The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1891-05-11

tense enough, Importance enough, nlBu a.
heaven. deep as he'll, and vast as eternity
Not expecting that YOU can help me with
such a comparison, l simply say be Is wait
ing as only an all-sympathetic Chrlst
knows how to wait for a wandering soul.
Bow the knee and kiss the Son,
Come and welcome, sinner, come.
But l remark again, not only Christ is
waiting, but the Holy Spirit is waiting.
Vhv are some sermons a dead failure! Why
are there songs that > not get their wing
under the peoplel Why are there players
that go no higher up than hunters halloos
Because there is a missing link that only
the Holy Spirit can make. II that spirit
should come through this assemblsge this
morning there would be power felt like
that when Saul was endorsed on the road
60 Damascus, like as when Lydia's heart
was broken In her fine store, like as when
three thousand souls we're lifted out of mid
night into midnoon at the Pentecost. Do
you notice that sometimes that spirit
takes an Insignificant agency TO
save soul? l think it is very often that at
Just one passage of Scripture, just one word
of Scripture, a soul is saved because the
Holy Spirit gives it supernatural power.
Do YOU know what it was that saved Mar
tin Lutherl 1t was that one verse: THE
Just shall live by faith" Do you know
what it was that brought Augustine from
his horrible dissipationsl 1t was that ore
verse: Put We on the Lord Jesus Christ,
and make no provision for the flesh, to full
fill the lusts thereof Do you know what it
was that saved Hedley Wears, the celebrat-
ed soldiers It was the one passage: "Be-
1ieve in the Lord Jesus Christ and thou
shalt be saved.n Do you know what it was
that brought Jonathan Edwards to Christ?
1t was the one passage; Now unto him be
glory forever and ever"
One Thanksgiving morning in church
read my text, 80, give thanks unto the
ha ia a
stood in the gallery and said to himself: ~
have never rendered one acceptable Offering
of gratitude to God in all my life. Here,
Lord, am thine forever" By that one
passage Of scripture he was brought into
the kingdom, aud if | might tell my own
experience, might tell how one Sabbath
afternoon / was brought TO the peace of the
gospel by reading of the Syro-PhPnlcian's
cry to Christ where she said: Even the
dogs eat of the crumbs that fall from the
masters table" Philosophic sermons
never saved anybody. Metaphysical
sermons never saved anybody. An
earnest plea going right out of the hearts
blessed of the Holy Ghost, thai is what
saves, that is what brings people into the
kingdom of Christ l suppose the world
thought that Thomas Chalmers preached
great sermons In his early ministry, but
Thomas Chalmers says he never preached
at ali until years after he had occupied
weak and emaciated, he stood and told the
story of Christ to the people. And in the
great day of eternity it will be found that
not so much the eloquent sermons brought
men TO Christ as the story told perhaps, by
those VINO were unknown on earth, the sim
pie story of the Savior's love and mercy,
sent by the power of the Holy Ghost
straight to the heart. Come, Holy Ghost.
Ay, he is here this morning. He fills all the
place. l tell you the Holy Ghost is ready.
Then | go on and tell you the church is
ready. There are those here who say; mo
one cares for my soul" We do care for it.
You see a man bowling his head in PRAYER
and you say: That man is Indifferent"
That man bows his head in prayer that the
truth may go to every heart The air is
full of prayers. They are going up this
morning from this assembly. Hundreds of
prayers straight to the throne of listening
God. The air Is full Of prayers-prayers
ascending noon by noon from Fulton street
prayer meeting, Friday night by Friday
night all over this land, going up from
praying circles. Yea, there is not a minute
of an hour of any day that there are not
suppllcatlons ascending to the throne of
mercy. The church Is ready. And if you
should this morning start for your Fathers
house, there would be hundreds and thou
sands in this assemblage who would say, if
they knew it: MAKE room for that man
make room for him at the holy sacrament
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 hypocrltes, but they do
not really think so, IL is a glorious church.
Christ purchased it. Christ built it. Christ
swung all its gates. Christ curtained it
with upholstery, crimson with crucifxion
carnage. Come into it. Come into it.
do not pick cut this man or that man and
say: "You may come" l cay all may
come-whosover will. Come with US and
we will do you good. The Lord hath prom
lsed good concerning Israel"
We are a garden walled around
Chosen and made peculiar ground,
A little plat enclosed by grace
Out of the worlds wild wilderness
Do not say you have never been invited.
/ invite you now to tue Kings feast One
and all. All! All But go further aud
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 1t is very well for a man when he
has just entered the ministry to preach
about the angels of heaven, but after he
has gone on further it is hardly worth
while. NY friends, there is not any more
evidence in the Bible that there is a God
than that there are angels. Did they not
swarm around Jacobs ladder? When
Lazarus soul went up did they not escort ii!
Did not David say: The chariots Of God
are twenty thousand, even thousands of
RDgelsw Are they not represented as the
chief harvesters Of the judgment day? Did
not one angel in one night Stay 1870, 900 of
Sennacheribs troops. o, yes, our world
Is IN communication with TWO other worlds.
All that communication is by angels.
When bad man is to die, man who has
desplsed 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 exultation But there is
line of angels, bright and beautiful and
loving angels, mighty angels, reaching all
the way from earth to heaven, and when
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 doxology of the
redeemed. It is here now. Bright immor-
tai, what news from the golden city?
Speak, spirit blest. The answer comes
melting on the air: "Come, come, for ali
things are now ready" Angels ready to
bear the tidings. Angels ready to drop the
benediction. Angels ready TO kindle the
joy. All ready. Ready, cherubim aud