The Bolivar bulletin. (Bolivar, Tenn.) 1888-1946, 1892-11-11
tory populations flying through this
nutumnal air learn always to keep sing

Glorious In his WORKS ana 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 q
| triumphant church until it becomes a
singing church.
I go further and remark that the
birds of the air 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 southYard to
take their places and GO straight as an
arrow to the mark. The longest rife
that was ever brought to shoulder can
not reach them. Would to God that
we were as wise as the s$ork and crane
in our fight heavenwardl We fly so
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 Al
fred Goodman, once of the church mil
liant. now of the church of triumphant
So poor is the type of piety in the
church of God now that men actu-
ally 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 notreached these ightsro utS
selves, shall we derideg the fact that
there are any such heights? "A man
was once taIlkihg to Brunei, the fstnous
engineer, about the length of the rail
engineer said: ut 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 impos-
sible for human achieYement.a Then, ]
ask, is anything sirnpossiblel for the
Lord? ! do not believe that God ex-
hausted all His grace7in Paul. and LSt-
inner, and Edward Payson. / believe
there are higher points of Christian
| attainment to be reached in the future
ages OF The Christian world, 9EEu1 q
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 MS, and by the grace
of God we defeat them again; but, stay
ing all the time in the old encampment,
we have the same old battles to fight
over. Why not whip out our tehpta-
tions, and then forward march, making
one raid through the enemy's country,
stopping not until we break ranks
after the last victory? Do. my breth-
rem, let us have some novelty of COM
bat, at any rate by changing, by
going ON, by making advancement,
trading off our stale prayers about sins
we ought. to have quit long ago, going
ON toward higher state of Christian
character, and routing out sins that
we have never thought of yet. The
fact is, if the Church of God-if we, as
individuals, made rapid advancement
in the Christian life, these stereotyped
prayers we have been. making for ten
or fifteen years would be as inappropri-
ate 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 life, the stork and the crane
IN their migration teaching us the les
son!
ear Lord, and shail 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
out now and shout: "Stop, storks and
cranes; don't be in a hurry!'' they
would say: mo, we can not stop; last
night we heard theroaFing in the woods
| bidding US away, and the shrill flute of
the north wind has sounded the re-
treat. We must go. We must CO." So
they gather themselves into companies,
and turning mot aside for storm or
mountain-top or shock of musketry,
over land and sea, straight as an arrow
to the mark they go. And il you come
out this morning with sack of corn
and throw 10 in the fields and try to
get them to stop, they are so far
mp they would hardly see it. They are
on their way south, Yolf could not stop
them oh, that we were as wise about
the best time to start for God and
Heaven. We say: "Wait until it is a
little later in the season of mercy.
Wait until some of these green leaves
of hope are all dried up and have been
scattered Wait until next year ;"
After awhile we start, and it is too
late, and we perish on the way when
Gods wrath is kindled but little
There are, yon know, exceptional cases
where birds have started too late, and
in the morning You have found them
dead on the snow. And there are those
who have persisted halfway between
the world aud Christ They waited I'M
oil the last sickness, when the mind
was gone, or they were on the express
train going at forty miles an hourTan d
they came to the bridge and the draw
was up" and they went down. How
long to repent and pray? Two sec
ondsi Two seconds, To do the, work
of lifetime and to prepare for the
vast eternity in two seconds! / was
reading of an entertainment given in a
kings court, and there were musicians
there, with elaborate pieces of music.
After awhile Mozart came and began
to play, and he had a blank piece of
paper before him, and the king fa-
miliarly looked over his shoulder and
said: What are you playing? 1 see
no music before you." And Mozart put
his hand on his brow, as much as to