The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1891-05-21

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 up
holstery, crimson with crucifxion
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" I say all may
come-whosoever will. "Come with
us and we will do you good. The
Lord hath promised good concerning
Israel"
We are gar len walled around
Chosen and made peculiar ground,
A little plot enclosed by grace
Out of the worlds wild wilderness.
DO not say you have never been in
Vlted. invite you now to the kings
feast. One and all. All! All! But 1 60
further and tell you that the angels
are ready. Some people think when
we speak about angles we are getting
into the region of fancy. They say it
is very we'll for man when he has Just
entered the ministry to preach about
the angels of Heaven, but after hehas
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
latter? When Lazarus soul went up
did they not escort it? Did not Dav-
id say: "The chariots ofGod are twen-
ty thousand, even thousands of ang-
els?" Are they not represented as the
chief harvesters of the Judgment day?
Did not one angel in one night slay
one-hundred and eighty thousand Of
Sennacherib's troops? Oh, yes, our
world is in communication with two
other worlds. All that
COMMUNICATION is BY ANGELS.
When a bad man is to die, a man
who has despised God and rejected the
gospel, the bad spirits come on sui
phurous 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 a
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 [ suppose the air is full of them.
They hover. They fit about. They
push down iniquity from your heart.
They are ready to rel oice. Look!
There is an angel from the throne of
God. One moment ago, it stood be-
fore Christ and heard the doxology OF
the redeemed. 1t is here now. Bright
immortal, what news from the golden
city? Speak, spirit blest. The an
swer comes melting on the air: "Come,
come, for all things are now ready"
Angels ready to bear the tidings. An
gels ready to drop the benediction.
Angels ready to kindle the Joy. All
ready. Ready, cherubim and Sera-
phim. Ready, thrones, and principal
tiles and powers. Ready, Michael
the archangel.
Yes, 60 further and say that YOUR
glorifed kindred are ready. have
not any sympathy with modern
splrltuallsm: l believe it is born in
perdition. When I see the ravages it
makes with human intellects, when I
see the homes it has devastated, when
see the bad morals that very often
follow in it's wake, I have no faith in
modern spiritualism. I think if John
Milton and George Whitefeld have
not anything better to do than to
crawl under Rochester tables and rat
tie the leaves, they had better stay
home in glory. But the Bible dis
tinctly teaches that the glorifed in
heaven are in sympathy with our re-
demption. ''There is Joy in heaven
among the angels of God over one sin
ner that repenteth," and if the angels
hear it, do not our departed kindred
there hear it? There are those there
who toiled for your salvation, and
when they
BABE YOU GooD-BY
in the last hour, they said, ssMeet me
in heaven" there was lowering over
the pillow the awful possibility that
you might not meet. But oh, the
pathos when that kind hand was
thrust out from the cover, and they
said good-by. For how long good-by
was it?
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 glorifed
kindred are ready, are you ready? I
give with all the emphasis Of my soul
C1e 4ueStlOu: ARE you feaQy! Ii
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-tip, lips CULVER
ing in mortal anguish, two eyes beam
ing everlasting love while he says:
Come, come, come, for all things are
now ready
Old man, God has been waiting for
thee long years. Would that some
tear OF repentance might trickle down
thy wrinkled cheek. Has not Christ
done enough in feeding thee and cloth
ing thee all these years to win from
thee one word of gratitude? Come, all
the young. Christ is the fairest OF the
fair. Wait not till thy heart gets
hard. Come, the furthest away from
Christs Drunkard, Christ can put out
the fire of that thirst. +. .-....'
~, HE CAN RESTORE
thy broken home. He can break that
shackle. Come now, to-day, and get
his pardon and it's strength. Liber-
tine, Christ knew where you were last
night He knows all the story Of thv