Show I The Time Timeo Theof o of Singing S VERY season season of ot the year has Its Its Its' EVERY B lessons There Js Is no time Ure that does not teach us The fhe universe universe universe uni uni- verse Is as liS s full of ot wisdom aMit asit as aM asIt It Is of ot God Goll A thousand objects speak to us us a n thousand voices call a thousand und and Influences breathe out the varied and ceaseless r revelation of na nature ure Ever Every reanimation of a dead world Is a resurrection wrought by divine power Spring breaks forth upon the branches that a little time before were sparkling with frost and all nil nature laughs Into life timid grasses peep out climbing vines stretch forth their tendrils shadows of foliage thicken and weave rarer figures on pa pavement ment and roa roadway wa birds fly back streams freshen freshen and sing skies soften the landscape Is Is' Is alive the unbound earth rejoices ces The first lesson of spring Is Joyful Joyful- joy ul- ul ness The time of the singing ha has hag come Where singing Is there Is Joy gladness freedom Nature now smiles and laughs out In very glee ChrIstianity Christianity Chris ChrIs- Is not an unnatural system a 11 gloomy system s stem Devils may say so but a thousand eyes ees that sparkle with hope a thousand hearts that beat bent happily happily hap hap- declare It false To ro the Christian earth eai and ocean and stars birds and blossoms all ali teach God the Gospel the goodness of the Creator Man l with rejoicing uni should rejoice a I verse The Time rune or of tile the Singing is isa isa a time of praise adoration gratitude I S So the earth teaches us and so the Great Teacher sent from front God Goll I Another lesson lesson resurrection Earth is full of or It The fhe unfolding of spring filled poet and philosopher with vague ague revelations as us they watched the analogies analogies analo analo- gies of nature If- If God can so care for forthe forthe the tile plants and Insects why not nt man The Insect on the grass blade be becomes the living air all blossom i the coarse tuber blooms forth In the beautiful flower i the lifeless egg eg becomes the the eagle soaring above its broken prison n nanel and anel riveting Its eye ee on the sun Is not mans man's destiny destiny- as noble beautiful sublime Shall not mans man's fleshly body go again to the dust and his spirit assume assume as as- sume a 8 more glorious body Is not night the death eath of the day duy and mornIng mornIng morning morn- morn Ing Its resurrection Winter the cl death ath of the year ear and spring its resurrection resurrection resurrection tion As In Adam A dam all nil die so In Chr Christ st shall shull all be made mae alive An Another ther lesson the season teaches Is work work preparation preparation for the future When the time of the singing comes I all nature Is busy sprouting blossomIng blossoming blossoming blossom blossom- ing growing getting ready for some tu future ure time Hmo T The e farmer furmer Is busy preparing preparing pre pro paring the time soil and amid sowing the seed with an eye ee to the future So the seed time of life comes which comes but once an and once lost cannot be re re- re- re I gained The Time day the hour the moment moment mo mo- ment Is IB now 0 O that men would let I the earth teach them I 1 A wider vision comes conies a sweet holier holler hope as we l look ok I Inot not at the things that are seen but at the things that are unseen Rev I Dr Frederick D. D |