The Caucasian. (Clinton, N.C.) 188?-1913, 1891-05-14

all the privileges OF the cnurch OF Jesus
Christ"
Oh, know there are those who say |
the church is u mass of hypocrites, but |
they do not really think SO. 1t is a |
glorious church Christ purchased it. |
Christ built it, Christ swung all its |
gates. Christ curtained it with uphol- |
stery, crimson with crucifixion carnage. |
Come into it. Come into it. l 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 arc a garden walled around
Chosen and made peculiar ground,
a little plot iDclosed by grace
Out of the worlds wild wilderness.
Do not say you have never been in
vited. invite you now to the Kings
feast. Ono and all. Al! All! But
| 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 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 a God than that
there are angels. Did they not swarm
around Jacobs ladder? When Laz-
arus' soul went up did they not escort
it? Did not David say, The chariots
of God are twenty thousand, even thou
sands of angels?' Are they not repre-
sented as the chief harvesters of the
judgment day? Did not one angel in
one night STAY 1906 of Sennacherib's
troops!
Oh, yes, our world is in communica-
ton with two other worlds. All that
communication is by angels. When a
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 shackle him and try to push
him Off the precipices into the ruin,
and they lift q guifaw of diabolical ex-
ultatiOn. 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 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 dox-
olOgy of the redeemed. 1t is here now
Bright immortal, what news from the
| golden city? Speak, spirit blest. The
answer comes melting on the air,
Come, come, for all things are now
ready" Angels ready to hear the It'd
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
glorifed kindred are ready. / have
not any sympathy with modern spir
itualism. | believe it is born in perdi
} ton. When see the ravages it makes
with human inteflects, when I see The
; homes it has devastated, when I sec
the bad morals that very often follow
in its wake, have no faith in modern
spiritualism. I 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 home in glory
But the Bible distinctly teaches tina
the gloriiied in heaven are in sympath,
with our redemption.
There is JOY in heaven among tn,
angels of God over one sinner that re
penteth;' and if the angels hear it, d.
s not our departed kindred there hear it
I There are those there who toiled TO
i your salvation, and when they bad
$ you goodby in the last hour, and the,
Q said, Meet me in heaven" there wa
r lowering over the pillow the awful pos
L sibility that you might not meet. Blu
), oh, the pathos when that hand wa
thrust out from the cover and the
;, said goodby. For how long goodb
= was it?
= = Now, suppose you should pass int
V the kingdom of God this morning; SUP
pose you should say: 'I'm done wit
If the sins of this world. Fie upon a
these follies. o Christi I take the
!, now, 1 take thy service, respond t
- thy love, thine am 1 forever" Why
=, before the tear of repentance had Dire
g on your cheek, before your first praye
le had closed, the angel standing with til
as message for thy soul would cry VI
ne ward, He is coming!" and ange
of posing midair would cry upward, "a
s. is coming" All along the line of ligf
OF from doorway to doorway, from win
90 90 tip to wing tip, the news would go VI
of ward till it reached the gate, and the
it would fash to the house of man
mansions and find your kindred GU
and those before the throne would sa,
~ Rejoice with me; my prayers are al
ai swered. Give me another harp wit
~ which to strike the joy. Saved, savet
~ Il saved!''
-. Now, my friends, If Christ is read,
re and the Holy Ghost is ready, and tt
Oh church is ready, and the angels of &c
We are ready, and your glorified kindre
DIS are ready, are you ready? give vii
nd all the emphasis of my soul the que
as ton, 'Are you ready2" If you do n
is get into the Kings feast it viii be b
ny cause you do not accept the earnest i
81 vitation. Arm stretched out soake
no with blood from elbow to finger ii
'Le lips quivering in mortal anguish, tv
eyes beaming everlasting love while ]
n. says, Come, come, come; for all thin
ra are now ready"
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