The enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 188?-1899, 1891-05-13
We are garden walled around,
Chosen and made peculiar ground
A little plot enclosed by grace

DO not say you have never been in
vited. l invite you now to the kings
feast. One and all. All! 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 en-
tered 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 ladderP When
Lazarus soul went up did they not es-
cort it? Did not David say; "The
chariots of God are twenty thousand,
even thousands of angels?" Are they
not represented as the chief harvesters
of the Judgment day? Did not one an
gel in one night slay 10000 OF
Sennacherib's troops? O, yes, our
world is in communication with
two other worlds. All that COM
munication is by angels. When bad
man is to die, a man who has despised
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 guffaw of diabolical exultation.
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 doxology of the
redeemed. 1t is here now. Bright inn
mortal, what news from the golden cityp
Speak, spirit blest. 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 kindle the joy. All ready. Ready,
cherubim and seraphim Ready, thrones,
and principalities and powers. Ready,
Michael the archangel.
Yes, 90 further, and say that your
glorifed kindred are ready. have not
any sympathy with modern spiritual
ism. believe it is born in perdition.
When see the ravaCes it makes with
human intellccts; when see the homes
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morals that very often follow in its
wake, have no faith in modern spirit
ualism. / think II John Milton and
George Whitefeld have not any thing
better to do than to crawl under Roch-
ester tables and rattle the leaves they
had better stay home in glory. But
the Bible distinctly teaches that the
glorifed in Heaven are in sympaty with
our redemption. "There is joy in Heaven
among the angels of God over one sim
ner that repenteth," and II the angels
hear it, do not our departed kindred
there hear it? There are those there
who toiled for your salyation, and
when they bade you goodbye 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 goodbye. For how long goodbye
was IL?
Now, suppose you should pass into
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pose you should say: I'm done with
the sins Of this world Fie upon all these
follies. o, Christ, take Thee now,
take Thy service, ] respond TO Thy love,
Thine am forcver'-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 upward,
"He is comingr and angels posing
mid-air would cry upward, ale is COM
ing!" 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 IL
would flash TO the house of many man
sions, and find your kindred out, and
those before the throne would say:
"Rejoice with me, my prayers are an
swered. Give me another harp with
which TO strike the Joy. Saved, saved,
saved"
Now, my friends, II Christ Is ready,
and the Holy Ghost is ready, and the
church is ready, and the angels of God
are ready, and your gloriaed kindred
are ready, are you ready? ! give with
all the emphasis Of my soul the ques-
ton: Are you ready?" II you do not
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 fnger-tip,
lips quivering In mortal anguish, two
eyes beaming everlasting love while He
says: "Come, come, come, for all things
are now ready"
AtKenilworth Castle, 1 told you. they
stopped the clocks when Queen Eliza
beth arrived, that the hand Of time
might point TO that moment as the one
most significant and tremendous; but
II this morning, the King should enter
the castle Of your soul, we'll might you
stop all the clocks and have the finger
Of time pointing to this moment as tho
one most stupendous in all your life.
Would that could count all through
these aisles and all through these gal
leries, not addressing you perfunctorily,
but taking you by the hand as brother
takes brother by the hand, and say
ing TO one and all, TO each: Come,
come, the door Is open, enter now and
ait down M the feaatO