Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1892-10-31

Some one asked Haydn, the celebrated
musician, why be always composed sucl.
cheerful music. "Why," lie said, Il
can't do otherwise. When | think Of
God my soul is SO full of joy that tie
notes leap and dance from my pen."
wish we might all exult m rlodiously be-
fore the Lord. With God for our Fa-
Their, and Christ for our Saviour, and
heaven for our home, and angels for fu-
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 popula-
tions flying through the autumnal air
learn always to keep singing.
Children Of the heavenly king,
AS ye 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
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 flight southwark they
take their places midheaven and go
straight as an arrow to the mark. The
longest rifle that was ever brought to
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God that we were as wise as the stork
and crane in our flight heavenwardi
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: sit is not very great.
We shall have after awhile a steamer
running from England to New York
They laughed him to scor1s; but we have
gone so far now that we have ceased to
laugh at anything as impossible for hui
an cch / aCly iC
thing impossible for the Lord? do not
believe that God exhausted all his grace
in Paul and Latimer and Edward Pay
son. | 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. Their [ tell you that the storlz
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 g higher state of Chris
tan 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 a 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 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 hurryr' 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 NEST go. We must CO. So they
gather themselves into companies, and
turning not aside for storm or mountain
Top or shock of musketry, over land and
Eea, straight as an arrow to the mark.
they go.
And If you come out this morning
with q sack of corn and throw it in the
fields and try to get them to stop, they
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