The Ridpath library of universal literature : a biographical and bibliographical summary of the world's most eminent authors, including the choicest extracts and masterpieces from their writings ... . g to this harp! but how many songs also of mourn-ing and sorrow ! Be thou like unto the harp, said the prophet. What meanest thou ? asked the king. Behold, answered the man of God, both thy sor-row and thy joy drew heavenly sounds from the harp,and animated its strings. Thus let joy and sorrow formthy heart and life to a celestial harp. Then David arose and touched the strings. THE SHEEP-SHEARING
The Ridpath library of universal literature : a biographical and bibliographical summary of the world's most eminent authors, including the choicest extracts and masterpieces from their writings ... . g to this harp! but how many songs also of mourn-ing and sorrow ! Be thou like unto the harp, said the prophet. What meanest thou ? asked the king. Behold, answered the man of God, both thy sor-row and thy joy drew heavenly sounds from the harp,and animated its strings. Thus let joy and sorrow formthy heart and life to a celestial harp. Then David arose and touched the strings. THE SHEEP-SHEARING. A mother once took her little daughter Ida to see theshearing of the sheep. Then the little girl complained,and said, Ah, how cruel men are to torment the pooranimals ! O no, answered the mother ; God has ordered itso, that men might clothe themselves, for they are bornnaked. But, said Ida, now the poor sheep will be socold. O no, answered the mother. He gives the warmraiment to man, and tempers the wind to the shornIamb. THE PSALMS. Who that is somewhat intimately acquainted with thePsalms is not forced, as he reads them, to pause andconsider whether it be true that between him, the reader,. DAVIi) THE PSALMIST. Drawing t>v Jolmuu you Fflhrich FR1EDRICH ADOLF KRUMMACHER 183 and the birthdays of these songs, almost three thousandyears intervene ? Do they not all breathe the samefreshness of life as if they had been composed but yes-terday ? It seems to us with them as if we dwelt in ourown houses and beside our own altars ; and this thoughtrests on no delusion. How strange the songs of othernations sound to us, while in the Psalms of Israel weeverywhere meet with our own God, and with the wholerange of our own personal feelings and experiences. Isit not clear from this that it was He who knows thehearts, whose throne is in the heavens, who himselfloosed the tongue of the sacred singer that he mightsing his songs for all ages, and give expression to all thediverse mo
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