Charlotte messenger. [volume] (Charlotte, Mecklenburg Co., N.C.) 1882-18??, 1886-07-17

merrsion., Then say: Let me plunge you.'
Anyhow / say: Away with the gate Of
rough panel and rotten posts and rusted latch
when there are twelve gates and they are
"a great many of the churches in this day
are being doctrined to death. They have
been trying to find out all about Gods de-
crees, and they want to know who are elected
to be saved and who are reprobated to be
damned, and they are keeping on discussing
that subject when there are millions OF souls
who need to have the truth put straight at
them. They sit counting the number of
teeth in the iawbone with which Samson
slew the Philistines They sit on the beach
and see vessel going to pieces in the
offing, and instead of getting into boat
and pulling for the wreck they sit discussing
the different styles of oarlocks God IN,
tended us to know some things and intended
US not to know others. / have heard scores
of sermons explanatory Of Gods DEGREES, but
came away more perplexed then went. Inc
only result of such discussion is great log.
Here are two truths which are to conquer
the world: man, a sinner; Christ, savior.
ANY man who adopts these two theories IN
his religious belief shall have my right hand
in warm grip OF Christian brotherhood. A
man comes down to river in time Of
ereshet. He wants to get across. He has to
swim. What does he do! The first thing is
to put off his heavy apparel and drop every
thing he has in hands, He must go
empty if he is going to the
other bank. And I tell you, when
we have come down to the river Of
death and find it swift and raging we will
have to put off all our sectarianism and lay
down our cumbersome creed. and empty
handed put out for the other shore. What
say you, would you resolve all the Christian
Church into one kind of church? Would you
make all Christendom worship in the same
way, by the same forms? Oh, no! You
might as well decide that all people shall eat
the same kind OF food without reference to
appetite or wear the same kind of apparel
without reference to the shape of their body.
Your ancestry, your temperament, your sur
roundings, will decide whether you go to
this or that chnrch and adopt this or that
policy.
"Notice the points of the compass toward
which these gates look. They are not on one
side or on two sides or on three sides, but on
four Sides This is no fancy OF mine, but
distinct announcement On the north three
gates, on the south three gates, on the east
three gates, on the west three gates. What
does that mean? Why, it means that all
nationalities are included and it does not
make any difference from what quarter of
the earth man comes up; if his heart
is right there is q gate oren before
him. On the north three gates. That means
mercy for Lapland and Siberia and Norway
and Sweden. On the south three gates That
means pardon for Hindostan and Algiers and
Ethiopia. On the east three gates. That
means salvation for China and Japan and
Borneo. On the west three gates. That
means redemption for America. 1t does not
make any difference how dark-skinned or
how pale faced men may be, tn ~ will find
gate right before them These plucked
bananas under a tropical sun. These shot
across Russian SHOWS behind RENDERS.
From Mexican plateaus, from Roman cam
pana, from Chinese tea-fields, from Holland
dixie, from Scotch Highlands, they come,
they come. Heaven is not monopoly for
few precious souls. It is not Windsor Cas-
tie for royal families. 1t is not small town
with small population, but John saw it and
he noticed that an angel was measuring it,
and he measured it in this way and then he
measured that, and whichever way he meas
ured it was 1,5OO miles, SO that Babylon and
Thebes, and Tyre and Nineveh, and st.
Paris, and London and New York, and all
the dead cities of the past and all the living
cities of the present added together, would
not equal the census of that great metrop-
oils.
"While speak an ever-increasing throng
is passing through the gates. They are going
up from Senegambia, from Patagonia, from
Madras, from Hong Kong. 'Whatp you say,
do you introduce all the heather into gloryP
tell you, the fact is that the majority of the
people in those chimes die in infancy and the
infants all go straight into eternal life, and
SO the vast majority of those who die in
China and India, the vast majority of those
skies-they die in infancy. One hun
been born since The ' world was
created, and SO estimate that there must be
5000, 000, 900 children in glory. If at con-
cert 1900 children sing, your soul is raptured
.v-ikl
900, 900 little ones stand up in white before
the throne of God, their chanting drawing
out all the stupendous harmonies of Dussel-
dorf and Leipsic and Boston! Pour in
through the twelve gates, o We redeemed,
banner-lifted, rank after rank, saved
battalion after saved battalion, until all
the city of God shall hear the tramp,
trampl Crowd all the twelve gates.
Room yet. Room on the thrones,
room in the mansions, room on the river
bank. Let the trumpet of invitation be
sounded until all earth's mountains hear the
Shrill blast and the glens echo it. Let mis-
sionares tell it in pagoda, and colporteurs
sound it across the Western prairies. Shout
it to the Laplander on his swift sled, halloo
it to the Bedouin careering across the desert.
Newsl newsl a glorious heaven and twelve
gates to get into it! Hear it, o you thin
blooded nations of eternal winterl-on the
north three gates. Hear it, o you bronzed
lnndDlbaHtS pduUlnS unuer equatorial meats
on the south three gates.
Sand heaven being made up, of course the
gates will be shut. Austria in and the first
gate shut; Russia in and the second gate shut;
Italy in and the third gate shut; Egypt in and
the fourth gate shut; Spain in and the fifth
gate shut; France in and the sixth gate shut;
England in and the seventh gate shut; Nor
way in and the eighth gate shut; Switzerland
In and the ninth gate shut; Hindostan in
and the tenth gate shut; Siberia in and the
eleventh gate shut. ALI the gates are closed
but one. Now let America go in, with all
tho islands Of the sea and all the other ma
tions that have called on God. The captives
all freed; the harvests all gathered; the ma
lions all saved-the flashing splendor of this
last pearl begins to move on its hinges. Let
the mighty angels put their shoulders to the
gate and heave it to with silvery clang. IT'S
done! 1t thunders The twelfth gate shutl
81 want to show you the gate-keeper.
There is one angel at each one of these gates.
You say that is right. OF course it is You
know that no earthly palace or castle or
fortress would be safe without sentry pac-
ing up and down by night and by day, and
If there were no defenses before heaven and
the doors set wide open with no one to guard
them all the vicious of earth would go up
after awhile and all the abandoned of hell
would go up after awhile, and heaven
instead Of being O world of light and joy