Arizona republican., 1892-11-20

out by heaven born hallelujahs.
 Some one asked Haydn, the celebrated musician, why he always composed such cheerful music. Why" he said, "l can't do otherwise. When I think of God my soul is so full of joy that the notes leap and dance from my pen" wish we might all exult melodiously be- fore the Lord. With God for our Fla. ther, and Christ for our Saviour, and heaven for our home, and angels for fu- ture companions, and eternity for life time, we should strike all the notes of joy. Going through the wilderness of this world let us remember that we are on the way to the summery cline of heaven, and from the migratory popula- tions flying through the autumnal air learn always to keep singing.
 Children of the heavenly king,
 As ye journey, sweetly sing;
 Sing your Saviour's worthy praise.
 Glorious in his works and ways.
 Ye are travelling home to God
 In the way your fathers trod:
 They are happy now, and we
 Soon their happiness shall see.
 The church of God never win be a triumphant church until it becomes a singing church.
 l go further and remark that the birds of the air are wiser than we in the fact that in their migration they fly very high. During the summer, when they are L.! the fields, they often come within reach of the gun, but when they start for the annual flight southward they take their places midheaven and go straight as an arrow to the mark. The longest rifle that was ever brought to shoulder cannot oh them, Would to God that we were as wise as the stork and crane in our flight heavenwardl We fly so low that we are within easy range of the world, the flesh and the devil. We are brought down by temp tations that ought not to come within a mile of reaching us.
 Oh, for some of the faith of George Muller, of England, and Alfred Cook man, once of the church militant, now of the church triumphant! So poor is the type of piety in the church of God now that men actually caricature ths idea that there is any such thing as a higher life. Moles never did believe in eagles. But, my brethren, because ws have not reached these heights ourselves, shall we deride the fact that there are any such heights2
 A man was once talking to Brunei, ha fa,tnna ohpttt tha lanUth of the railroad from London to Bris ol. The engineer said: "It is not very great. We shall have after awhile a 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 anything as impossible for hu- man achievement. Then, ask, is any thing impossible for the Lord? do not believe that God exhausted all his grace in Paul and Latimer and Edward Pay son. l believe there are higher points of Christian attainment to be reached in the future ages of the Christian world. KEEP ABOVE THE ATMOSPHERE OF SIN.
 You tell me that Paul went up to the tiptop of the Alps of Christian attain ment. Then l tell you that the stork and crane have. found above the Alps plenty of room for free flying. We go out and we conquer our temptations by the grace of God and lie down. On the morrow those temptations rally them selves and attack us, and by the grace of God we defeat them again, but staying all the time in the old encampment we have the same old battles to fight over. Why not whip out our temptations and then forward march, making one raid through the enemy's country, stopping not until we break ranks after the last victory?
 Do, my brethren, let us have some novelty of combat at any rate, by chang ing, by going on, by making advance ment, trading of our stale prayers about sins we ought to have quit long ago, going on toward higher state of Chris tian character and routing out sins that we have never thought of yet. The fact is, if the church of God, if we, as indi- mase rapid advancement in the Christian life, these stereotyped prayers we have been making for ten or fifteen years would be as 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 Tiff, the stork and the crane in their migra- tion teaching us the lesson!
 Dear Lord, and shall we ever live
 At this poor dying rate
 Our love so faint, so cold to thee,
 And thine to us so great?
 Again, remark that the birds of the air are wiser than we, because they know when to start If you should go put now and shout, ''Stop, storks and cranes; don't be in a hurry" they would gay: "No, we cannot stop. Last night we heard the roaring in the woods bid ling us away, and the shrill flute of the north wind has sounded the retreat. We must go. We must go." So they gather themselves into companies, and | turning not aside for storm or mountain .op or shock of musketry, over land and | 'ea, straight as an arrow to the mark, hey go. And If you come out this morning { with sack of corn and throw it in the i ields and try to get them to stop, they