The united opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1881-1970, 1892-11-04


end to any financial disturbances! | be
lieve that the discords, and the sorrows
and the sins of the world are to be sweep
out by heaven born hallelujahs.
Some one asked Haydn, the celebrated
musician, why he always composed sucl
cheerful music. "Why,' he said, &c
can't do otherwise. When l think O
God my soul is so full of joy that thu
notes leap and dance from my pen."
wish we might all exult melodiously be
fore the Lord. With God for our Fa
ther, and Christ for our Saviour, ant
heaven for our home, and angels for flu
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 summary cline Of
heaven, and from the migratory popula
tions flying through the autumnal all
learn always to keep singing
Children of the heavenly king,
| AS we 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 will be a
triumphant church until it becomes a
singing church.
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 in the fields, they often come within
reach of the gun, but when they start
for the annual fight southwark they
| take their places midheaven and go
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 stork
and crane in our fight heavenward!
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 the
idea that there is any such thing as a
higher life. Moles never did believe in
eagles. But, my brethren, because we
have not reached these heights ourselves,
shall we deride the fact that there are
any such heights2
mon rac ppoa ta1yino tn Primal
the famous engineer, about the length
of the railroad from London to Bris CT.
The engineer said: sit 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 anything as impossible for HUI
man achievement. Then, l ask, is any
thing impossible for the Lord2 l 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 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 off our stale prayers about
sins we ought to have quit long ago,
going on toward a 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-
viduals, made 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 fight in the Christian life,
the stork and the crane in their migra-
ton 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 so
out now and shout, "Stop, storks and
cranes; don't be in hurry" they would
say: mo, we cannot stop. Last night
we heard the roaring in the woods bid
ding us away, and the shrill flute of the
north wind has sounded the retreat.
We must 60 We must 60" So they
gather themselves into companies, and
turning not aside for storm or mountain
top or shock of musketry, over land and
Tea, straight as an arrow to the mark.
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