Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1892-11-04

| break ranks after the last victory?
! Do, my brethren, let us have some nov
city 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 higher state OF
| Christian character, and routing out
sins that we have never thought of
yet. The fact is, if the church of
| e. )d-if we as individuals, made rapid
advancementin 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
higher fight in the Christian life, the
storl1 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 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, storl<s and
cranes, don't be in hurryr' 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 sounded the retreat. We must
go. We must 60" So they gather
themselves into companies, and turn
ing not aside for storm or mountain
top or shock of muslSetry, over land
and sea, straight as an arrow to the
mark they go And if you come out
this morning with sack of corn and
throw it in the fields and try 20 get
them to stop, they are so far up they
would hardly see it. They are on
their wfy south. You 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 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 per-
ish in the way when Gods wrath is
kindled but little. There are, you
|
have started too late, and in the morn
ing you have found them dead on the
snow. And there are those who have
persisted halfway between the world
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 re-
pent and pray? Two seconds +! Two
secondsl To do the work of a lifetime
and TO prepare for the vast eternity in
two secondsl l was reading of an en-
tertainment given in a Kings court,
! and there were musicians there, with
elaborate pieces of music. After
while 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 yoa playing? Il see no
music before you" And Mozart put
his hand on his brow, as much as to
say, II am improvising. 1t was very
well in him, but oh, my friends. we
cannot extemporize heaven. If we do
not get prepared in this world, we will
never take part in the orch estral har-
monies of the saved. Oh that we were
as wise as the crane and the stork,
flying away, flying away from the
tempest.
You may have noticed that when the
chaffinch or the stork or the crane
, , starts on it's migration, it calls all
those of its kind to come, too. The
! tree-tcps are full of chirp and whistle
. and carol and the long roll-call. The
bird does not start off alone. 1t gath
ers all of its kind o that you might
be as wise in this migration to heaven,
and that you might gather all your
families and your friends with you!
would that Hannah might take Samuel
by the hand, and Abraham might take
Isaac, and Hagar might take fshmael.
Start for heaven yourself, and take
your children with you. Come thou
and all thy house into the ark Tell
: your little ones that there are realms
of balm and sweetness for all those who
! fly in the right direction. Swiftei
than eagles stroke, put out for heaven
Like the crane or the stork, stop moi
: night nor day until you find the right
: place for stopping.
To-day the Saviour calls,
/, We wanderers come.
= O. ye benighted souls.
I Why longer roam!
The Spirit calls to-day
e Yield to his power.
, o, grieve him not away
Ills mercy's hour.
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