The Pickens sentinel. [volume] (Pickens, S.C.) 1871-1903, 1891-05-21

further aud tell you that the angels are
ready. Some people think when we
speak about angels we aro getting into
the region Of fancy. They say it is very
we'll fol a man when he has just entered
the ministry to preach about the an
gels of heaven, but after he has gone on
further it is hardly worth while. My
friends. there is not any more evidence
in the Bible that there Is God than that
there are angels. Did they not swarm
around Jacobs ladder? When Lazarus
soul went up did they not escort it? Did
not David say: 1.-The chariots Of God
are 10000, even thousands Of angels?"
Are they not represented as the chief
one angel in one night slay 100000 Of
| Sennacherb'S troops? Oh, yes, our
world is in communication with two
other worlds. All that communication
is by angels. When u bad man is to die,
a man who has despised God and rejected
the Gospel, bad spirits come on sulphur
Gus wing and they shackle him and try
10 push him of the precipices into ruin
and they lift outlaw of diabolical cxul-
tatiou. But there is line of angels,
bright and beautiful and loving angels,
mighty angels, reaching all the way from
earth to Heaven, and when others gather
like them l suppose the air i. full OF
them. They hover. They fit about.
They push down iniquitY from your
heart. They are ready to rejoice.
Look! There is an angel from the
throne of God. One moment ago it
stood before Christ and heard the dON-
ology of the redeemed. 1t IS here now.
Bright immortal, what news from the
, golden city? Speak, spirit blcst. The
: ausw CT comes melting on the air: "Comc,
!, come, for all things are now ready" An
gels ready TO bear the tidings. Angels
Il ready u drop the bcncdctlon. Angels
ready to klndlc the JOY. All ready.
!, Ready, chcrubim and seraphim, Ready
- thrones. and prlncipalitics and powers
y, Ready, Michael, the arch angel.
- Yes, go further and say that you
= glOrilled kindred arc ready. | have mo-
. any sympathy with modern spiritualism
= 1 believe it is born in perdition. Whc1
- | see the ravages in makes with hu,nal
" ntellects, when see the homes it has dc
= vastnted, wheh l see the bad morals tina
- very often follow in Its wake, l. nave II
n faith in modern splrltuallsm. / think
", John Milton and George Whitfield hav
not anything better to do than to era"
II under Rochester's table and rattle III
~. leaves they had better stay home in glor,
~, y, But tue Bible distinctly teaches that IL
80 glorilied in heaven are in sympathy wit
II our redemption. ''Thcreis JOY IN heaVe
rS among the angels Of God over one 81
~. ner that repenteth," and If the ange
W hear it do not our departed kindred the
~ hear it? There are those there w
oSs toilcd for your salvation, and when th
,rd bade you good-by in the last hour, a
W
ti,+ lowering over the pillew the awful pc
,ns sib.lity that you might not meet. But
ho the pathos when that hand was thru
o' out from the cover and they said goo
.,, by. For how long good~by was IT?
,Ga In Now, suppose YOU should pass into
Iio kingdom OF God this morning, suppC
1t. air. YOU should say: Ppm done with the 81
It.' Iio of this world. Fic upon all these iolli
Wv, W. o Chaist! | take thee now. | take t
~, !, service, respond to thy love, thine ;
=. lorcyer''-why, before tho tear OF rcpt
sT' s%t tance had dried on your cheek, bct'
s',v @ your first prayer had closed, the an!
Wv w standing with the message for thy so
80 would cry upward, ''lc is comng"' q
Ino o angels posing mid-air would cry
Iio 'ho ward: "Hc is coming!" sll along
VI ,,'' ,, line of light from doorway to doorw'
o. from wing tip to wing tip, the ne
~ would 90 upward till it reached
VIZ VIZ, gate. and then 1t wonld flash to the ho
Si,' Of many mansions. and find your kind
H., out. and those before the throne wo
i'', ';"t say: "Rcjoice with me my prayers
ir"t answered. Give me another harp "
nr' Snr which to strike the Joy. Saved, say
nns saved!"
all AtKenlworth Castle, told you, t
,ul- STONED the clocks when Queen El
and beth arrived, that the Ii md of time mi
told point to that moment as thc one II
An significant and tremendous; but II
be morning, the King should enter the
lent tic of your soul, we'll might you stor
the the clocks and have the finger OF
we're pointing TO this moment as the II
" of stupendous in all your life. Would
/; the | could come all through these aislcs
the all through these gallaries, not sin
he addressing yon perlunctorlly, but ta
the YOU by the hand as brother tax
ST, is brother by the hand, and saying TO
and all. to each: "COme, come, the
,rch is opcn, enter now and sit down a
say: feast"
70 1o Old man, God has been waiting
:, his thee long years. Would that some
man of repentance might tricklc down
head wrinklcd check. Has not Christ I
90 to enough in feeding thee and clothing
yers all these years to win from thee
from word of gratitude? Come, all the yo
AYERS Christ is the iaircst of the far.
God. not till thy heart gets hard. Come
as furthest away from Christ. DRUM
street Christ can put out the fire Of thy Il
rlday lie can restore thy broken home.
from can break that shlcklc. Como nov
not a day, and get his pardon and its strcl
there Ana the one lurthcr OIL, lurlher u
O the have mentioned, case not so ho
ready as | have mentioned, self-rightcous
start feeling thysclf all right, having no
nd be of Christ, no need of pardon, no nc
ssem- hclp-O scll-rghtcous man! dost
cw II. think IN those rags thou canst cntC
room feast? Thou canst not. Gods Sc
,o the at the gate would tear off thy robe
y hin, leave thee naked at the gate. {
If thc righteous man! the last to come.