Milford chronicle., 1906-09-28

Dersistent effort and struggle tnat az
last. tired and exhausted and hun
rry we came to the top. Then we
reached the ravines where the thunder
storms were graded and the mighty
tempests were sent forth on their mis-
sion of giving drink to the famshed
crops and orchards Of the valleys be-
low. Yes. truly am right when l as
sert that the secret places of the thuh-
der are always built upon the hish
peaks of the mountains of difficulties.
Low Vauey Christians.
Nv friends. the great trouble is with
most of US we want to be Christians,
but we want ts be low valley Chris
uans We want 10 be Christians not
of the crags and cliffs. but of the or
chards and the harvest fields and of
the flower gardens, We want to be
the !azy Christians. lying upon beds Of
ease where the bees Will bring to us
their honey and the sun will smile upon
us A continual bcnediction, and the
tossing. tumbing fountains will Slake
our thirst. and where the birds will
never cease to sing for us their sweet
est lunabies All. no. that is not where
we will hear Gods voice speaking to
us in the secret place of the thunder
1t is not in the lowlands, but upon the
mountain tops 1t is not where we lie
down upon he'd Of roses and close our
ewes i'm mdolent souuolence, but only
uDon the mountain heights of difficulty.
to scale which we will have to do as
PAM did when he described himself, in
the twelfth chapter Of Hebrews as
running a gospel race; Wherefore
seeing we are compassed about with
so great a cloud of witnesses, let us
Law aside every weight and the sin
| which doth heset us, and let MS run
with patience the race that is set be
fore us" When YOU read those words,
dare you for one moment assume That
Paul had an easy time when w gave
himself MP for consecrated service to
Jesus Christi
toward the mark for the tJfH the
that we are able to reac Eh rize-
1t is only'when we are will O tb'limb
the highest mountains of dill I'm that
we are able to hear God 81 ing %
us in tones of love as he q BIKE to
Moses in the secret places Of thunder.
There is a beautiful story told that il
olden times a hcathen king lay dying.
lie was mortally wounded on the field
of battle. No sooner did he receive
the fatal thrust than he sent for his
most trusted servant and said, Tell
| the dead that l come" At once the
| servant drew the kings sword and
! drove it into his own heart. And as
( his spirit was about to speed away the
| servant said. Master, l Will go ana
tell the dead that thou wilt soon be in
their midst" "Oh" you say, that
WAS beautiful devotion. That servant
was willing to give up all for his king
| So must we sacrifice if we are to hear
our divine king speak to us in the Sc
crct place of thunder. We must be
willing to give up all for him. We
must he ready to climb every noun
| tain of difficulty for his honor and
glory. $50 likewise whosoeyer he be
of Won that forsaketh not all that he
/ hath he cannot be my disciple
Forsaking All For God.
The psalmist in all probability cared
but little for the scientific causes Of the
thunderstorm. In his time the national
and international systems of weather
! bureaus had not been established
There were not then, as now, weather
/ outuosts or observatOries stationed all
( around the world connected with tele
prapb wires. In our day no sooner
does a storm start south from Alaska
than the great ganglion or nerve center
at Washington is made coSniZant OF
I the fact. and the danger signals are
lifted along the coast to warn Ameri-
can shipping. In all probability David
/ kuew nothing about the different strata
lf air overhead. He did not know that
inst as the scientist today drops faith
om line into jle ocean and finds diff
ferent currents of water in a straight
line flowing above or underneath each
other in different directions, so the
aeronaut in mis- balloolTfnds different
currents Of air i,zsle fmosphere over
head blowing -Nleafeut directions
Rut tbis one fay 'tuliS9dIApsalmist knew
about n tbunde AT represented
an atmospheric ton, ~ Before the
storm came the colni lbs would be
blstered Then tn n des IS would ne
parching the grass'k VIII ~ mp the
water holes Then WI, VII ~t"ould 'e
bleating from hung wenE thr-, F''
no sooner did the ecRpDg of the storm
sound forth from the secret p.acE NJ
thunder than at onge the hot blasting
air became cool. Tllen the reservoirs
of the clouds were empted of b"f
waters. Then all nature began to teen
and to smile and tD hum and to SIM
with life. So ia the secret place OF
thunder, when God speaks to US, on
natures will be chalnged. Being sinful
we shall become Uure. Being moral!
crooked. we shall become straight. Be
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