Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1892-10-31

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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 flight south
ward, they take their places 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 50 low that we are within easy
/ range OF the world, the flesh, and the
devil. We are brought down by temp
IatiOns that ought not to come with
/ In a mile OF reaching US. Oh, for some
Of the faith OF George Muller, Of Eng
/ land, and Alfred Goodman, once Of the
I Church militant, now of the Church
I 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 higher
I 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
20 Brunei, the famous engineer, about
the length Of the railroad from London
20 Bristol. The engineer said: 1T is
not very great. We shall have, after a
while, a steamer running from England
70 New York" They laughed him to
scOrn; but we have gone so far now that
we have ceased 20 laugh at anything as
impossible for human achievement.
THEN ASK,
is anything impossible for the Lord? I
do not believe that God exhausted al
his grace in Paul, and Latimer, and
! Edward PaysOn. l believe there are
higher points of Christian attainment
70 be reached In the future ages OF the
Christian world.
You tell me that Paul went up to the
tigtOp 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 themselves and attack US,
and by the grace of God we defeat
them again; but staying all the time in
tae old eucampment, 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
changing, by going on, by making ad-
yauCpment, trading off our stale pray
ers about sins we ought TO have quit
long ago, going on toward a higher
state of Christian character, and rOut-
ing out sins that we nave never thought
of vet. The fact is, If the Church OF
GOd-if we, as individuals, made rapid
advancement In the Christian life, these
stereOty ped prayers we have been max
ms for ten or fifteen years would be as
inapDropriate 70 US as the shoes, and
the hats, ana the coats we wore ten or
fifteen years ago. On for higher flight
in the Christian life, the stOrk and the
crane in their migration teaching US the
lesson.
Dear Lord, and shall we ever live,
AT this POOR dying rate
Our love So faint, 50 cold 10 Thee,
And Thine to US so great
ANOTHER FROST Is BIDDING
YOU aWay-it is the frost of sorrow.
Where do you live now? "Oh," you say,
81 have moved" Why did you move?
You say, Il don't want as large a house
now as formerly" Why do you not
want as large a house? You say, only
family is not so large" Where have
they gone TO? Eternity" Your mind
goes back through that last sickness
aud through the almost supernatural
effort TO save life, and through those
PRAYERS that seemed unavailing, and
through that kiss which received no
response because the lips were lifeless,
and hear the bells JOlling and hear
the hearts breaking--While l speak l
hear them break A heart! An
other heart! Alone! alonel alone!
This world, which In your girl
hood and boyhOod was sunshine, is cold
now. and oh! weary dove, you ny around
this world as though you would like to
stav. when the wind and the frost and
the bIackening clouds would bid you
AWAY into the heart OF an all-comtort-
ing God. on, have noticed again ana
again what a botch this world makes OF
il when it tries TO comfort soul IN
trouble! tt says: Don't cry. How
can we help crying when the hearts
treasures are scattered, and father Is
gone. and mother is gone, and compan-
ions are gone, and the child Is gone, ana
everything seems gone? 1t is no COM
fort 70 tell a man no. to cry. The
world comes up aud says, "Oh, 1t Is only
the body of your loved one that you
have out in the groundm But there Is
no comfort in that. That body is pre-
cious. Shall we nevg3 put our mana IN
that hand again, and shal! we never see
that sweet face again? Away with your
beartlessneSs, oh world! But come
Issusl and tell US that when the tears
fam they fall into Gods bottle; that the
dear bodies Of our loved ones shall rise
radiant in the resurrection; and all the
breakinVs down here shall be lifted up
there. and "they shall hunger no more,
neither thirst no more, neither ShaiI
the sun light on them nor any heat.
for the Lamb which is in the midst OF
the throne shall lead them to living
fountains OF water, and God shall wipe
all tears from their eyes"
YOU NAY HAVE MOTT CED
that when the chaffinch or the stork or
tbe crane starts on its migration, 1t
calls all those Of its kind to come TOO;
The tree-tops are full OF cnlrp anu