Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1891-05-14


the precipces into the ruin, and they lift
| a gutfaw of diabolical exultaton. But
| there is line of angels bright and
| beautiful and loving angels, mighty an
gels reaching all the way from earth to
Heaven, and when others gather like
them | suppose the air is 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 doXoIogy of
the redeemed. 1t is here now. Bright
immortal, what news from the golden
city9 Speak, spirit blcSt. The answer
comes melting on the air, 'COme, come.
for all things are now ready" Angels
; ready to bear the tidings. Angels ready
to drop the benediction. Angels ready
! to klndle the joy. All ready. Ready,
cherubim and scraphim. Ready, thrones
| and municipalities and powers. Ready,
Michael the archangel.
Yes, | go further and say that your =
gorified kindred are rea&t | have nc +
any sympathy with modern spiritualiSm.
| believe it is born in perdition. When |
see the ravages it makes with human i'll
tellects, when ! see the homes it has de-
u. L
very often follow in it's wake, l have no
faith in modern spiritualsm. | think if
John Milton and George Whitfield have
not anything better to do than to crawl
under Rochester tables and rattle the
leaves, they had better stay home in
glory. But the Bible distinctly teaches
that the glorifcd in Heaven are in SYM
pathy with our redemption.
"There is Joy in Heaven among the an
gels of God over one sinner that repent
cth;" and if the angels hear it do not
our departed kindred there hear it?
There are those there who toilCd for your
salvation, and when they badc you goodby
! in the last hour, and they said, meet
me in Heaven" there was lowering over
the pillow the awful possibility that You
might not meet. But, oh, the pathos
when that hand was thrust out from
the cover and they said goodby. For
how long goodby was it?
Now, suppose you should pass into the
kingdom of God this morning, suppose
you should say: ''l'm done with the
sins of this world Fie upon all these
folles. O Christ! ! take thee now
take thy service, | respond to thy love,
thine am | forever" Why, before the
tear of repentance had dried on your
CDcck. DclOTc your HISb prayer Hdu
closed, the angel standing with the mes
sage for thy soul would cry upward,
''He is comingr and angels posing mid
air 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 upward 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: ''Reioice with me, my prayers
are answered. Give me another harp
with which to strike the joy. Saved,
saved, saved"
Now, my friends, if Christ is ready,
and the Holy Ghost is ready, and the
church is ready, and the angels of God
are ready, and your glorified kindred are
ready. are You ready? | give with the
emphasis of my soul the question, Are
you ready?" If You do not get into the
Kings feast it will be because you do
not accept the earnest invitation. Arm
stretched out soaked with blood from
elbow to finger zip, lips Quivcring in
mortal anguish, two eyes beaming ever
lasting love while He says, "Comc, come,
come, for all things are now ready"
At Kenilworth CasJle, | told you, ahey
stopped all the clocks when Queen Eliza
might point to that moment as the
one most significant and tremendous,
but if this morning the King should
enter the castle of your SOUL well
might you stop all the clocks and have
the finger of time pointing to this mo-
ment as the one most stnp1ndous in all
your life Would that i could come all
through these aiSlcS and all through
these galleries, mot addressing you per-
functorily, but taking you by the
hand as a brother takes q brother by the
hand, and saying to- one and all to each,
''Come, come; the door is open, enter
now and sit down at the feast.
Old man, God has been waiting for
thee long years Would that some tear
of repentance might trickle down thy
wrinl<led cheek. Has not Christ done
enough in feeding thee and clothing thee
all these years to win from thee one word
of gratitude? Come all the young.
Christ is the faircSt OF the fair Wait
not till thy heart gets hard. Come, the
farthest away from Christ, Drunkard,
Christ can put out the fire OF that thirst.
He can restore thy broken home. lie
can break that shackle. Come now, to-
day, and get His pardon and its strength.
Libertine. Christ knew where you were
last night He knows all the story OF
thy sin Come to Ii linn this day. He will
wash away thy sin, and He will thro"
around thee the robe of His pardon.
Harlot, thy feet foul with he'll, thy
laughter the horror of the strcet-O Mary
Magdalene! Christ waits for thee.
And the one farther off, farther than
have mentioned, case not so hopclui
as any | have mentioned, self righteous
man, feeling thysef all right, having NO
need of Christ, no need of pardon, no
need of help-O self righteous man!
dost thou think in those rags thou c3hst
| enter the feast? Thou caHst not. God 1