Daily tobacco leaf-chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1890-1895, 1892-10-31

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Some one asked Haydn, the celebrated
musician, why he always composed such
cheerful music. "Why," he said, II can't
do otherwise. When | think of God my
soul is so full of Joy that the notes leap
and dance from my pen" wish we might
? oil exult melodiousy before the Lord.
With God for our Father and Christ for
our Saviour, and heaven for our home and
angels for future companions, and eternity
for lifetime, 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 populations flying
through this autumnal air learn al ways 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.
Ye are travelling home to God,
In the way your fathers trod;
They are happy now, and we
Soon tEeir happiness shall see.
The church of God never will be tri-
umphant church until it becomes singing
| church.
FAR ABOVE THE DANGERS OF EARTH,
| go further and remark that the birds Of
the air ere wiser than we in the fact that
IN their migration they fly very high. Dur
Ing 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 aud go straight as an arrow to
! the mark. The longest rifle that was ever
! brought to shoulder cannot reach them.
! Would to God that we were as wise as the
stork and crane in our flight heaVCnwardl
! 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 a mile of reach
| ing us.
Oh, for some of the faith of George Null
| Ter, of England, and Alfred Goodman,
once of the church militant, now of the
| church triumphant So poor is the type
of pety in the church of God now that
men actually caricature the idea that there
is any such thing as higher life. Moles
never did believe in eagles. But, my breth.
rem, because we have not reached these
heights ourselves, shall we dcride 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 en-
| gineer said: at Is not very great. We
shall have after awhile n 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 any
thing as impossible for human achieve
ment. Then, ask, is anything impossible
for the IordH | do not believe that God
exhausted all his grace In Paul and Lati-
mer and Edward Payson. | believe there
are higher points OF Christian attainment
to be reached in the future ages Of the
Christian world.
You tell me that Paul went up to the
! tptop Of the Alps of Christian attainment.
Then tell you that the stork and crane
| have found above the Alps plenty Of room
for free flying. We go out and we con
! quer our temptations by the grace OF God
and lie down. On the morrow those tempta-
tons rally themselves and attack Us, and
by the grace of God we defeat them again;
but staying all the time in the old encamp-
mcnt 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 vic.
toryS
DO my brethren, let MS have some novelty
of combat ot ony rate bv changing. bv 20,
inc on. hy making advancement. tradn,
off our stale PRAYERS about sins we ought
to bovo unit LONG AFRO. roinr on toward 4,
bigher state Of Christian character, anc.
rontinoo,lts instLntv we have Thought
If vet The fuct j.. if the church of God
If we ma individuals. made randi advance.
mert in fine Christian life, these stereo
tyrnd vcrs we have been making for ten
~, frta.n ,.,,,re yvould ha nc ipannronrintr
70 &c no tha shoes and the hats and the
o W. t, we v.n,o ten mr. fifteen Years npo on.
sa, = h,.hor nigLt In the Cbristian life
Mo sfork and the crane in their migration
tn,,,l,i,,,. no thn Iessnnr
noo,rord ,,d s,,ol, ,,o o,or Ilvo
A. this moor diving rate
Our love SO faint, so cold to thee,
And thine to us so great2
TIE DANGER IN DELAY.
AGAIN. remark that the birds OF the
mir arc wiser than we, because they know
when to start II you should go out now
and shout. "Stop, storks and cranes: don't
no in a hurrvlv they would say: "No, we
cannot stop. last night we heard the roar.
inc In fhc woods bidding us away, and the
shrill finite of the north wind has sounded
the retreat We must go. We must 20. "
So tt,ry gqthcr themselves into companies
and turning not aside from storm or noun.
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