[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":4},["ShallowReactive",2],{"reading-0505":3},"MAY 5\r\nWhen they began to sing and praise, the Lord set ambushments ... and they were smitten (2 Chron. 20.22).\r\nOh, that we could reason less about our troubles, and sing and\r\npraise more! There are thousands of things that we wear as shackles which we might use as instruments with music in them, if we only\r\nknew how.\r\nThose men that ponder, and meditate, and weigh the affairs of life,\r\nand study the mysterious developments of God's providence, and\r\nwonder why they should be burdened and thwarted and hampered-how different and how much more joyful would be their lives, if,\r\ninstead of forever indulging in self-revolving and inward thinking, they would take their experiences, day by day, and lift them up,   and praise God for them.\r\nWe can sing our cares away easier than we can reason them away. Sing in the morning. The birds are the earliest to sine, and birds\r\nare more without care than anything else that I know of.\r\nSing at evening. Singing is the last thing that robins do. When    they have done their daily work; when they have flown their last\r\n\r\nflight and picked up their last morsel of food, then on a topmost twig, they sing one song of praise.\r\nOh, that we might sing morning and evening, and let song touch song all the way through. --Selected.\r\nDon't let the song go out of your life  Though it chance sometimes to flow In a minor strain; it will blend again   With the major tone you know.\r\nWhat though shadows rise to obscure life's skies, And hide for a time the sun,\r\nThe sooner they'll lift and reveal the rift, If you let the melody run.\r\nDon't let the song go out of your life;\r\nThough the voice may have lost its trill,\r\nThough the tremulous note may die in your throat, Let it sing in your spirit still.\r\nDon't let the song go out of your life; Let it ring in the soul while here;\r\nAnd when you go hence, 'twill follow you thence, And live on in another sphere.",1783499792994]