Peninsula enterprise. [volume] (Accomac, Va.) 1881-1965, 1894-10-27

| IGG Us Tb1l6llUCT ludt VIC art Ou bilO way
to the summary 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 Savours 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 sec.
The church Of God never will be q
triumphant church until it becomes q
singing church.
Away Beyond Danger.
20 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 tho 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 go
straight as o mark The longest rifle
that was ever brought to shoulder can
not reach them. Would to God that wo
were as wise as the stork and crane in
our flight heavenwardI We fly so low
that we are within easy range Of tho
world, the flesh and the devil. We arc
brought down by temptations that ought
not to come within milo 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 arc any
such heights? A man was once talking
to Brunei, the famous engineer, about
the length of the railroad from London
to Bristol. Tho engineer said: sit is
not very great. We shall have after
awhile 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 at
anything as impossible for human
achievement. Then, ask, is anything
impossible for the Lord? l do not be-
ieve that God exhausted all his grace
in Paul and Latimer and Edward Pay
son. I believe there are higher points Of
Christian attainment to be reached in
tho 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 tell you that the stork
and orane 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 thom
selves 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
victory. Do, my brethren, let as have
some novelty of combat, at any rate, by
changing, by going on, by making i'd
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 churc.. 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 BIO as inappropriate to rs
as the shoes, and the hats, and the coats
we wore 10 or Is years ago. Oh, for
higher flight in the Christian life, the
stork and the crane in their migration
teaching 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 greatf
Before 1t Is Too Late.
Again, remark that the birds OF the
mir are wiser than we because they know
when to start If you should go out Lvw
and shout, "Stop, storks and cranes,
don't DO in hurryl" they would say:
mo, we cannot stop. Last night we
heard the roaring in the woods bidding
us away, and the shrill futo Of the
north wind has sounded the retreat. We
must 90. We must CO." So they gather
themselves into companies, and turning
not aside for storm, or mounain top, or
shock of musketry, over land and sea,
straight as an arrow to the mark, they
90. 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
Sod and heavenl We say: "Wait un-
til it is little later i'll the season OF
mercy. Wait until some of these green
leaves of hS,,e 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
sickness, when the mind was gone, or
they wero OH the express train going at
40 miles an hour, and they came to the
bridge, and the draw was up" and
they went down. How long to repent
and pray2 Two seconds To do the work
of lifetime and to prepare for the vast
eternity in two seconds I was reading
of an entertainment given in kings
court, and there were musicians there,
with elaborate pieces Of music After
awhile Mozart came and began to play,
and he had a blank piece Of paper before
him, and the king Familiarity looked
over his shoulder and said: "What are
you playing? 1 SEQ no music before
you. And Mozart put his hand on his
brow, as much as to say, y am impro-