Connecticut western news., 1891-05-13

for his baptism; give him full right to all the privileges of the church of Jesus Christ"
 Oh, know there are those who say the church is mass of hypocrites, but they do not really think so. It is a glorious church. Christ purchased it. Christ built it. Christ swung all it's gates Christ curtained it with uphol stery. crimson with crucifixion carnage. Come into it. Come into it. do not pick out this man or that man and say, You may come" say all may come-whosoever will. Come with us and we will do you good. The Lord hath promised good concerning Israel" -
 We are garden walled around
 Chosen and made peculiar ground,
 A little plot inclosed by grace
 Out of the worlds wild wilderness.
 Do not say you have never been in vited invite you now to the Kings feast. One and all. All All But I go further, and tell you that the angels are ready. Some people think when we speak about angels we are getting into the region of fancy They say it is very well for a man when he has just entered the ministry to preach about the angels 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 ladder2 When Lag arus' soul went up did they not escort itG Did not David say. ''The chariots of God are twenty thousand, even thou sands of angels" Are they not relre sented as the chief harvesters of the judgment day2 Did not one angel in one night slay 1s0, 900 of Sennacherib's troops9
 Oh, yes, our world Is in communica ton with two other worlds. All that communication is by angels. When bad man is to die, a man who has de spised God and rejected the gospel. the bad spirits come on sulphurous wing, and they shacklc him and try to push him of the precipices into the ruin. and they lift a guffaw of diabolical ex ultation. But there is line of angels bright and beautiful and loving angels, mighty angels-reaching all the way rom earth to heaven. and when others gather like them suppose the air is full of them. They hover. They Ait about. They push down iniquity from your heart. They are ready to rejoice.
 Lookl There is an angel from the throne of God. One moment ago it stood before Christ and heard the dox ology of the redeemed. It is here now Bright immortal, what news from the golden city2 Speak, spirit blest. The answer comes melting on the air, Come, come, for all things are now ready" Angels ready to hear the tid ings. Angels ready to drop the bene diction. Angels ready to kindle the joy All ready. Ready, cherubim and seraphim- Ready, thrones and prin- cipalities and powers. Ready, Michael the archangel-
 YOUR GLoRIFIED KINDRED CALL YOU. Yes, go farther and say that your glorif1ed kindred are ready. l have not any sympathy with modern spir- itualism. I believe it is born in perdi. ton. When see the ravages it makes with human intcllecis, when see the homes it has devastated, when 1 see the bad morals that very often follow in it's wake, Lave no ,ith in modern spiritualism. think if John Milton and George Whitetield have not any thing better to do than to crawl under Rochester tables and rattle the leaves. they had better stay lioine in glory. But the Bible distinctly teaches that the glorified in heaven are in sympathy with our redemption. '"There is joy in heaven among the angels of God over one sinner that re penteth;" and if the angels hear it, dc not our departed kindred there hear it There are those there who toiled fol | your salvation, and when they bade you goodby in the last hour, and they said, "Meet mo in heaven" there was lowering over the pillow the awful pos sibiity that you might not meet. But oh, the pathos when t'iat hand was thrust out from the cover and they said goodby. For how long goodby was it2
 Now, suppose you should pass into the kingdom Of God this morning; sup pose you should say: I'm done with the sins of this world. Fie upon all these follies. 0 Christi I take thee now, I take thy service, respond to thy love, thine am l forever" Why, before the tear of repentance had dried on your cheek. before your first prayer had closed, the angel standing with the message for thy soul would cry up ward. He is coming" and angels poising milair would cry upward, He Is coming!" All along the line of light from doorway to doorway, from wing tip to wing tip, the news would go up ward till it reached the gate, and then it would flash to the house of many mansions and find your kindred out and those before the throne would say
 Rejoice with me; my prayers are an swered. Give me another harp witt which to strike the joy. Saved, saved saved"
 Now, my friends, if Christ is ready, and the Holy Ghost is ready, and tht church is ready, and the angels of Goo are ready, and your gloriied kindred are ready, are you ready7 I give witt all the emphasis of my soul the ques ton, Are you ready7" If you do no get into the Kings feast it will be be cause you do not accept the earnest in vitation Arm stretched out soaked with blood from elbow to finger tip lips quivering in mortal anguish, tw' eyes beaming everlasting love while h.