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ass soul went up did they not escort it? Did
aot David say, "The chariots OF God are
twenty thousand, even thousands Of angels?"
Are they not represented as the chief har-
gesters of the judgment day? Did not one
sngel in one night slay 10000 OF Senna-
cherib's troops?
Oh. yes, our world is in communication with
Two other worlds. All that communication Is
BY angels. When bad man is to die, a man
who has despised God and rejected the Cos
pei. the bad spirits come on sulphurous wing
and they shackle him, and try to push him OF
the precipices into the ruin, and they lift a
guffaW Of disbolical exultation. But there is q
line OF angels, bright and beautiful and loving
angels, mighty angels, reaching all the
way from earth 10 Heaven, and when others
gather like them suppose the air Is full OF
them. They hover They ait 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 doxology
immortal, what news from the golden city?
Speak, spirit blest. The answer comes melt
ing OH the air, "Come, come, for all things are
now ready" Angels ready to bear the tidings.
Angels ready to drop the benediction. Angels
reaay to kindle the joy. All ready. Ready,
cherubim and seraphim. Ready, thrones and
principalities and powers. Ready. Michael
the archangel.
Yes. l 60 further and say that your glorl6ed
kindred are ready. / have not any sympathy
with modern 5piritualism. IbelieVe 1t is born
n perdition. When see the rava ges
makes with human intelecss, when see tho
homes 1t has devastated, when see the bad
morals that very often follow in its wake, I
have no faith in modern spiritualism. !
think if John Milton and George Whitfield
have not anything better to do than to crawl
under Rochester tables and rattle the leaves,
they had better stay home in glo.y. But the
Bible distinctly teaches that the glori6ed in
heaven are in sympathy with our redemption.
dom Of God this morning, suppose you should
say 81 am done with the sins OF this world.
tie upon all these follie,. o Christ! 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 frat prayer had closed, the angel
standing with the message for thy sonl would
cry upward, "He is coming!" and angels
posiug in midair would cry upward, "He is
coming!" all along the line OF ligh. from door
way to doorway, from wiag tip to wing tip.
the news would go upward till it reached the
gate. and then it would flash to the house OF
many mansions and find your kindred out,
anil those before the throne would say: "Rs-
joice with me, my prayers ore answered. Give
me another harp with which to strike the joy.
Saved, saved, saved"
Now, my friends, if Chris! is ready, and
the Holy Ghost is ready, and the church is
ready, and the angels Of God are ready, and
your glori6ed kindred are ready, are you
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the question, "Are you ready?" If you do not
ge. 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 quivering in mortal anguish,
two eyes beaming 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 repen-
tance might trickle down thy wrinkled cheek.
Has not Christ done enough in feeding thee
and clothing thee all these years to win from
theo one word Of gratitude? Come, all the
young. Christ is the fairest Of the fair. Wait
not till thy heart gets hard. Come, the far.
thest away from Christ. Drunksrd, Christ
can put out the fire Of that thirst. He can re-
store thy broken home. He can break that
shackle. Come now, to-day, and get his par.
don and its strength. Libertine, Christ knew
where you were last night. He knows all the
story Of thy sim 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 hor-
ror of the street-0 Mary Magdalen! Christ
waits for thee.
And the one farther of, farther of than
have mentioned, a case not 80 hopeful as any
have mentioned, self-righteous man, feeling
thyseif all right. having no need OF Christ,
no need OF pardon, no need OF help-O
seIf.righteous man! dost thou think in those
rags thou canst enter the feast? Thou canst
not. Gods servants at the gate would tear
OF thy robe and leave thee naked at the gate.
q 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
plsin. The banquet has already 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- and he
begins to swing it shut. Now is your time to
20 in. Now ia my time to enter. must 60
in. You must go in. He is swinging the
door shut. Now, it is half shut. Now it ls
three-fourths shut Now, it is just sjar'
After awhile it will be forever shut
Why 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.