The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1882-12-09

I'VE are a garden walled around.
Chosen and made peculiar ground:
little spot enclosed by grace,
out Of the worlds wild wilderness"
Again, the angels of God are ready. A
gralt any Christians think the talk
a@out angels is fanciful. You say it is
a very good subject for theological stu
nts, whe have just begun to sermOnize
but for older men 1t islmprOpeT. There
Is no more proof in that Bible hat there
Is a God than that there are angels.
Why, do they not swarm about Jacobs
lHideT? Are we not told they conducted
Lazarus upward; that they stand before
the throne, their faces covered with
their wings, while they cry: "HOly, holy
il the Lord God AlmightyP Did not
David SEQ thousands ami IhOusandsI
Did nor one angel slay $4,000 men Ill
S'nnachelib's army? And shall they
not be the chief haryesters in the judg-
nantp Our planet is in commerce
with two worlds, heaven and hell, and
all the lntercOmmunicatiOn L. by au.
9 Is, Lost spirits are running long
l ain of darkness down to the depot OF
e.trual night, and when bad man is
about to die, they come upon sulphur
CTs wings, and they shackle him and
push him off the precipice, and with a
Guffaw of hellish jubIlaliOn they cele
brate his demOlltiOn. There is line of
loving, holy, mighty angels reaching to
tie bright world. | suppose they reach
from here 10 the very gate, and when an
audience is assembled for christian wOT-
ship, the air is full Of them. They crowd
the place; they hover; they rejoice; they
batter down the evil in your heart.
/ DOkl that spirit has just come fIOm
tie throne. A moment ago it stood be-
fore Christ aud heard the dOXOlOgy of
tie glOrifiedl Speak, spirit hlest! The
TC7pUn comes meltin on the morning
air: Come, for all things are now
Icadyr' Angels ready to bear the It'd
Mgs; angels ready to drop the benedic-
ton; angels really to klndle the joy.
L 'ady, all of theml Ready thrones,
municipalities and pOweTsl Ready, SER
aphim and cheTubiml Ready, Michael
the arch angel
Again, your kindred in glory are ready
fer your coming. l pronounce modern
SpirltualiSm to be fraud and sham.
Ii John Milton and George Whitfield
have no better business than to crawl
under table and rattle the leaves they
htd better stay at home in glory. While
i believe modern SpiritualIsm is The
child of hell because of its mental and
domestic raVageS; common sense, en-
ightened by the word of God, teaches
Us our friends i'll glory sympathize with
our redemption. This Bible says plain
l. there is joy in heaven among the an
gels of God, over one sinner that repent
eth, and If angels rejoice and know of
IL, shall not our friends standing among
item know it? Some of these spirits in
glory toll for your redemption. When
they came to die their chief grief was
that you were not Christian. They
said, Meet me in heaven" 5ut over
their pillow hung the awful possibility
that, p Thaps you might not meet them.
There was suspicion in their soul that
ii was an eternal farewell when they
put out their hand from the cover and
said "GOOd-byP' Now, suppose you cross
over from a sinful life To holy life.
Suppose you should today be born into
the Kingdom. Suppose you now say
Farewell, y. deceltful wOrldl Get thee
gone my sin! o, Christ help me or
pcrl5hl 1 take thy promise. l believe
thy word. l enter thy service" Sup.
pose you would say anu do thisp Why.
the angel sent to you would shout up
ward: He Is cOmlngW Aud the angel
posing higher in the air, would shout
upward: "he is cOmingP And it would
run all up the line from wing to wing
and from trumpet to trumpet, until il
reached the gate, and then it would
fash to the house of many mansions,
and it would find out your kindred
there. and before the tears of repentance
had been wiped from the cheek; and be-
fore you had finished your first prayer
your kindred in glory would know of it,
and another heaven would be added to
prayers are answered. Another loved
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