PSi'WHj&KSfaS3KSBSSSi atmaatgmmmmajtmtmm-majmMasmam - p(jr?TBTTv n,-" -TEtui'tips.1 UB9Ww( "k THE PITTSBURG- DISPATCH, MONDAY, MAT 23. 1892. 8 9 i A TREMENDOUS WOKD. Selah Is Xot a Superfluoua.xSound, " bnt Full of Significance. THE MAEKOF DRAMATIC CLIMAX. A Pause in Sacred Music and a -Call for Emphasis in God's Word. TALMAGFS REGULAR BUXDAI SERMON rtrrCIAl. TkLEORAJC TO THE DHFATCH.1 Bbookltk, Slay 22. Kev. Dr. Talmage to-day took for the subject of his sermon a single word of frequent occurrenoe in the Uible. The text was Psalms lxi., i; "Selah." The majority of Bible readers look upon this word of my text as of no Importance. They consider It a superfluity, a mere filling in, a meaningless Interjection, a useless re frain, an undefined echo. Selah! But I have to tell you that it is no Scriptural accident. It occurs 71 times in tho Book of Psalms and three times in the Book of Habakkuk. You must not charge this perfect book with 77 trivialities. Selah! It is an enthroned word. If, according to an old writer, some words are battles, then this word is a Marathon, a Thermopylae, a Sedan, a 'Water loo. It is a word decisive, sometimes for poetic beauty, sometimes for solemnity, sometimes for grandeur and sometimes Tor eternal import. Through it roll the thunder ing 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 lias any meaning at all. It has an ocean of meaning, fiom which I shall this morning dip np only four or five bucket ful. I w ill speak to you, so far as I have time, of the Selah of poetio significance, the Selah of lntermissien, the Selah of em phasis, and tho Selah of perpetuity. The Poetic Significance of It. Are vou surprised that I speak of tho Selah of poetic significance? Surely tho God who sappliiied tho heavens and made the earth a rosebud of beauty, with ooeans hanging to it like drops of morning dew, would not make a Bible w ithout rhythm, without red olence, without blank verse. God knew that eventually the Bible would be lead bv a great majority or young people, for in this world or mnlaria and casualty an octo genarian is exceptional, and as 30 years is more than tho average of human life. If tho Bible is to be a successful book, it roust bo adjpted to tho young. Hence the prosody of the Uible the drama of Job, the pastoral of Buth, the epic of Judges, tho dithyramblo or Ilabukkuk, the threnody of Jeremiah, the lvrie of Solomon's Song, the oratorio of the Apocalypse, the idyl, the strophe and antistropho and tho Solah of the Psalms. Wherever you find this word Selah it means that you are to rouse up to a great stanza, that you are to open yonr soul to great analogies, that you are to spread the wing of your Imagination for great flight. "I answeied thee in the secret place of thunder; I proved thee at tho waters of Meribah. Selah." "Tho earth and all tho inhabitants thereof are dissolved: I bear up the pillars of it. Solah." "Who is this King or glorj T The Lord of Hosts, ho is the King or elory. Selah." Wherever you find this word it Is a signal or warning hung out to tell you to stand oil the trace while the rushing train goes bv with its imperial passciigers. Poetic word, charged with sunriso and sunset, and tem pest and earthquake, and resurrections and millenniums. Its Place In (ho Art of I1d!c X ext I come to speak of the Selah of in ter mlslon. Gescnius, Tholuck, Hongstenberg end other writers agree in saying that this word Selah means a restlumuic. If you ever saw Julllcn, tho great musical Icaler, stand beforo 5,OjO slngors and pliyers on Instruments and with one stroke of his baton smito the multitudinous hallelujah into silence, and then, sooii after that, with another stroke or his baton rouse up the full orchestra to a great outburst of harmony, then yon 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. So God thrust the Selah Into his Bible and into our lives compelling us to stop and think. top 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 piakes 'is intelligent in the Scriptures. e must pauso. What though it take an hour for ono word? What though it take a week for one verse? What though it take a year for ono chapter? We must pause and measure the height, the depth, the length, the breadth, tho universe, the eternity of meaning in one verso. 1 should like to see some one sail around one little adverb in the Bible, a little adverb of two letters, during one lifetime the word "so" in tne New Testament passage, "God ro loved the world." 'When God tells us 77 times medita tively to pause in reading tn o of the books of the Bible, lie leaves to our common sense to decide how often we should pause In reading the other CI boons of the Bible. Tlio Sacred Utility of the Pause. We must pause and ask for more light. We mnst pause and weep over our sins. We must pause and absorb the strength of one promise. So also on the scroll of your life and mind. We go rushing on in the song of our pros perity, fiom note of joy to note of Joy, and it is a long-drawn-out legato, and we become indifferent and unappreciitive, when sud denly we come upon a blank in the mnsic Tnere is nothing between tho bars. A pauso. God will fill it up with a sick bed, or a com mercial disaster, or a grave. But, thank God, it is not a breaking don; it is only a pause. It helps us to appreciate the bless ings tnat are gone; it gives us higher appre ciation of the blessings that are to come. Oh, it is good that the Lord sometimes halts us. David savs, "It is good that I have been afflicted, lleforo 1 was afflicted I went astray, but now I havo kept Thy word." Indeed, we must all soon stop. Scientists have impioved human longevity, but nono of them have proposed to make terrene life perpetual. But the Gospel makes death only a Solah between two beatitudes be tween dying triumph on the one side of the grave and celestial escort on the other sido or the grave. I next speak of tho Selah of emphasis. Ah! my Jriend, you and I need to correct our emphasis. We put too much emphasis on this world, and not enough on God and the next world. People think these things around us are so important, the thiussof the next are not worthy of our consideration. Tho first need for some of us is to chanjc our emphasis. Srlahns a Dramatic Emphisls. But when I speak of the Selah of emphasis I must notice it as a startling, a dramatic emphasis. It has in it the hark, the hist of the drama. That wakening, and arousing emphasis we w ho preach or instruct need to use more frequently. The sleepiest au diences in the woild are religious audiences. Ton Sabbath chool teachers ought to have more of the dramatic element in yonr in struction. Bv graphic Scriptuie scene, by impel sonntion, uige your classes toright action. We want in all our schools and col leges and praj er meetings, and in nil our at tempts nt reform, and in all our chui dies, to have less less of the stylo didatic and more of the stylo dramatic. The tendency In this day is to drone religion, to whine leligion, to cant religion, to moan religion, to croak religion, to sepulchrlze religion, when we ouzht to present it In animated and spectaculai manner. Sabbath morning bv Sabbath morning I address many theological students who are preparing lor the ministrv. Tney come In here from the different institutions. I say to them this morula ;: If 3ou will go home and look over the historv of the chuich you will find that those men have brought most souls to Christ w ho have been dramatic hen yon get into the ministry. If you attempt to culture that element, and try to wield it for God, you will meet with mighty rebuff nnd caricature, and ecclesiastical council will take your case in charge, and they w ill try to put you down: but the God who starts you will help you thiough, and greit will bo the eternal rewards for the assiduous and the plucky. 1 liy People Don't Attend Cburch. What wo want, ministers and laymen, is to get our sermons nnd our exhortations and our prayers out of the old rut. I see a great deal ot discussion in tho religious papers about why people do not come to church. They do not como because they are not in terested. The old hackneyed religious phrases that como moving down through the centuries will never arrest tho masses. What wo want to-dav, 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 nt tho millinery shop, but the Japonicas wet with the morning dew: not the heavy bones oi extinct megatherium of past ages, but tho living reindeer caught last August at the edge or Schroon Lake. n o warn. iu urive one tne drowsy, ana tne lie " V, cd pru-.uu, auu uio teuious, ana tne humdrum, and Introduce tho brightness and vixaeltv. wit, and the eplgrammatio power, and the blood-red earnestness, and the lire of reli gious zeal, and I do not know of any way of doing It as well as throusth the dramatic. Attention! Behold! Hark! Selah! Next, I speak of the Selah or perpetuity. The Targum, which Is the Bible In Chaldee. renders this word of my text "forever." Many writers agree in believing and stat ing that one meaning of this word Is "for ver." In this very verse from which I take my text Selah means not only poetic signi ficance, and Intermission, and emphasis, but it means eternal reverDei-atlon forever! God's government forever, Good's goodness forever, tho gladness of the righteous for ever. A Comparison of Time and Eternity. Of course, yon and I have not surveyor's chain with enoush links to measure that domain of meaning. In this world we must build everything on a small scale. A hun dred vears are a great while. A tower E00 feet Is a great hcleht. AJournevof lOOOmiles Is very lone. But eternity! If tho archangel has not strength of wing to fly across it, but flutters and drops like a wounded sea-gull, there Is no need of our trying In the small shallow of human thought to voyage across It. A sceptic desiring to show his contempt for the passing years, and to show that he conld build enduringly, had his own sepul oher made of the finest and the hardest marble, and then he put on the door the words "For time and eternity;" but It so happened that the seed of a tree somehow got Into an unseen crevice of the marble. That seed grew and enlarged until it be came a tree, and split the marblo to pieces. There can be no eternallzation of anything earthly. But forever! Will yon and Hive as long as that? We are apt to think of the grave as the terminus. Wo are apt to think of the hearse as onr last vehicle. We are apt to think of 70 or SO or 00 years, and then a cessation. In stead of that we find the marble slab of tho tomb is only a milestone, marking the first mile, and that the great Journey is beyond. We have only time 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 ana start great God, whither? Tho Selah, of Perpetnlty Measureless. The clock strikes the passing away of time, but not the passing away of eternity. Measureless! Measureless! This Selah of perpetuity makes earthly Inequalities so In significant, the difference between scepter and needle, between Alhambra and hut, between chariot and cart, between throne and curbstone, between Axmlnster and bare floor, between satin and sackcloth, very trivial. Tliis Selah of perpetuity makes our getting ready so important. For suoh prolongation of travel, what out fit of gnidebooks.of passports, and of escort? Are we putting out on a desert, simoon swept and ghoul-haunted, or into legions of sun-lighted and sprav-spnnkled gardens? Will it be Elysium or Gehenna? Once started In that world, we cannot stop. The current is so swift that once in, no oar can resist it, no helm can steer ont of it, no herculean or tltantic arm can baffle it. Hark to the long resounding ocho "forever 1" O wake up to the interest of yourdeathlcss spirit! Strike out for heaven. Eouse ye, men and women for whom Jesus died. Selah! Selah! Forever! forever! TTTHEKEVER I see Hood's Sarsapa rllla now I want to bow and say Thank You' I was badly affected with Ecz-ma and Scrof ula Sores, covering al most tho whole of ono side of my face, nearly airs. Paisley, to the top of my head. Sunning sores dis charged from both ears. My eyes wore very bad, tho eje lids so sore it was painful open Inc or closing them. For nearly a year I was deaf. I went to the hospital and had an opera tion performed for the removal of a cataract from ono eye. One day my sister brought mo Hood's Sarsaparilla which I took, and gradually besran to feel better and stronger, and slowly tho sores on my eyes and in my ears healed. I can now hoar and see as well as ever." Mrs. Amanda Paislft, 17G Lander street, Nowburgh, JT. Y. UOOD's PILLS cure all Liver Ills, Jann dicc,sick headache,biIlousness,sour stomach Our Prize Contest, In w hich any scholar of any school, public or private, can enter. Is entirely original with us The prizes are: First, A GOLD WATCH. MB Second, A S1LVEE WATCH. ; Third. A VOLTAIC DIAMOND KINO. Fourth, A GOLD PEN AND HOLDEB. Fifth, A SILVEH CUP. On a sheet of foolscap paper write ns many times as possible, any way you may wish, the following: B. 33. AROXS, Jeweler, Proprietor Voltaic Diamonds, &B FIFTH AVE. my22-HWFSU "At ANQUETS, Clubs, and in homes APOLLINARIS Natural Table Water is ever a welcome guest." N. Y. Times, Mar. 10, '92. Douglas & Mackie. Glorious Bargains In every department, and keen, sharp buyers cannot afford to pass us by. Here are FACTS, FIGURES AND UNTOUCHED PRICES, the lowest ever heard of. nomespun Suitings, 8c a vard, werel2)c. Yard-wide Doncaster Challles, choice pat terns, at &c a yard, were 10c Llama Cloths, latest printings, at 10c a yard, were 12Jc Canton Crepes, newest colorings and de signs, at 15c, were 25c a yard. 45 Inch Hemstitched Lawns, ISo a yard, were 30c Treres Koechlin" Satlnes, this season's styles, at 25c, were 87c IT EVER That wo are Headquarters for LADIES' REEFERS, BLAZERS, GAPES Al SMS, Ladiee' all-wool Cloth Blazers, all colors and black, at $1 50, were $2 50. Ladies' Cloth Capes, neatly trimmed, at $3 50, were $5. Ladies' Batiste Suits, stylishly made, at $1 95, were $3 50. Ladles' Cloth Blazer Suits, all colors, at $1 73, were $0 50. This Week Will Well Repay All Visitors. DOUGLAS & MACKIE, 151. 153 AND 155 FEDERAL ST.. ALLEGHENY. 1 HOBSFOKD'S ACID PHOSPHATE, A Nerve-Food and Tonic. The most effective yet discovered. Wall Paper. Xarge stock of fine wall paper must be sold before removal, June 15. Jons S. Bobekts, Successor to W. II. Barker, irrh 603 Market street. 1 De Witt's Little Early Btsers. No griping, no pain, no nausea; easy pill to take. We are carrying things with a high hand, and we don't deny it. Reason for it is very simple. Carls bad Sprudel Salts are not a manufac tured article, compounded by quacks and imitators, but are Nature's prod uct brought over from Carlsbad. Emperors, Kiugs and Statesmen have gone annually to Carlsbad seeking renewed health. It has often been said that the stomach is the seat of all disease. If that is true, Carlsbad Sprudel Salts will remove every symptom of disease, because it is the first tonic for disordered stomach. Try it to-day. Eisner & Mendelson Co., N. Y., Sole Agents. m Merchant Tailors'Latest Styles IN SPRING SUITINGS, $:5 and npward; TROUSEKS, $5 up. Give Us A Trial. CAT ANACGU A GAVIN, No. 197 Fijth AVE. Cleaning and repalringa specialty my9 D AMUSEMENTS. THEATRE This Week, Matinees Wednesday & Saturday, DeLANGEAND RISING in TANGLED UP AND WHY? 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WARDEN & OXNARD, MANUFACTURERS, 1'ITTSBURG .PA. lei PLAID SURAH SILKS, Black grounds, at 00c a yard, were $1 25. 40-Inch fine all-wool Frenoh Crepons, light and dark shade, at 50c, were $1 a yard. 46 inch fine all-wool, silk finish, Black Henriettas at 75c, were $1. 41-lnch Black Silk Gloria, C5o a yard, were $L 42-lnoh imported all-wool Checked Suitings at 50o a yard, were SL Ladles' Skirt Patterns at 25c, were 87o. 9-4 Unbleached Sheetings, 12c, were 18oa yard. OCCUR TO YOU w TIT? .1 NEW ADVERTISEMENTS CARPETS, WALL PAPER. Wilton Carpets, Axminster Carpets, Velvet Carpets, Body Brussels Carpets, Tapestry Carpets, And all kinds of Ingrain Car pets. Everything new in style, choice in color. All at .SPECIAL LOW PRICES. Wall Paper in every quality and style for .wall and ceiling. Special styles in choice colors. You should see our stock be fore you buy. GEO. W. SNAMAN, I36 FEDERAL ST., ALLEGHENY CITY, PA. ap4-Kw NEW goods coming in everyday. Styles of months ago all gone. We're in the market every day, taking advan tage of all new styles, changes in price, and bar gains. That's the why we can offer such good values for $25, made to your measure. I Hotel Anderson Block. Weak and sickly children should take LAOTOL. It will make tliem strong and fleshy. It has the same effect on anyone. It cares all diseases of tho throat and lungs. 1'rlce per bottle, 75 cents. Prepared by A. F. SAWHILL, my2-l-D 187 Federal St., Allegheny, Pa. Bright's Disease &S83S nd I.TTPUKE BLOOD uiae bom .Dripepifa or Impaired Digestion. Bestore tlut Import, ant function with ww GeniuiMechcino-llOOllSllU S German Bitters. YOU WILL ENJOY LIFE and feu no eril Sold ererwhere, 8 1 .00. Write for book, "Bind for KUhm and Stck Boom," free. JOHNSTON. HOLLOWAT & CO.. Philadelphia inyll-56-MW GJliiSM ' Regulation Uniforms. For eood Uniforms, warranted not to fade; will ontlast any $10 uniforms ofiered else where. For the celebrated Slater TRUE BLUE cloth uniforms, first-class in every respect. 2,000 G. A. E. CAPS will be sold this week at only- Humphrey's celebrated His tory of the Civil War, "The Great Contest," standard edi tion, worth f3, will be given gratis with every Grand Army Suit bought this week. WHITE VESTS, largest and fin est line in the city. KAUFMANNS V il x $sp Em 5,765 YARDS AT 49 CENTS FULL EXTRA STJER WOOL INGRAIN CARPETS. Have you ever before heard of such a Deep, Low Price? But, these Special Prices are lor ONE DAY ONLY, TTJBSDAT ITEXT, ZL A "Z" 24. HERE'S A RANDOM PICKING FROM THE MANY: PATTERN NO. 2516 is a small figured Carpet in Ecru Ground. The figure a pretty Mayapple Leaf and Vine, with each leaf alternating Crimsom, Drab and Terra Cotta, looks' as though some one had decoyed the leaf and vine from its grassy mound and woven it into the soft, fleecy Wool Carpet, with which to adorn our floors. The market price is 85c, our price TUESDAY 49 CENTS. PATTERN NO. 2519 Mixed Green and Oak Ground, very well covered with both a Fern Leaf, scroll in olive, pink and light brown, and a Meadow Flower in pretty shades of maroon and pink. A handsome dining room design. 85 c grade, TUESDAY 49 CENTS. PATTERN NO. 2526 A two-colored Watered Ground in light green with light fawn tints. This is be decked with pretty apple blossoms as handsomely laid as if some little dimpled darling of 2 or 3 years had picked and laid them on the greensward according to her infant fancy. It's a happy union of style andservice. You'd consider it excellent at 85c, but par excellent TUESDAY 49 CENTS. 800 YARDS REMNANTS, T' B? gSSIIIhl; GO AT HALF COST TUESDAY. JUST WHAT YOU CAN USE FOR SMALL ROOMS. SPOT GASH. NO DISCOUNT. N0GREDIT. TUESDAY. NT BASEMENT IN THE 500 NOVELS, ELECTRIC SERIES, 25c KIND; TAKE YOUR PICK 8c TUESDAY. EDMUNDSON & PERRINE, 635-637 SMITHRELD ST. 635-637. 9 This grand Ten Dollar Sale includes single and double-breasted Sack Suits, cut round or square; fine Walking, Cutaway, Frocks and Prince Albert Coats and Vests. They're made, lined, trimmed and finished in the best possible manner and fit to perfection. The materials are choice All-Wool Cassimeres, Scotch Cheviots, Homespuns, Worsteds, Corkscrews, Serges, Flannels, Yacht Cloths, Thibets, eta, and they come in all the latest and most popular solid shades of tan, brown, grey, blue and black; also, light, dark and fancy mixtures, pepper and salt designs,) pinheads, invisible, broken and pronounced checks, plaids and stripes. The cheap est suit of them all is worth every cent of $15, while the big majority would be cheap for $16 anu pi. ( " " " $1U $1U BUYS YDUH CHOICE FM FMANN5' . ' NEW ADVERTISEMENTS. $ 27 Bedroom Suits, Tuesday, gi8 $ 50 Bedroom Suits, Tuesday, 32 100 Bedroom Suits, Tuesday, 73 Large Cook Stoves 8.9o White Enameled Maslin Kettles, 2-quart, 4-quart, 6-quart, 23C 29c. 38c. 18-inch Fire Shovels 3c GREAT SPECIALTY FIFTH AVENUE -AND- SMITHFIELD ST. PATTERN NO. 2536 A watered ground in Gray and Brown Flowers, in a large POPPY design in cream colors, shading into dark olive brown. Sunset clouds and shimmer of moonbeam seem to have touched the warp and woof. A prettier design than you'll find most wheres at 85c. TUESDAY 49 CENTS. PATTERN NO. 2527 A mellow-shaded oak ground, with an under-glimpse here and there of French gray. A medium size pattern of WILD ROSE in maroon and ecru, with a slight inter-lining of white. Leaves tan and maroon shaded. Just what you want for a bright and cheerful room; 85 c goods. TUESDAY 49 CENTS. PATTERN NO. 2538 is a patch of picturesque pret tiness in a Damask pattern, dotted here and there with a de tached spray in tan color. The central figure is a bouquet in cream, maroon, gray and lavender. The reverse side vies with the face for popular commendation, TUESDAY 49 CENTS. 22.00 Lounges 17.00 19.00 Lounges $I3-75 14.00 Lounges 8.75 CHI N A WARE. Handsomely Decorated Dinner Sets, I0 Plcces' $7.95, WORTH $11. IE $10 ILL THIS WEEK. $ 60 Parlor Suits 42 $ 80 Parlor Suits 57 joo Parlor Suits 70 SILVERWARE. 200 Engraved Triple-Plated Napkin WQrth Tucsday 2 ROGERS' Triple-Plated Knives and Forks, 24c each. myZl-B WEEK. ircM Moil Dep't. LEAVE YOUR MEASURE BEFORE DECORATION DAY, And reap the benefit of the special in ducements we offer on all orders leftbe lore that day. Suits Made to Order for $30, For which other tailors charge S40. Suits Made to Order for $35, For which other tailors charge $43. Suits Made to Order for $40, For which other tailors charge 550. Trousers Made to Order for $8, For which other tailors charge 510. Trousers Made to Order for $10, For which other tailors charge 13. A perfect fit and first-class work guar anteed, or no pay. ANNS" and tho holy sarcasm, and the sanctified my23-KWT mi i t
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