"FOR GOD, FOR COUNTRY AND FOR .TRUTH."
W. FLETCHER ATJSBOX, EDITOR,
C. V. W. AU8BON, BUSINESS MANAGER..
x VOL IV.
PLYMOUTH, N. C, FRIDAY, JUNE 24, 1892.
NO. 6.
Published by Roanoke Publishing Co.
PROORESa
He led the van of Progress till he stool
Upon the height he oft had hoped to gate;
"While far below him rolled the human
flood ; ' .
' So far below he feared hie labor vain; "
Yet slowly , onward poured the mighty
.. stream,
While be, the leader, sat htm down to dream.
The world Is slow," he said, "the pathway
hard,. , .
Yet I have reached the goal; the path is
made,
And I am weary, bruised, torn, and
scarred." v .
- Then closed his eves within the nleasant
1 shade, yt Cler4.---"
Besidetfef jjar(i won g0fti the l9aderfctept.,v
szX'mgth. he woke adown the mountain!
t
f- SlOpe ;;;.;-..;..
rero epreau iub iwnuiii bqhuuwb ui inn
' night; ; '
Alone he stood bereft of Love and Hope
For far beyond him, on a distant height,
The ' army upward toiled. His work was
' done, ." '
While he had slept had greater heights been
. ;. won. ' . ..-.. t
k Flavel S.- Mines, in Harper's Weekly.
AN INCURABLE HOYDEN.
ORE varied , emo
tions and appre
hensions surged in
my 60ul than I
A .UV.. '
U J lyze or describe, as
1 stood on the
thresheld of Mr.
k Daniel's library.
I, ' "Frank, ; it it
1 you?" he said
& cherrily, turning
M rntonrrla Hi a Anftr.
Come in, my boy;
come in. I .am
very -glad to see
Congratulate you upon your brilliant de
. gree." , ;.
"Thank you, Mr. Daniels," I managed
: to respond. , "I did my best at college,
and now I hope- to succeed as well in
my profession." v t' " v :;
"Why,vdf course you will; yqu know
mark. But wbv do you not sit down.
my boy ? Have a cigar V9 . 7,
..Tt linofr'a stnrialiv rrnva mo rniiranra
f4 I took a cigar from his case and sat
down more at ease than I had felt all the
long xiay. ' But . as , I smokod and, re
fleeted ttv doubts . returned j I had come 1
1 to ask for sonucb,!-and coulu offer tfo
little.
-, "Well, well, well;, to think of it!"
Mr. Daniels said, almost as much ' to
himself as to me. "How easily I can re
member "the time when -you and Elsie
were little children. Now she is a young
lady, somewhat of a hoyden still, cer
tainly; but she will get over that before
long, I have no doubt. , And you, Frank
Hoyt, whom I saw, but a few short years
ago, plajing your part, as her little beau,
in your short trousers and shorter
jacket, are now a man and have obtained
your diploma as a civil engineer. All
the prizes of Queen's College I The Gold
'Medal of the Royal University! I say,
Frank- he abrubtly interrupted himself,
"I presume I shall have to call you Mr.
Hoyt now." -
"I hope not, sir," I. answered, "I
want to be always Frank to you, and to
be frank with you," I continued, in an
attempt at pleasantry, "I came to
speak with you about a matter that con
cerns us all me particularly."
"Ah," he said, interrogatively. '
"Yes, sir," I answered, determined
quickly t to bring our conversation to a
decisive' point. "The fact i, I am
anxious to obtain your consent to Elsie's
becoming my wife."
He was silent for what, appeared to
me a long time. Then he took off his
glasses, and, and striking them gently
upon his knee as if to accentuate his
his words, said: ; ,' r
"Frank, I believe I told you that I
deem you a man. And I also expressed
my pleasure at the auspicious manner in
which you begin your career; begin your
career, mind you. But," his manner
grew more formal,. "whfit have you, sir,
that warrants thoughts of marriage?
What prospects? None, as yet, that have
taken shape. Your little property yielded
enough to pay your expenses while at
college, for you were a . steady young
man. . Now you have a profession, but
to marry with nothing else and to
marry a girl like Elsie, accustomed to
luxury it is out-of the question."
"But, Mr. Daniels" v
"I know what you would say," he
continued. "You have confidence in
your ability, and doubtless you will suc
ceed, provided nothing untoward hap
pens to you. But in your profession
there are many difficulties to contend
with; however, you are too young to
consider them. Another thing, too,
Elsie" 19 still a child ; a girl of seventeen
hardly knows her mind. Mr.. Hoyt, to
sum it all up in a few words, I am
obliged to refuse my consent." -
I bit my lips. "Mr." Daniels," I finally
found courage to say, "are thero no con
dition?, no" ' . .
"Well, Frank," he said, "I should
peremptorily dismiss you, but I like you
too well for that. , I'll tell you what I
will do. I will Becure you an appoint
ment as assistant eugiaeer on the Te-
. tllHIUL'llfC HftlllUil'J, VI nutbu 1VU
torn a dhector. If you succeed in be
! coming the chief engineer with a salary
Vf t it ait a thouiaad Mexican dollars,
-A M
hi r S3 n in
I- . t v .. .
and Elsie then wishes it, I will withdraw
my opposition."
"Mr. Daniels I'M exclaimed, grateful
ly claspinglils hand.
"But let me finish," he said. "Dur
ing the time that you strive to achieve
your purpose, there shall be no engage
ment between you, and furthermore you
shall not communicate with each other.
I want Elsie to be entirely free."
I knew that to ask f osr any modification
of his conditions would prove futile;
therefore, I thanked him as pleasantly
as I could, and bowed myself out.
-My poor little sweetheart's eyes swam
in tears when I told her what her father's
decision was. Her hands upon my
shoulders', her little form close to me,
her lovely hair approaching and receding
with each breath I drew, made me ap
preciate "with all its terrible force, the
import of a separation from her.
, "But, darling," my brave Elsie said,
smiling encouragement through her tears,
"I dare say father. h9 forgotten his
youth; he doea not understand how he
rends our souls." v '
. I held her in my firm embrace.
"Darling," he continued, "I want
you to go and work hard', the time will
come when papa will be &a proud of you
as I am." v
I kissed her. v
"And then 1 shall grow older and more
sensible, mora dignified. My pride In
you will roako me more worthy ; to be
your wife. This severe trial will make
it unnecessary for you to scold me any
more for my unconventional boisterous
ness; and we shall go through life, so
happy, so'
Conclusive tears rendered her speech
less. J; She lfy sobbing in my arms. ;
. I was tempted to broach an elopement,
but the thought was quelled by her re
gaining composure.
"Darling," she said, "I want to be
worthy of you; and this is not doing it.
I'll tell yoa,dear,what wo will dol We,
must not Communicate .with each other,
but we will keep a diary, and when our
probation," Bhe suppressed a sob, "is
over, we will exchange oijr little books."
I will not recite the agony we suffered
in the .weeks, that followed;- nor cai I
even now think with equanimity of the
heart-rending farewell. .
Daily I wrote her impassioned letters;
for fira years these letters were penned
in my diaries; and I felt that she wa9
doing the same. My work, first with
the chain and then with the theodolite,
was appreciated; but our chief engineer
not only kept in excellent health, but
also , seemed perfectly satisfied with his
post, - I then occupied the second po
sition in the corps of engineers, and saw
no hope ot attaining the advancement
for which I longed. ; Then suddenly we
heard that the railway was about; to be
sold t'j a syndicate, and that ' the cele
brated expert, Mr. ; Setdan-Jones, was
coming to examine the work.'
"Humph 1" snorted our chief, "Jones
was a classmate of mine. I dure say, ho
thinks he knows all about railway con
struction, and will condemn our work
I'll be hanged if I dance attendance upon
him. .; Hoyt, when bo. comes, you do the
graceful, as per instructions from home.
Here ia the letter." ' '
The document contained a private
note to our chief in which he was in
formed that the great expert was a nvst
affable gentleman, but objected to being
addressed otherwise than as Mr. Seldon
Jones. "Yes," sneered the chief-enginoer,
"I presume he now parts his hair in the
middle as he does his name. f If he don't
like Jones,' let him buy a haudsotaer
name. As far as I m concerned, I shall
write home that I'm an engineer and
not a diplomatist. If they don't like Jt,
they can have my resignation as soon as
they please. . In fact, I'm beginning to
yearn for the fog of dear old London j
again; and I'm getting old and lazy."
My heart beat violently at his words.
If he resigned, I should probably become
his successor; and Elsie, my darling, for
whom I had suffered so much, would be
mine.
About a fortnight later Mr. Seidell
Jones arrived.and our chief received him
courteously yet bluntly. Do . what. I
would, I could not induce him to address
the well know expert save as Mr. Jones;
but I followed our instructions,and found
Mr. Seldon-Jones courteous in manner,
thorough in his work, and not at all
overbearing; and he had a. pleasant way
of giving information i or , instruction,
speaking as if he supposed that I knew
as much as himself about our profeysion,
and-yet teaching me much that I cotjld
never have learned from any one except
himself.
Two months afterhe had left ust 4hy
sale was completed; and all the staff,
recommeuded by our chief,, were re
tained. After this there was a satisfied
smile on. the chief's face for several
weeks, till one day, while we were at
work in the. office, a cablegram, was
handed him.
: He opened it and burst into a roar of
laughter.
."What's the matter, chief?" I asked
in alarm, fearing ba had suddenly be
come demented.
"Don't call me chief, sir!" he said.
"Read this."
'i The words swam before my eyes; I
could hardly believe the evidence of my
senses.
'Resignation regretfully accepted;
Frank noyt appointed chief engineer;
please request hira to take charge im
mediately. Seldcn-Jones, managing di
rector." , ' i
"Elsie J" 1 could not restrain the cry
of joy.
Our good chief cordially sfcoctk my
hand. "Aba! my bey," he laughed, "so
there is an Elsie in the case, i Well,
murder and love will out. Let me doubly
congratulate you."
The following mail brought me the
information that my salary would be ten
thousand dollars a year, and I was or
dered to proceed at once to London for
further instructions.
I naturally thought but little of ex
pense,' and sent a long cablegram to Mr.
Daniels, requesting hat he would cable
me permission to. claim my bride.
His answer was pithy. "If Elsie is
willing I consent."
"If Elsie is willing 1" What a pre
posterous doubt! , Could my little Elsie
be anything but willing?
As I see it now, I made an extraordin
arily fast trip to London ; but at that
time the mules, the trains,' and the
steamer, seemed to sport , with love's
ardor that was consuming me.
The ship's barber made my hair 'pre
sentable. Still, ray garments were not
of the latest cut; yet what would Elsie
care for aught but me? ;.; V ;
The journey between Liverpool and
Euston was indeed tedious, and the very
worst cab horse in London drew the
hansom which took me to the house. A
strange servant admitted me. ;
"Yes, sir, Miss Daniels is in. Your
card, please.", . .' .
The old reception-room seemed to
have changed ; its furniture was newer,
more elegant ; it breathed an air of con
ventionality that oppressed me: and dike
a premonition of some impending mis
fortune, it made my heart beat a funeral
knell. . ,
The door opened.
I threw wide open my arms. "Elsie!"
I cried.
A stately woman, wearing a long flow
ing dress, walked slowly toward me;
and, with a calm, courteous voice and
manner, plainly ignoring my emotion, she
said
"Why, Mr. Hoyt, I am very glad to
see you. Do be seated. , Did you have
a pleasant trip home, and do you find me
much changed in these let me .see oh,
yes, five years or so? But do take a
seat." : - - . ; ;. ;- ' : . .
- "Elsie," I managed , to gasp, as I sat
down, "is this the manner in which you
receive me? Is this the requital for my
devotion? Have I recorded each throb
of my heart to to ?" I do not know
whither my impassioned indignation
would have led, had she not interrupted
me with a bright merry.peal of laughter,
such as the had often greeted me within
the past. ;
Then drawing herself up to her full
height she was only a little woman, but
she sat on a high chair she looked
down at me, and said:
"Dear, dear me! surely you have not
continued to think of that childish folly.
Why, Mr. Hoyt, we f ollowed up a baby
notion ; we ' spoke of interlacing our
lives, as if they were toys. But now you
must be let me see" she feigned to
meditate 'yes, you must be fully
thirty, and I am a woman of twenty-t wo.
We are different persons " .
I do not know what else she said. I
remember only that after hearing her
voice for a long time, I rose to go. My
heart was broken.
"You will not take it amiss, Mr. noyt,
that I have spoken bo frankly; will you?
I really wish to count you among my
friends and hope you will visit us often.
I am at home Thursdays, and you will
meet very many pleasant yes, charming
people here. And do you recall, when
I was your little sister, Mr. liioyt, how
you chided my boisterousness? I feel
sure you will have no occasion now to
even deplore my lack of conventionality .
indeed, I flatter myself that I do not;
need a mentor anV more.".
This last stab aroused my indignation. "
"I am quite sure of that, Mis3 Daniels,"
I said stiffly. , "My only regret is that I
may not be able to, attend your At
Homes, as I do not expect I shall be in
England next Thursday."
."Oh!" she responded, quite as stiffly,
"I shall very much regret it."
"Good day, Miss Daniels."
"Good day, Mr. Hoyt."
: My hand was on the door-knob as I
made my last bow. Before I could raise
my head again, however,' Elsie had come
to me, and plasped her arms tightly
about my neck; and whilst tears of joy
were raining down her face, she pressed
burning kisses upon my lips. !
"Oh! Frank, Frank, what a bad,
naughty darling you are to mistrust your
Elsie, the same hoydenish, unconven
tional Elsie to you that she ever was, nq
matter how dignified and proper she
may be to the woi Id."
-1 was astonished beyond expression.
"Kiss me, Frank," ohe pleaded con
tritely. "Kiss me to show that you for-,
give me, or," she again became the.
hoydenish Elsie "I'll tell papa to with
draw his consent." :
Plate Glass.
The cast plate glass of which mirrors,
shop windows, etc., are made, is pre-?
pared from the whitest sand, broken
plate glass, soda, a small proportion o
lime and a much smaller amount of man-,
ganese and cobalt oxides. The glas4
when perlectly melted is poured upon an)
iron table of the size required, and the
thickness is regulated by a strip of ironi
placed down each of the four sides of thej
table. Immediately after it is poured
out the , molten substance is flattened!
down by an iron roller, which lowers the
glass to the thickness of the strips at the
sideu. It is then annealed or tempered
for several days, after which it is ground
perfectly level and "'"tid to transpar
ent brilliancy. I Tress.
BEY. BH. TALM AGE.
The Eminent Brooklyn Divine's Sun.
; day Sermon.
Subject: "Selali."
Text: Selah -Psalms lxl., 4.
Toe majority of Bible readers look upon
tlus word of my text-as of no importance.
They consider it a superfluity, a mere fitting
in, a meaningless interjection, a useless re-'
f raio, an undefined echo. Selah ! But I
have' to tell you that it is no Scriptural ac
cident. It occurs seventy-four times in the
Book of Psalms and three times in the Book
of Habakkuk. You must not charge this
gerfect book with seventy-seven trivialities,
elah! It is an enthroned word. If. rjnrA.
i, ing to an old writer,some words are battles.
than tViio ri-4 (a - M.ftis fl
lae, a Sedan, a Waterloo. It is a word de
cisive, sometimes for poetic beauty, some
times for grandeur, and sometimes for
eternal import. , Through it roll the thun
dering chariots of the Omnipotent God.
. I take this word for my text because I am
so often asked what is its meaning, or
whether it has any meaning at all. It has
an ocean of meaning, from which I shall
this morning dip up only four or five buck
etfuls. I will speak to you. so'ar as I have
time, of the Selah of poetic significance, the
Selah of intermission, the Selah of emphasis'
and the Selah of perpetuity.
Are vou surprised that I speak of the
Selah of poetic significance? Surely the God
who sapphired the heavens, and made the
earth a rosebud of beauty, with oceans
hanging to it like drops of morning dew,
would not make a Bible without rhythm,
without redolence, without blank verse.
God knew that eventually the Bible would
be read by a great majority of young peo
ple.for in this world of malaria and casualty
an octogenarian is exceptional, and as thirty
years is morn than the average of human
life, if the Bible is to be a successful book it
must be adapted to the young. Hence the
prosody of the Bible the drama of Job, th
pastoral of Ruth, the epic of Judges, the
dithyrambic of Habakkuk, the threnody of
Jeremiah, the lyric of Solomon's Song, the
oratorio of the Apocalypse, the idyl, the
strophe and antistrophe, and the Selah of
the Psalm s.
Wherever you find this word Selah , It
means that you are to rouse up to great
stanza, that you are to open your soul to
great analogies, that you are to spread the
wing of your imagination for great flight.
'I answered thee in the secret place of thun
der; I proved thee at the waters of Meribah.
Selah." "The earth and all the inhabitants
thereof are dissolved; I bear ud the pillars
of it Selah." "Who is the King of Glory?
The Lord of Hosts, He is the King of Glory.
Selah," "Thou shalt compass me about with
songs of deliverance. Selah." "Though,
the waters thereof roar and be troubled
though the mountains shake with the swell
ing thereof. Selah." "The Lord of Hosts ia
with us, the God of Jacob is our refuge.
Selah." "Thou hast given a banner to them
that fear Thee, that it may be displayed
because of the truth. Selah." I will hide
under the covert of Thy . wings. Selah.".
"Oh, God, when Thou wentest forth before
Thy people, when Thou didst march through
the wildernes?. Selah." i
Whoever you find this word it is a signal
of warning hung out to tell you to stand off
the track while the rushing train goes byj
with its imperial passengers, Poetic word,
charged with sunrise and sunsst, and tempest
and earthquake, and resurrections and
millenniums.
Next I come to speak of the Selah of in
termission . Gesenius, Tholuck, Hengsten-1
berg and other writers agree in saying that:
this word Selah means a rest in music; what
the Greeks call a diapsalma, a pause, a halt'
in the solemn march of cantillation. '
Every musician knows the importance of
it. If you ever saw Jullien, the great
musical leader, stand before five thousand
singers and players npon instruments, and
with on6 stroke of his baton smite the multi
tudinous hallelujah into silence, and then,
soon after that, with another stroke of his
baton rose up the full orchestra to a great
outburst of harmony, then you know the
mighty effect of a musical pause. It gives
more power to what went before; it gives
more power to' what is to come after. ''
v So God thrusts the Selah into His Bible
and into our lives, compelling us to stop and
think, stop and consider, stop and admire,
stop and pray, stop and repent, stop and be
sick, stop and die. It is not the great num
ber of times that we read the Bible through
that makes us intelligent in the Scriptures.
We must pause. What though it take an
hour for one word? What though it take a
week for one verse? W bat though it tak a
year for one chapter? We must pause and
measure the height, the depth, the length,
the breadth, the universe, the eternity of
meaning in one verse.
I should like to see eome one sail around
one little adverb in the Bible, a little adverb
of two letters, during one lifetime the word
"so" in the New Testament passage, "God
so loved the world." Augustiue made a long
pause after the verse, "Put ye on the Lord
Jesus Christ," and it converted him. Mat
thew, Henry made along pause after the
verse, "Open Thou my lips, and my mouth
shall show forth Thy praise," and it convert
ed him. William Cowper made a long '
pause after the verse, Being freely justified
by His grace," and it converted him. Whey
God tells us seventy-seven times meditatively
to pause in reading two books of the Bible,
He leaves to our. common sense to decide
how often we should pause in reading the,
other Bixty-four books of the Bible.
We must pause and ask for more light.
We must pause and, weep over our sins. W e
must pause and absorb the strength of one?
promise. I sometimes hear people boasting"
about how manylttmes they have read the
Bible through, when they seem to know no
more about it than a passenger would know
about the State of Pennsylvania who should
go through it in a St. IiOuis lightning ex
press train and in a Pullman 'sleeper," the
two characteristics of the journey, velocity
and somnolence. It is not the number o
of times you go through the Bible, but the
number of times the Bible goos through you.
Pause, reflect. Selah! .
So also on the scroll of your life ana mind.
We go rushing on in the song of our pros
perity from note of joy to note of joy, and it
is a long drawn out legato, and we become
indifferent and uuappreciative when sud
denly we come upon a blank in the music.
There is nothing between those bars. A
pause. God will fill it up with h sick bed,
or a commercial disaster, or a grave. But,
thank God, it is not a breaking down. It is
only a pause. It helps us to appreciate the
blessings that are gone. It gives us higher
appreciation of the blessing! that are to
come. . ' , . ,
The Selah of Habakkuk and David is a
dividing line between two anthems. David
begins his book with the words, "Blessed is
the man," and after seventy-four Salahs he.
closes his book with the words, "Praise ye
the Lord." So there are mercies behind us,
and there are going to be mercies before us.
It is good for us that God halts us in our for
tunes, and halts us with physical distress,
and halts us at the graves of our dead. More
than once you and I have been halted by
such tk ilah. You wrung your hands and
aid; "I can't se any sen in this Provi
dence; I can't see wby V'M gave me that
child, if He is so soon going tSTaise a away;
Ob, my desolate hornet Oh, my broken
heart!" You could not understand it. But
it was not a Selah of overthrow. It gave
you greater appreciation of the blessings
that have gone; it will yet give you greater
appreciation of the blessings that will come.'
When the Huguenots were . being , very
much persecuted in France a father and
mother were obliged to fly from the country,
leaving their child in the possession of a
comparative stranger; They did not know
whether they would ever return, or return
ing, if they would be able to recognize their
child, for by that time she might be grown.
The mother was almost frenzied at the
thought of leaving the child, and then, even
if coming back again, not being able to know
her. Before they left the father drew nil
sword and he marked the wrist of that
child with a deep cut. It must have been a
great exigencv to make a father do that.
x ears or absence passed on and after
awhile the parents returned, and their first
anxiety was to find their lost child. They
looked up and down the land examining the
wrists of the young people, when lo! after
awhile the father found a maiden with a scar
upon her wrist. She knew him not, but he
knew her. And oh, the joy of 'the reunion!
So it is now. "Whom the Lord loveth He
chastepeth. He cntteth, He marketh and
when "He cblnesTtocUum "His own "the Lord
will know them that are His; know them by
the scar of thsir trouble, know them by thet
stroke of their desolation.
Ob,1 it is good that the Lord sometimes
halts u. David say?, "It is good that I have
beenafflictedj Befqre.1 was tjfflfcteLI went
astray, but now navel kept Thy word." "In
deed, we must all soon stop. Scientists have
imoroved human longevity, but none of them
have prooosed to make terrene life perpetual.
But the Gospel makes death a Selah between
two beatitudes between dying triumph
on the one side of the grave and celestial es
cort on the other side of the grave. Going
out of this lite to the unprepared is a great
horror. ; ..
"Givem more laudanum." said dying
snrabeau; '"give "me more TauctaauaTttiat I
may not 'think of eternity and what is to
come." And dying Hobbes said, "I leave
my body to the grave and my soul to the
great perhaps." It was the discord of an in
fidel's life breaking down into the jargon of
despair; but the Gospel makes the death of.
the Christain a Selah between redemption
and enthronement. , "Almost well," said dy
ing Richard Baxter, "almost welL" "Play
those notes over again those notes wbfcsh
ave been so great a delight and solace to
me," said the dying Christian Mozart. "None
but Christ, none but Christ," exclaimed dy
ing Lambert.
Richard Cameron, the Scotch covenanter,
went into the battle three times praying:
"Lord, spare the green and take the rip.
This is the day I have longed for. This is
the day I shall get mv crown. Come, let us
fight it to the last. Forward!" 1 So you see
there is only a short pause, a Selah of inter
mission, between dying consolations on the
one side and overstopping raptures on the
Cither.
My flesh shall slumber In the ground
Till the last trumpet's joyful sonnd;
Then burst the chains with sweet surprise,
. . And In my Saviour's image rise.
I next speak of the Selah of emphasis,
Ewald, the German orientalist and theolo
gian, says that this word means to ascend;
ana wncrever you flnaTCTEe saysTTou "Hust
look after the modulation of the voice and
you must put more force into your utterance.
It is a Selah of emphasis. Ah! my friends,
you and I need to correct our emphasis. We
put too much emphasis on the world and not
enough on God and the next world,. People
think these things around us are so Import
antvh'e things of the next are not worthy
of our consideration.
The first need for some of us is to change
our emphasis. Look at wretchedness on a
throne. Napoleon, while yet emperor of
France, sat down dejected, his hands over
his face. A lad came in with a tray of food
and said, "Eat. it will do you good." The
emperor looked up and said, "You are from
the countryf' . The lad replied, "Yes."
"Your father has a cottage and a few acres
of ground?" "Yes." "There is happiness,"
said the dejected emperor. Ah! Napoleon
never put the eaiphasls" fa the "right place"
until he was expiring at St. Helena.
On the other hand, look at Satisfaction
amid the worst earthly disadvantage. "I
never saw until I was blind," said a Chris
tian man. "I never knew what content
ment was while I had my eyesight as I know
what content is now that I have lost my
eyesight. I affirm, though few would credit
it, that I would not exchange my present
position and circumstances for my circum
stances before I lost my eyesight." That
man put the emphasis in the right place.
We want to put less stress npon this world
and more stress upon our Goi as our ever
lasting portion.
David had found out the nothingness of
this world and the atl-sufflclency of God.
Notice how he interjects the tielahs. "Trust
in the Lord at all times; ye people, pour out
your heart before Him. Goi is a refuge for
us. Selah." : "Blessei be the Lord who
daily loads us with benefits, even the God of .
our salvation. Selah."". "The Lord shall
count, when He writeta up the people, that
this man was born there. Selah." Lst the
world have its honors, and its riches, and its
pomp. Let me have the Lord for my light,
my peace, my fortres?, my pardon, my hope,
my heaven.
V hat elnnera valne I resign;
LordI 'tl enonsrh that Thoa art mine.
Js I shall behold Tny bHwful mc9,
, And Btand complete In righteousness.
This world is all an empty show, ,
Bat the bright world to which I go ,
- Hath joys substantial and sincere ; ;
When shall I wake and And me tnereT
0 glorious hour! O blest de!
1 shall be near nd HKe my God, .
And sin and sense no more control
' The endless pleasures of my souL
But when I speak of the SelaU of emphasis
I must notice it is a startling, a dramatic
emphasis. It has in it the Hrk, the Hist
of the drama. That wakening and arousing
emphasis we who pre:jh or instruct need
to use more frequently. The sleepiest
audiences in the world are religious
andienc3. ,
You Sabbath-echool teachers ought to
have more of the dramatic element in your
instructions. By graphic Scripture scene, by
auecdote, by descriptive gesture, by im
personation urge your classes to right action.
We want in all our schools and colleges an i
prayer meetings, and in all our attempts at
reform, and in all our churches to have Ie33
of the style didactic and more of the style
dramatic, ...
Fifty essays about the sorrows of the poor
could not affect me as a little drama of acci
dent and suffering I saw one slippery morn
ing in the streets of Philadelphia. Just
ahead of me was a lad, wretched in apparel,
his limb amputated at the knee; from the
pallor of the boy's cheek the amputation not
long before. He had a package of broken
food under his arm fool hehadbeggeJ, I
supposed, at the doors. As he passed oa
over the slippery pavement cautiously and
carefully, I steadied him until his crutch
slipped and he fell. I helped him up ai well
as I could, gathered up the fragments of the
package as well as I could, put them under
one arm and the crutca undor the- otaer
arm; but when I saw the blood ran down
his pale cheek I was completely overcome.
Fiftv essays about the suffering of the poor
couM not touch one like that little dratui et
accident and suffering. .
OS," we'v?aritTnaII "our uiuerehV ttepart
ments of usefulness and I address hundreds
of people who are trying to do good wa
want more of the dramatic element anl less ,
of the didactic. The tendency in this war
is to drone religion, to moan religion, to
croak religion, to sepulchriz 3 religion, when ,
we ought to present it in animated and spec
tacular manner.
Sabbath morning by Sabbath morning I .
address manv theological students who ara
Ereparing for the ministry. ' They come in
ere from the different institutions. , I say
to them this morning: If you. will go
home and look over the history of the
church you will find that thosf
men . have brought most souls to
Christ who have been dramatic Rowland
Hill, dramatic; Thomas Chalmers, dramatic;
Thomas Guthrie, dramatic; John Knox,
'dramatic; Robert McCheyne, dramatic;
Christmas Evans, dramatic; George White-
field, dramatic: Ro-rt Hall, dramatic;
Robert South, dram; Feneloo, dramatic:
John Mason, dramatic'". Dr.' Nott, dramatic.
When you get into the ministry, if you at
tempt to culture that element and try to
wield it for God you will meet with mighty
rebuff and caricature, and ecclesiastical
counsel will take your case in charge, and
they wiU try to put you down, but the God
who starts you will help you through, and
great wilt be the eternal rewards for the as
siduous and the plucky. '
What we want, ministers and laymen, is
to get our sermons, and our exhortations,
and our prayers out of the old rut. I see a
great deal of discussion in the religous pv .
pers ""about why people do not come to
church. -They do not come because they are
not mterested. The old hackneyed religious
phrases that come moving down through
the centuries wilh never arrest the masses.
What we want to-day, you in your sphere
and I in my sphere, is to freshen up. Peo
ple do not want in their sermons the sham
flowers bought at the millinery shop, but
the japonicas wet with the morning dew;
nor the heavy bones of extinct megatherium .
of past ages, but the living reindeer caught .
last August at the edge of Schroon lake.
We want to drive out the drowsy, and the
prosaic, and the tedious, and the humdrum,
and introduce the brightness and vivacftv,
and the holy sarcasm, and the sanctifies
wit, and the epigrammatio power, and the
blood red earnestness, and the fire of relig
ious seal and I do not know of any way
of doing it as well as through the dramatic. :
Attention! Behold! Hark! Selah!
Next I speak of the Selah of perpetuity.'
The Targum, which is the Bible m Chaldee.
renders this word of my teHb "forever.
Manj writers agree in believing and stating-
that one meaning of this word is "forever."
In this very verse from which I v take my
text Selah means not only poetic significance
and intermission and emphasis, but it means
eternal reverberation forever! ' God's
government forever, God's goodness for
ever, the gladness. of the righteous for
ever. Of course you and 1 have not
surveyor's chain with enough links to
measure that domain of meaning. In this
world we must build everything oa ' a small
scale. A hundred years are a great while.
A tower five hundred feet is a great height. ;
A journey of four thousand miles is very ;
long. But eternity! If the archanzel has
not strength" of wing'to fly across it, but
flutters and drops like a wounded seagulL
there is no need of our trying in the small .
shallow of human thought to voyage
across it.
A skeptic desiring to show his contempt
for the passing years and to sasw that he
could build enduringly, had h" ,v own
sepulchermadeof the finest and the hardest;
marble, and then he had put on the door the
words, "For time and for eternity." but it
so happened that the seed of a tree somehow
fot into an unseen crevice of the marble,
hat seed grew and enlarged until it became
a tree and split the marble to pieces. There
can be no eternalization of anything earthly.
But forever ! ' Will you and I live as long as
tbat? We are apt to think of the grave as
the terminus. We are apt to think of the
hearse as our last -vehicle. We are apt to
think of seventy or eighty or ninety years,
and then a cessation.
i Instead of that we find the marble slab of
the tomb is only a milestone, marking the
first mile, and that the great journey is be
yond. We have only time enough in this
world to put on the sandals and to clasp our
girdle and to pick up our staff. , We take our
first step from cradle to grave, and then we
open the door and start great God, whither?
The clock strikes the passing away of time,
but not the passing away of eternity. Meaa- -ureless,
measureless! This Selah of perpet
uity makes earthly Inequalities so insignia
cant, the difference ' between scepter and
needle, between Albambra and hut, between
chariot and cart, between throne and curb
stone, between Axminster and bare floor,
between satin and sackcloth, very trivial.
This Selah of perpetuity makes our getting
ready so important. For such prolongation
of travel whaj; outfioJL2uidbpokso. jjass
ports and of escort? Are we putting out ou
a desert, simoom swept and ghoul hAteJ,or
into regions of sun lighted and spray
sprinkled gardens? Will it be Elysium or
Gehenna? Once started la that world, we
cannot stop. The current is so swift that
once in no oar can resist it, no helm can
steer out of it, no herculean or titanic arm
can baffle it. Hark to the long resounding
echo, "forever!" Ob, wake up to the inter
est of your deathless spirit! Strike out for
heaven. Rouse ye, men and wonen for
I whom Jesus died. Selah 1 Selah I Forever!
Toreverl ,
He Instated Oa Being Shot,. ' '
. A case of very uncommon nature is
lo come before the Council of State in
Paris. Some time ago a soldier
Jiamed Gugel tried to kill an officer
Against whom he bore a, grudge, and
having been tried byV court-martial
Was condemned to death. The Presi
ient of the Republic, on ' all the cir
rumstances of tne case oeing .laid be-,
fore him, used his prerogative of.
mercy, and the sentence of death
was changed to one of twenty
years' penal servitude. The prisoner,
upon being informed of the fact, how
ever, flatly refused to profit by this
Memency, , and maintained his right
io be shot, arguing that such a death
floes not dishonor a soidier, whereas
penal servitude is. degrading. He
how appeals to the Council of State
to annul the President's decree and
Order the execution of the original
sentence. There is some doubt as ti
the Jurisdiction of the Council, and
the general opinion is Gugel will bo
obliged ,to overcome his prejudice
dgainst life coupled with hard work.
Sand.
Teacher of Physiology "What in
gredient which is highly essentia), in
the composition of the human body
does sugar possess?
Pupils in one voice) Sun ;.
ffiarmaccutical JSra, .
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