The Bolivar bulletin. (Bolivar, Tenn.) 1888-1946, 1904-06-17


| S..:sSAa4AzsS.SsSSSs@W ago? Would the
sweet prattle o.
your baby grow wearisome were it tc
continue five, ten years from now
when the baby form should have de-
veloped into the robust child and II
should have learned a new and higher
expression than mere baby gurgles and
cooings? Do you grow weary of the
stereotyped testimony and prayer Id
prayer meeting of that brother or sis
ter who, ten, 20, 80 years ago had a
Christian experience, and has never
outgrown the swaddling clothes of it's
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 life's expert
ences to pour into His ear? That
which was once sweet music to His
ear has long since lost it's melody, be-
cause it 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
poetical and sentim: ntal nothingness,
but is speaking words which contain
a vital and important truth. The ad-
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, the sweet,
helpful, wholesome strains of experience
and wove them into the sacred songs
we love to read. Every experience issued
in 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-
5ected Saul; whether ruling in right
eousness over the nation after the Lord
had triumphed over all his enemies,
or falling into grievous and awful sin
during an unguarded moment And he
who was constantly singing new songs
to the Lord says to you and to me:
"Oh, sing unto the Lord a new song"
HHE new song is essential to every
l. 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
perience in life is ever allowed to
teach its rich spiritual truth and make
the soul cling in closer faith and fell
lowship 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, its privatiOns and sufferings. its
and misfortunes. there |
g 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 |
the deepest bereavement
nay give birth to the sweetest song. |
How much of the beautiful expressions
n David's Psalms, suppose you, we |
1--WE to the affection, and peril and pri-
vation and failures through which he
passed? How much we would have
ost of Paurs writings if he had not
ealized that "all things work together
or good to them that love God" and
vas not constantly looking for inspira-
ion for the new song to sing The
world sings when the sky is blue
nd the sun is bright and everything
5 smooth as the placid lake in summer
ime, but the Christian is admonished
o sing a new song to the Lord out of
very experience which comes in life.
he sanity Thomas Halyburton, an
lnglishman, found a new song for his
ord when death robbed him of his
1uch-beloved son. Of that great be-
pavement he writes: This day has
cen a day to be remembered o my
oul, never forget what this day 1
My soul had smiles that al
most wasted nature. Oh, what a sweet
ay! About half an hour after the
abbath, my child, after a sharp con-
let, slept pleasantly in Jesus, to whom
leasantly he was so often given
Jesus came to me in the third watch {
the night, walking upon the waters.
He stilled the tempest in my
oul, and 10! there was great calm"
was the new song which. Thomas Ha-
burton was singing to his Lord.
)UT the admonition to sing a new
} song to the Lord must find in us .
le response of the Psalmist: 81 will
ng new song unto Thee, o God" 1t
,es not come natural to us to sing the
sw song unto God, any more than il
,mes natural for us to be good. 1.
mes only by determined effort upon [
II part Recognition of the right of 9
e Lord to ask and expect a new song {
ON us should be followed by the pur- a
Use to do. All, how many. many of r
realize the truth without making 1t l.
part of US through determined effort? I
ne Psalmist declares of God that He c
It'll put new song in my mouth, I