The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1894-10-26
flying through this autumna1 air learn
always to keep singing.


In the way your fathers trod:
They are happy now. and We
| Soon their happiness chan see.
triumphant church until it becomes a
singing church
| go further. and remark that tbs
| 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 mid
/ heaven and go straight as a mark.
/ The longest rife that was ever brought
I to shoulder cannot reach them. Would
/ to God that we were as wise as
the stork and crane in our
flight heavenward, We fv 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 a mile
of reaching Us. oh for some of the
faith of George Muller. of England.
and Alfred Goldman. once of the
church militant now of the church tri-
umphant! So poor is the type of piety
in the church of God now that men
actually caricature the idea that there
Is 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?
\ man was once talking to Brunei.
the famous engineer. about the length
of the railroad from London to Bristol
The engineer said: 1T is not very
great. We shall have, after awhile.
a steamer running from London to
New York" They laughed him to
scorn; but we have gone so far now
that we have ceased to laugh at any,
thing as impossible for human achieve
ment Then. | ask. is anything i'm
possible for the Lord? l do not be-
ieve that God exhausted all his grace
in Paul. and Latimer and Edward Pay
SON | believe there are higher 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 conquer our
temptations by the grace OF God
and lie down On the morrow
those temptations rally them
Al,
grace of God we defeat them again:
but. staying all the time in the old en-
campment. we have the same old bat
ties 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, nv brethren. let Us have some nov
city of combat. at any rate. by chang
ing. by going on. by making advance
ment. 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 our
sins that we haze never thought OF
vet. The fact is. if the church of God
If we. as individuals. made rapid adj
vancement in the Christian life. these
stereotyped prayers we have been max
ing for ten or fifteen years would be
inappropriate to Us as the shoes. the
hats and the coats we wore ten or fif-
teen years ago. Oh for higher flight
in the Christian life. the storl1 and the
crane in their migration teaching Us
the lesson,
Dear Lord. and shall we ever live.
At this poor DYING rate
Our love 30 faint. so cold % Thee
And Thine 70 u 80 great
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 hurry" 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 90. We must
GO" 80 they gather themselves into
companies, and. turning not aside for
storm or mountain top. or shock OF
musketry. over land and sea. straight
as az arrow to the mark they GO 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 50 far up
they would hardly see it. They are on
their way to the south. You could not
stop them. Oh. that we were as wise
a bout the best time TO start for God
aud Heaven, We say; Wait until it
Is little later in the season of mercy.
Wait until some of these green leaves
Of hope are all dried mp and have been
scattered. Wait until next year"
After awhile we start.ani il Is too late,
and we perish in the way when Gods
wrath is kirdled but a little. There
are. you kaow.exceptional cases where
birds have started too Iate. and in the
you have found them dead in |
the snow. And there are those VINO |
have persisted half way between the |
world and Christ. They waited until |
the las. sickness. when the mind was |
gone. or they were on the express train |
going a. forty miles an hour. and they |
zane 90 the bridge and the draw was |
I'D and they went down. How long to |
repent and pray? Two seconds. To |
10 the work Of life time and To pre-
pare for the vast eternity in two see
1ads.
l was reading OF al entertainment |
given in a kings court. and there were /,
musicians there with elaborate pieces |
# music After awhile Mozart came |
aud began to play and he had a blank
piece Of paper before him. and the king |
familiarity looked over his shoulder and |
szid: What are you playing? L see
10 music before you" And Mozart
put his hand on his brow. as much Is \
a IL a. inn-nr;Sir Il Us