day Sermon. Sabjeect: * Selah.*” Text: “Selah.” ~Psalms Ix. 4. The majority of Bible readers look upon this word of my text as of no importance. Fhey consider it a superfluity, a mere fling in, a meaningless interjection, a useless re- frain, an undefined echo. Selah! But I have to tell you that it is no Scriptural ac- cident. It ocours seventy-four times in the Bock of Psalms and three times in the Book of Habakkuk. You must not charge this periect book with seventy-seven trivialities, Selah! It is an enthroned word. If, accord- ing to an old writer some words are battles, then this word is a Marathon, a Thermopy- le, a Sedan, on Waterloo. Itis a word de- cisive, sometimes for poetic beauty, some- times for grandeur, and sometimes for eternal import. Throucsh it roil the thun- dering chariots of the Omnipotent God. I take this word for my text because [ am s0 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, { will speak to you. so'far as I have time, of the Selah of poetic signiticance, the Selah of intermission, the Selah of emphasis and the Selah of perpetuity, Are you surprised that I speak of the Selah of poetic significance? Surely the God who sapphired the heavens and made tae earth a rosebud of beauty, with oceans hanging to it like drops of morning dew, would not make a Bible without ribyehm, without redolence, without blank verse. God knew that eventually the Bible would be read by a great majority of younz peo- ple,for in this world of malaria and casualty an octogenarian is exceptional, and as thirty years is more than the average ol human ife, if the Bible is to be a successful book it must be adapted to the voung. prosody of the Bible—the drama of Job, the pastoral of Ruth, the epic of Ju iges, dithyrambic of Habakkuk, the threnoiy Jeremiah, the lyric of Bolomon's nM, oratorio of the Apocalypse, yl, strophe and antistrophe, and Selaa the Psalms, Wherever you find this word Salah means that you are to r up to stanza, that you are to opsn your soul to of the he of the the it 1180 wing of your imagination for great flight. der; I proved thee at the waters of Meribah, Selah.” “The earth and all the inhabitants thereof are dissoivad: I bear uo the pill of it. Selah.” “Who is the King of Gi } ‘The Lord of Hosts, He is the King of Glory. Selah.” “Thou shalt compass me about with songs of deliverance, Selah “Though the waters f roar and be troubled, » I thoreod though the muuntaios shake with the sweli- ing thereof. Selah.” “The Lord of H with us, the God of refuge. Selah.” *‘I'hou hast given a banner to them that fear Thee, that it mav be displayed because of the truth, Selah.” “I will hide under the covert of Thy wiags. Sealab.’ “Oh, God, when Thou wentest forth bafors 1 Jacob is our the wilderness, Whoever you find this word it is a signal of warning hung out to tell you to stand off the track waile the rushing train goes by with its imperial passengers, Seiah.” Postic word, charged with sunrise and suns»%, and tempost and arthquake, and resurrections millenniums, Next I come to speak of the Selah of in- termission. Gesenius, Tholuck, Heagsten.- berg and other writers sgree in saying that this word Selah means a rest in music; what the Greeks calla d rd in the solemn march of cantiliation it, If you ever saw Jullien, the musical leader, stand before five singers and players upon instruments, and with one 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 harmony, then you kpow the mighty effect of a musical pause. It gives more power to what went before; more power to what is to come after. So God thrusts the Sela} His Bible and into our lives, compel think, stop and consider, 1 stop ani pray, stop and repe: ay sick, stop and d It is not the gr ber of times that we read the Bible that roakes us intaliigent ir 4 We must pause, of nso 0 stop and Wha y hour for one word? What week for one verse? What year for one chapter? We measure the haigbt, the deg the breadth, the 1 meaning in one verse, I should like to ses some sail around one little adverb in the Bible, a little adverb of two letters, during one lifetime “30” in the New Testament passage, so loved the world.” Augustine madea long pause after the verse, “Fut ye on the Lord Jess: Christ,” and it conversed bim, Mat thew Henry made a long pauss after toe verse, “Open Thou wy lips, and my mouth shall show forth Toy praise,” and it convert ed him. William Cowper made a long muse after the verse, “Heing freely justitied Ee His grace,” and it converted him. When God tells us seventy-seven times meditatively to pause io reading two books of the Bible, He leaves to our common sense to iaavar 3 one other sixty-four books of the Bivle. We must pause and ask for more light. We must pause and weep over our sing must pause and absorb the strength of one promise, Isometimes hear people boasting atout how many times they have read the about the State of Peansylvania who should go through it in a St. louis lightaing ex- press train and in a Pullman ‘slesper,” the two characteristics of the journey, velocity and somnolenc:, It is not the number of of times you go through the Bible, but the number of times the Bible goes throuzau you. Pause, reflect. Selah! So also on the scroll of your life and mid, We go rushing on in the song of our pros perity from note of joy to note ol joy, aulit indifferent and unappreciativs waea sul denly we come upon a blank in the music, ‘There is nothing betwasen those bars, A pause. God will fill it up with a sic: 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 uppraciats the blessinzs that are gone. It gives us higher come, ‘The Selah of Habakkuk and David is a dividiog line between two anthems David begins hig book with the words, "Blessed is the man.” and after sevaniy- our Selahs he closes his book with the words, "Praise ye the Lord.” Bo there ars mtreies bohind us, and there are goiug to be mercies before us, It 1s good for us that God halts us in our for. tunes, and balts us with physical distress, and halts us at the gravesol our dead, More than ones you and I have been haitel by such a Selah, You wrasg your hands and said: ‘I can't ses any senee in this Provie dence; I can’t s3e why God gave me that «child, if He is 50 soon going to take ic away. Oh, my desolate home! Ob, my broken heart” You could not understand it. But it was not a Selah of overthrow. It gave you greater appreciation of the blessiogs that bave gone; it will vet giv2 you greater apprseiation of the blessings that will come, hen the Huguenots were being very much ted in France a father and mother wers abiiged to fly from thy country, leaving their child in the possession ofa comparative stranger. ‘They did not know whether they would ever retura, or return. ng, if they would ba able to recognizs their chil, for by that tims rae mizht os grown, The was almost frenzied at the thought of leaving the child, and then, even if coming back again, not Buing Able tO 4u0W wer, Beforethey loft the fu drew his child with a deep cut. It must have been a great exigency to makea father do that, Years of absence passod 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 [52 and he marked the wrist of that upon her wrist, / knew her. And oh, the joy of the reunion! | ' Bo it is now. “Whom the Lord loveth He chasteneth.” He cutteth, He marketh and when He comes to cinim His own the Lord will know them that are His: know them by the sear of thair trouble, know them by ths stroke of their desolation, : Ob, it is good that the Lord sometimes halts us, David says, *'It is good that I have | been afflicted, Before I was afflicted I went | astray, but now have I kept Thy word.” In- deed, we must all soon stop. Neientists have | imoroved human longevity, but none of them | bave provosed to make tarrene life perpatual, | But the Gospel makes death a Seiah between two beatitudes—botween dying triumph | on the one side of the grave and celestial os i cort on the other side of the grave. Going | out of this life to the unprepared is a great i horror, i “Give me more laudanum,” spid dying | | Mirabeau: “give me more laudanum that | may not think of eternity and what is to | come.” And dying Hobbes said, *'l leave my body to the grave and my soul to the great perhaps.” It was tue 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-—thoss notes which have been great a delight an i solacs to me,” said the dying Christian Mozart. **None but Christ, none but Christ,” exclaimed dy- ing Lambert, : Richard Cameron, the Scoteh covenanter, | went into the battle threo times prayiong : | “Lord, spare the green and take the rips. This is ths day I have longed for. This is the day I shall get my crown. Come, let us fight it to the last, Forward!” Bo you see | there is only a short pause, a Salah of inter. mission, between dying consolations on the | | one and overstopping raptures on the | other, i side My flesh sha TH the last ts Then burst the i And in my Savicur's image I next Nelal { Ewald, the German orisntalist 2 +) of the emphasis, ani tl | gan, says that this word means to assosnd: | and wherever vou find it, he says, vou must look after the moauiation of the wvoics and | vou must put more fores into your utteranc: It isa Selah of emphasis, Ah' my friends | you and [ need to correct our emphasis. Wa | put too much emphasis on the world and not | enough on God and the next world, i think these things around us are ant, the things of the next | of our consideration I The first nead for some of us is | our emphasis, Look at | throne, Napoleon, while j | France, sat down dejected his hands over { hisface. A lad came in with a tray of fool { and said, at, it will do you good.” Speak of People 1Mport- re not worthy un »y change wiratchindness on a emperor vel of The emperor look»! up and said, “You are from { the count Fhe Jad replied, “"Yes' “Your {a has a cottage and a few acres “Yes.” “There is bapsiness’ ted emperor, Ah! Napoleon ut the emphasis in the right place s was expiring at 8t. Helena, other hand, look at Satisfaction | i rat earthly disadvantage “I | never saw until [ was blind,” said a Chris { tian man. “I never koew what content ment was while | had my eyesight as [ know { what content is now that | have my { evesight, I affirm, though few would cradit { it, that I would exchange my present ! position and circumstances for my circum. stances before [ | my eyesight.” [hat man put the emphasis in the right plac: We want to put les stress upon world and more stress upon our God as ever- | lasting portion. Davia had found out nothingness of this world and the allsufficiency of i. | Notice how he interjects the Selahs, “Trust in the Lord at all times; ye people, pour out | your heart before Him. Ool is a refuge for i us, ’ “Blessad be the Lord who daily Joads us with benefits, even the God of {| our salvation. Selab.’ “Ibe Lord shall ! count, when He writeth un the pe pie, that | this man war born there. Selah Let the ! world have its honors, and its riches, and its { pomp Lot me have the Lord for mv light, my peace, fort , ny pardon, my hope my beaven oat not wt this our the f 30m Salah.’ my res s bat sinners valos | Lie er O blest 8" .0de’ ar and like my God, SEAT BO Mr co endiess pleasures of my soul But when I speak of ths Selah of I must notics iti: a startling, a dramatic emphasis. It has in isthe Hark, the Hist of the drama. Taat wakening and arousing i emphasis wa who praaca orf lostruct need ito uss mors froquently, The | andiences in the world are audience You Sabbath-schoo! teacherz ought to have more of the dramatic els in your instructions. By graphic Scripture scene, by apecdote, by descriptive gesture, by ine personation urgs your classes to right action, We want in all our schools and eollegsms ant | | prayer mestiags, and in all our attemnpta at reform, and in all our churches to have les of the style didactic and nore ol the style | dramatic. Fifty essava about the sorrows of tha poor | could not affect me as a little drama of acci- | dent and suffering [ saw one slippery morn ing in the streets of Philadelphia. Jast ahead of me was a lad, wretched in apparel, | | his limb amputated at the knes: from the lor of tha boy's 020k the amoutation not Po before. He had a paciag: of broken { fox under his arin too] hs had begge |, 1 { supposed, at the doors, As he pase! on | { over thy slippery pavement cautiously and | | carafully, I steadied him wnnatit his crutch slipped and he fell. 1 haipei him uo as wall | as | could, gatherel uo tae frag nsats o! the | package as wall as 1 coud, pat them uader one arm and the crutc: anfer the other | arm: but when [ saw the Ylosl rua down his pale cheak I was completsly ovarcome, Fifty essays about the sufsrag of the poor esuld not touch ons lige that little dram of accident and suffering. Oh, we want in all our difarent denart. ments of usstuiness—and | address hun frade of paople wha are trying to do goold-we want more of the dramatic slemant an | lows of the di lactic, The tendency in this way is to drones religion, to moma raligion, to croak religion, to sspuichriz: rolig.on, waen we ou ght to pressut it in anitaate | and spec: tacular manuer, { Sabbath moroing by Sabbath moraing 1 | addres many tassio gical sta lenis who ars preparing for the ministry, Toes come in here from the diffsean: institutions. say to them this morning: If you will go! nome and look over ths history of the | church you will find chat thoss | men have brought most souls to Christ who have ben dramatio—Rowland Hill, dramatic; Thomas Chalmers, dramatic; Thomas Guthrie, aramatic; John Knox, dramatic: Robert McCneyne, dramatic; Christmas Evang, dramatic; Georges White field, dramatic: Robert Hall, dramatic; Hobert tiouth, dramatic, Fenelon, dramatic: John Mason, dramatic; Dr, Nott, dramatic, Waen you got into the ministry, if you at. tempt to cultures that clement ani try to wield i% for God you will meet with mighty rebuff mad carieature, anl ecclosiastioal ecounse! will take your cass in charge, and they will try to put you down, but the God who starts you will help you through, and great will be tae sternal rewards for the as siduous and the pluciy, What we want, ministers and layman, is toget our sermons, and oyr exhortations, our prayers cut of the oid rut, I see a dincusio ry Fe oa emphasis sieepiost religious great deal of ain the religous pa pers about why people do not come to church, They do not come because they are not interested, The old hackneyed religious phrasss that come moving do wn through the centuries will never arrest the masses. What we want to-day, you in your sphere and [ 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 dow: nor the heavy bones of extinct megatherium of past ages, but the living reindeer caught last August at the edge of Behroon lake. We want to driva out the drowsy, and the and introduce the brightness and vivacity and the holy sarcasm, and the * sanctified blood red earnestness, zeal and I do and the fire not 0 " ¥ i know of any wi Attention! Bshold! Hark! Selah! Next [speak of the Selah of The Targum, which is the Bible in Chalde . of my text “forever.” Many writers agree in believing and stating that ons meaning ol this word is *forever.' In this very verse from which I take my text Selah means not only postie significance and intermission and emphasis, but it means reverberation forever! God's government forever, God's for ever, the gladness of the fors aver, Of! course you and have not surveyor's chain with enough links to measura that domain ol meaning In this world we must build everything on a small scale, A hundred years are a great while, A tower five hundred feet is a great helzht. A journey of four thousand miles is very long. Buteternity! It the archangel has 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 human thought to voyage perpetuity, ' goodness rightaous of wit. A skeptic, desiring to show his cont for the passing years and to show build enduringly, hai h sepulcher made of tae finest and th marble, and then he had put on the words, “For time and for 80 happened that the got into smpt tant he 8 own * hardes door the eternity,” but it seed of a tree somehow an unseen orevios of the marble, & tree and split the marble tog eternalizat iat forever! mm of ans 2 Will you and I live as long as Woe are apt think or tHe orave as the terminus We are ant ¢ the as our last apt to think of seventy or eighty or ‘ and then a cessation, Tasted of tha the tomb is oniy a first mile, and taat thes great journey youd, We have only time enough’ world to put on the sandals and to girdle and to pick up ourstiff, Wet first step from cradle to open the he clock strike Lo tains We are ninety veloie Vans, wal milest marking grave, Art great God, whithe passing away of oot Goor and st but not the passing away t ursless, measureiess' This Selah QILYy makes earthly inequslit cant, the differenc nesdie, betwean cCOariot and cart, be stone, between Axminster and between satin and sack th, very trivial This Selah of perpetuity makes o getting ready so important Far *h prolongation of travel what outfit guidebooks, of ports and of escort Are wo putting a desert, simoom swept and ghoul regions of sun lig i and sprinkled gardens Will it be E Gehenna?! 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