...is all my delight.' In the common version of that exquisite Psalm, the Fortysecond, beginning ' As the hart panteth after the water-brooks, so panteth my soul after thee, O God,' there are many lines which no one would wish to see altered, or need to have explained. But in...

...glorified happy in being ever with the Lord ! He now cries, " О that I knew where I might find him !" As the hart panteth after the water-brooks, so panteth my soul after thee, О God. My soul thirsteth for God, for the living God : when shall I come and appear before God !"...

...not this be a happiness superior to any the world can give ? See what David thought of it — " As the hart panteth after the water-brooks, so panteth my soul after thee, O God. My soul thirsteth for God, for the living God : Thou, O Lord God, art the thing that I long for....

...water-courses." And I have no doubt there are many, even in this assembly, who are athirst after God; "as the hart panteth after the water-brooks, so panteth my soul after thee, O God ; my soul is athirst for God, for the living God ; as a thirsty land wherein no water is." And,...

...attainment of them. The Psalmist felt this love iu his heart, and well expressed it, Psal. xlii. 1, As the hart panteth after the water-brooks, so panteth my soul after thee, O God. Hence we may conclude, that all they who promise themselves the happiness above, when, in the...

...same thirst and cry, at least in some measure, as was in the man after God's own heart, who said, " As the hart panteth after the waterbrooks, so panteth my soul after thee, O God." These are not the aspirations of flesh and blood ; no, the desires of the flesh incline another...

...the lines are fallen unto me in pleasant places, and I have a goodly heritage. Psal. 1 6. 5, C. As the hart panteth after the water-brooks, so panteth my soul after thee O God !" Psal. 42. 1, 2. And uguin, " Whom have I in heaven but thee ? and there is nona upon earth that...

...the white-cheekt Ettin. ) Besides other sources, the Early Church used David's Psalm 42, v. 1, »As the hart panteth after the water-brooks , so panteth my soul after thee, O God,» for making THE HART its symbol of Piety , and thus of Apostles , Doctors , the Faithful, Penitents,...

...everlasting life." The springing well is felt in the heaven-born soul who feels and says with David, "As the hart panteth after the water-brooks, so panteth my soul after thee, O God." In the soul that is born of God there is a going out in meditation, in prayer, sighs, groans,...

...milk of the word. 1 Pet. 2:2. If spiritual life be in you, you know how to expound that scripture, "As the hart panteth after the water-brooks, so panteth my soul after thee, O God," Psa. 42:1, without any other interpreter than your own experience; you will feel somewhat like...