Evening capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1888-1893, 1892-02-22

heaven, beat with Gl thy hammer
that the rccE n W b. ak Oheaver
et1i,Se WITH eli thy f,ce ling sword
thst our souls may Ia fee.
! was reading " q king WHO, aftc
Gaining a great victory, seid TO hi
army. mo. TO shc1.ing; let every
thing be in quiet; no saouipg." Bu
If this hour your SOL, sAo1ld ccIne Il
God nothing could ss1p the shouting
Of the armies Of God before tn
throne; for there "a Joy in heavel
emong the angola Of God over on
sinner tlat repcnteth."
| IN some families they keen a vacan'
chair ard vacant plate for The de
parted but IL in some of your house
holds you kept a vacant chair and {
vacant p,ats fos' thosS who have gone
away from you into the next world
tho vacant chairs and vacant plates
would outnurnber those which are
occupied l once said TO you there
IRE no vaccnt chairs in heaven, but
recall that. Right beside your loved
one in that good land there is a va,
cant chair. not made vacant by death,
for death never enters there; it is
a vacant chair for you. Will you
take it7
HEAVEN AED EARTH IN CLOSE SYMPATHY
My subject also impresses me with
the idea that heaven and earth are
in close sympathy. People talk of
heaven as though it were great way
off. They say it is hundreds of thou
sands of miles before you reach the
first star, and then you go hundreds
of thousands of miles before you get
to the second star, and then it is mil
lions of miles before you reach heav-
en-. They say heaven is the center
of the universe and we are on the
rim Of the universe. That is not the
idea of my text ] think the heart
Of heaven beats very close to our
world We measure distances by
the time taken to traverse those dis
tances.
1t used to be a long distance to San
Francisco. 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 Lfv-
erpool. Now you can go that dis
tance in six or seven days. And so
measure the distance between earth
and heaven and / find it is only a
flash. 1t is one instant here, and an
other instant there 1t is very near
today. Do you not feel the breath
of heaven on your face2 Christ says
in one place it is not twenty four
hours distance, when he says to the
penitent thief, This day, 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 a second.
Oh, how near heaven is to earth.
By oceanic cable you send a message.
AS it is expensive to send a message,
you compress great deal of meaning
in few words Sometimes 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 lsindle with gladness all
the redeemed before tho throne, only
two words, Father saved, mother
saved, +" son saved, daughter saved"
And there is joy in heaven among
the angels of God over one sinner
that repenteth.
THE SALVATION OF THE SOUL.
My subject also impresses me with
,he fact that the salvation of the soul
3 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
or significance to be car
led heavenward. If at tho next
luadrennial election you are made
president of the United States, do you
suppose that news would be carried
% heavens Do you suppose that the
news of a revolution in France or
spain would be carried to heaven9
These things are not of enough inn
lortance; but there is one item that |
5 sure to be carried. 1t is the saliva
ion of your soul; it is your repent
lnce before God.
The flying hoofs of Gods courieIs
lash through the gates and the news |
yoes from gate to mansion and from
to temple and from temple |
% throne, and there is JOY in
among the angels of God |
)ver one sinner forgiven. 1t must be
If vast Importance to be of any mo-
nent in heaven, your salvation in
hat land whore gladnesses are the
occurrence In that land
where the common stones OF the field
ire Jasper and emerald and chryso
lrasus and carbuncle and sardonyx.
And yet the news of your salvation
makes JOY before the throne of God.
You remember years ago a stage
lriver in the White mountains be-
anne very reckless He had a large
lumber of passengers ON the stage,
nd the stage was drawn by six
lorses, wild and ungovernable, and
10 drove near the precipice, and he
Rove off, tho stage with its precious
gcight rolling down the omhank,
aent, and many We're slain, but few
vere saved | suppose when they
wrote homo they wrote with con.
at their rescue, The
ngols of God look down and they
ee men driving ON tho edge of great
Of ruin and danger drawn
" wild. leaping, foaming and un