KEEP UP, CHRISTIANS by Charles Haddon Spurgeon

International Tract and Missionary Society · Oakland, California · Apr 8, 1889

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 15, No. 14.

KEEP UP, CHRISTIANS.

By Charles Haddon Spurgeon

As I was riding along in the south of France one day, I saw a pair of fine birds overhead. The driver called out in the French tongue, “Eagles!” Yes; and there was a man below with a gun, who was wishful to get a nearer acquaintance with the eagles; but they did not come down to oblige him. He pointed his rifle at them, but his shots did not reach half way, for the royal birds kept above. The higher air is the fit dominion for eagles! Up there is the eagle’s playground, where he plays with the callow lightnings. Keep there, eagles! Keep there! If men can get you within range, they mean no good to you. Keep up, Christians! Keep up in the higher regions, resting in Jesus Christ, and do not come down to find a perch for yourself among the trees of philosophy.—Rev. C. H. Spurgeon.