p. 189 | Rise Higher

Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Nov 28, 1871

Rise Higher

Rise HIGHER.—When the birds are flying over, and the fowler lies in wait for them, if they fly low, at every discharge of the fowler's gun some fall, some are wounded, and some, swerving sideways, plunge into the thicket and hide themselves. But you will find that immediately after the first discharge of the gun, the flock rise and fly higher. And at the next discharge they rise again and fly still higher. And not many times has the plunging shot thinned out their number, before they take so high a level that it is in vain that the fowler aims at them, because they are above the reach of his shot.

When trouble comes upon you, fly higher. And if they will strike you, fly still higher. And, by-and-by, you will rise so high in the spiritual life that your affections will be set on things so entirely above that these troubles shall not be able to touch you. So long as the shot strikes you, so long hear the word of God saying to you, “Rise higher.”