leader of the twelfth course of Levitical Singers. "Hashabiah" signifies such as "Jehovah esteems." "Hashabiah" is he who is set as a precious stone when the Lord maketh up his jewels. For the Hashabiah type sings in the night time of adversity and in the day time of prosperity; in the prisons of enemies and in the castles of friends.

Songs of the heart's Hashabiah well-springs bubble up through external affairs, send shrapnel of tribulation or thunders of applause. Paul and Silas in the dark Macedonian prison are singing with their feet in the stocks,

"Send down thy Spirit free,
Till wilderness and town
One temple for thy worship be,
Thy Spirit, Oh, send down."

And the inbreathing Free Spirit fills their prison house to bursting, breaking apart the binding stocks, and transmuting prisoners and prison keepers to worship of the Sender-down of Omnipotent Free Spirit.

"Thrice was I beaten with rods," said Paul; "once was I stoned; thrice I suffered shipwreck." "But I glory." And thus glorying, even Paul's hands had transubstantiating effects; for it came to pass that "when Paul had laid his hands upon them, the Holy Ghost came on them and they spake with tongues, and prophesied."

In the alchemist's cupel the precious metal was separated from the vile amid chemical violence. Thus was Elisha's anguish at the departure of his beloved Elijah turned into transmuting beams that cured brackish Jericho waters, by his crying out, not for departed Elijah, but for the God of Elijah: "Where is the God of Elijah?"

The sand grain or the insect's torture in the amethystine