The Globe-republican., 1892-11-18

In the wsy your fathers trud:
They are hsppy noe. and We
Boon thar happiness s6aN sea.
The church OF God Lever will DO
Triumphant church until it becomes
singing church
l 80 further and remark that the Ord
OF the Air are wiser than We IN the fac
that In their migration they fly yery
high. During the summer, when the,
| sre In the fields. they often come within
reach OF tho gun, but when they start
for the annual flight southwark they
take their place midhesven and Re
straight as An arrow to the mark. The
! longest rife that WAS ever brought &C
shoulder cannot reach them. Would tC
God that we were IS wise rs the stOrk
and crane in our flight heavenward! We
fly 80 low that We are within easy range
OF the world, the flesh and the devil.
We are brought down by temptations
| that ought not to come within . 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 IS q
higher life. MOles never did believe in
eagles. But my brethren, because We
have not reached these heights our
selves, 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 Bristol, The
engineer said: 1T is not very great
We shall have after awhile q steamer
running from England to New York. "
They laughed him to scorn, but we have
gone 50 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 Lord? do not
believe that God exhausted all his grace
in Paul and LStimer and Edward Pay
son. believe there are higher points
of Christian attainment to he reached in
the future ages Of the Christian world.
You toll me that Paul went up to the
tiptop of the Alps Of Christian attain
ment Then l tell you thst the stork
and crane have found above the Alps
plenty of room for free flying. We 60
out and We conquer our temptations by
the grace Of God and lie down. On the
morrow these temptations rally them.
selves and attack us, and by the grace
of God we defeat them again: but stay
ing all the time in the old encampment
we have tho same old battles to fight
over. Why not whip out our tempta-
tions. and then forward march, making
one raid through the enemy's country,
stopping not until we break ranks after
the last victory?
N lot \ CANA ,o,,
city Of combat at any rate by changing,
BY going on, by making advancement
trading of our stale prayers about sins
We ought to have quit long ago, going on
toward higher state Of Christian char
acter. and routing out sins that We have
never thought OF yet. The fact is, If
the church of God, If we. IS individuals,
made rapid advancement in Christian
life, these stereotyped prayers we have
been making for ten or fifteen years
would be as inappropriate to US IS 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 lesson!
Dear Lord, and shall We ever live,
At this poor dying rate
Our love 80 faint. 90 cold to Thee,
And Thine to Us 20 great?
Again, remark that the birds of the
Dir are wiser than we, because they know
when to start. If you should 60 out now
and shout, stop, st0rks and cranes;
don't he In hurry!" they would say:
mo. We cannot stop; last night we heard
the roaring in the woods bidding US away,
and the shrill flute of the north wind has
the retreat We must 20. We
must Co." So they gather themselves
into companies, and turning not aside
from storm or mountain top or shock Of
musketry. over land and sea, straight IS
IN arrow to the mark, they go. And II
you come out this morning with sack |
Of corn and throw 1t in the fields and try !
to get them to 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 as wise about the |
best time to start tor God and Heaven!
We say: 'Wait until it is . little later
10 the season OF mercy. Wait until some
II these green leaves Of hope are oil
Tried up and have been scattered Wait |
until next year." After awhile we start,
Ind it is too late, and We perish in the
way when Gods wrath is kindled but q
title. There are, you know, exceptional
'ases where birds have started too late,
Ind in the morning you have found them
lead on the snow. And there are those
Who have persisted half way between the
world and Christ They waited until
he last sickness, when the mind was
zone, or they were on the express train
EoinR at forty miles an hour, and they
anne to the bridge and the ''draw was
lp" and they went down. How long to
epent and pray? Two seconds! Two
econds! To do the work of lifetime
md prepare for the vast eternity in two
seconds!
l WAS reading of an entertainment
'iven in kings court, and there we're
musicians there with elaborate pieces of
music. After awhile Mozart came and
'egan to play, and he had blank piece !
I paper before him, and the king "a 1
niliarly looked over his shoulder and
aid: What are you playing? l see no
nusic before you" And Mozart put his :
and on his brow, IS much IS to say, II ,
m improvlsing." 1t was very we'll for
i'm, but oh. my friends, We cannot ex-