. The psalms : a Christian manual. ^!)e ^0alm0: a Ctjri^tian ^anuaL Let the ivords of my mouth, and the meditation of myheart, he ahvay acceptable in Thy sight, 0 Lord, myStrength, and my Redeemer.—Vsalm xix. 14, 15. The great St. Athanasius, by whose name one ofthe holy creeds of the Christian Church is known,used to say that the book of Psalms was like Para- dise r^ and he meant in this way: that as in thathappy garden, in which God placed our first parents,He made every pleasant plant to grow,^ so in the g-iholy and divine Psalms we find, in a few words, thevarious histories which are writt
. The psalms : a Christian manual. ^!)e ^0alm0: a Ctjri^tian ^anuaL Let the ivords of my mouth, and the meditation of myheart, he ahvay acceptable in Thy sight, 0 Lord, myStrength, and my Redeemer.—Vsalm xix. 14, 15. The great St. Athanasius, by whose name one ofthe holy creeds of the Christian Church is known,used to say that the book of Psalms was like Para- dise r^ and he meant in this way: that as in thathappy garden, in which God placed our first parents,He made every pleasant plant to grow,^ so in the g-iholy and divine Psalms we find, in a few words, thevarious histories which are written in the other partsof the Bible: they are all gathered together, as itwere, into that one place. Thus, for instance, in thebook of Genesis we find mention made of the crea-tion of the heavens and the earth. In the Psalms we read : The heavens declare the glory of God, and the /irmament sheiveth His handiwork^- For ^ Ps. He hath founded it upon the seas, and prepared it upon the floodsr^ Again, the book of Exodus tells P^us how
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