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Jerusalem the golden,
With milk and honey blest, •
Beneath thy contemplation
Sink heart and voice opprest.
I know not, Oh, I know not
What social joys are there,
What radiancy of glory,,
What bliss beyond compare.
They stand, those. halls of Sion,
Conjubilant with song,
And bright with many,an Angel,
And all the Martyr throng
The Prince is ever in them,
The daylight is serene,
The pastures of the blessed'
Are deck'd in glorious sheen,
There is the throne. of David;
And there, from care released,
The song of them that triumph,
The shout of them that feast;
And they who with their Leader
Have conquer'd in the fight,
For ever and for. ever
Are clad.in robes of white.
O sweet and blessed country,
The home of God's elect!
O sweet and blessed country
That eager. heart expect!
Jest', in mercy bring us
To that dear land of rest;
Who art, with God the Father
And Spirit, ever Blest.
In 1894 the learned Professor of
Exegesis in King's College, London,
who was afterwards venerated as Ar-
chbishop Trench of Dublin, published
a volume of Sacred Latin Poetry,
which is now greatly prized by schol-
ars, In this appeared ninety-eight
long Latin lines taken from the poem
on "Contempt of the World," which
were translated two years later and
printed under the heading "The Cel-
estial Country," by Dr. John Mason
Neale, Warden of Sackville College,
Sussex, Eng.
These lines began with: "Hic breve
vivitur, hic breve plangitur, hic breve
fictur," which Dr. Neale put into Eng-
lish as, "Brief Life is here our portion.
Brief sorrow, short-lived care." From
them as thus translated come three of
the most valued hymns in the lan-
guage, "Brief life, etc." "For thee, O
dear, dear country," and most popu-
lar of the three "Jerusalem the Gold-
en!" No one will deny that Dr.
Neale has improved upon the -original
in his beautiful translation, which is
the finest poetical picture of the heav-
en of bliss ever written.
Dr.' Neale, a born poet and great
classical scholar, was a Church of
England clergyman, friend of John
Keble who gave us "Sun of my soul,"
and many other good hymns, and of
Cardinal Newnan, who wrote "Lead
Kindly .Light:" He was the most
successful of translators of mediaeval
and ancient hymns as well as'one of
the most varied and voluminous writ-
ers of his time. He wrote learned
histories of Greece, Portugal, of the
Jansenist Church of Holland, of the
!Patriarchate of Alexandria, "A Church`
'History for Children," many volumes
of romances, numerous hymns and
and tales for children, a splendid and
elaborate commentary on the Book of
.Psalms, and many other books. A
glance at the index to any of our
hymnbooks will show how greatly
hymnology is indebted to his indus-
try, learning and genius.
"Jerusalem the Golden," contains
the verses most favored by Dr. Neale
of all his. translations: "I have no
hesitation," he' declares, "in saying
that I look on these verses of Ber-
nard as
er-nardas the most lovely, in the same
way that the Dies Irae (Day of
Wrath) is the most sublime and Stab -
at Mater (At the Cross her station
keeping), the most pathetic of 'med-
iaeval poems." Elsewhere he says:.
"It would be most unthankful did I
not express my gratitude to Godfor
the favor, He has given some of the
centos made from the poem, but 'es-
pecially 'Jerusalem the Golden.'
Archbishop Trench said of it "A
new hymn which :has, won such a
place in the affections of Christian
people as has "Jerusalem' is so price-
less an acquisition that I trust needs.
rejoice to have been the first to recall
from, oblivion the poem which yielded
probable,, at Morlaix in Brittany,
somewhere about the year 1300. We
find him at the wonderful, beautiful
habitation of hundreds ' of devoted
fellow Christians at Cluny, where was
the grandest Cathedral in Europe at
that date, and where the Abbot, whose
power was far greater than that of
most bishops was "Peter the Vener-
able," once a valiant soldier, then a
meek but loyal hearted monk, strong
enough to shelter Abelard, St. Ber-
nard's' mighty antagonist, when de-
.feated bythat mighty disputant he
was a refugee from men. and had been
bidden to go to Rome, where punish-
ment for him. was certain. Under
Peter, Cluny held its own, against the
great Cistercian ' whose personality
dominated Europe and the national
churches of the central and western
parts of that continent. Peter him-
self wrote hymns which are still used
at Easter and " Christmas time, in
some churches,
But the days were evil. The Cru-
sades had disorganized government,
the absence with them of the nobles'
who held the secular learning of the
age and maintained order, was bad
for their districts, law and order had
not yet recovered from the overthrow
of old Rome by the Goths and 'Van-
dals, and those who wanted to lead
godly lives or to give themselves to
study, felt themselves compelled to
go out of the busy world and live in
monasteriel or convents. -'Even the
Church suffered under such circum-
stances and the confusion caused by
the quarrels of two rival' Popes, one
in France, the other in Italy, helped
to promote strife, worldliness , and
gross favoritism in making ecclesiasti-
cal appointments.
The Monk Bernard felt all this,
keenly and British -like set about a-
mending it. He wrote one of the
bitterest arraignments of unworthy
managers ever written, in a poem of
'three thousand long Latin lines which
he entitled "de Contemptu Mundi."
Sorrowfully and sadly but as a loyal
son of the church bent upon display-
ing her wounds only to heal them he
laments:
"In holy Rome the only power is
gold;
There all is boughttherie everything
is sold.
Because she is thevery way to right,
There truth is .perished by unholy
sleight."
There are •hundreds of lines of such
sarcastic, bitter invective which are
never without signs of Bernard's dis-
tress at the sins of this contemptible
world.
Nearthe beginning of this poem.
the first lines of which from the
hymn, "The world is very evil" -he
gives in the verses Dr. Trench picked
out, a beautiful picture of "the new
Jerusalem," the true pattern and home
of the Church, as depicted in the last
chapters of the book of Revelation.
No doubt Bernard's bitter medicine
did good to the church of his day
which was set in'a difficult, hazard-
ous time, for probably neversince,
could one have written so about it.
But few stop to think of his satire
now. We rejoice to have his glorious
lines upon The Celestial Country, our
eternal home beyond the grave, which
will last for ever. The rest we need
not.
All the church hymnbooks in the
language of any consequence contain
it, Church of England, Rotnan Catho-
lics, Presbyterians, Methodists—in
fact all the denominations make use
of it. Dr. Neale speaks of Colonel
A. Ewings';:tune as "the earliest writ-
ten, the best known, and with child-
ren the most popular," and public op-
inion agrees with his:
Berhad; of Morlaix, humble monk
nat
in the Benedictine �Mo astr y Cluny
in Burgundy, Prance, is often confus-
ed with his renowned namesake and
contemporary, St. Bernard of Clair-
voux, also in Burgundy. He was an
Englishman by both parents,but was
born either in England, dr as is most
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would put it frankly it the ground
of his religious scruples, but. that re-
quest in itself would seem an affront,
since it was the king's PurPPse .to
transform the four youths as com-
pletely as possible into Chaldeans,
religion and all. Mach courage was
required, and Daniel was risking the
ruin of his career at the outset; but
manliness and courage go together,
and Daniel, though so young,: was al-
ready very much a man.
Now God made Daniel to find kind-
ness and compassion in the sight of
the prince of the eunuchs, Daniel
had tact, . which is one of the most
necessary requirements for succesin
any reform. This is the kind of per-
son that advances good causes in the
world.
And the prince of the 'eunuchs said
unto Daniel, I fear my lord the king,
who hath appointed your food and
your drink. Men who are in soft
jobs, men whose salary and power.
depend on things as they are, will:.
not defy custom and authority even
in order to benefit all mankind, For
why should he see your faces worse
looking than the youths that are of
your own age? so would ye endanger
my head with the king. Life in an
oriental palace where every . wish
could be gratified. An education iti
all that the Chdldeans could teach,
and their learning was not small. An
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opportunity, if taken. rightly, to rise
to high office. But, to the human
outlook, and Daniel must . have
thought deeply on this matter, one
must bow to the evil customs of an
oriental' court and must worship the
gads that, from his childhood, he had
been taught were no gods. He must
renounce his reigion. Was he pre-
pared to give up all that had been
taught him ablout the only Great and
True God of his fathers? Here was
the puzzle. What shall he do when
asked to do things which are against
his principles in order to stay ina
certain company or go in society that
has no use for his God? See how
Daniel answered it."
Then said Daniel to the steward
whom the prince of the eunuchs had
appointed over Daniel, Hananiah, Mi-
shael and Azariah. All four of . these
names are compounded with the He-
brew names for God—"E1" and "Jah,"
and, as one step in weaning them
from their homeland, they had' re-
ceived Chaldean names of heathen
character.
Prove thy servants, I beseech thee,
ten days; and let them give us pulse
to eat, and water to drink. Daniel's
"purpose" which had carried him thus
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far was of much tob s a t a fibre to
weaken before a single mild refusal.
If one official denied his request, he
would try another. It has been thus
from the beginning with the temper-.
ance reform. If thetemperance
workers could not get prohibition,
they took what they could get .
Then let our countenance be look-
ed upon before thee, and the coun-
tenance of the youths that eat of the
king's dainties; and as thou seest,
deal with thy servants. The advo-
cates of total abstinence could wish
for nothing better than a rigid phy-
sical examination of those who drink
and those who do not drink, the fate
of the reform to depend uponthe
comparison.
So he hearkened unto them in this
matter, and proved them ten days.
In apportioning the credit for this
famous temperance experiment let us
not forget this noble steward, who
did not hesitate to ran the risk from
which his superior officer shrank.
And at the end of ten, days their
countenances appeared fairer, and
they were fatter in flesh, than all the
youths that did eat of the king's
dainties. "A sparing diet is conduc-
tive to health and long life, while the,
pampering of the appetite with many
dainties tends to the production of
disease."
So the steward took away their.
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THE SUNDAY SCHOOL LESSON
LESSON IL—OCTOBER 13
Keeping Fit for the Sake of Others
(Temperance Lesson) -Dan. 1: 8-20
Golden Text. --Know ye not that
your body is a temple of the Holy
Spirit which, is in you, which ye have
from God? .and ye are not your own,
for ye were bought with a price:
glorify God{ therefore in your (body.
--1 Cor. 6: 19, 20.
That he would ,not defile himself
with the king's dainties, nor with the
wine which he drank. "How olid Dan-
iel and his companions know whether
these meats and drinks might not
have been illegitimately prepared ac-
cording to Jewish notions, or even
consecrated to some heathen deity af-
ter the local fashion of the feast?
Therefore he requested of the
prince of the Eunuchs (Ashpenaz)
that he might not defile himself. He
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dainties, and the wine that they
should drink, and gave theta . pulse.
He had the type of mind which could
appreciate a demonstration and act
upon it, which many of the oppon-
ents of prohibition do not seen to
possess.
Now as for these four youths, God
gave them knowledge and skill in all
learning and wisdom; and Daniel had
understanding in all visions and
dreams. All that seek brain power
will keep away from the alcoholic
poison. s
And at the end of the days which
the king had appointed for bringing
them in, the prince of the eunuchs
brought them in before Nebuchad-
nezzar. it must have been an anx-
ious time for the four young .men as
well as for their preceptor and guard-
ian, It was their examination day.
Such a time conies to every one when
he seeks a position, or when, having
obtained work to do, he has to make
good in his situation.
And the king communed with
them; and among them all was found
none like Daniel, Hananiah, Mishael.
and Azariah. These four Hebrew
youths were not' alone in the examin-
ation: They had many competitors,
young fellows ° who' had ;been reared
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with them in the royal palace and
by the king's officers; bu4 they had
not had the moral stamina of the He-
brew lads, they had not lived abstem-
ious lives, and when the testing time
came they fell behind. Therefore.
stood they before the king. Namely,
they were appointed to serve among
the sovereign's personal attendants,
with every opportunity to win his
favor and gain preferment if they
merited it.
And in every matter of wisdom and
understanding, concerning which the
king inquired of them, he found them
ten timesbetter than all the magic-
ians and enchanters in all his realm.
These were the wise men of the king-
dom, men trained in the learning in•
which the four had been educated,.
with the great advantage of exper-
ience and age; but the Hebrew youths
surpassed them all.
"It is only by continually putting
down temptation,—'keeping it ;under,
and bringing it into subjection,' like
St. Paul, that we can make sure it
shall not prove our ruin." -Rev. A.
K. H. Boyd.
"Live always as a good soldier of
Jesus Christ. He is Lord of the. body.
Therefore you must put your body
under discipline. You cannot eat just
what you please. You musteat the
things that are good for you. You
cannot neglect any part of your body;,
if you do you will be crippled in all
the after battle of life.
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