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Hut though the Holy Spirit can
and doq* one Scripture thus la the
souls of an intis He, on the other
hand, often allow* as to out the
bitter fruit of oar culpable ignorance:
and the personal misapplication of
the Psalms is always fruitfal of dis
honor to Christ, ami sorrow to our-
selves. It may he useful to give a
single example of this which cornea
to mind while we write. An aged
Christian whose home and heart had
been recently desolated by the death
of all his immediate family, was met
by a servant of the laird, who gave
expression to his sympathy, and
sought to otter some words of eonao-
lotion, when the aged but nniaatmet-
ed mourner interrupted with, “Yea,
yea, but the Lord has poured forth
upon me Hie hat displeasure, and
sent over uic all the mares and Klimtre
of kit *r ruth." (Fa. vi: 1, alii: 7.)
Rat we have only to tom to Psalm
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and still others are nothing bat
(hrtat and Israel, or, as it is ox-
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we have la the tkn*k of Psalnm
('briat and His rbarrh, t'hrtat sad
Israel, Christ and the Remnant, in
one word, Christ and Ilia redeem
f Religions
“Read yoor Bible daily, aad every
day pray for heavenly wisdom. Re
Mae to he fused in the company of
vile men. Re member that character
Is made op of morsel* • every book
aad gesture, word and smile and
frown constitutes each its distinct
any be without hesitation af-
that the measure of imjtelli-
which any one has of the
gs of the Old Testament, will
peding to the measure in which
Hrheud.s the mind of the Spirit
Book of Psalms. Nor do we
in statement on onr own lim-
►b^rvation and experience—
this one thing, that Jesse* in Hi the
Psalms (hr Chief Speaker, and that
ilia experience, in all Ilia varied
relations, is the chief banlrn of the
booh. If Aral He U seen in the
Psalms, everything else in them *1)1
fall into its right place. Aad ta the
exhibition of His pi are In the Poatam
wc at present devote nanmives.
First of all, we shall oflrr aon*
remarks rm Psalm i, aa com straining
us to sew oar lard in the honk. Aad
secondly, (In another paper) we shall
endeavor to prrarnt a mot eiamplea
of the sppliratiou of the (Naims to
Christ in the New Testament
The Orat Psalm is, we brtirre, a
prefer* ialeoded to prepare the saint
for ('tirint in the halm.
It opens with the announcement
of the principle u|mxi which God will
bestow abanlnte happiness u|son man:
“Blessed is the man that walkcth
not in the connsel of the an godly,
uur standeth in* the way of ahmeva,
nor sit let h in the scat of the acorn
era. Bat bit delight fat in the law
of the Lord j ami in His law doth
He meditate day and sight.* v.
1,3.
Here is jwHert hap^sness Aw a
perfect man—a man morally and
spiritually perfbet. The word “Mem
«P means more than that its subject
is a happy maa: literally it is, “O
the happo****,” or, aa lleory A loa
the “hot displeasure" au«l the temp
est of “wrnth* Were tall exhausted
on His'sinless Lord, when He was
made siti for ns.
We can easily conceive the deliv
erance which r»nw to the soul of the
bereaved saint, when he nadavniuad
the tilings in the Psalms concerning
Christ, with which he had Imen tor-'
luring his own soul, and doing dia-
honnr to the Father’s love j when he
miw that Jesus having tiorne amt
exhausted tin' wrath, God mo not
vhaeteu llis antis in displeasure or
anger, hot only in love. But it is
very certain that many carry the
same dark thoughts all their days,
to whom no one comes with deliver
ance from the darkness, and who
conaeqnently travel all tlieir journey
through with the terrible harden of
wrath in theiT bosoms, wrap|wd up
in false applications of the Psalms
to tbindrn>
That the Holy Bpirit, iu David
and the other writers of the Psalms,
made their circumstances the occa
sions of writing them, aad in them
gave expression to thwr feelings,
there can be no donbt: indeed, this
is expressly Bunonmid in many of
the inspired ^titles. lint the de
scription of circumstances, and the
thoughts and feeding* expressed, vary
often go far beyond the occasions of
writing, and the ex|wrieuce of the
writers. The fact in, that the wri
ters of, the Psalm* are numbered
among those who “prophesied of the
grace that should come ante as, who
searched wldrt or what manner of
time tin* Spirit of Christ which was
in tlicm did signify, when it testiAed
beforehand the suffering* of Christ
and the glory that should follow ; unto
whom it was revealed that not unto
themselves, but unto us they dal min
ister the things, which are mm re
ported unto us by them that have
preached the Gospel unto ms with the
Holy Ghost sent down from heaven.*
(2 Pet. i: 10-12.)
Thus the ap|>rebension of Christ in
the Psalms is the very first thing of
imjioitance in tbeir study. Till this
is reached there can be no intelligent
use of them. And we trust that it
has been already more than sug
gested that there can be no jast
self-application of the language of
the Psalms, a util they are recognised
as only ours by virtue of that one-
ness with Him, iuto which we are
brought by the power of the Holy
Ghost, and by means of the goapel
of grace, which they anticipated
when they testified beforehand His
goffering*, opd the consequent glo
ries. These things recognised, the
.saint in Christ will be prepared to
distinguish between those things in
the Psalms which could only belong
to Him—as, for example, the assump
tion of life and acceptance,, on the
ground of personal righteousness, and
the wrath which He bore aicne—and
those which, »u His lavish love to
His redeemed, He most share with
them—His life, His standing in
righteousness, His Father’s love \ the
bliss, the glory, the crown, the
throure—yen, all the reward of what
He did and endured alone.
W« propose, further, to establish
what has been said by reference to
the Psalms themselves, aa cotuimred
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es in the New Testa me® t.
lie first place, our Messed Lord
ly assigns pre-eminence to the
L He said to His disciple*,
s are the words which I spake
on, while I was yet with you,
ill things must be frlfilkd,
we written iu the law of
, and in the prophet*, and in
mhos concerning me.” Luke
44. That the Lord should
et by itself “the Psalms,” as
three leading divisions of the
lestamient Scriptures, wifi be
( indicate forcibly tbeir iip|ior-
especially wkeu it is consider
t, while these are themselves
r, or rather wholly prophetical,
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liens indent, is the “Tree of IJAr.
“the liras True,* (tba aontraat a
‘♦the dry * Lakr xtM: 31.) Hi whoa
death nwW not dent ray ; “the very
cnotraot of the horrea fig tree with
reed by tbr carer.” Here Hi the
perennial FruitBearer, fruoi whom
all the “trees of righXroasacss” And
derive tbeir life, and then their fruits.
(John xH: 34; xvi 4k) Of Him alone
ran it hr said absolutely, “And
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L Those who do it, lose their tune
and labor in coming to ebazeh—pity
to do so much foe nothing. If sleep
is their otyect, they can get that
without so muck trouble. _
2. They exert a bad iifineuoe on
others. Sleeping in meeting is aon-
tngioas. Where one sleeps, many
learn how, and soon catch the disor
der. Thus some pews, or ooroora of
the church, might appropriately be
called the sleepy pews, or the sleepy
am of Ood Hi llim * W© share all
llis Miss; but forever and forever,
His amrthinms to ott mar song.
It is ia such s|qw*hrnsion of Christ
ia tbr Pnalms, aad of our rrlstioo*
to Him as the** exhibited, that we
derive from them aid iu grasping
the groat sod birsard truth of our
death in llim, and of onr hidden life
with Him, in God; and it Is thus
that wr shall And ia the Psalms ‘the
nounshsMHit of this newness of life,
that In It we may walk aa He walk
ed. Ife passed through this pollnt
ing world “uudeAkd iu Uto way.”
fur llis path was directed by “the
law of the Lord,” In which fie “wed
listed tiny and night* To have the
heart rooting hi Him, as “onr right
eoasneos and our strength*—“the
strength of our Hfr*—and to cherish
Hit word, is that abiding In Him,
and He ia am, of which He spoke to
us when He said, “He that abideth
in mo and 1 in him, the some bring
oth forth much fruit*
“Kvery bud of this irae grows into u
grain.* For this ia He, of the frwM
of whose olirdtoner unto death H is
■ah!, “He shall prolong his days,
and the please it of the lawd shall
prosper ia Uia hand.” (Isaiah H«i:
10.)
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hearts that God's plan is the result
of uiAuite wisdom; but more thou
that, it is baokod by iu Suite rowul
But there it stemk out, written on
the very
ly then it becomes us to a
foil knowledge of the tt
ed in a book to wMct
pint has given such pi
May He guide and oof
offer a few remarks y
U of this knowledge iu
habit. The oftener one permits him-
self to sleep in time of public wor
ship, the more Is he disposed to
deep. So that this habit, like every
other bad one, strengthens by indul
gence.
4. It disheartens the minister. Af
ter he has labored bard daring the
week to prepare to give to each of
his hearers a portion in doe season,
to sec them have so little appetite
for the food which he has made ready
as to fall asleep while he is dispens-
ing it to them, is truly discouraging.
He is ready to ask, “What, can ye
not watch one hour in a whole week 1
9o short a time to be together to
worship God and prepare far heaven,
and that abort time be slept aw^y!
5. Sleepers disturb the devotiooe
of others. This they do by their
indecorous appearance, or by their
load breathing.
A. Tfcqy give others a bud impres
sion respecting their religious char
acter.
7. They endanger their souls by
insulting God, for be will not be
mocked., . j.
Remark: No sleeping In eternity,
and all wbo are going there should
be watohfbl here.
of diviue provj-
TJLAT HOSOKKTH Ms I
mu. sosoal
Lost week, in reading the record
of a precious revival Hi the church
at Moutville, New Jersey, of forty
persona being converted and uniting
with the ohurvh, this incident came
to mind. The pastor in that church
was the (mstor in New York whose
counsel led that workman to obe-
Uoiy Spirit, ia Jeremiah, am
name Ago res, sad nearly the
■ought by viewing them as gooerally,
and of course in u modified souse,
characteristic of any true Christian.
But this will seuroely satisfy the
individual conscience mm to this
Psalm. The feet that Joshua was
enjoined, to word* very similar to
those now under consideration, to
meditate cooatantiy in the law, and
No be guided by its counsels, baa
been add need.
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(wactical and jiersoiial a so of
Wm* will, in tlie case of «j\ery
) depend On the idea e«ter-
i* R fo their scope and design j
m idea will he mtcording to
belitnon reached, or ira-
[• on the mind, as to the
N hi each Psalm. BeraJa* in
XBaeh’s reading gf Isaiali,
h*g tarns upon the answer to
“Of whom sjieakcth
►Fhet this f Of himself, or of
^her man V> Acts viii; 34.
Ih* true answer will, we are
i|i l»h found to be tho same:
Bat God demands
nothing less than this of nay: and
Joshua’s |>erfo« t bappineas, Uke that
of every other mint, most have been
wrecked, hod it depended on km per
fect obedienoe. His most serious
failure, indeed, so Car os there ia
record, was that, iu commou with
the prinees of Israel, to the sis I ter
Of the Gibeooitea, he “naked not
counsel of the Lord.* (Josh, lx.)
Bat there is One who appears In
the Psalm*, who ia “holy, and harm
leas, and uadefiled, and aeporaU
from sinners f who ran claim all
Messing on the ground of His own
perfect righteonanesa. He can aay,
“The Lord rewarded me according
GOD in Ef^pj
nt, fbe other on
j the nnwritig
L themenio^j*
ir ?°4 a11 Xf-
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We replied—that it was evident
that (he dark ante-chamber into
which be had been (breed by Provi
dence, which seeaaed to be the tomb
of all hie pleas aad his bapos, was
the very place where Gad wanted to
bring him. It was the very place
them service. The name “aaint* in
tide world is often a term of reproach.
Q, what a different meaning does
that word convey to the mind of Him
“who sesth not as man seeth, but
who looketh upon the heart,* and
to the mind of intelligent heaven.
In exhibiting the
fm answer, however.
would
jBiven, concerning the Psalms,
BMjority of ebristiaus. They
them only the voice of Davhl,
hther writers; and their
oi tier writers; and their ase
Kalins depends open how far
^ their language appro|>n.w<
H ow, » present rirenmttanccs
^erience. This we cau not
the clean nees of my hands hath he
recompensed me. For 1 have kept
the ways of the Lord, and have not
wickedly departed from my God.
For all His judgments wore before me,
and / did os4 put away Hie statutes
from me.” (Psalm xviii: 35-3^) This
and similar language often staggers
the Christian wbo ia aeskiog to aettfr
® the least iutelligeiit, and
of this precicuH {Kn tiou
- It is, indeed, tfue that
gg
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Spirit does not refuse to
*hd snstaiu the -<>al8 of
***u<se of their lack of Intel-
^ because they occupy lower