The united opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1881-1970, 1894-10-26

Dorm nallelulanS. some one aSke'
Haydn, the celebrated musician, VIII,
he always composed such Cheerful
music. Why" he said, II can't d
otherwise. When I think of God, m,
soul is SO full of Joy that the notes leal
and dance from my pen. wish w
might all exult melodiously before tn
Lord. With God for our Father, ant
Christ for our Saviour, and heaven TO-
our home, and angels for future com
panions, and eternity for lifetime, W,
should strike all the notes of Joy. Goint
through the wilderness of this worlt
let us remember that we are on the way
to the summary cline of heaven, ant
from the migratory populations f1yins
through this autumnal air learn always
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 their happiness shall see.
The church of God never will be a
triumphant church until it becomes a
singing church.
Away Beyond Danger.
/ 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 with
in reach of the gun, but when they start
for the annual flight southwark they
take their places midheaven and 60
straight as a mark. The longest rife
that was ever brought to shoulder can
not reach them. Would to God that we
were as wise as the stork and crane in
our flight heavenward! 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 Alfred Goodman,
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 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
10 Brunei, the famous engineer, about
Jhe length of the railroad from London
% Bristol. The engineer said: cit is
lot very great, We shall have after
while a steamer running from Eng
and to New York. " They laughed him
10 scorn, but we have gone so far
low that we have ceased to laugh at
lnytbing as impossible for human
Then, I ask, is anything
for the Lord? do not be-
ieve that God exhausted all his grace
n Paul and Latimer and Edward Pay
on. | lAlieve there are higher points of
Christian attainment to be reached in
he future ages of the Christian world
Get out of the Old Ruts.
You tell me that Paul went up to the
iptop of the Alps of Christian attain
utut LuGu L b6lI yOu pu1O UAO StOIh
md crane have found above the Alps
,lenty of room for free flying We go
nut and we conquer our temptations by
he grace of God and lie down. On the
morrow those temptations rally them |
elves and attack us, and by the grace of
rod we defeat them again, but staying
II the time in the old encampment we
ave the same old battles to fight over. /
Why not whip out our temptations and |
hen forward march, making one raid |
trough the enemy's country, stopping |
ot until we break ranks after the last
ictory. Do, my brethren, let us have |
ONE novelty of combat, at any rate, by
hanging, by going ON, by making adj
trading off our stale prayers
bout sins we ought to have quit long
CO. going on toward higher state Of
christian character, and routing out
ms that we have never thought of yet.
he fact is, if the church of God, if we
S individuals, made rapid advancement
4 the Christian life these stereotyped
rayers we have been making for 10 or
3 years would be as inappropriate to us
S the shoes, and the hats, and the coats
re wore 10 or 10 years ago. Oh, for a
igher flight in the Christian life, the
fork and the crane in their migration
saching us the lesson!
Dear Lord, and shall we ever live
At this poor dying rate,
Our love so faint, so cold to thee,
And thine to us so great?
Before 1t Is Too Late.
Again, remark that the birds of the
ir are wiser than we because they know
hen to start. If you should go out now
nd shout, ''Stop, storks and cranes,
ont be in hurry" they would say:
No, we cannot stop. Last night we
card the roaring in the woods bidding
S away, and the shrill flute of the
orth wind has sounded the retreat. We
lust go. We must CO." So they gather
into companies, and turning
OF aside for storm, or mounain top, or
lock of musketry, over land and sea, {
raight as an arrow to the mark, they /,
D. And if you come out this morning
18th sack of corn and throw it in the
elds and try to get them to stop they
"a so far mn thew Uould hardly con IL 4,