Peninsula enterprise. [volume] (Accomac, Va.) 1881-1965, 1891-05-16

would say if they knew.it, MAKE room
for that man. make room for him at the
holy sacrament; bring the silver bowl
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 a mass OF hypocrites, but
they do not really think so. It is
glorious church. Christ purchased it.
Chris# built it. Christ swung all its
gates. Christ curtained it with uphol-
stery, crimson with crucilxion carnage.
Come into it. Come into it. lido 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"
Wear IL gardcn walled around
Chosen and made peculiar ground,
A little plot Enclosed BY grace =
Out Of tho worlds wild wilderness.
Do not say you have never been in
vited. Invite you now to theiKing's
feast. One and all Ali AL. But,
L go further, md tell you THAT
the angels are ready. Some people
think when wo speak aboGt angels we
are getting into the region of fancy.
They say it is very well for man
when lie has just entered the ministry
to preach about the angels of heaven,
but after lie 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 angclsl" Are they not repre-
sented us the Chief harvesters of the
Judgment day9 DID not one angel in
one night Stay 10000 Of Scnnacherib's
troops3
Oh. yes, our world is in cornmunica-
ton with two other worlds. All that
communication is by angels. When
bad man is to die, man who has de-
spised God and rejected the gospel, the
bad spirits come on sulphurous wing,
and they sllackle him and try to push
him of the precipices into the ruin,
and they lift guffaw of diabolical ex
ultation. But there is a. line of angels
bright and beautiful and loving angels,
mighty angels-reacling all the way
from Garth 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.
Lookl There is an angel from the
throne of God. One moment ago 1t
stood before Christ and heard the dox-
ology of the redeemed. tits 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 lsindle the
Joy All ready. Ready, ciicrubim and
seraphiln. Ready, thrones and prin-
-cipalities. and powers. Ready, Michael
the archangel.
YOUR GLoRIFIED KINDRED CALL you.
Yes, go further and say that your
glorified kindred are ready. I have
not any sympathy with modern spir-
itualism. | believe it is born in perdi
ton. When see the ravages it makes
with human intcllects, when l see the
homes it has devastated, when l see
the bad morals that very often follow
in it's wake, hayc no faith i'll modern
spiritualisrn. l think if John Milton
and George HYhitetield 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 that
the glori6ed in-heavcn are in sympathy
with our redemption.
"There is JOY in heaven among the
angels of God over ono sinner that re-
penteth;" and if the angels hear it, do
not our departed kindred there hear it2
There are those there who toiled for
your salvation, and wien they babe
you goodby in the last hour, and they
said, inject me in heaven" there was
lowering over the pillow the awful pos
sibility ths.t 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; sup
pose you should say; "Iin done with
the sins of this world. Tie upon all
these fol!ies. o Christ! l take thee
now, take thy service, l respond to
thy love, thine am forever" Why,
before the tear of repentance had dried
on your check, before your first prayer
had closed, the angel standing with the
message for thy soul would cry up
ward, ''IIc is coming!" and angels
posing milair would cry upward, "I1e
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 10 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 Inc another harp with
which to strike the Joy. Saved, saved,
savcd!"
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 ready2 give with