Ceredo advance. [volume] (Ceredo, W. Va.) 1885-1939, 1892-11-09

As yc journey sweetiy sing:
Sing your Saviour's worthy praise.
Glorious in His works and ways
Yc 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 n
triumphant church until it becomes
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 place and 60
| straight rs an arrow TO the mark. The
longest rifle that was ever brought to
the shoulder can not reach them
Would to God that we were rs wise as
the stork and crane in our flight Heav-
onward! We fly SO low that we are
within easy reach of the world, the
flesh and the devil. We are brought
down by temptations that ought. not to
come within n mile of reaching us. oh,
for some of the faith of George Muller,
of England, and Alfred Cookman, once
Church triumphant. So poor is the type
of piety in the Church OF God now
that men actually cnricature the idea
that there is aEy such thing rs n higher
life. Moles did not believe in eagles.
But, my brethren. because we have not
reached those heights ourselves, shall
we deridc the fact that there are any
such heights? A man was once talking
70, nt.t,,. Il he.
the length of the railroad from London
to Bristol. The engineer said: at is
not very great We shall have. after a
while, 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 ut any
thing as impossible for human achieve
ment Then, / ask, is any thing impos-
sible for the Lord? 1 do not believe
that God exhausted all His grace in
Paul, and Latimer and Edward Payson
l 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 mp to the
tip-top 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 us, 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 tempta-
tons, and then forward march, making
one raid through the enemys country,
stopping not until we break ranks
after the last victory. Do. my breth-
rem, let us have some novelty of COM
bat, mt any rate, by changing. by go
ing off, by making advancement, trad
ing on our stale prayers about sins we
ought to have quit long ago, going on
toward n 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 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 n higher flight 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
Ourlove so faint, so cold TO Thee,
And Thine TO us so Rreatf
Again, / remark that the birds of the
air are wiser than we, because they
know when to start. II You should 60
out now and shout, stop, storlxs and
cranes, don't be in n hurry" they would
say: mo, we can not 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 must go. We must 60" So they
gather themselves into companies, and
turning not aside for storm or mount
ain top or shock of muslIetry, over land
and sea, straight as an arrow to the
mark they go. And If you come out
this morning with n sack of corn and
throw IL 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 10 start for God and Heavenl
I'VE say, wait until n 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 a while we
start and it is too late and we perish
in the way. when Gods wrath is lxindled
but little. There are, you know, ex-
ceptional 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 half
way between the word and Christ.
They waited until the last sickness.
when the mind was gone, or they were
on the express train going at forty
miles an hour, and they came to the
bridge and the draw was up and
they went down. How long TO repent
and pray? Two seconds! Two secondsl
To do the work of lifetime and TO
prepare for the vast eternity in two
seconds was reading OF an entertain
ment given in n 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 Familiarity looked over his
shoulder and said: What are you play
ing? / see no music before YOU" and
Mozart put his hand on his brow as
much as TO say, 81 am improvising." It
was very we'll for him, but oh, my
friends, we can not eXtcmporize Heavenl