The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1891-05-21
THE LONDONDERRY SITTER,

ihNy SNy ~ 10 very VIGIL luI iiidi
when he has just entered the ministry
to preach about the angels of heaven,
but after he has gone on further II
Is hcrdly 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 ladder9 When Lac
arus soul went up did they not escort
itl Did not David say, 1.-The chariots
of God are twenty thousand, even thou
sands of angelsl" Are they not repre-
sented as the chief harvesters of the
Judgment dayl Did not one angel in
one night Stay $50, 900 of Sennacherib's
troopsl
oh, yes, our world is in communica-
tioa 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 shackle him and try to push
him OFF the precipices into the ruin,
and they lift a guffaw of diabolical ex-
ultation. But there is a line of angels
bright and beautiful and loving angels,
mighty angels-reaching all the way
RON earth to heaven, and when Others
gather like them l 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 hear the It'd
ings Angels ready to drop the bene
diction. Angels ready to kindle the
joy All ready. Ready, chcrubim and
seraphim. Ready, thrones and prin-
cipalities and powers. Ready, Michael
the archangel.
YOUR GLoRlFIED KINDRED CALL YOU.
Yes, go farther and say that your
glorifed kindred are ready. | have
not any sympathy with modern spir-
itualism | believe it is born in perdi-
ton. When see the ravages it makes
with human intellects, when see the
homes it has devastated, when | see
the bad morals that very often follow
in its wake, have no faith in modern
spiritualism I think if John Milton
and George Whitefield 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 gloriied in heaven are in sympathy
with our redemption.
There is joy in heaven among the
angels Of God over one 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 when they babe
you goodby in the last hour, and they
said, "Meet me in heaven" there was
lowering over the pillow the awful pos
sibility that 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: 'Im done with
the sins of this world File upon all
these follies. 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 cheek, before your first prayer
had closed, the angel standing with the
message for thy soul would cry up
ward HE is comingW and angels
posing midair would cry upward, He
is comingw 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 to 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 me another harp with
which to strike the JOY Saved, saved,
savedw
Now, my friends, if Christ d 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 ready? give with
all the emphasis of my soul the ques-
ton, Are you ready3" 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 finger tip,
lips quivering in mortal anguish, two
eyes beaming everlasting love while he
says, Come. come, come; for all things
are now ready"
At Kenilworth Castle, l told you,
they stopped the clocks when Queen
Elizabeth arrived, that the hand Of
time might point to that moment as
the one most significant and tremen
dous; but if this morning the King
should enter the castle of your soul
i well might you stop all the clocks, and
have the finger of tine pointing to this
moment as the one most stupendous in
all your life. Would that could come
all through these ais.es and all through
these galleries, not addressing you per
functorily, but taking you by the hand
as a brother takes brother by the
hand, and saying to one and all, tc
each: "Come, come; the door is open
enter now and sit down at the feast"
A CALL TO EVERYBODY.
Old man, God has been waiting fol
thee long years. Would that some
tear of repentance might trickle dowr
thy wrinllled cheek. Has not Chris
done enough in feeding thee and cloth
ing thee all these years to win from
thee one word of gratitude2 Come al
the young. Christ is the fairest of the
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