The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1891-05-15


holy sacrement; bring the silver bowl
for his baptism; give him full right to
all the privileges OF the church OF Jesus
Christ
o, know there are those who say
the church is mass of hypocrites, but
they really do not think so. 1t is a
glorious church. Christ purchased it.
Christ built it. Christ swung all its
gates. Christ curtained it with up
holstery, crimsoned with cruciixion
carnage. Come into it. Come into it.
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 are a garden 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
vited. | invite you now 20 the Kings
feast. All! All. But l 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 ministery to preach about the an
gels OF heaven, but after he has gone on
further it is hardly worth while.
My, friends, there is not any moro
evidence in the Bible that there is a
God than that there are angles Did they
not swarm around Jacobs ladder?
When Lazarus soul went up did they
NO
THE chariots of God are twenty thou
sand, even thousands of angels?" Are
they not represented as the chief har-
vesters of ths judgment day? Did not
one angel in one night Stay 10000 OF
Sennacherib's troops? o, yes, ON
world is in communication with two
other worlds. All that commu-
nication is by angels. When a
bad man is 10 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 exulta-
ton. But there is a line of angels,
bright and beautiful and lovir3 angels,
mighty angels, reaching all the way
from earth to heaven, and whel, 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 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 bear 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 princi-
palilies and powers. Ready, Michael,
the archangel.
Now suppose you should pass into the
kingdom Of God this morning. suppose
YOU should say: I'm done with the
sins of this world. Fie upon all of these
follies. O Christi | take Thee now, |
take Thy service, | respond to Thy
love, Thine am forever"-why. before
the tear OF repentance had dried on
your cheek, before your first prayer had
DtlC NiIIl ltiC
message for thy soul, would cry up
ward, He is coming!" And angels
posing midair would cry upward: He
is comingr All along the line of light
from doorway to doorway, from wingtir
to wingtip, the news would go upward
till it reached the gate, and then il
would fash 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
sved.'
Yes. 90 further and say that YOU
glorious kindred are ready. | have MOI
any sympathy with modern spiritualism
believe it is born in pcrdition.
But the bible distinctly teaches thai
the glorifed in heaven are in sympath,
with our redemption. There is Joy il
heaven among the angels OF God ovel
one sinner that repenteth, and if The
angels hear it, do not our departed
kindred there hear it? There are ihos,
there who toiled for your salvation, anC
when they babe you goodby in the las
hour. and they said, Meet me il
heaven" there was lowering over TIL
pillow the awful possibility that yol
might not meet.
Now, my friends, if Christ is ready
and the Holy Ghost is ready, and tn
church is ready, and the angels Of Co
are ready, and your glorified kindred ar
ready, are you ready? give with al
the emphasis of my soul the question
Are you ready" If you do not &c
into the Kings feast it will be becaus
YOU do not accept the earnest invita-
ton. Arm stretched out soaked Wit
blood from elbow to fingertip. lips quiy
ering in mortal anguish. two eyes beam
ing everlasting love while he says
Come, come, come, for all things ar
now ready"
Old man, God has been waiting TO
thee long years. Would that som
tear of repentance might trickle dow
the wrinkled cheek. Has not Chris
done enough in feeding thee and cloth
inc thee all these years to win fror
thee one word of gratitude? Come
all the Young. Christ is the fairest {
the fair. Wait not till thy heart get
hard. Come, the furthest away fror
Christ. Drunkard, Christ can put on
the fire of that thirst. He can restor
thy broken home. He can break tina
shackle. Come now, to-day, and &C
his pardon aud his strength. Libel
tine. Christ knew where you were las
night. He knows all the story of tn
sin. Come to him this day. He wi
wash away thy sin and he will thro'
around thee the robe of His pardon
Harlot, thy feet foul with hell, tn
laughter the horror of the street. o Mar
MaSdalen,Christw waits for thee. And tt
one further off, further than | hav
mentioned, case not so hopeful as an
/ l have mentioned, self-righteous mar
feeling thyselt all right, having no nee
of Christ, no need of pardon. 10 need c
help-O, self-righteous man. does tho
think in those rags thou canst enter tn