Perpetual Truth of the Scriptures.
THERE is something grand and divine in the perpetual and universal truth of the Word of God. Take an admired passage of one of the great poets of ancient times. It is local. It bears the imprint of the age, the race, and the state of the society in which it was produced, and its truth is somehow circumscribed and limited by those conditions. But take for example the 90th Psalm, one of the oldest works of the human mind, dating more than five hundred years before Homer: Every verse of it is true, not only then, but now and in all ages. The prayer of Moses, the man of God, is a most appropriate and comprehensive prayer at the present day, and may be offered up by the devout soul as a fit and full expression of his thoughts, emotions and desires. There are thoughts of Him "who inhabiteth eternity." They are conceived at an elevation which exalts them far above the changing objects, persons, scenes and events of earth and time. They shine down upon this world like fixed stars, unvarying in their position, and undimmed in their light. It is well to be conversant with thoughts thus immutable and sublime. The familiar contemplation and rumination of them expands, exalts and strengthens the mind. It lifts us above our own age into the clear and cloudless regions of unchangeable truth; the aeronaut while he is passing through the clouds is swept this way and that by gusts and currents of wind, drenched in vapor, pelted by hail, and deafened by thunders, but when he emerges beyond them, he reaches a clear and untroubled region, so the soul uplifted by contemplation and faith may leave the earth, break through the clouds which environ it, and dwell in a bright and serene atmosphere, above the reach of those passions, cares and controversies which perplex the region below. O! blessed be God, who has prepared such an element for us storm-tossed mortals in his holy Word, and given us wings to rise to it.—Ex.