Capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1893-1895, 1894-10-22

music Why" he said, 81 can't do
otherwise When / think of God. nv
soul is so full Of JOY that the notes lean
and dance from my pen" wish wa
might all exult mclodiously before the
Lord. With God for our Father and
Christ for our Saviour, and heaven for
cur home. and angels for future com
pahlons, and eternity for lifetime. we
ihou!d strike all the notes of jay. Going
through the wilderness of this world
let us remember that we are on the way
TO the summery cline of heaven, and
from the migratory populations flying
through this 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 Col
In the way your fathers trod.
They are happy now, and we
Soon their happiness shall sae.
The church of God never will be q
triumphant church until it becomes
singing church.
Away Beyond Danger.
go further and remark that the birds
of tho 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
i'll reach of the gun, but when they start
for the annual fight southward they
take their places midheaven and 20
straight as mark. The longest rifle
that was ever brought to shoulder can
not reach them. Would to God that we
were as wise as the stork and crane i'll
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 Cookman,
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
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 Bristol The engineer said: ut is
not very great. We shall have after
awhile a steamer running from Eng
land to New York F" They laughed him
to scorn, but we have gone so far
now that we have ceased to laugh at
anything as impossible for human
achievement. Then, l ask, is anything
impossible for the Lord? do not be-
lieve that God exhausted all his grace
in Paul and Latimer and Edward Pay
son. l believe there are higher points of
Christian attainment to be reached in
the future ages of the Christian world.
Get Out of the Old Ruts.
You tell me that Paul went up to the
tiptop 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 u.s. 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
changing, by going ON, by making ad-
vancement, 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 God, If we
as individuals, made rapid advancement
in the Christian life these stereotyped
prayers we have been making for 10 or
10 years would be as inappropriate to US
as the shoes, and the hats, and the coats
we wore 10 or 10 years ago, Oh, for a
higher fight in the Christian life, the
RLOfk ana tiiS ciailo III ihSli AiSi"fA'A
teaching us the lessOnl
Dear Lord, and shall we ever live
At this poor dying rate
Our love so faint, so cold 70 thee,
And thine 10 US 80 greatf
Before II Is Too Late
Again, / remark that the birds Of the
air are wiser than we because they know
when 10 start II you should go out now
and shout, "Stop, storks and cranes
don't BIO in hurryW they would say
"Ro, We cannot stop. Last night We
heard the roaring la tho woods bidding
us away, aud the sbrill huto OF ihe
north wind has sounded the retreat We
must 20, Wemust CO." So they gather
themselves into companies and turning
not aside Tor storm, on mounaln top oi
shock Of musketTy, over land aud tea,
straight as ail arTow % the marx, lhey
20 And II you come oui ihls morning
with q sack u corn ana throw ll IA lhf
fields aud uy % got them ~ stop lhtl
are 30 faT up they would hardly 500 ll
They aIe on their way soulh fou
could not stop them OBJ ihal We Eef'
as wise about ihe bosi iimt ~ start lpl
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nlitisa llttle latfI iu iha season pl