CAPITAL CITY COURIER, SATURDAY, JUNE u, 189:
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A TREMENDOUS WORD
POWER AND SIGNIFICANCE OF
SINGLE WORD "SELAH."
THE
Dr. Taliumjr Httyn "Neliili" In No Nrrlp-
1 11 nil Accident, 11 r Unthinking I'puplr
I Siiimim Tlirouuli It Itnll tln Tlimiilvr-
Ing (harlots of the Oiiiiiliiitiit (Intl.
llUOOKl.YH, May W. Hc-v. Dr. Tnlnmgc
toiliiy took for tlio Hiilijcct of his sermon 11
tingle word of ficqucnt occurrence In t lie
llllile niid whoso meaning Is but little uii
rirrstood. From It lio ilrcwn profoundly
Impressive description of tliu varied mid
majestic purposes of certain jmrtH of Scrip
ture mid 11 practical lesson for Christians
generally. Tliu text was Psalms lxl, 4,
"Selah."
TIk majority of llllile renders look upon
tlil word of my text as of no Importance.
They consider It u superlttilty, n mere Mil
Inn In, a meaningless Interjection, n use
less refrain, an uiidellned eclio. Sclnh!
Hut I liave to tell you that It Is no Strip
tural accident. It occurs seventy-four
time In (lie Imok of Psalms and three
times In tliu hook of Ilalinkkiik. You
must not charge tills perfect book with
seventy-seven trivialities. Selahl It Is an
eiitlironed wonl. If, according to an old
writer, some words are Imttles, then thin
word is a .Mauithon, u Thcrinopyhi', n
Sednn, a Waterloo. It In a wonl decisive;
Mimctiincs for poetic lieauty, sometimes
for solemnity, iiotuctlmcs for grandeur and
sometimes for eternal Import. Through It
roll the thundering chariots of the Omiiip
oteut God.
I take this word for my text because I
Mil so often asked what is Its meaning, or
whether it has any meaning at nil. It lias
an ocean of meaning, from which I .shall
this morning dip up only four or five
bucketful. I will speak to yon, so far as
1 have time, of tliu Seluh of poetic sig
nificance, the Selah of intermission, the
Selah of empliasii. and tliu Selah of per
petuity, Are you surprised that I speak of the
Selah of poetic signlllcnnceC Surely tliu
(Sod who sapphlred the heavens and made
the earth a rosebud of beauty, with oceans
hanging to It like drops of morning dew,
would not make a lllblu without rhythm,
without redolence, without blank verse.
God knew that eventually the llllile would
1 read by a yreut majority of young peo- I
pie, for in this world of malaria and cas
ualty an octogenarian is exceptional, mid i
as thirty yearn !s more than tliu average of
human life, il the llllile Is to lie a success
ful book it must be adapted to tliu young.
Hence tliu prosody of the llllile the drama
of Job, the pastoral of Kuth, tliu epic of
Judges, the illtliyramlilc of llabakkuk,
tliu threnody of Jeremiah, tliu lyric of
Solomon's song, thu oratorio of thu Apoc
alypse, the Idyl, thu strophe, and mill
strophe and thu Selah of the Psalms.
its m)(!(ikstivi:nkss,.
Wherever joil Hud this word Selah it
menus that you are to rouse up to great
stanza, that you are to opun your soul to
great analogies, that you aru to spread the
wing of your Imagination for great (light.
"I answered tlieu in thu secret placu of
thunder. I proved theu at thu waters of
Meribali. Selah." "Thu earth and all thu
inhabitants thereof are dissolved. I bear
up the pillars of it. Selah." "Who is this
king of glory f Thu Lord of hosts, h In
thu king of glory. Selah." "Thou shalt
compass me about with songs of deliver
ance. Sulali." "Though thu waters thereof
roar and bu troubled, though the moun
tains shake with thu swelling thereof.
Selah." "The Lord of hosts is with us.
thu God of Jacob is our rufuge. Selah."
"Thou hast given a bantier to thum that
fear thee, that it may lie displayed because
of thu truth. Seluh." "I will hide under
tliu covert of thy wings. Selah." "O,
God, when thou wentest fortli before thy
people, when thou didst march through
the wilderness. Selah."
Wherever you llnil this word it is a sig
nal of warning hung out to tell you to
stand offthc track while thu rushing train
goes by witli its imperial passengers, Poetic
word, charged with sunrise mid sunset, and
tempest and earthquake, and resurrections
and millenniums.
Next I come to speak of thu Selah of in
termission. Gesenius, Tholuck, Ilengstcn
berg and other writers agree in saying that
this word Selah means a rest in music; what
the Greeks call iidiapsalma, a pause, a halt
in thu solemn march of cumulation.
Till: hKI.AII OK INTKKMISSIII.V.
Every musician knows thu importance of
it. If you ever saw Jtillieu, thu great mu
sical leader, stand before live thousand
singers and players upon Instruments, ami
with one stroke of his baton smite tliu mul
titudinous hallelujah into silence, mid then,
soon after that, with another strokuof his
baton rouse up thu 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. So
God thrusts thu Selah into his Hilile and
into our livec, compelling us to stop mid
think, stop and consider, stop and admire,
stop and pray, stop and repent, stop and be
hick, stop and die. Il is not the great num
ber of times thnt wen-ad the lllolothrougii
that makes us Inlelligeutiii tlieSerlptures.
We must pail1. What though it take an
hour for one word? Wiiat though it taken
week for onu verse f What though it take
a year for one chapter? We must pause
and measure the height, thu depth, the
length, the breadth, thu universe, the eter
nity of meaning In one verse.
I should like to see some one sail around
one little adverb in the Bible, u little ad
verb of two letters, (luring onu lifetime
the word "so" in thu New Testament pas
sage, "God so loved thu world." Augus
tine made u long pause after thu verse
"Put yu on the Lord Jesus Christ," and it
converted him. .Matthew Henry made a
long pausu after the verse. "Open thou my
lips, and my mouth shall show forth thy
praise," and it converted him. William
Cowper made a long pause after the verse,
'Helng lively justiiieii iiy ins grace," nnu
l rriiivirti'il lilm When God tells us M'V
enty-scven times meditatively to pausu In
rending two of the books of thu Hlble, he
leaves to our common sense to decide how
often we should pause in reading the other
sixty-four books of the Hlble.
IT I.IVKs I'S I'AUSK.
We must pause and ask for inoru light.
Wu must pause and weep over our sins.
We must pause and absorb thu strength of
one promise. 1 sometimes hear people
boasting about how many times they havu
read the Hible thioilgh, when they seem to
know no more about It than a passenger
would know about the state of V' :insylvu
nla who should gothiougl. .iin a St. Louis
lightning express train and in a Pullman
sleener. the two characteristics of the jour
ney, velocity and sou nolence. It Is not the
number of times you go through the Hible,
but thu number ot times Hie Hible goes
through ion, Pail-e; lelleet. Selah!
So also on the scroll of your life and
mind. We go lushing on, in the song of
our prosperity, from note of Joy to note of
joy, and it Is it long diawn on legato, and
Ve become indifferent and utiip,reclaiu
when suddenly we come iimiii a blank ll
the music, There Is nothing between tlin-
bars. A pause. God will till It up with r,
sickbed, or u commercial disaster, or a
grave, Hut, thank God, It Is not u IncnU
lug down; il is only a pause. It helps us
to appreciate the blessings that aru gone;
It gives us higher appreciation of the bless
ings that aru to come.
Thu Selah of llabakkuk and David in u
dividing line hclwYcii twonnthems. David
begins his hook with thu words, "Blessed
1m thu man," and after seveiity-fotirSelab,s,
he closes his book with the words, "l'ralsu
ye t hu Lord." So there are mercies behind
Us. It is goxl for us that God halts us in
our fortunes, and halls us with physical
distress, and halts us at thu graves of our
dead. More than once you
been halted by such a Selah.
and I hum
You wrung '
your bauds and sold: "I can't see any sense
III this Providence; I istu't see why God
guo mc-thut child, If he is so soon going In
take It away, (ih, my desolate home. Oh,
my broken heart!" Von could not under
stand it. Hut it was not a Selah of over
throw. It gave you greater appreciation
of the blessings that have gone; it will give
you greater appreciation of thu blessings
that will crime.
When the Huguenots were liclng very
much persecuted In France, a father am!
mother were obliged to Iiy fiom the conn
try, leaving their child In tlie possession of t
a comparative stranger. They did nut
know whether Ihey would ever return, or,
returning, if they would Is- able to recog
nize tlieircuild, for by that time she might
be grown. Thu mother was almost fren
zied at the thought of leaving thu child,
and then, even If coming back again, not
being able to know her. Hcfore they left,
the father drew his sword mid he marked
the wrist of that child with a deep cut. It
must have been a great exigency to make
a father do that.
Years of absence passed on, and after
awhile the parents returned and their llrst
anxiety was to tlnd 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 lie chasteiieth." Ilecutteth,
he market h, and when he comes to claim
his own the Lord will know them that are
his; know them bythescarof their trouble,
know them by the stroke of their desola
tion. TIIK Ui:S OK AllVKIISITV.
Oh, it is gocsl that the i.ord sometime!!
halts us. David says: "It Is good that I
have been alllicted. Hefore 1 was alllieted
I went astray, btit now have 1 kept thy
word." Indeed, we must all soon stop.
Scientists have Improved human longev
ity, but none of them have promised to
make terrene life peipetual. hut the (Ion
pel makes death only a Selah between two
beatitudes between dying triumph on
one side of thu grave and celestial escort
on the other side of thu grave. Going out
(if this life, to thu unprepared, is a great
horror.
"Give mu more laudanum," said dying
Mirabeau; "give me more laudanum, that
I may not think of eternity mid what is to
come." And dying llobbes said, "I leave
lny body to the grave mid my soul to the
great perhaps." It was the discord of an
infidel's life breaking down into thu jargon
of despair; but thu Gospel makes the death
of the Christian a Selah between redemp
tion mid enthronement. "Almost well,"
raid dying ltlchaid Hitxter; "almost well.''
"Play those notes over again thoso notes
which have been so great a delight and
solace to me," said the dying Christian
Mo.art. "None but Christ, none but
Christ," exclaimed dying Lambert.
Richard Cameron, thu Scotch covennnt
er, went into the battle three times pray
ing; "Lord, spare the green and take thu
ripe. This is thu day I have longed for.
i This in tliu day I shall get my crowu.
Come, let us light it to the last. For
ward!" So you see there is only a short
pause, a Selah of intermission, between
dying consolations on the one side and
overtopping raptures on tliu other.
My flesh shall slumber In thu ground
TIM the lust trumpet! Joyful sound;
Then hurst the chains lib su eel surprise.
And In my Saviour's limine life.
TIIK SKI.AII OK KMHIASIS.
I next speak of the Selah of emphasis.
Kwald, thu German orientalist ami then
logiau, says that this word menus to as
cend; and wherever you 11ml it, hu says,
you must look after the modulation of the
voice, and you must put more force into
your utterance. It is a Sulali of emphasis
Ah! my friends, you and I need to correct
our emphas!:.. We put too much emphasis
ou this world and not enough on God ami
the next world. People think these things
around us are yn important, thu things o,"
the next aru not worthy of our considera
tion. Thu tlrst need for some of uh Is to change
our emphasis. Look at Wretchedness on
a throne. Nnirdeoii, while yet emperor of
France, sat down dejected, his hands over
his face. A lad came In witli a tray of
food and said, "Kat, It will do you good."
The einperor4'jokcl up and said. "You aro
from thu country?" Theladiepllcd, "Yes."
"Your father has a cottage ami a few acres
of groliud?" "Yes." "There Is happi
ness," said the dejected emperor. Ah'
Narpuleou ucver put tUe ewphuxU in thu
right place until lie was expiring at St.
Helena.
On the other hand, look at Satisfaction
amid the worst earthly disadvantage. "1
never saw until I was blind," said a Chris
tian man. "I never knew what content
ment was while I had my eyesight as 1
know what content is now that I have lost
I my eyesight. 1 alllrm, though few would
.credit It, that 1 would not exchange my
present position mid circumstances for my
circumstances before I lost my eyesight."
That man put the emphasis in the right
place. Wu want to put less stress upon
this world and mom stress upon our God
as opr everlasting portion.
David had found out the nothingness of
this world and the all siilllcieney of God.
Notice how hu Interjects the Selahs.
"Trust in thu Lord at all times; yu people,
pour out your heart beforu him. (5m
refuge for us. Selah." "Dieted lie the
God is a
Lord
who dally loads us with benellts, even thu
God of our salvation. Seluh." "The Lord
shall count when hu write! h up the people
that this man was born there. Selah."
Let the world have Its honors and Its
riches and its pomp Let me have the
I.otd for my light, my peace, my fortress,
my pardon, my hope, my heaven.
What sinners miIiiu 1 icalgn;
bold! 'tis enough that thou art mine
1 shall behold til) blissful face.
And stand complete In righteousness.
This world Is all an cmpl) show.
Hut the hrlitht win Id to which 1 go
llath Jo)s siilMitiitinl and slmere;
When shall 1 wake and llud me there?
I
U glorious hoill! 11 blest iilsxlu!
I shall he near and like ln (ioil.
Anil slu and sense no inure t otitrol
The endless pit asm es of III) soul.
Hut when I speak of the Selah of em-
ph.nis 1 must uotiie it is a stuitliug, a
,r,ii,Udk euipluisi. It has In it the hark!
the hist! of the drama. That wakening
nud arousing emphasis mi who preach or
Instruct tued to use inoiu frequently. The
sleepiest auillelicts lit thu world are reli
gious audiences.
ihi.wiaik m mi'irm: sckni.h.
You Sabbath school teachers ought tc
have mine of thu dramatic element In
your instructions, Hy graphic Scripture
scene, b anecdote, by descriptive gesture,
ly Impersonation, urge jour classes to
light act Ion, We want In all our schools
and colleges and prayer meetings, and In
all our nttcmptsiit leforin, and In all our
churches, to have less of the style didactic
and more of thu stjlu dramatic.
Fifty essays about the sorrows of thu
poor could iiotalleet mu as a little drama
of accident and siitTcrlm; 1 saw one sllu.
ticrv inoriitmr In thu streets of Phlladel
nhla. Just ahead of mo wnsn lad. wretched
In apparel, his llmbamptltated at the knee,
from the pallor of the boy's cheek thu aire
pulatlou not long before. He had a pack
age of broken fo-sl under Ids arm - food lib
had begged, I suppose, at the doois. An
he passed on over the slippery pavement
cautiously and carefully, I steadied him
until his crutch slipped and hu fell. I
helped him up as well as I could, gathered
up the fragments of the package as well as
I could, put them under one arm and the
crutch under the other mm, but when 1
saw tho IiIoihI rundown his pale cheek I
was completely overcome. Fifty css-iys
annul t lie sullcring or the poor could un
touch one like that llttledrntnaof accident
and sulleriug.
Oh, we want In all our different depnrt-
incuts of usefulness and I nddiess hun
dreds of people who aru trying to do good
we want mote of the dramatic element
I and less of the didactic. The tendency In
I this day is to drone lellgion, to whllie re
I llglon, to cant lellgion, to moan religion,
to croak religion, to scpulchlio lellgion,
I when wu ought lo present It In animated
and spectacular manner.
Sabbath morning by Sabbath morning I
addless many theological students who are
preparing for thu ministry. They come In
here from the different institutions, I say
to them tills morning; If you will go home
and look over the history of thu church
you will 111 id that those men have biouglit
most souls to Christ who have been dra
matic. Rowland Hill, dramatic; Thomas
Chalmers, dramatic; Thomas Guthrie,
dramatic; John Knox, dramatic; Robert
McCheyne, dramatic; Christmas P.vaus,
dramatic; George Whitelleld, dramatic;
Robrit Hall, dramatic; Robert South, dra
matic; Fciicloti, dramatic; John Mason,
dramatic; Dr. Nott, iliamatlc. When you
get Into the ministry, il you attempt to
culture that clement and try to wield it
for God, you will meet with mighty lehtiif
mid curicatuie, and ecclesiastical council
will take your case In charge, and they
will try to pill you down, but the God who
Harts you will help you through, and gieut
will be the eternal rewinds for the assidu
fttlsHiid the plucky.
i:t hct ok Tin; uut.
What we want, ministers and laymen, is
to get our sermons and our exhortation
mid our prayers out of the old rut. I see a
great deal uf discussion in thu religious
i paper about why lH-oplu do uut come to
church. They do not come Is-causu they
, uru not iutereued. The old hackneyed re
i ligiotis phrases that come moving down
through the centuries will never arrest the
masses, What we want loiluy, you lu your
, Kphcrcnud 1 lu my sphere, Is to freshen up.
People do not want in their sermons the
sham flowers bought at the millinery shop
but the japonl'-ns wet with the morning
dew; nor t lie heavy bones of extinct meg
atherium of past ages, Inn thu llviujf
reindeer caught last August at tliu edge of
Schroon lake.
Wu want to drivu out the drowsy, mid
, tliu prosaic, and thu tedious, and the hum-
I drum, and Introduce tliu brightness ami
vivacity, and the holy sarcasm, mid the
sanctllled w it, and the epigrammatic isiwer
ninl the blood ted earnestness and tlmflw
oi religious ?chi, mm no ma, Know many
wav of doing it as well as thiotigh the dra
untie. Attention! Heboid1 Jlurk' Selah! i
Next I spc.k of the Selah of perpetuity.
Tliu Targtlin, which is thu Hlble in Chal
ilce, lenders this word of my text "for
ever." Many writers agieu in bellevine;
and stating that one meaning of this word
is "forever." In this very verso from
which 1 take my text Selah means not
' only poetic signitlcancu and Intermission
1 mill emphasis, lint it means eternal rever
beration forever! GimI'h government for
ever, God's goodness forever, the gladness
of tliu righteous forever. Of cotirsv jou
and I havu not surveyor's chain with
enough links to measure that domain ot
meaning.
In this world wu must build everything
on a small scale. A hundred years aru a
'great while. A tower five hundred feet is
a great height. A journey of four thou-
1 sand miles is very long. Hut eternity! If
i the archangel has not strength of wing
to Hy across it, but Mutters and drops like
.a woundo1 seagull, there is no ueod of our
trying in the small shallow of human
thought to voyage across it.
I Viili TIMK AND KTKItNlTV.
1 A skeptic desiring to show his contempt
for the passing years, and to show that lie
, could build eiiduringly, had his own scpul
cher made of the finest and the hardest
i marble, and then he had put ou the door
thu words, "For time and for eternltv;"
' but it to happemd that the seed of a tree
! somehow got into ail tlliwvn crevice of tliu
marble. Tlu.t seed grew and enlarged tin- i
til it became a tree mid split the marble to I
pieces. There can be no eternallatlon of i
anything earthly. Hut forever! Will jou ,
and I live as long as t lint V We are apt to j
1 think of the grave as thu terminus. Wu
aru apt to think of thu hearse as our last '
vehicle. We are apt to think of seventy
or eighty or ninety years, anil tlieu a cessa
tion. Instead of that we find the marble slab
of the tomb is only a milestone, marking
the llrst mile, mid that the great journey
is beyond. We have only time enough in
this woild to put ou the saudnls ami to
clasp our girdle and to pick up our stall'.
We take our llrst step from cradle to
grave, and then we open the door ami start
great God, whither!' The clock strikct
tliu passing away of tune, but not the pass
ing away of eteinity. Measureless! incus
Uleless! This Selllll of perpetuity inukej
iii t lily inequalities mi insignillcaut, the
dllTeience between scepter and needle, be
tween Alhambra and hut betwieu cliurlc.
and cait, between throne and cuihstniic,
between Axiuluster and bare lloor, be
tween satin and sackcloth, very trivial.
Tins t-clah of perpetuity makes our get
ting ready so important. For such pro
longation of ti.ivel what out tit of g- idu
books, ot passpoits anil of ecortv Ale we
putting out ou a desert, simoom Pwept and
ghoul haunted, or into regions of sun
lighted and spray sprinkled gardens!' Will
it be Klysliiiii or Gehenna!' Onto started
in that world, we cannot stop. The cur
lent is so swill that once in no oar can le-sl-t
it. no helm can steer out of it. no her
culean or titanic aim (i. n bailie It Hark
to the long resounding echo "forever"'
Oh, wake up to the interest of jour death
:ess spirit Mrikcout inr neuven koiish
M, men nud womi n for whom Jc-usdicd.
Selah' Seluh' Foiever! Forever'
ODDS AND ENDS.
Physicians hen 1 our list of suicides.
Never set ci.,il ill near butter or lard.
Longfellow told books by subscript Ion.
India MTiaiit gd two dollars a mouth.
GihsI lleuti limits do not always make
good captains.
Pope, like William III, was fond of land
scape gardening.
Only the quickening of conscience can
hasten lepeutance.
To take out tar rub repeatedly with
spirits of tiit'i.fiitiuc.
A man sns woman Is a ctcalure with
long hair anil short Ideas.
There me now ilA.diT putoluees in the
ommtrj the hlghist number ever reached
A New York woman at. the opera wore n
necklace of lle and ten dollar gold pieced.
Worry Is a fruitful sour e of misery ami
the pllinc cause of prematuiebieakdnwuii.
The combined debts of all the nations In
the win Id amount to more than Ki.lUKi,
OtHl.tKlO.
A fanner III Dallas county, Ala., make
a delicious w liie ftom the Juice of water
melons.
Coalhrookilale bridge, Kngland, Is tin
tlrst cast lion btldguever built. Il was con
structed in l?7i i.
The faiull) that Is anxious to move out
of a house lli'iN another family that Isjust
as anxious to move In.
OxcrSfl.lHH) woith of gold was recently
extracted from thu soot of tie chimney ol
thu royal mint at Herliu.
In 1st I the ti nib of a giant wusopcncd at
St, Germain w no must have been at least
thiity feet high during life.
One of the targe winter hotels lu tho c.n
gailine is soiiu to be heated electilcally by
power derived Irom thu Nura river.
It is said to lie unlucky to move a cat.
The small boy who didn't believe lu the
supeistltioli had his eye scratched out.
Fort Worth, Tex., has the largest (lowing
well ill existence. It Is 1,U.V.' feel deep and
Hows at the rate of tKHI gallons per minute.
The Rlalto bridge, Venice, Is said to have
Im'cii built from designs furnished by Ml
clmcl Augelo. It is a single marble arch of
lis 'a feet.
Thieves have stolen the book of nidi
nances of the city of Pasco llohlcs, Oil., and
the pcnplu there are wondering what they
did il for.
Instead of the alloy of zinc mid sliver
which win llr-t chosen for the production
of "Areas plating'' one containing cadmi
um is now preferred.
Sit range
On Monday
I eitlures of n 4'ntiiel,
tuoilillig, April I, thtottgh
ua.e auii ennuis, i secuieu a si riunig pho
tograph of Swift's conn t with thu Wlllaid
lens of the observatory tied on to Ihe li Inch
?(iiatorlal at the Lick observatory. Tins I
photograph reveals a lemaikable stateof
'ilTuh's. Spreading out from the head Is
shown a complicated system of tails. Of I
those luciu ale tlnee principal ones, llu
southern of which is the most distinct,
The-e tails are again sulxllvtdcd into n
-,rcat number of others, tliu entire append
age presenting a most unliUo appearance.
At least a dozen distinct branches can ho
Itiu lit ed ou the photograph, some of which
present remarkable curvatures. This com
plicated structure whs not visible in thu
telescope ou the preceding morning nud
gives evidence of rapid changes,
On Monday moriiiug tliele were two dis
tinct and divergent branches of tall emana
ting from the bend, both clearly visible in
the glass. Thu telescopic view ou Tlieu-
I duy morning exhibited the fact that in less
than twenty-four hours a third tall hiiil
formed to tl'.e extent of about Kl.Oon.Ooo
miles, while the northern tall, which had
been very bright the previous morning,
,m(, ,.lltrely disappeared.
0I Wednesday, April II. still more re
markable phenomena had presented them
selves, and portions of the tail were seen
to form abrupt angles with their original
source.
On April 8, nnot her photograph was ob
tained with great dllllctilty In moonlight
and dawn. Another violent change had
n corded Itself. A number of new (alls,
like line threads of light, had made their
appearance, and a singular mid unique
phenomenon was present on thu southern
hide of the tail, about II (legs, from the
head. A large projecting mass Issued
from the tail at, a large angle and fiom
this a new- tail shot forth parallel witli the
main one. Professor liatnanl In San Fran
cisco Kxamiiier.
The I'lre of it New I'lirpone.
The great steamer Indiana sailed ou Fell.
S3 from the port of Philadelphia for Rus
sia, loaded witli food for the starving peas
autry. All classes, from tliu millionaire
wiio gave bis check for thousands to the
poo.' newsboy with Ids dimes, contributed
ill lids gift.
A teacher in a large (Junker school said.
as the steamer left the dock:
"My boys were drearily iccltlng a lesson
in algebra one day last week. They weru
tired and inattentive, they slyly whispered
nud played tricks upon one another when
they thought I whs not looking. When
the lesson was over I brought out and lend
to them the account of the horrors of sinr
vation sent home Iiy tliu American minis
ter. . "They listened breathlessly. No more
whispering, no more horseplay. When I l
1 had lluishiil they at once made theni'-ehcs
1 into a committee to canvass tliu school.
1 They were eager, o:i lire witli zeal to do
something. It was a curious transforma
tion A gieat purpose had made men out
I of silly liojs."
i Many of our readers may have been pres
1 cut in a conceit or usst-mldy room before
j the lights ale turned ou. ami have seenthe
I sudden leap of the dingy, dull building
mid its shadowy audience into brilliancy
nud warmth and a happy, smiling com
puu) . wlien by liie piessiire of a knob tin
elect ric current entered the room.
I Just such a change takes placu ill every
human life when some great purpo-c
comes into It. Youth's Companion,
I riimilUt lllrerliirH.
i Atcoidiug to the "Directory of Direct
I ors," Mr. Joiin William Marlure. M. P.
for the Stretforil division, still takes the
' lead among the tnimuoiiers as the cham-
plou diiector of public companies. He is
chairman of no fewer than seventeen com
I panics. Mr. opeiicer Balfour, M. P., Is a
director of lift 1 4-1) companies. Of the-e lu
1 is cliairmaii or v ice chairman of no fewer
than thirteen. Sir Charles Lew is' 111 health
diss lift prevent his U ing chairman of
thirteen companies, Mr. Klmber is di
rt i tor of eleven companies The Marquis
of i'wieddale is governor of one company
(the Commercial Hank of Scotland), lee
president of another (the Scottish Widows'
Fund .md Life Assiiraiue society), tuisiee.
of a third, chairman of si ollieis, icu
chairman of the Ka-tcru Telegraph com
puny, limited, nud a duei tor of eight nior
i omp lines, nail mg eighteen in all Lou
clou lit lit' -
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