The Canton times. (Canton, Miss.) 1893-1906, 1894-11-05

AAuyuu, Vic leDrdCeu musician. why
he always composed such cheerful mu-
sic. why" he said, 81 can't do other
wise, When think of God my soul is
so full of joy that the notes leap and
dance from my PEN" wish we might
all exult melodiously before the Lord.
With God for our Father, and Christ
for our Saviour, and Heaven for our
home, and angels for future compan-
ions, and eternity for a lifetime, we
should strike all the notes of joy. Co
ing though the wilderness Of this
world, let us remember that we are on
the way to the summary cline Of Heav-
en-, and from the migratory populations
flying through this amtumnal air learn
always to keep singing.
Children of the heavenly King,
Asye journey, sweetly sing;
Sing your Saviour'S worthy praise,
Glorious in His works and ways.
Ye are travelling home to Cod
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.
l 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 fight
southwark they take their places mid
heaven and go straight as a mark.
The longest rife that was ever
brought to shoulder could not reach
them. Would to God that we
were as wise as the stork and
crane in their fight 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 to Brunei, the famous
engineer, about the length of the IA il
road from London to Bristol. The en-
gineer said: st is not very great. We
shall have, after awhile, steamer run
ming from Lon don to New York" They
laughed him to scorn; but we have
gone so far now that we have ceased to
laugh at anything impossible for hui
man achievement. Then, ask, is any
thing impossible for the Lord? do not
believe that God exhausted all His
grace in Paul, and Latimer and Ed
ward Payson. l believe there are high
er points of Christian attainment to be
reached in the future ages of the
Christian world. You tell me that
Paul went up to the tiptop of
the Alps of Christian attainment. Then
1 tell you that the stork and crane have
found above the Alps plenty of room
for free flying. We go out and we con-
quer our temptations by the grace of
God and lie down. On the morrow
those temptations rally themselves and
attack us, 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
the enemy's country, stopping
not until we break ranks after the last
Do, my brethren, let us have
some novelty of combat, at any rate,
by changing, by going on, by making
tracing off our stale
prayers about sins we ought to have
quit long ago, going on toward
! higher state of Christian char
aeter, and routing our sins that
we have never thought of yet.
The fact is, if the church of God
4 we, as individuals, made rapid ad-
in the Christian life, these
prayers we have been max
ng for ten or fifteen years would be
to us as the shoes, and
The hats, and the coats we wore ten or
fifteen years ago. Oh, for a higher
eight in the Christian life, the stork
md tho crane in their migration teach
ng 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 greatl
Again, remark, that the birds OF
he air are wiser than we, because
,hey know when to start. II you
should go out now and shout: stop |
,torks and cranes, don't be in a
,urryr they would say: mo, we can
,ot stop; last night we heard the roar
ng in the woods bidding us away, and
- hill A,ta of the north wind has