The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1913-10-13

The sky is clear, there is no cloud.
Come, Lord Jesus, come quickly
'Bunyan: Take me for come TO
thee
Frances Willard: I'm creeping in
with mother
''Stonewau jackson: Let us pass
over the river and rest under the
shade of the trees
j. p. Morgan Gast will and tesla
ment: I commit my soul into the
hands OF my Savior in full confidence
From all vain helps and false hopes
the PsalmisL was wise enough to turn
away. The fear Of the Lord is the
beginning of wisdom. Lord, make
us wise unto salvation. Turning from
these he turns forth, to the hills that
is, the higher helps.
People who live in the valleys need
the inYigoratng air of the mountains
to cure their nliasms or the protecting
strongholds TO save them from ma
rauding enemies. They lock often and
iongingly to the serene heights. know
ing what help may yet come from
them. Power is there. The grim, 81
lent mountains speak of strength and
duration. Mercy Is there, for many q
cave, and rocky fortress are there to
hide the refugee from his foe. Sal
walton is there God speaks from
mountain peaks. He thunders from
Sinai, and woos as a, lover from Mount
Zion. Jesus Christ was often in the
mount, and he is on high. our high
priest, who ever liveth to make inter
cession for us.
There is an intinla ton that the /
Psalmist was turning back to his first /
love. He had tasted and seen that I
the Lord was good. Many a man has /
done that. and then wandered away. !
Many a one can date his failing /
strength, his soul poverty. his misfor- |
tunes from the moment ne began to |
become engrossed in the things about |
him and forget God, and neglect his |
soul AS one lifts his eyes to the hills {
he takes them off the plain. Many
things surround every life which are
unfavorable to grace. Grace is like /
q rare flower planted in an unfriendIy
soil These influences are apt to choke
and stiae many. BY lifting UP It's head
and opening its chalice TO heaven the
lily can retain its perfect Wilderness
amid the CRIME of the coal mine.
Where sin abounds grace much more
a bounds. Earth has no sorrow nor
sin that heaven cannot cure.
The beauty Of the hills is iucom-
parable. No wonder we get eNhiliara-
ton from their pure heights. Giants
of strength come from the hills. Men /
who have the upward look are giants
in the earth also, as witness our 4
Christian president and ca binet and
most of the strong ones Of earth. The
meek shall inherit the Garth. Mammon
whose looks are downward bent leads
the armies of the pit, and leads them
to destruction.
Not that the weak and the poor
who cannot climb need not despair.
They only need to lift their eyes. and
help comes. Look and live Sinner lift
to Him thine eye
Pilgrim shouted as he toiIed up
ward: 'DeliveranCe will come, and it
did. Help is in the hills. The noun i
tains show his footsteps. II
THE natives Of India used to say '
that when Sir Henry Laurence looked L
vice to heaven and then to earth he =
Cl:cit faith in an Omnipotent king who
never slumbers nor sleeps. A poor
came TO the sultan one day and {
asked compensate for the loss Of
some property. How did you lose itT {
said the monarch I fell asleep and a t
-obber entered my dwelling Why s
lid you fall asleep I fell asleep be-
"a use I believed you were awake, she
answered The sultan was SO much I
that he ordered her goods re- I
stored. 1t is perhaps only partially t
rue that lumber governments never {
sleep, but It is absolutely true of the {
livine government. He who keeps Is 4
-ael will not slumber nor sleep. The {
highest point one can reach in life is {
where he knows his own need. and I
weaknesses, and realizes Gods fullness
Ind power. Where he falls prone upon :
lis knees for help and then gets lIp
md signs for joy because he has found
t: T viii lift up mine eyes to the
Hills whence cOry,erh all nv heinz