The Kinsley graphic. [volume] (Kinsley, Kan.) 1890-1940, 1891-05-15

Come into it Come into it. do not
pick out this man or that man and say:
You may come" I say all may come
we viii do you good The Lord hath
promised good concerning Israel"
Do not say you have never been in
vited I invite you now to the Kings
feast All! AHs But go further and
tell you that the angels are ready.
My friends, there is not any more evil
dence in the Bible that there is a God
than that there are angels Did they
not swarm around Jacobs ladderP
When Lazarus soul went up did they
not escort it? Did not David say The
chariots of God are twenty Thousand,
even thousands of angels?" Are they
not represented as the chief haTVesters
of the judgment day? Did not one an
gel in one night slay $50, 900 of SIENNA
cherib's troops? o, yes our world Is in
communication with two other worlds
All that communication Is by angels
Yes. go further and say that your
glorifed kindred are ready. I have
not any sympathy with modern Spirit
ualism. / believe it is born in perdition.
When see the ravages it makes with
human inteliects, when see the homes
it has devastated, when see the bad
morals that very often follow in its
wake, I have no faith in modern Spirit
ualism. I think if John Milton and
George White6eId 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 glOrihed in Heaven are IN SYM
pathy with our redemption. There
is joy in Heaven among the angels
of God over one sinner that repent
eth and If the angels hear it, do
not our departed kindred there
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tOiled for your salvation, and when they
bade you gOOd-by 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 ., the pathOs when that hand was
thrust out from the cover and they said
| good-by. For how long gOOd-by was it?
Now suppose you should pass into the
| Kingdom of God this morning, suppose
you should say; II am done with the
! sins of this world Fie upon all of
| these fOIlies. o Christ, I take Thee
now, take Thy service, I respond to
/ Thy love, Thine am I forever''-why, be-
| fore the tear OF repentance had died on
| your cheek, before your first prayer had
! closed, the angel standing with the mes
| sage for thy soul, would cry upward:
! He is cOmingl" And angels pOising
! midair would cry upward: He is com
| ing!" All along the line of light from
| doorway to doorway, from wing-tip to
| yving-tiP, the news would go upward
till it reached the gate, and then it
| 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.
! swerd. Give me another harp with
which to strike the joy. Saved, saved,
| saved"
Now, my friends, if Christ is ready,
! al "a W fba
| church is ready, and the angels of God
/ are ready, and your fslesEiEfee4 kindred
are ready, are you ready? I give with
all the emphasis of my soul the ques-
| ton: Are you ready?" If 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 6nges-tip
lips quivering in mortal anguish, two
eyes beaming everlasting love while he
! says: Come, come, come, for al
things are now ready"
Old man, God has been waiting fOl
| thee long years. Would that some teal
of repentance might triclSle down thy
wrinkled cheek. Has not Christ done
enough in feeding thee all these years
to win from thee one word of graft
tude? Come, all the young. Christ i:
the fairest of the fair. Wait not til
thy heart gets hard. Come, the furthes
| away from CnTlSU- DTunkaTur CnE1S
can put out the fire of that thirst Ht
can restore thy broken home. He car
break that shackle. Come now, to-day
and get his pardon and its strength
Libertine, Christ knew where you vyer,
last night. He knows all the story o
thy sin. Come to Him this day
He will wash away thy sii
and he will throw aroun,
| thee the robe of Hi
pardon. HarIOt, thy feet foul with hell
| thy laughter the horror of the street
o, Mary Magdalen. Christ waits 70
thee. And the one further of, furthe
than have mentioned. a case not s.
hopeful as any have mentioned. self
| righteous man, feeling myself all right
having no need of Christ, no need O
pardon, no need of help-O, sell
, righteous man. dOst thou think i
, those rags thou canst enter the feast
Thou canst not Gods servant at tn
: gate would tear OF thy robe and leav
. / thee naked at the gate { salF-rinbEaOv4