News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1891-05-14

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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 Cd the air,
Come, come, for all things are now
ready" Angels ready to hear the lid
ings. Angels ready to drop the bene
diction. Angels ready to kindle the
joy All ready. Ready, cherubim and
seraphim. Ready, thrones and prin-
CAPABILITIES and powers. Ready, Michael
the archangel.
YOUR GLORIFIED KINDRED CALL YOU.
Yes go farther and say that your
glorified kindred are ready. 1 have
not any sympathy with modern spir-
itualism. [ believe it is born in perdi-
ton. When | see the ravages it makes
with human intellects, wien l see the
homes it has devastated, when l see
the bad morals that very often follow
in it's wake, have no faith in modern
spiritualism. | think if John Milton
and George Whitefeld have not amy
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 glorified in heaven are in sympathy
with our redemption.
'sThere 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, inject 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: I'm done with
the sins of this world. Fie 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 coming!" and angels
posing midair would cry upward, HE
is comingF 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
saved!"
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 ready9 l 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 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,
we'll might you stop all the clocks, and
have the finger of time pointing to this
| moment as the one most stupendous in
| all your life Would that l could come
all through these aisles and all through
these galleries, not addressing you per-
functorily, but taking you by the hand
as a brother takes a brother by the
hand, and saying to one and all, to
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 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 farthest away from Christ.
Drunkard, Christ can put out the fire
of that thirst. He can restore thv
broken home. He can break that
shackle. Come now, today, and get
his pardon and its strength. Libertine.
Christ knew where you were last night.
He knows all the story of thy sin. Come
to him this day. He will wash away
thy sin and he will throw around thee
the robe of his pardon. Harlot, thy
feet foul with hell, thy laughter the
horror of the street-O Mary Magdalen!
Christ waits for thee.
And the one farther off, farther than
have mentioned, case not so hope
full us any have mentioned, self right
eous man, feeling thyself all right. hav-
ing no need of Christ, no need of par
don, no need of help-O self righteous
man! dost thou think in those rags
thou canst enter the feast? Thou
canst not. Gods servant at the gate
would tear off thy robe and leave thee
naked at the gate. O self righteous
mani the last to come. Come to the
feast. Come, repent of thy sin. Come,
take Christ for thy portion.
Day of grace going away. Shadows
on the cliff reaching farther and farther
over the plain. The banquet has al
ready begun. Christ has entered into
that banquet to which you are invited.
The guests are taking their places.
The servant of the king has his hand
on the door of the banqueting room,
and he begins to swing it out. Now is
your time to go in. Now is my time to
enter. l must go in. You must go in.
lie is swinging the door shut. Now it
is half shut. Now it is three-fourths
shut. Now it is just ajar. After awhile
it will be forever shut!
What will ye waste on trifing cares
That life which Gods compassion spares?
While in the endless round of thought
The one thing needful is forgot.
The Englishman's Breakfast.
An American should always under
stand what is meant by a breakfast in
London. He will probably take break
fast in his lodgings, or, if he lives in a