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7 II II The Jewish Psalter. From the French by Albeet Reville. Also from the same point of view, we must mention the noble close of the sixty-eighth Fsalm, in which the Psalmist utters his grati tude at the earth fertilized by the rains of Hea ven. ‘Thou crowneth the year with thy good ness,’ etc. Every one is familiar with the first words, so often quoted, of the nineteenth Psalm: ‘The heavens declare the glory of God.’ This is again a beautiful religious interpretation of nature, a genuine entique. It reminds us of that mysterious Divine power which breathes throughout creation, and at the same time it gives us a curious index of the ancient Israel- itish opinion concerning the sun and his diur nal revolution. It seems to have been conceiv ed that the sun had, below the horizon, a palace, or rather—and this is a more ancient idea—a •tent, where he reposes after the fatigues of the day. Why does the singer stop so abrubtly after this picture of the rising sun ? Simply because his momentary inspiration goes no far ther. Among the great spectacles of the visi ble world, that of the ‘sun going out' (the usu al expression in Hebrew, in place of ‘rising’) it appears to him to surpass’ all others. It is, in his eyes, the chapter par excellence in natural theology. He tells it; and let no one ask more of him, under pretext that a poem should be better rounded to its close; he would find that a most unnecessary requisition. Again, there are psalms, like the hundred and sixteenth, which suppose the action divid ed among groups of singers, and which remote ly resemble our oratorio. Others, like the twenty-ninth, imitate the tumult of a great storm. Elsewhere (Psalm civ.) we find a poetic amplification of the story of creation, as record ed in Genesis. In Psalm xviii., a song of grati tude on occasion of a brilliant victory, the poet still breathes forth the fury of the conflict. ‘Those who hate me,’he cries, ‘I will destroy; I will beat them small like the dust which the wind carrieth away; I will sweep them out as the mire in the streets.’ One may say in gene ral, that the rarest thing in all the Psalms is pity for an adversary, whether vanquished or not. It is impossible to hate more vigoriously than do these pious singers. It is in this, above j all, that the Psalms betray their Jewish origin, and that they have furnished texts and pretexts to most deplorable excesses of Christian intole rance. The only thing to do is to destroy the enemy, to aDihilate him in the name of the Lord; the only pleasure is to render back to him tenfold the injury he has done. The beau tiful elegy formed by Psalm cxxxvii., in which the Psalmist depicts, with most pathetic power, the children of Israel bewailing their lost coun try, having no longer heart to sing, and hang ing their harps upon the willow—this touching expression of the tenderest patriotic feeling, ends with an atrocious imprecation of revenge: ‘0! Babylon, destroyer, hail to him who shall take thy little children and dash them against the stones.’ We must remember, however, that if passag es like these are a painful surprise to readers, who are expecting to find in these Jewish com positions an anticipation of the Gospel morali ty, it is the adoption ot the Psalms, as their customary book of sacred songs, by the Chris tian Churches of all ages, and to the innumer able contradictions consequent therefrom, that we must chiefly ascribe the blame. The Psalm ist sing what they have in their hearts, but with the idea the whole nation sings with them. National individuality is even more absolute than personal individuality. Now the enemy of the nation, and God’s enemy, are one and the same. The oppression of the chosen race was not alone an iniquity, it was a sacrelege. The excuse for. this people is that forced to compare their religious faith with that of their idolatrous neighbors, they could not fail to be proudly aware of their own superiority. At the period when most of the Psalms were composed, this sentiment must have been es pecially powerful. It had not always been so highly developed. There had been a time when the children of Israel adored their God Jehovah in preference to any other, because he was the national divinity, the natural protector, the invincible defender of the people he had chosen; but this exclusive worship rendered to a jealous God, did not at all annul belief in the existence of other divinities, powerful also, and to be feared. If it pleased this reticent divini ty who would not show himself, and whom no human eye had ever been able to discover in the sky—if it pleased him to be adored without being represented under visible forms, _ there was nothing to prevent any man’s believing that other gods, otherwise disposed, consent ed to animate their images, either dwelling within them, or endowing them with magical virtues. Idolatry always vivifies, in a degree, if not wholy, the ikon or the statue. Thus the early Israelite was timid, not audacious, in presence of the symbols of foreign faiths. When, on the other hand, he had gained in knowledge of the world, in reason, in reflection, in faculty of analysis; when his monotheism had come to understand itself thoroughly; when, having examined closely the blocks carven by the workman’s hand, he had satisfied himself that there was nothing there but stone, or metal, or wood, can one conceive the contempt which sprang up in his soul at the sight of men so foolish as to speak with respect and fear of that which could neither hear nor see them t Observe even in our own days the disdainful smile of the Protestant peasant before certain exuberant displays of Catholic piety—a smile sometimes noticed, and with formerly cost him dear. Every nation is ready to believe itself the first in the world, but no people ever had better excuse for this than had the Jews. What consciousness of intellectual and religious superiority in the Psalmist’s prolonged raillery concerning idola ters (Ps. cxv.): ‘Their gods are of silver and gold,’ ect! . , . . . Yet this spiritual superiority was far from find ing its sanction in temporal facts. At every moment it was the idolater, the stupid idolater, who imposed upon the worshipper of the living God his intolerable yoke. Nothing exasperates the animosity of the oppressed against the op pressor so much as the consciousness, whether well or ill-founded, of being his mental supe rior. How little Antiochus understood the peo ple he had to deal with when he imagined that an image of the Olympian Jupiter would be an imposing object to the recalcitrant Jews, snd might aid in reconciling them to Greek civiliza tion. It was, on the contrary, to represent to them that civilization in the most ridiculous light; and, among a people habituated as they were, to take religious matters most seriously, the Jupiter of Phidias himself would have ob tained no other success than that of scandal. Most of the Psalms reflect this meancholy strife of the national conscience and the actual situa tion. M. Reuss shows that wherever we are tempted to find the expression of a personal, isolated injury, it is usually the lamentation of a people poured forth in individual form. The persecuted servant of the Lord, who, in a mul titude of Psalms laments, revolts, invokes divine vengeance on his oppressors, reviles and curses them, is not a solitary man but the personified nation speaking. On the other hand we must admit that never did human language better express the inner religious sentiments of submission, of confi dence, of repentance, of indestructible hope. In these utterances of Jewish poetry there are 1 notes of infinite sweetness, of the most exquisite 2 delicacy. It is these inspirations of an ardent and genuine piety that have made the Psalms the chosen reading of wounded souls. Many a saddened heart has drawn thence ineffable con solations. The oppressed, the persecuted, the afflicted of every age, have been able to appro priate these lamentations full of faith in the eternal justice. The timorous conscience has found accents of penitence and assurances of pardon that no other literature could ever fur nish. The weak points in these songs of Israel and the strange illusions that have prevailed and still prevail in respect to the doctrinal teaching they contain, cannot deprive them of this merit, which alone explains their long-con tinued popularity. In our age of positive criticism, we find it hard to understand the facility with which minds of the first rank were able, in past ages, to meditate long and deeply upon texts whose evident meaning was brutally shocking to their dearest beliefs. How was it possible, for in stance, that a Pascal, a Bossuet, a Fenelon, should take delight in the assiduous reading of the Psalms, without ever perceiving that, on a capital point of Christian doctrine, namely : the faith in a future life of rewards and punish ments, they were not merely silent, but absolute ly ignorant? There can be no question that the Psalms were written at a period when this faith was as yet shapeless, and no man expected after death a resurrection or a passage into a better world. The old Hebrew notion of Sheol, the under-world, a world of sleep alike to righte ous and wicked, rules without exception through out the book. Upon it are based many argu ment. The Psalmists pray for deliverance, and urge upon the Lord to remember that, once dead, a man can no longer praise Jehovah, as in Ps. lxxxviii., ‘What profit wouldst thou have in shedding my blood?’ &3. At every moment the great problem of undeserved suffering, of the tri umph of the wicked,forces itself upon the Psalm ist as upon Job in his rigor,and the solution nev er appears that a future life shall rectify the seem ing injustice. Consoling hope is always bound ed by the horizon of time, and deals only with the national future, promising a period of glory and happiness on earth which shall compensate some day for the humiliations of the present hour. Likewise impartial criticism is forced to relinquish the illusion cherished so long by Christian writers of predictions in the Psalms ot the coming of Jesus and the events of his life, and must own that the Jewish rabbis were quiet right in contesting the arguments of the early Fathers upon this subject, and ridiculing the wildly arbitrary inferences the latter allowed themselves to draw from detached passages. On the other hand the orthodox Jew must himself have frequently been embarrassed by the genuinely spiritual views of certain psalms in reference to the legal ritual. Here, they are unquestionable preludes to the New Testament. It is well known that the Jews, after the cap tivity, attributed the greatest importance to a minute observance of the ceremonial law, and, among the ordinances attributed to Moses, those which concerned sacrifices were of the very first rank. It was by sacrifices that the Isrealite set himself right with the Deity, that he sought to obtain Divine favor, and to avert the penalty of his sins. Thus, as was to be ex pected, it often happened that the guilty made light of his transgression, sheltering himself behind the opus operatum, the material act of the offering. In repeated instances we find the Psalmists disputing the religious value of this form of devotion ; it had to them something ig noble, something contrary to the pure notion of the Divine perfections. To imagine that a man can with flesh of bulls or blood of goats change to his own advantage the purposes of Jehovah, is to bring down the Almighty nearly to a level with himself. We must not however imagine that the same spirituality reigns throughout the entire collec tion. In other Psalms.we find religious notions of the merest materialism. The Jehovah of Psalm xviii., who flies through space mounted upon the storm -eland, of which, by a curious metamorphosis, Christian interpreters have made the gentle and angelic cherub—this God, with smoking nostrils, whose mouth breathes out fire, and who descends from heaven upon a black cloud, is this the omnipresent, Infinite Being of the beautiful one hundred and thirty- ninth Psalm, or is it an idol forged by igno rance and fear? Nothing shows better than do citations of this kind, the progressive nature of that religion of Israel which has escaped the law of evolution no more than has other religions, and was raised only by succsssive stages to the height where Christianity seized upon it, to spread its essential idea over the entire world. We must then, in order to admire rightly, make a fair statement of the beauties and the faults of this sacred poetry. In the light of criticism, the Psalter regains in color, in gen uineness and freshness, what it may have lost in authority as a series of texts fallen from Heaven. Nothing on earth is exempt from the inevitable condition of imperfection ; but we may fearlessly affirm that whatever during the centuries has attracted to itself the veneration and the love of humanity, has always owed that distinction to its merit, either evident or con cealed ; and the Hebrew Psalms furnish one of the most striking illustrations of that truth. It would be impossible for the human soul long to feed itself upon a mere illusion. RELIGIOUS DEPARTMENT. Non-Sectarian—All Churches and all Creeds. , Teacher’s Meeting in Sunday-schools. Difficulties appertaining to the holding of the children’s attendance and attention in Sunday- school, frequently confront the teacher. When looked into closely they will be found to origi nate either in the meagreness of matter or dis agreeableness of manner in the teacher. Teacher’s meetings in which to study the les sons and to discuss methods are therefore of the first importance. In order to make convincing and luminous this point, it is not necessary to rpufeft the quotation, “in a multitude of council there is safety.” Let the meetings be conducted about as fol lows: At the appointed time and place let all the teachers, (and any other members of the school if they desire to do so) come together. Let the pastor of the church or some selected leader conduct the exercises. Let the meeting be open ed with singing, reading of the lesson and prayer. Let the teachers then be arranged in order. Let teacher B. have Dr. Vincent’s Sun day-school Journal; teacher A. Dr. Cunning ham’s Sunday-school Magazine; teacher C. Dr. Hazard’s National Sunday-school Teacher, and bo on through the whole roll of teachers; let each one have a different magazine, or othei helD from any other teacher. Now let the teaoher read the first verse ot the lesson and beginning with teacher A, go round the room asking each to read comments of his particular lesson help on the subject. By mins the subject of the lesson is acquired by the teaoher in all its various lights and more correct and Catholio views are accomplished. Knot a suggestion worthy an experiment? Wearegoing to try it in our school, and we are hoping muoh from it. The General Conference. The General Conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church South convened in this city on last Wednesday. It is the legislative body of that Church. If, when the committee on Episco pacy have reported it is foupd that the demands of the work need it, one or more bishops will be elected and ordained. It is not true, however, that there are any vacancies in the college of bishops. The Episcopacy of this church is gener al and diocesan. If therefore it was found that the present number of bishops was equal to the work to be done there would be no new ones added to the College of gen eral superintends. They are elected for life and continue in office until death, unless de posed for some crime or misdemeanor. This, we believe, has never occurred, except when the Northern delegates attempted to suspend the Episcopal functions of Bishop J. O. Andrew on account of his owning slaves, .which proper ty he ’ acquired by marriage and prac tically held only in trust. The^effort resulted in the rupture between the Northern and Southern wings ©f the church in the Uni ted States, and engendered a spirit of unfrater nity which is now rapidly passing away. The magnitude of their General Conference and the diversity of their necessities, prevent its ever being practicable for them to becoma unil- ted, but if each will confine its efforts to its own territory and cultivate a spirit of Christian charity, there is no reason why they shouid not be fraternal and continue to do the work of evangelists making full proof of their minis try. Efforts are being made to bring about this result, and indeed ‘it is a consummation devoutly to be wished.’ The Baptist Convention of Georgia held its annual session in LaGrange during the past week. It was preceded by an interesting Sun day-school Institute, which was attended by Rev. Geo. A. Peltz, of New York, Prof. W. F. Sherman and Mr. C. B. Stout, of New Jersey, and Prof. Van Lennep, of Turkey. The Atlanta Presbytery is now in session at Lawrenceville. It has under consideration the Block case which made such a sensation in the Central Presbyterian church in this city, of which Rev. J. T. Leftwich, D.D., is pastor, The late Mrs. Sophia E. Stimpson gave, by her will, to the Central Presbyterian church of Baltimore. Mi., of which Dr. J. T. Smith is pastor, one-half of a city lot, two ground rents, five thousand dollars in other landed property and the proceeds of sales of an ice-pitcherpat- ented by the late husband of the testatrix. The Free Churrh of Scotland has just now a larger number of theological students than for several years. It is stated that during this ses sion the number of regular students preparing for the ministry of the Church at the colleges in Edinburgh, Glasgow and AbercBsen Is 196, of whom fifty-seven are first year<*[dents, Mr. Charles E. Robert, formeSlv a Nashville journalist, but of late years conlVcted with the Louisville press, has been acc^I d as a candi date for holy orders in the PrcfyKpnt Episcopal Church by the Bishop of KGnm\ky, and will leave shortly for a course of traMtjig at some theological school. fLo The copy of the Bible which 4%c*tin Luther used daily, and the leaves of wh.M> are covered with annotations made with his'§f'xi hand, is now in Brandenburg Museum, which gave for it about $450. The Bible was printed in Basle, in 1509, is bound in leather, and is in good preservation. Rev. H. F. Buckner preached lately in Tus- kegee, Indian Territory. He baptized three, restored one and married two. The church is building a cedar meeting .house, the members cultivating eight acres of cotton in oonoert to help pay for it. It is reported that Mrs. Tyler, widow of John Tyler, who became President of the United States in 1840, was confirmed by Archbishop Gibbons, at the Convent of the Visitation, Georgetown, D. C., a few days agg. Rev. Mr. Rankin, of the American Bible So ciety, proposes that if every man in.Texas '.who carries a pistol or other deadly weapon will pay them aside—he will replace the* with Bibles free of charge. He guarantees tost the change will put an end to the fearful crime of murder. A Chinese church is to be organized at Oak land, Cal., composed in part of members from Dr. Eell’s church and the mission ander care of Rev. J. M. Condit. This is the second church in California, all the members of which are Chinese. On Sunday, February 17, 1878, Bishop Wiley of the M. E. Church, ordained as deacon, Rev. Yoitsu Honda, a Japanese local preacher—the first of that people who has received ordination from that denomination. The amount thus far collected in England for the monument to Robert Raises is £924 4s. Id. Three or more artists are to be asked to pre pare designs for the statute. Amusements Puzzles, Chess, Conundrums, Prob lems, Charades, and Kinks of all Kinds for Kinkers to Unkink. Single ftolOT, We desire all the old contributors to the Puz zle Parlor to renew their interest in it, as we shall give it new life in future. Let us hear from all who are fond of solving puzzles and conun drums, or anything in that line; and let every one who can get up anything smart or Bharp for the “Puzzle Parlor” do so at once, and send in to us. NEW PUZZLES. i 42. Why is the boy that disturbs a hive like a true Christian ? 43. What is that which has eyes and sees not, ears and hears not. nose and smells not, yet is often regarded as the beau-ideal ot a human being ? 44. I’m a heavy drag—few things more slow. Cut off my head, and give me a bow, And swiftly through the air I go. 45. A pair of little quadrupeds. Transpose them, and you’ll find The lords of ocean, or the aids For disciplining mind; Or that which cheers the midnight hour, Or gilds the flagstaff high; Now test your transposition power, And for the answer try. 46. When is a chair like a rich lady’s dress ? 47. One p, one i, four a’s, two r’s, two s'a, two i’s— what do they make, and who has made a .fortune by them? 48. Here is a small puzzle: A farmer has 9-pigs and wishes to put them in four pens so that an odd number may be in each pen. How can he do it ? D. 0. Hudson, Mt. Parthenon P. O., Newton co.. Ark. Answers to Puzzles. G. W. McCarty, of Atlanta, sends correct answers to puzzles 27 and 28: 27. To Alderman Gobble, with SIS ducks. 28. Musk-melon. M. Davis, of Atlanta, sends the following answers: No. 19 —A11 that come after T are too late for supper. (Cor rect.) No. 15—Step-son. (Not correct.) Daughter. Lizzie D. Lewis, Clarksville, Tenn., says: The answer to prize puzzle is “Eye.” Do you wish any Rebuses for your Puzzle Parlor ? 1 have made a good many that are thought very good. (Correct—send along the Rebuses.) Mrs. M. F. B., Richmond, Va., says: In your issue of April 27, 1878, you ask: Puzzle-No. 27—What is that which makes you catch cold, cures the cold, and pays the doctor’s bill? Is it not a “Draught?” (Correct.) J. B. Garrett, of Selma, Ala., says: In looking over a Sunny South of tbia week I find soma puzzles, aud as I suppose the invitation to solve them is extended to all, I venture to solve three of them. If I am not mistaken the answer to No. 32 i3—Frankfort on the main; 34. Is Ribband; 38. When translated, should read: A living sin ner’s transgression procured damnation; a dying Re deemer’s passion purchased salvation, or vice versa. Am I correct in any of them ? (AH correct.) Mary E. Alexander, of Chulahoma, Tenn., says: I send the solution to some of yonr puzzles. Will bagiu with Prize Puzzle No. 20 of tha last paper. This is tha first '■ mail since I received the paper: The answer is Eye, 1. Add asylable to short—it will be shorter. 2. Sbakspeare. 3. Time. 4. Wallace. 5. They are both sweet. (Wrong. Because they are often toasted.) 7. The letter N. (You mean M, which is correct.) 8. The whale was -18 feet long. 9. He walks 10.100 feet. G. Your umbrella. (Wrong; your name.) 11. Hour-glass. (Wrong; Pen-man-ship.) 12. The man’s name was NOT. 13. One of its n’s. 15. Siep-sou—(daughter.) 16. Beu-hadad-(Ben ! Hal dad.) 17. Because it is always Dublin—(Doubling.) 18. The air—(water.) 19. 1 hose after T (tea.) Prize enigma No, 1 may be “Linnet,” but I cannot make t out exactly. The next prize enigma is J. B. Burwell, Greenville, Va. First Transposition is—“Faint heart never won fair lady.” 3d—Diamond Puzzle T IRA TRUTH ATE H I wish my subscription continued. I send money. D. C. and C. C. Hudson, and J. C. Blackwood, of Mt. Parthenon, Ark., say: We send you the answers to some of the puzzles found in your nice paper of March 16th. If they are wrung, please send the right answers: G. What belongs to yourself yet is used by others more than yourself. Ans. Your name (Correct.) 8. The head of a whale is G feet long, his tail is as long as his head and half his body, and his bodv is half his whole length. How long is the whale? Ans.—48 feet. (Correct.) 9 A hundred stones are placed in a straight line, a yard distant from each other, how many yards must a person walk who undertakes to pick them up and place them in a basket stationed one yard from the first stone? Ans.—9,900 yards. (10,100 yards we believe is correct.) 3. What is the longest, yet the shortest thing in the world; the swiftest aud yet the slowest; the most divis ible, and the most extended; the least valued, and the most regretted, without which nothing can be done; which devours everything, however small, aud yet gives life and spirits to every object, however great? Ans.— Air. (Wrong. Time is the correct answer.) Mrs. J. A. Dibrell, Jr., Little Rock, Ark., says: Yonr paper is a new but welcome visitor at our home. You will perceive that I at once begin to take an interest in it by attacking the conundrums in the number for APrU> 27tb, in the following style, viz.: 32. Warning—(Warring.) (Prescription and proscrip tion are the words intended.) 33. Frankfort-on-the-main. 34. Ribband. 36 Patch-work. 3?! 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Kt K B 3 5. B Q B 4 6. P Q 3 7. QK2 8. B K3 9. BxKt 10 PKR3 11. QXB 12. PXP 13. Kt K 2 (d) 14. KtXB 15. P QB 3 16. B Kt 3 17. Cas (Q R) 18. P K Kt 4 19. P Kt 5 20. P K R 4 21. P R 5 22. K RKt(f) 23. BB2 Black. PK4 B B 4 P Q3 Kt K B 3 Kt Q B3 P Q R 3 (b) B K Kt 5 Kt Q 6 (c) BXB Q BXKt PQ B3 PXP P Kt 4 QXKt IV PQ B 4 Castles (e) Kt K Kt Q B 2 Kt K 3 KR PQ Kt 5 White. 24. PKR6 25. PXP+ 26. PXP 27. P Q 4 (i) 28. Q R K B 29. QXKt (K) 30. RXQ 31. R K Kt 2 32. R Q2 33. RXR 34. KXP 35. K Kt 3 FQR3 37. PXP 38. K Q B 4 39. K Q 4 40. P Q R 4 41. R B 3 42. K K 3 43. B K B 44. K B 3 45. R KR 46. P R 2 Black. Kt B 5 (h) PXP PXP PXP PQ 6 mt K RK BXB+ PXB RK4 PQB5 PXP RXKKtP P R 4 K Kt 3 P KBS PKB5 R Kt 5 PR6 K Kt 4 KR5 R Kt 6-f- And White resigns. (a) Kt K B 3 is a safer, and perhaps a stronger move; but as, in all probability it would have brought about a slow and stereotyped sort of a game, though more ven turesome; P K B 4 was preferred. 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