The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1904-06-18

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sweet prattle Of
your baby grow wearisome were II &c
continue five, ten years from now
when the baby form should have de-
veloped into the robust child II IL
should have learned a new and higher
expression than mere baby gurgles ana
cooings? Do you grow weary or the
s{ereotyped testimony n prayer IN
prayer meeting of that brother or SIS
ter who. ten, 20, so years ago had a
Christian experience, and has never
outgrown the s%waddling clothes OF Its
first babe-in-Christ expressions? And
think you that God cares not when
children fail to grow and develop n
learn new songs out of life'S expert
ences to pour into His ear? That
which was once sweet music to His
ear has long since lost its melody. be-
cause ii is no longer expressive of life
and growth. We all need to learn new
songs 20 sing unto the Lord. The
Psalmist is not giving expression to a
poetical and sentim tai n~othingneSs,
but is speaking words which contain
a vital and important truth. The ad-
monitiou 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, the sweet,
helpful. wholesome strains Of experience
and Woye them into the sacred songs
we love to read. Every experience issued
IN a new song to his Lord, whether it
was tending his flock out on the lonely
hillside. or serving the king within pal
ace walls; whether winning mighty vic
tories over 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 enemies,
or falling into grievCus and awful sin
during an unguarded moment. And he
who was constantly singing new songs
to the Lord says to CT and to me:
'Oh, sing unto the Lord a new song"
THE new song is essential to every
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 because no eX-
~Derience in life is ever allowed to
reach it's rich spiritual truth and make
the soul cling in closer faith and fell
IoWship to its Lord. The look is ever
downward and inward. If the world
gives to the pleasure and qualification
of the flesh and the natural man, there
is satisfaction, and agreeable cOmpla-
cency, but no new song that reaches up
to God. If life brings it's ~hardships and
trials, it's privatiOns and s~ufferings, its
disappointments and misfortunes, there
is grim, cherries endurance, but no
new song that reads in the experience
some new thought Of God, some virtue,
some grace. The most untoward cir
c~umstances, 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 be
passed? How much W. would have
lost of Paul's writings if he had not
realized that "all things work together
for good to them that love God" 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 admonishe6
TO sing a new song to the Lord out Of
every experience which comes in life
The sanity Thomas Halyburton, al
Englishman, found a new song for hi:
Lord when death robbed him of hi!
much-beloved son. OF that great be
reayement he writes: This day ha!
been a day to be remembered. o N.
soul, never forget what this day
reached! My soul had smiles that al
most wasted nature. Oh, what a swee
day! About half an hour after tn
Sabbath, my child, after a sharp con
Gict. slept pleasantly in Jesus, to whom
pleasantly he was so often given. ; .
Jesus came to me in the third watcl
of the night, walking upon the waters
He stilled the tempest in m
soul. and 10! there was a great calm.
It was the new song which Thomas Ha
iyburton was singing to his Lord.
DUT the admonition to sing a ne'
ID song to the Lord must find in u
the response of the Psalmist: L wi
sing a new song unto Thee, o God"
does not come natural to us to sing tn
new song unto God, n more than
comes natural for us to be good.
comes only by determined effort upo
our part. Recognition of the right
the Lord to ask and expect a new sor
from us should be followed by the puI
pose to do. All, how many, many
us realize the truth without making
a part of us through determined effor
The Psalmist declares of God. that +
hath put a new song in nay nout