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living death. Take back your noun
tain top words, Simon Peter, ut is
good for US to be here-And let US
make three ~tabernacles." Could ye
sit and sing yourselves away to ever
lasting bliss up 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
We have received; freely give"
Have you a kindness shown?
Pass it on! Pass it on!
Twas not given for you alone,
Pass it on! Pass it on!
Let it travel down the years,
Let it wipe another's tears,
Till in heaven the deed appears,
Pass it on! Pass it on!
Have you found the heavenly light?
Pass it on! Pass it on!
Souls are cropping in the night,
Daylight gone! Daylight gone!
Hold your lighted lamps on high,
Be a star in someone's sky,
He NAV live who else would die,
Pass it on! Pass it on! M
But down there waits a 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 In those
radiant heights and permit n !
broken-hearted father to perish in his
heroic struggle? Not you who are
touched with celestial fire! Christ
and the three go down-soon. that
fathers happiness mounts on eagles
wings. Dear church people, by what
right call we ourselves Christians, II
we desire Jesus Christ and he sane
tuary ard spiritual seasons all to
ourselves with never a thought Of
sharing with the yet unblessed? Il
do not know where that wretched boy
Of the lowlands is; but I know he Is
somewhere and that he needs you.
I know not the whereabouts Of that
suffering father yearning for your as
sistance. I 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 ard worried till n come with
the breath of mountain top to hearten
and lead upward. Oh, the thousands
here at hand so 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, jeered, tainted 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
everlastingly hang around up here
on the mountain top while those
brave valley heroes battle against
such odds. Remain exactly long
enough on your mountain top to fix
in Your mind the ideal from God and
in your heart the resolve to go down
end made the ideal glorious fact. AS
Moses saw the tabernacle on Sinai's
summit, tabernacle built of mist tim.
hers away in the dreamy haze, to be
reproduced thereafter by solid tim
bers on tie fiat ground for the peo-
Plies salvation. The sin country can
be betterei only by q life a little
elevated above itself in purpose and
purity. Be with God some Nand>then
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 in their fellows Is to
use them for private advantage-Be
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, If you choose to call it Shaving.
Our chiefest pleasure should be to
serve with loftiest gifts the lowliest
needs of the wretchedest mortals for
whom the Goldman came to earth,
went to Gethsemane and Golgotha.
Ample recompense Is found in the
mere doing thereof, Nample in our
Lords approval, ample in the long
hereafter. "Let this mind be in you
which was also in Christ Jesus; who,
being In the form Of God, thought It
not a prize to be snatched to be equal
with God; but made Himself Of no
reputation and took upon HIM the
form of a servant. = Where
fore, God also hath highly exalted
Him and given Him a name which is
above every name" Wanted-Peo-
pie taught on the mountains of God
to toll in the lowlands of sin.