The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1894-11-14

With God for our Father, and Christ
for our Saviour, and Heaven for our
home, and angels for future co1npan-
ions, and eternity for 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 summery cline of Heav-
en-, and from the migratory populations
flying through this alntumnal 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 arc travelling home to Gods
In the way your fathers trod;
They are happy now, and VIC
Soon their happiness shall see.
The church of God never will be
triumphant church until it becomes
singing church.
/ 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 mark.
The longest rifle that was ever
brought to shoulder could not reach
them. Would 70 God that we
were as wise as the stork and
crane in their fight heaVenward! We
fly 30 low that we nre within easy
range Of the world, the flesh and the
devil. We are brought down by
temptations that ought not to come
within naile 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 the church of God now that
men actually caricature the idea that
there is any such thing as g 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 naan was
once talking to Brunei, the famous
engineer, about the length of the rail
road from London to Bristol. The en-
gineer said: "It is not very great. We
shall have, after awhile, a steamer run
ming from London to New York" They
laughed him to slcoru; 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. 1 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
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
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
advancement, trading off our stale
prayers about sins we ought to have
quit long ago, going on toward
a higher state of Christian char
acter, and routing our sins that
we have never thought of yet.
The fact is, if the church Of God
if we, as individuals, made rapid ad-
vancement in the Christian life, these
stereotyed prayers we have been MAX
ing for ten or fifteen years would be
inappropriate to US as the shoes, and
the hats, and the coats we wore ten Or
fifteen years ago. Oh, for a higher
flight in the Christian life, the storl1
and the crane in their migration teach
ing us the lesson!
Dear Lord, md shall we ever live,
At this poor dying rate
Our love SO faint SO 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. It you
should go out now and shout: "Stop
storks and cranes, don't be in a
hurry!" they would say: "No, we can
not stop; last night we heard the roar
ing in the woods bidding us away, and
the shrill. futa of the north wind has
sounded the retreat. we must 20.
We must CO." So they gather them
selves into companies, and turning
not aside for storm or mountain
top, or shock of musketry, over land
and sea, straight as an arrow to the
mark they 20. And if you come out
this morning with 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