Milford chronicle., 1906-09-28

There everybody tries to help others.
We had our goods carried up into
the hills by a teamster. Where did
he leave them? BY the public road
side. There they lay hour after hour
unlocked. Scores and hundreds Of peO-
pie passed them and no one touched
them. They have four legged thieves
in the mountains. The wild cattle will
come and steal your grain but there
are no two legged thieves in the noun
taius called men. There every one is
honest. "If you want anything from
town Just give the money TO the hrst
man YOU find going there said gen
tlcman to me- Tell him what you
want and he will get it for You an
bring you back the right change
tested this honesty Of the iIOun,aineer
again and again and never found it TO
fail. Then the kndnesSes of the peo-
pie, Oh how kind they are. II you
have a sick horse, as / had they will .
hitch up their horse and bring you /
your goods. If you are hungry you /
can find food at their tables. If they (.
have only one loaf of bread they are I
always willing to give you half. Kind |
ness. kindness. kindness, brOtherly ana
sisterly kindnesses are to be found eV-
erywhere i'm the mountains. oh, why
do we not learn 10 help each other in
the valleys and lowlands, as the noun
taineer is always willing to help his
neighbor anon. the hills: Yes, in the
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learns to love the Lord his God with
all his heart and soul and mind, but he
also learns to love and to help his
neighbor as he would his own child.
But there is still another fact about
these mountains that l would have
Won bear well in mind. Gods secret
place of thunder is not circumscribed.
There are many secret places of thun-
der. Just as mountains seem TO over
TOP mountains, so for man there should
always be higher secret places of thun-
der. TO which he should always be
striving to go. This fact also is most
| beautifully illustrated among the hills.
! While | was on my way tramplng
looked up and saw where a storm was
raging in Little Bear valley. on !
said to myself, 'if l could only climb
I'D there and sit by the cradle of that
| stormw Time passed on, and was
able to climb up to where the storm
was horn. I'VE had an awful electric
storm here a few days ago said a
lady to me after l had climbed into
/ Pioneer camp. Did you see it in the
valley below" Yes" l answered;
1--WE saw it," Then I was in a secret
plce of thunder Then I went to OBJ
servation point at Skyland, and looked
/ off upon the valley. How far below
me that valley appeared. Far, far be-
/ low / could see the trees laid out III
/ rows | could see the ranch houses
| dotting the horizon here and there. /
could see the cities and villages
/ through which we had passed. Then.
| from watching the earth under my
/ feet. l began to look up. l saw the
greater mountain peaks rising just as
! high above me as the valley was be
| low. There We're mighty Grayback
/ and San .Iacinto peak and old Cuca-
| monga. There they lifted their snow
] capped heights thousands upon thou
sands of feet higher than was Then
| said as l saw the valleys below and
/ the mountain heights above, There
| are secret places of thunder where
! God talks to us near to the valleys.
| But the Christian who stays in one
secret place of thunder must surely die
| in a spiritual sense. Higher than his
present spiritual life he must see vi
sions. God keeps saying to him al
ways this one sentence: Child, climb,
keep climbing higher and higher into
the spiritual realms. Way off among
| the cloudlands of the mountains l
/ have for thee other secret places OF
thunder where thou canst commune
with me. Thou must climb and keep
on climbing until at last thou shalt
| dwell with me in the eternal secret
places of heaven" As one of Gods
chosen ones are You continuing to
climb higher and higher into his spir-
| itual realms?
The beautiful Valleys.
And oh. how beautiful the valleys
| look after we have dwelt for little
while among the hills. \ man as 0
rule cannot appreciate the lowlands
! and the valleys when he is climbing up
the mountain sides. Then his breath
comes quick and short, Then he, like
Bunyan's hero, Christian, is Juggling at
I his load. lie stops every little while
to put his mouth to the waters to
quench his thirst, for his lips are fever