This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1873 edition. Excerpt: ... CHAPTER VI. CHRIST THE EXAMPLE OF FASTING, ALMSGIVING, AND PRAYER. The range of the Psalmist's capacity for suffering and joy accounts, as much-as anything, for his dominion over our sympathies. The compass of his voice and its penetrating power enabled him to rehearse with singular individuality all the passages, which may be allotted severally to other men, be they composed in what key they may, or let them take their pitch from any note in the scale of life's experience. So filled are the Psalms with the Holy Ghost, that, while they speak with other tongues as the Spirit gives them utterance, the multitude that comes together, is entranced, because that every man hears them speak in his own language. But only One can interpret the whole music of the Psalms. Only One can speak its divers tongues with natural eloquence: and we, when we sing them, feel as if the music were gone out of them, if Christ be not in them all in all. Who hath The Psalms fulfilled by Christ. 97 sounded the depths of their suffering, but He? Who is the model of fasting? Whose charity has embraced mankind with the world-wide sympathy of the Psalms, but His, Whose life was impoverished, that He might hav ealms to make many rich? And Who has risen on their eagle wings and communed with God in that genial confidence, natural only to a man after God's Own Heart, but He, Who in the profoundest sense offered Himself to God from end to end in prayer? "I am weary of my groaning: every night wash I my bed, and water my couch with my tears. My beauty is gone for very trouble, and worn away because of all mine enemies. Away from me, all ye that work vanity: for the Lord hath heard the voice of my weeping. The Lord hath heard my petition: the Lord will receive my prayer." It...