Among
the widely differing writings which, opening with Genesis and closing with Malachi, make up that uniquely wonderful volume the Old Testament, it seems safe to assume that no one book taken in its entirety has brought more of comfort and of peace to the thoughtful Christian than the so-called Psalms of David,—those strikingly sublime and increasingly beautiful hymns of repentance and thanksgiving of supplication and joyful praise, which for more than thirty centuries have now whispered, now proclaimed abroad, their message of heartening, uplifting cheer.
