The Kinsley graphic. [volume] (Kinsley, Kan.) 1890-1940, 1904-06-17

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your baby grow wearisome were it to
continue five, ten years from now
when the baby form should have de-
veloped into the robust child and ii
should have learned new and higher
expression than mere baby gurgles and
cooings? Do you grow. weary of the
stereotyped testimony and prayer III
prayer meeting of that brother OF sis
ter who, ten, 20, 80 years ago had a
Christian experience, and has never
outgrown the swaddling clothes of its
first babe-in-Christ expressions? And
think you that God cares not when
children fail to grow and develop and
learn new songs out of LIES expert
ences to pour into His ear? That
which was once sweet music to His
ear has long since lost its melody, be-
cause 1t is no longer expressive of life
and growth. We all need to learn new
songs to sing unto the Lord. The
Psalmist is not giving expression to a
poetica; and sentimental nothingness,
but is speaking words which contain
a vital and important truth. The adj
monition is important, it is needful,
and it is as pertinent to this day as it
was to the day when the devout singer.
drew from the busy hum of active,
rushing, throbbing life. che sweet,
helpful, wholesome strains OF experience
and wove them into the, sacred songs.
we love to read. Every experienced issued
in a new: song to his Lord, whether it
was tending his flock out ION the lonely
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ace walls; whether winning nsighty vicl
tories oyer the giant enemies. of the
Lord, or fleeing for his life: from the re-
jected Saul; whether ruling. in.right-
eousness over the, nation after. the Lord
had triumphed over all his senemies,
or falling into grievous and awful sin
during an unguarded moment stAhd he
who was constantly singing new songs
to the Lord says to you and to. me-
"Oh, sing unto the Lord a new song,
THE new song is essential to every
Il Christian life. 1t is indicative of
growth Godward. 1t is the. response
of the soul to the touch of God. There
are no new songs in the. hearts and
mouths of some people becausecno ex-
perience in life is ever allowed to
teach it's rich spiritual truth and make:
the soul cling in closer faith and fef-.
lowship to its. Lord. The: look is ever
dow -Yard, and inward If the world
gives to the pleasure and gratifcatiorf
of the flesh and the natural man. there
Is satisfaction, and agreeable compta-
cency, but no new song that reaches lp
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trials, it's privations and sufferings, its
disappointmentS and misfortunes, there
Is grim, cherries endurance. shut no
new song that reads in the experience
some new thought of God, some virtue.
some grace. The most untoward cir
cumstances, the deepest bereavement
may give birth to the sweetest song,
How much of the beautiful expressions.
IN David's Psalms, suppose you, we
owe TO the affection, and peril and :pri-
walton and failures through which he
passed? How much We would BIZ re
lost of PauFs writings if he had not
realized that ''all things work together
for good to them that love Cod and
was not constantly looking for inspira-
ton for the new song TO sing. The
world sings when the sky is blue
and the sun is bright and everything
is smooth as the placid lake in summer
time. but the Christian is admonished
to sing a new song to the Lord out of
every experience which comes in life.
The sanity Thomas Halyburton. an
Englishman, found a new song for his
Lord when death robbed him of his
r,Yr ol, holn hot h1
reavement he writes: This day has
been a day to be remembered. o my
soul, never forget what this day |
reached! My soul had smiles that al
most wasted nature Oh, what sweet
day! About half an hour after the
Sabbath, my child. after sharp con-
fict, slept pleasantly in Jesus. to whom
pleasantly he was so often given
Jesus came to me in the third watch
Of the night. walking upon the waters.
He stilled the tempest in m
soul. and 10, there was great calm"
1t was the new song which Thomas Ha-
lyburton was singing to his Lord
DUT the admonition to sing a new
ID song to the Lord must find in us
the response of the Psalmist: II will
sing new song unto Thee, o God" IL
does not come natural to us to sing the
new song unto God, any more, than l.
comes natural for us to be good l.
comes only by determined effort upon
our part Recognition of the right of
the Lord to ask and expect q new song
from us should be followed by. the pur-
pose to do. All. how. many many Of
ns realize the truth without making. ~
= part of us through determined effort ?!