The Olneyville times. (Olneyville [Providence, R.I.]) 1887-1917, 1908-12-04
transit out OF Egypt into Canaan
there Is fnllness of inY And what

woofs of God? OF His sunlike shin
ing face? OF the voice ethereal
trumpeting; This Is My beloved
Som" OF the rapture well nigh past
endurable?
But yonder is an afflicted boy. down
in the mountains shaGow-pity that
poor lad Any moment convulsion
takes him. hurls him into fire or
water. His body now is rigid. now is
limp. His teeth chatter and-Why
does he not speak? Disease has slain
his power of speech. No sound hears
he. A demon tyrannizes over his
spirit. From childhood's days. year
on year his malady has been 10 him
living death. Take back your noun
tain top words. Simon Peter, 1T is
good for us 10 be here-And let us
make three tabernacles." Could ys
sit and sing yourselves away to ever
lasting bliss mp there and let this
tortured youth go on dying and yet
not dying? Christ and His three
disciples descend the mountain and
behold the lad unshackled from his
agony Granted are the mountain
top experiences that all may render
the lowlands better service. Freely
ye have received; freely give"
Have YOU kindness shown
Pass II on. Pass it on,
Twas not given for YOU alone,
Pass It on. Pass it on,
Let 1t travel down the years.
Let II wipe another's tears.
Till IN heaven the deed appears.
Pass 1t on, Pass 1t on.
Have YOU found the heavenly light!
Pass 1t on, Pass it ON!
Souls are cropping IN the night.
Daylight gone, Daylight gone!
old your lighted lamps on high.
lie star III someone's sky,
lie may live who else would die
Pass It on! Pass il on,
But down there waits n father. dis
tressed. His very soul groans itself
out for this. his only son. He has
tried everything and everybody. He
despairs. Stay forever up I'm those
radiant heights and permit this
broken-hearted father to perish i'm his
heroic struggle? Not you who are
touched with celestial fire! Christ
and the three 20 down-soon that
fathers happiness mounts on eagles
wings. Dear church people. by what
right call we ourselves Christians. IL
we desire Jesus Christ and the sane
tuary and spiritual seasons all To
ourselves with never thought OF
sharing with the yet unblessed?
do not know where that wretched boy
OF the lowlands is but | know he Is
somewhere and that he needs you.
| know not the whereabouts OF that
suffering father yearning for your as
sistance. know he Is somewhere.
But down there are "A multitude Of
people tossed by doubts, willing to
believe on due evidence. ready to re-
ceive the real living illustration OF
the Christ spirit incarnate again; still
weak and worried till one come with
the breath of mountain top to hearteu
and lead upward d~~Oh, the thousands
here at hand 30 waiting! Yes--and
rise your chivalry now! Down there
are nine disciples doing their utmost
TO keep the boy and his father and
the people; and these nine are
scorned. jecred. taunted by hateful
bystanders who more than hint that
the disciples and the Master, too, are
fakirs and deceive the unwary. Show
me the coward shirker who would
everastingly hang around up here
on the mountain top while those
brave valley heroes battle against
such odds. Remain exactly Ions
enough on your mountain top to III
In your mind the ideal from God and
I'm your heart the resolve to go dowr
and made the ideal glorious fact. Al
Moses saw the tabernacle on Sinai't
summit. tabernacle built OF mist tim,
bers away I'm the dreamy haze, to be
reproduced thereafter by solid tim
bers on the fiat ground for the peo
pies salvation. The sin country car
be bettered only by life little
elevated above itself I'm purpose and
purity. BE with God some and thcr
go.
Sufficient the number OF men who
look out upon humanity with entire
Indifference; sufficient the few who
see mankind but to despise them:
sufficient the abominable many whose
ruling interest I'm their fellows is "a
use them for private advantage-Bs
thou, o, larger souled believer, one
TO hold thyself and all thou hast In
faithful trusteeship for the rest OF
our brother humankind to slave for
them. IL you choose to call IL Shaving
Our chiefest pleasure should be tc
serve with loftiest gifts the lowliesi
needs Of the wfetchedest mortals foi
whom the God-Ma came to earth
went TO Gethsemane and Golgotha
Ample recompense Is found in the
mere doing thereof, ample I'm oui
Lords approval, ample in the Ions
hereafter. Let this mind be in you
which was also In Christ Jesus; who
being In the form OF God. thought II
not prize to be snatched to be equai
with God: but made Himself OF nc
reputation and tool upon Him the
fo-m OF a servant. Where
fore, God also hath highly exalted
Him and given Him name which is
above every name. Wanted-PeO
pie taught on the mountains OF God
to toll In the lowlands OF sin.
TaGn Tim.