
most restricted usa-thc-a were Tor
the ritual worship in the Jerusalem
Temple-the use Of such heart Ian
guage rather than that of philosophy
o. reason, gives them entry to all the
world. For hearts are alike around
tAC &looe-IJ IN the mead that we
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GODS RIGHT 10 REIGN.
Psalm AZ was professional about
the altar accompanied by the rhythmic
clapplng OF hands and was used upon
the Jewish New Year. Among the
Christians 1t is connected with AS
censlon Day. God is the great King
OF all the earth and is pictured as
able to hold that place by right of
His power. If in the old Saxon speech
the King was the one who can then
certainly there can be no other Oc-
cupant for this world throne. He has
wrought a great victory and has es-
tablished the boundaries of nations.
Having won the world dominions He