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TRHCK THROUGH THE BIBLE
G. CHTTP BELL MORQAN, Westminster Chapel, London, England.
Appearing Lbery Week During 1907. (Copyright American Serial “Rights applied Tor by The Golden Hge Publishing Co. All Rights Resorbed.)
BOOK I. PSALMS I.—XLI. THE DOXOLOGY.
“Blessed be the Lord, the God of Israel,
From everlasting and to everlasting. Amen and Amen.’’ Psa. x1i.13
A. The Title. B. The Relation. C. The Quantity. D. The Quality.
“Jehovah.” “The God of Israel.” “From everlasting to everlast- “Blessed.”
The mysterious “God.” Elohim. in 9-” The root idea is that
name, suggestive of The idea of supre- The word “everlasting” means of prostration in the
essential Being, and macy. the concealed or vanishing attitude of adoration,
uniformly used as u point; and suggests the mys- “Amen and Amen.”
indicating God’s re- J/i Israel. terious past, and the unknown The consent of all to
lation to His people ine chose » future. In its use here it re- such adoration,
as Helper. people. minds the heart of the eter-
nity of God.
The Divine Name.
The prevailing Name in this book is Jehovah. It occurs in every psalm at least twice, and in
one (xxix.) as many as eighteen times.
“God” is found eighteen times in the singular, fifty times in the plural; in all sixty-eight
times. From thirteen psalms it is absent altogether.
The general title “Lord” (Adonahy) only occurs fourteen times in all, and these occasions
are all in eight psalms.
The Dominant Thought.
The dominant thought in this book is that of God as Jehovah, the Helper of His people.
The psalms are songs of varying emotion and differing condition, but all express themselves in
the light of this note.
TITLES.
1. Jehovah's Law. A contrast. Obedience and
disobedience.
2. Jehovah’s King. Folly of rebellion. Wisdom
of submission.
3. Jehovah’s Salvation. Confidence in peril.
4. Jehovah’s countenance the cause of confidence.
5. Jehovah’s leading in time of persecution.
6. Jehovah’s deliverance in time of chastisement.
7. Jehovah’s deliverance confidently hoped in.
8. Jehovah’s excellence manifest in nature and
man.
9. Jehovah's righteous rule rejoiced in.
10. Jehovah’s judgment besought.
11. Jehovah’s throne the foundation.
12. Jehovah’s rule in the midst of ungodliness.
13. Jehovah’s succor sought by the afflicted.
14. Jehovah’s knowledge of the godless.
15. Jehovah’s friend described.
16. Jehovah the Portion of the trusting.
17. Jehovah appealed to, to exercise judgment.
18. Jehovah worshipped.
19. Jehovah revealed in Nature and Law.
ANALYSIS.
A. Authority Established. i.—viii. B. Authority Defended ix.—xv. C ‘ Authority Administered,
xvi.—xli.
I. The foundations. i., ii. I. The Need. ix., x. I. The Person. xvi.—xxiv.
i. Obedience and disobedience, i. i. The Throne and the enemy, ix. (See Titles.)
ii. The enthroned King. ii. ii. Appeal for action. x.
11. Tile Process. xxv. —xxxix
11. The Experiences. iii—vii. 11. The Activity. xi.—xv. i. Songs of assurance.
See Titles. (See Titles.) (See Titles.) xxv. —xxix.
( \ ii. Songs of appropriation.
- r-- (See Titles.) xxx.—xxxiv.
F Y iii. Songs of aspiration.
> i? (See Titles.) xxxv. —xxxix.
I.
111. The ultimate Purpose. viii. ’ HI. The Person. xl., xli.
That Halvkins bills Pless.
J. C. Solomon.
In the year of grace 1906, the good people of
Pulaski county rose up in their power and abolished
the dispensary from Hawkinsville, doing, w’e doubt
not, the will of* God. Os course it was the proper
thing to do. No Christian people could afford to do
less.
When the dispensary was voted out of the beauti
ful little city of Hawkinsville there was naturally
much rejoicing among the w r omen and children and
Christian gentlemen. ’Twas a proud day in their
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20. Jehovah appealed to for help on behalf of the
king.
21. Jehovah praised as the Strength of the king.
22. Jehovah the Succourer of the afflicted one.
23. Jehovah the Shepherd of His own.
24. Jehovah conquering through the king.
25. Jehovah besought for deliverance.
26. Jehovah worshipped. Conditions.
27. Jehovah worshipped. Experience.
28. Jehovah appealed to and worshipped.
29. Jehovah in the majesty of the storm.
30. Jehovah delivering from affliction.
31. Jehovah the Refuge of the afflicted.
32. Jehovah and the backsliding soul.
33. Jehovah the mighty Deliverer.
34. Tehovah the constant Succourer.
35. Jehovah besought for help against enemies.
36. Jehovah forgotten and recognized. A contrast.
37. Jehovah the Confidence of His people.
38. Jehovah appealed to in penitence.
39. Jehovah the Hope of the afflicted.
40. Jehovah worshipped in praise and prayer.
41. Jehovah recognized as rewarding compassion.
history, victory w T as theirs, the white banners of
temperance floated from the highest Avails of the
enemy.
The good people of the community, the lovers of
prohibition and of souls, expected now. as they had
a right to expect, a reign of soberness and of peace,
but, alas, their dreams soon perished and their
hopes were all blighted.
Domestic wine mounted the throne and ruled as
a most wicked queen. And right here let me say
the law is defective in that it allows the sale of do
mestic wine as a beverage. It is to be devoutly
hoped that right at this point there will be sopje
wholesome legislation. For domestic wine makes
drunk, particularly the kind that if sold in Haw
kinsville.
The good people of Hawkinsville and vicinity are
very much distressed over this unhappy state of
affairs, and realizing that their splendid community
is being debauched by this wine traffic and all its
attendant evils, are crying out against it.
Surely the brave and patriotic men of that charm
ing little city will not endure this debauchery al
ways.
For the sake of the defenseless women a,nd the
helpless children let the accursed thing be put down.
Let the churches take action. Let the preachers
lead in the tight, the godly women doing their
best, and this unholy institution must pass. But
some one may say, the law gives a man the right
to sell his own domestic wine. Yes, but surely no
man desires to make his neighbor drunk, nor to spoil
his neighbor’s home. But back to the situation.
Drinking was on so large a scale, and drunkenness
so pronounced —indeed, matters about the wine
house were so suspicious, that one of the reputable
citizens of Hawkinsville sent a bottle of that domes
tic wine to this office to be analyzed. We sent it
to the state chemist and the analysis reads 15.70
per cent. On good authority we have it that do
mestic wine runs from 3 to 6 per cent. If this be
true then according to the analysis made by the
state chemist, something must be radically wrong.
If alcohol has been added to this popular Hawkins
ville drink then the dealer is unmistakably amena
ble to the law, and should be punished. If this
large per cent of alcohol comes by reason of age
of the wine, thereby popularizing it and making
men drunk, then by all means let this dreadful
state of affairs be speedily corrected by law. As
we see it, without a doubt, this man is, to every in
tent and purpose, running a barroom in Pulaski
county. It looks verv much like there are some in
the fair and cultured city who would be glad to
bring reproach upon prohibition and make it appear
that prohibition does not prohibit. Certainly they
are very reckless touching the morals and lives of
their fellow beings, but this wrong must be righted;
this dram shop must be abolished.
R R
The following extract from a recent ruling of
our Court of Appeals, rendered by Judge B. H. Hill,
is about a gambling case, Hicks vs. the State.
Hicks did not like being convicted on circumstan
tial evidence and appealed to the higher court.
This is not exactly prohibition matter, but is too
close to the line of our tire for that fact to exclude
it from this column. Judge Hill says:
li A social gentleman, fond of company and a
glass, vocation unknown, who lives and sleeps in
a room upstairs over a bar, the door to Avhich
he keeps locked, with a peep-hole to look through
and a slide to hide the hole, and who cautiously
moves the slide to look through the hole to ascer
tain the identity of the knocking visitor before un
locking the door, and who had in his room besides
two beds, two poker tables, one a round poker
table, and the other a stud poker table, behind
which a dealer sat with many cards and w’ith which
Avere red and blue chips which cost from one dollar
to five dollars a stack, and which chips were kind
ly cashed by the genial host, wTio invariably re
membered the Dake-out’ for the purpose of paying
expenses, and who furnished to his playing guests
from a refrigerator beverages that cheered as
well as intoxicated whenever the varying chances of
the game rendered them despondent or reckless,
and Avho employed an Italian Ganymede to wait on
his guests, may or may not have been guilty of
keeping a gaming house. A verdict of guilty, based
on these facts and inculpatory circumstances, seems
to the inexperienced mind of this court not un
warranted by the evidence. Certainly we cannot
say that there was not some evidence to support it,
and we cannot disturb the verdict approved by
the tyial court.”
