The Hazel Green herald. [volume] (Hazel Green, Wolfe County, Ky.) 1885-19??, 1892-04-01

say IL Is hundreds of thousands OF miles
before you can reach the first star, and
then you go hundreds OF thousands of
miles before you get TO the second star,
and then 1t Is millions of miles before
your each Heaven. They say Heaven Is
the center of the universe and we are on
rim of the universe. That is not tho
idea of my text l think the heart OF
Heaven beats very close TO our world.
We measure distances by the time
taken to traverse those distances. 1t
used to be long distance to San Fran.
cisco Many weeks and months were
passed before you could reach that city.
Now it is six or seven days. 1t used to
be six weeks before you could voyage
from here to Liverpool. Now you can
go that distance in six or seven days
And so / measure the distance between
earth and Heaven. and l find it only n
flash. 1t Is one instant here, another
instant there. 1t is very near to-day.
Do you not feel the breath of Heaven
on your face? Christ says in one place it
is not twenty -four hours distance. when
He say TO the pcnitent thief: This
day shalt thou be with Me in Paradise"
1t is not a day, it is not an hour, it Is
not q minute, it is not second. o!
how near Heaven is to earth. BY oce-
anic cable you send message. AS it
is expensive you compromise n great
deal of meaning in few words. Some
times in two words you can put vast
meaning. And it seems to me that the
angels of God who carry news from
earth TO Heaven, need TO take up this
hour, in regard to your soul, only two
words in order to kindle with gladness
all the redeemed before the throne,
only two words: Father saved"
Mother saved" "Son saved, "Daugh-
ter saved" And there Is Joy in
Heaven among the angels of God over
one sinner that repenteth."
My subject also impresses me with
the fact that the salvation of the soul
is OF vast Importance. If you should
make 5000, 900 this year, do you sup
pose that news would be carried to
Heaven? 1t would not be of enough
Importance or significance to be carried
heavenward If at the next quadren-
NAL election you are made president of
the United States, do you suppose that
news would be carried to Heaven? Do
you suppose that the news of revolu-
ton in France or Spain would be car
ried TO Heaven? These things arc
not of enough Importance, but
there is one item that is sure
to be carried. It is the salvation
of your soul; it is your repentance be-
fore God The flying hoofs of Gods
couriers clash through the gates and
a. g. %
and from mansion to temple, and from
temple to throne, and there is JOY in
Heaven" among the angels of God over
one sinner forgiven. IL must be of vast
importance to be of any moment in
Heaven, your salvation, in that land
where gladnesses are the everyday oc-
currence, in that land where the COM
mon stones Of the field are jasper and
emerald and chrysoprasus and car
buncle and sardonyN And yet, the
news OF your salvation makes JOY be-
fore the throne of God
You remember, years ago, n stage
driver, in the White Mountains became
very reckless. He had large number
OF passengers on the stage, and the
stage was drawn by six horses, wild'and
ungovernable, and he drove near
the precipice, and he drove on, the
stage with its precious weight rolling
down the embankment and many were
slain, but few were saved. / suppose
when they'wrote home they wrote with
congratulation ut their rescue. The An
gels OF God look down and they see
men driving on the edge Of great preci-
pices OF ruin and danger, drawn by wild,
leaping, foaming and ungovernable per-
lis in this life, and il any shall escape be-
fore they capsize, do you not suppose
the angels of God rejoice, crying:
Good, good! Saved from sin, saved
from death, saved from hell, saved for
ever?"
The supreme court Of the United
States does not adjourn for anything
trifling 1t must be the death OF a cab
met minister, or the death OF presi-
dent or some matter OF very great mo-
ment When find all Heaven adjourn
ing It's other joys for this one Joy,
make up my mind it is of very great i'm
portance il Heaven can afford TO ad-
journ all other festivities TO celebrate
this one triumph Do you wonder that
so many OF these Christian people
have toiled night and day in this work
OF soul-saving IL IL is OF such vast i'm
portance? Do you wonder that Netue-
ton and Finley, and Bishop Asbury, and
John Wesley, and George Whitefield,
and Paul, and angels, and Christ, and
God stripped themselves for the work?
Around that one soul circles tho mist
the fire, the darkness, the JOY, the an
them. the wailing, the hallelujah, and
the woe Of Gods nniHerse IL the soul