The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1892-11-01

and the sins of the world are to be sweep
out by heaven born hGllelujahs.
Some one asked Haydn, the celebrated
musician, why he always composed such
cheerful music WHY he said, Il
can't do otherwise. When 1 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 Fd-
Their. and Christ for our Saviour, and
heaven for our home, and angels for flu
ture companions, and eternity for a 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 popnla-
tions flying through the autumna4 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.
We 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 1t becomes d
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 rife 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 heights?
A man was once talking to Brunei,
the famous engineer, about the length
of the railroad from London to Bris oil.
The engineer said: at is not very great.
We shall have after awhile steamer
running from England to New York. y
! They laughed him tOscorn; but we have
! gone so far now that we have ceased tC
! laugh at ANYTHING as impossible for hui
man achievement. Then, / ask, is any
| thing impossible for the Lord? 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 IL
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 stOrl
and crane have found above the Alp!
plenty of room for free flying. We g
out and we conquer our temptations by
the grace of God and lie down. On the
morrow those temptations rally them
!
God we defeat them again, but staying
all the tine il the old encamplnent We
| have the same old battles to fight over
| Why not whip out our temptations an,
| then forward march, making one raj,
through the ene1ny's country. stopping
not until we break ranks after the las
victory:
Do. nv brethren. let us have som,
! novelty OF combat at any rate, by chang
ing. by going on, by making advance
ment, trading off our stale prayers aUou
sins we ougkt to have quit long ago
going on toward higher state of Chris
tan character and routing out sins tina
we have never thought of yet. The fac
is, if the church of God, if we, as indl
viduals, made rapid advancement in I'll,
Christian life, these stereotyped prayer
we have been making for ten or tifteeI
years would be as inappropriate to Us a
the shoes. and the hats, and the coat
we wore ten or fifteen years ago. Oh
for d 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 10 thee,
and thine to US 50 greaI
Again, remark that the birds of th'
air are wiser than we, because the!
know when to start. If you should e
out now and shout, "Stop, stOrks ant
cranes; don't be in hurry" they wOulC
say: mo, we cannot stop. Last nigh
we heard the roaring in the woods bid
ding us away, and the shrill flute of tn
north wind has sounded the retreat
We must go. We must CO." So the.
gather themselves into companies. ant
turning not aside for storm or mountain
top or shock of musketry, over land an'
sea, straight as an arrow to the mark
they go.
And if you come out this morning
with a sack of corn and throw it in tn
, fields and try to get them to stop, the.
are so far up they would hardly see ii
They are On their way south Y0'
could not stop them. Oh, that we wer
as wise about the best time to start 70
God and heaven! We say: "Wait unit