The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1894-10-24

believe that If you could roll the odd
Hundred doxology through the street il
would put an end to any panic. believe
that the dscOrds. and the sorrows. and the
sins Of the world are to be swept out by
heaven born halleluiahs. Some one asked
Haydn, the celebrated musician. why he
always composed such cheerful music
why" he said. q can't do otherwise.
When / think of God, my soul is so fun
of joy that the notes leap and dance from
my pen" / wish we might all eXult
melodlOusly before the Lord. With God
for our Father and Christ for our Savior
and heaven for our home ard angels for
future companions and eternity for a life
time, we should strike all the notes Of
JOY. Going through the wilderness Of this
world let us remember that we arc on the
way to the summary cline of heaven and
from the migratory populations flying
through this autumnal air learn alwdy IS to.
keep singing:
Children Of the heavenly King.
As ye journey sweetly sing.
Sing your Savior's worthy praise
Glorious in His works and ways.
Ye are travelling home to God
In the way your fathers troG
They are happy now, and we
Soon their happiness shall see.
The church Of God never will be tri-
umphant church until II becomes a sing
ing church.
go further and say 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 places
midheaven and go straight as a mark
The longest rifle that was ever brought 10
W
God that we We're 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 70 come within a 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 actu-
ally caricature the idea that there is any
such thing as a higher life. Moles never
did believe in eagles But. my brethren.
because we have not reached these nights
ourselves shall we deride the fact that
there are any such hights2 4 man was
one talking TO Brunei the famous en-
gineer, about the length Of the railroad
from London 10 Bristol. The engineer
said: 1T is not very great. We shall have
after awhile a steamer running from Eng
land to New York" They laughed him
to scOrn, but we have gone so far now
that we have ceased to laugh al anything
as impossible for human achievement.
Then. / ask. IS anything impossible for the
Lord? | do not believe that God exhausted
all his grace in Paul and Latimer and Ed
ward Payson. I believe there are higher
points OF Christian attainment 10 be reach
ed in the future ages of the Christian
world. You tell me that Paul went up 70
the tptop Of the Alps of Christian attain
ments. Then 1 tell you that the stork
and crane have found above the Alps
plenty of room for free flying.
Rising Above Temptation.
We go out, and we conquer our tempta-
tons by the grace of God and lie down.
or the morrow those temptations rally
themselves and attack US. and by the
grace of God we defeat them again, but
staying all the time i'm the old encamp-
ment we have the same old battles to
fight over. Why not whip out our temp
tatons 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 max
ing advancement trading off our stale
prayers about sins we ought to have quit
long ago, going on toward a 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 make rapid advancement
in the Christian life, these stereotyped
prayers we have been making for ten
O. fifteen years would be as inappro-
pirate 10 us as the shoes, and the hats.
and the coats we wore ten or fifteen
years ago. On, for a higher flight in the
Christian life, the stork and the crane
in their migration teaching US the lessoni
Dear Lord and sha n we avar live
At this poor dying rate
Our love so faint, so cold to thee,
And thine to us so great?
Dangers of Delay.
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. storks and cranes, don't
be in a hurryp' they would say: "No, 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 CO." So they gather themselves into
companies, and turning not aside for
storm or mountain top or shock Of mus
kerry, over land, sea, straight as an arrow
TO the mark, they go. And if you come
out this morning with a sack Of corn and
throw it 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 TO start for God and heaven. We
say: wait until 1t is a 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 awhile we start, and it
is too late, and we perish in the way when
Gods wrath IS kindled but little. There
are. you know, exceptional 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 world and
Christ. They waited until the last sick