Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1892-11-03
through this autumnal air learn always TO

In the way your fathers frod;
They are happy now, and we
Soon their happiness shall see.
The church of God never will be tri.
umphant church until it becomes singing
church.
FAR ABoVE THE DANGERS OF EARTH.
go further and remark that the birds OF
the air are wiser than we in the fact that
in their migration they fy very high. Dur
ing the summer when they are in the
fields, they often come within reach OF the
gun, but when they start for the annual
fight southwark they take their places
midheayen and 90 straight as an arrow to
the mark The longest rifle that was ever
brought to shoulder cannot reach them.
/ Would to God that we were as wise as the
storE and crane in our flight heayenward!
We ly so low that we are within easy
range OF the world, the flesh and the devil.
We are brought down by temptations that
ought not 10 come within mile of reach
| ing us.
Oh, for some of the faith of George Null
Ter, Of England, aud Alfred Goodman,
once Of the church militant, now of the
church triumphant! So poor is the type
of piely in the church Of God now that
men actually caricatire the idea that there
is any such thing as a higher life. Moles
never did believe in eagles. But, my breth-
rem, because we have not reached these
heights ourselves, shall we deride the fact
| that there are any such heightsi
A man was once talking to Brunei, the
! famous engineer about the length Of the
railroad from London 10 Bristol. The en-
| gineer said: al is not very great. We
/ shall have after awhile steamer running
| from England TO New York, They laughed
| him TO scorn, but we have gone so far
now that we have ceased to laugh at any
thing as impossible for human achieve
ment Then, ask, is anything impossible
| for the l.ordf do not believe that God
4 exhausted all his grace in Paul and l.ati-
mer and Edward Payson, believe there
are higher points Of Christian attainment
| to be reached in the future ages Of the
| Christian world.
! You tell me that Paul went up TO the
/ tiptop of the Alpsof Christian attainment.
| Then tell you that the stork and crane
have found above the Alps plenty of room
for free flying. We 20 out and we con
! quer our temptations by the grace of God
and lie down. On the morrow those tempta-
| lions rally themselves and attack us, and
| by the grace of God we defeat them again:
but staying all the time in the old encamp-
ment we have the same old battles to fight
over Why not whip ont our temptations
and then forward march, making one raid
| through the enemy's country, stopping
not until we break ranks after the last vie
tory?
Do. my brethren, let us have some novelty
of combat at any rate by changing by go
ing on. by making advancement, trading
off our stale prayers about sins we ought
to have quit long ego. going on toward
higher state Of Christian character, ant
routing ont sins that we have never thought
of yet The fact is, il the church Of God,
if we, as individuals, made rapid advance
ment in the Christian life, these stereo-
typed prayers we have been making for ten
or fifteen years would be rs inappropriate
to us as the Shoes and the hats, and the
coats we wore ten or fifteen years ago Oh,
for higher flight in the Christian life
the stork and the crane in their migration
teaching us the lessonl
Dear Lord and shah we ever live.
At this poor dying rate
Our love 80 faint, so cold to thee,
And thine 10 us 50 greatY
THE DANGER IL DELAY.
Again, | remark that the birds of the
air are wiser than we, because they know
when to start. II you should go out now
and shout, stop, storls and cranes; don't
be in a hurryi' they would say; NO, we
cannot stop, last night we heard the roar
/ ing in the woods bidding MS away and the
shrill flute OF the north wind has sounded
the retreat. We must 90. We must 90.
So they gather themselves into companies,
and turning not aside from storm or noun
tain top or shock Of musketry, over land
and sea, straight as an arrow to the mark,
they 20. And If you come ont this morn
| ing with sack Of corn and throw il in the
! fields and try to get them 10 stop they are
SO far up they would hardly see it, They
are on their way south. You could not
stop them.
Oh, that we were ;ts wise about the best
time 20 start for God and heavenl We
say; wait until it is "a little later in the
season Of mercy Wait until some or
these green leaves Of hope are all dried up
/ and have been scattered Wait until next
4 year" After awhile we start. and il j.
1 too late, aud we perish in the way when
1 Gods wrath is kindled but little There
are, You know, exceptional cases where
/ birds have started too late and in the
morning you have found them dead on the
I SHOW. anu AuHit htt AhOHC W to nave per
/ ished half way between the world and
Christ They waited until the last sick
ness, when the mind was gone, or they
were on the express train going at for.y
miles an hour, and they came TO the bridge
and the draw was up" and they went
down. How long to repent and prayg
/ Two seconds Two secondsl To do the
work Of lifetime and to prepare for the
/ vast eternity in two seconds
! THE SOUL GETS ITS WARNING.
/ | was reading of an entertainment given
/ in a kings court, and there were musicians
there with elaborate pieces of music
After awhile Mozart came and began to
/ play, and he had blank piece of paper be.
/ fore him, and the king Familiarity looked
over his shoulder and said: What are YOU
/ playingy see no music before you"
( And Mozart put his hand on his brow. as
much as to say, Il am improvisng.n Il
was very well for him, but oh, my friends,
I we cannot extemporize heaven. If we do
not get prepared in this world, we will
/ never take part in the orchestral harmo
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