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TRHCK THROUGH THE BIBLE
"By G. C2l MP BELL MORGAN, Westminster Chapel, London, England,
Appearing Ebery Week During 1907. (Copyright American Serial Eights Applied Tor by The Golden age Publishing Co. All Eights Eeserbed.)
BOOK IV. PSALMS XC.~CVI. THE DOXOLOGY.
“Blessed be the Lord, the God of Israel,
From everlasting even to everlasting.
And let all the people say. Amen.
Praise ye the Lord.” Psa. cvi. 48.
A. The Title. B. The Relation. C. The Quality. D. The Quantity. I E. The Extent.
“Jehovah.” “The God of “Blessed.” “From everlasting “And let all the
The essential Israel.” “Hallelujah.” . to everlasting.” people say,
Helper. • Amen.”
(See first Dox-
ology.)
The Divine Name.
The dominant name in this book is again “Jehovah.” It occurs more than once in every psalm,
and in two as many as 11 times.
The name “God” is absent altogether from five, and ocurs only 27 times, nine of them being singu
lar (El), and 18 plural (Elohim).
The general title “Lord” (Adonahy) only occurs twice.
“Jah” is found seven times.
The Dominant Thought.
In this book the worship of Jehovah is rendered by all people. They are songs of His government
and administration, for which the heart is lifted in adoration.
TITLES.
90. Jehovah the Eternal Dwelling-place of man. 98. Jehovah the King—Worship.
91. Jehovah the Sanctuary of the perfect One. 99. Jehovah the King—His Reign.
92. Jehovah praised for His righteous dealing. Jehovah the King Worship.
93. Jehovah the Klng-The Fact. f r f CoS “ ized , ™ p " blie aud » rlvate li£e '
102. Jehovah the eternal God.
94. Jehovah the King—Faith’s affirmation. 103. Jehovah the loving Father.
95. Jehovah the King—A warning. 104. Jehovah the Creator and Sustainer.
96. Jehovah the King Worship. 105. Jehovah the true and mighty One.
97. Jehovah the King—His Judgments 106. Jehovah the faithful and patient One.
ANALYSIS.
A. The Principles. xc.-xcii. B. The Practice. xciii.-c. C. The Praise. ci.-cvi.
I. The Age-abiding Fact. xc. I. The Enthroned King, xciii.-xcvi. I. The Attitude of Praise. ci.
Man s Failure. i. The Fact. xciii. Submission.
ii. The Courage of Faith. xciv.
11. The Unshaken One. xci. iii. The Caution of Faith. xcv. ••• The Benefits. cii.-cvi.
Man’s Hope. iv. Worship. xcvi. The Age-abiding God. cii.
ii. The Loving Father. ciii.
111. The New Realization. xc ii 11. The Activity of the King, xcvii.-c. iii. The Creator and Sustainer.
Man’s Restoration. /• His Judgments. xcvii. civ.
ii. Worship. xcviii. iv. The True and Mighty One. cv.
■ bi. His Reign. xcix. v. The Faithful and Patient One.
iv*. Worship. c. cvi.
The Field of the Prohibition Conflict,
The liquor fight in the Legislature began by the
presenting of a bill for State Prohibition in the
Senate by Dr. L. G. Hardeman, of Commerce. It
was allowed to be introduced on the first day,
and stands “Number One” on the Senate calendar.
There is another bill just like it ready to be intro
duced in the House at the earliest practicable
moment.
It will be recalled by many readers of this column
that a few years ago the state prohibition laws of
Vermont were repealed. The experience of the
people has worked very satisfactorily in showing
the great value of prohibition. The result is that
prohibition is said to be rapidly returning to Ver
mont and returning to stay.
The victories just gained in Bartow and Lown
des counties for the cause of prohibition have
greatly encouraged the friends of reform, and have
so emphasized the cause of State prohibition that
it will require a great deal of courage of a bad
sort to vote in the interest of the liquor gang
again. As I write, there hangs before me a “wet
and dry” map of Georgia. The dry counties are
printed white, the wet counties are printed black.
These are: Chatham, Mclntosh and Glynn, on the
coast; Mitchell, Miller, Bauer. Dougherty, Lee,
Sumter, Webster, Stewart and Quitman, in South
west .Georgia; Muscogee, Bibb, Pike and Troup in
The Golden Age for July 4, 1907.
M est-middle Georgia; Fulton, Floyd, Pickens and
Clark in North Georgia; while Richmond stands
alone in Fast-middle Georgia. Within the last few
months, one after another of the wet counties
have voted, and in each instance there has been
a signal victory for prohibition. Twiggs, Marion,
Terrell, Early, Decatur, Grady and Lowndes have
gone dry. Bartow has put itself under the pro
hibitory provision of the local option law —every
contest for prohibition has won the victory. The
dry vote in Bartow was nearly twenty to one, while
in Lowndes, where the liquor men fought hard,
the vote was about three to one.
It would not be a bad idea to frame up all
prohibition legislation as “pure food legislation.”
Things that are dishonest in their component parts,
or that contain hurtful ingredients cannot be sold
as food or drink. Nobody would pretend that
the pow’er to regulate inter-state commerce which
the Constitution gives to Congress would mean that
no state could exclude from its markets diseased,
decaying or otherwise poisonous food products. If
a sta f e should forbid the sale of drinks that con
tain alcohol or other intoxicants because they are
not fit for drink in a pure food sense, that state
wo«dd be simply declaring that such things ceased
Io be salable as soon as they came into the «tate;
they are no longer a part of commerce, and, hence,
“Inter-State Commerce” would lose its power
over them as soon as they crossed the state line.
It is said that Mayor Rett, of Charleston, is en
gaged in the very laudable task of driving gam
blers and blind tigers out of Charleston, with pros
pects of good results. Be it remembered that
Oklahoma will vote on constitutional prohibition
August 6th. John G. Wolley is there in the cam
paign. Let every Christian pray that the car. -to
of righteousness may prevail against the great Je
topus —the Liquor Traffic.
The last session of the legislature in South Caro
lina abolished the state dispensary and provided
for county dispensaries, contingent on local option.
The Greenwood Journal presents an able review
of the situation and reachs the conclusion that
state prohibition has gained so much in public
favor that many prohibitionists are looking for a
complete prohibition bill to be passed by the legis
lature in the next session. There is talk of an
anti-jug law, modeled on the Mississippi law, that
requires all shipments of liquor brought into dry
territory to be consumed within one hundred feet
of the place of delivery.
The bill proposed by Rev. J. L. D. Hi I Iyer is the
most far-reaching and promising anti-jug law that
has been offered so far, according to the writer of
these notes. It provides that whenever any commod
ity is condemned as unsalable, or is prohibited from
sale by law, such commodity becomes contraband
aud ceases to be property, and is not under the
protection of the law. To steal or destroy it
causes no ground of complaint and no suit for pur
chase-money, no charge for transportation, no dam
age to such commodity can be maintained. And to
have any condemned or contraband commodity in
one’s possession to be delivered to any person in
the territory where such commodities are prohibited
from sale, will constitute a misdemeanor, and the
person so having such commodities be delivered
will be liable to punishment, without regard to his
position as agent for anv person or corporation.
This item from the “Baptist and Refector” is
very gratifying:
“ Admiral Robley D. Evans has started a crusade
against strong drink of every kind with the purpose
of driving and keeping it out of the navy. The en
listed man who violates the rules he lays down, by
intoxication while on shore, is given the limit of
punishment. The officer, whatever his rank, who
shows signs of excessive indulgence gets a repri
mand which he will be apt to long remember.”
Senator Knox, in an address recently made in
the Yale Law School, gave a masterful analysis
of the constitutional powers and limitations of
Congress with respect to the regulation of inter
state commerce. The whole address is fine, but
the part that is pertinent to the matter in hand
here, is the emphatic way in which he excepts from
the liberties and benefits of inter-state commerce
all commodities that are in themselves hurtful.
Things that are prohibited from sale because of
their dangerous and hurtful character are not en
titled to the protection of inter-state commerce.
The legislature ought to pass a bill similar to one
published in this column in the issue of May 2.
It provides that commodities that are prohibited
from sale in this state shall be condemned as “con
traband,” and “not property” in law; that such
commodities are not entitled to the protection of
the law; that no compensation for damage for such
commodities can be recovered; no charges for
transportation can be collected, or any purchas?
money therefor. If Georgia passes a law like
that, the express company will not receive any li
quor to be delivered in dry territory unless all
.charges are prepaid, and the company is relieved
from all liability concerning it. If we had a law
Hke that, we could go further and make it a mis
demeanor for anybody to carry info dry territory
any intoxicating liquors to be delivered to other
people therein.