The Maryville times. (Maryville, Tenn.) 1884-1944, 1892-03-09
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is to earth. By oceanic cable you send
a message. AS it is expensive to send
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 kindle with gladness all the re-
deemed before the throne, only two
words: 'Father saved" mother
saved" ''son saved" daughter saved"
And ''there is joy in Heaven among tn.
angels of God over one sinner that ne
penteth."
My subject also impresses me with
the fact that the salvation of the soul is
of vast Importance. If you should make
$500, 600 this year, do you suppose that
news would be carried to Heaven? 1t
would not be of enough Importance or
significance to be carried heavenward.
If at the next quadrennial 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 a revolution in France
or Spain would be carried to Heaven?
These things are not of enough
Importance, but there is one item that
is sure to be carried. 1t is the salvation
of your soul. it is your repentance be-
fore God The flying hoofs of Gods
couriers clash through the gates and
the news goes from gate to mansion,
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. 1t 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 sardonyX And yet, the
news of your salvation makes Joy be-
fore the throne of God. You remem-
Der years ago, a stage-driver in the
White Mountains became very reckless.
He had a 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 off, the stage with it's precious
freight rolling down the embankment,
and many were slain, but few were
saved. suppose when they wrote home
they wrote with congratulation at their
rescue. The angels of God look down
and they see men driving on the edge
of great precipices of ruin and danger.
I drawn by wild, leaping, foaming and
! ungovernable perils in this life, and If
any shall escape before they capsize,
| do you not suppose the angels of God
rejoice, crying: Good, good! Saved
from sin, saved from death, saved from
, hell, saved forever?"
, The supreme court OF the United
States does not adjourn for anything
| trifling. 1t must be the death of cab,
{ met minister, or the death of presi-
} dent. or some rpatter of very great mo-
ment. When find Heaven adjourning
n it's other joys for this one joy, l make
| up my mind it is of very great import
| ance if Heaven can afford to adjourn 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 saw.
| ing, if it is of such vast Importance? Dc
: you wonder that Nettleton and Finley,
t and Bishop Asbury, and John Wesley,
I and George Whitefield, and Paul, and
: angels, and Christ, and God stripped
, themselves for the work? Around that
one soul circles the mist, the fire, the
: darkness, the joy, the anthem, the wall
ing. the hallelujah, and the woe Of
) Gods universe. If the soul is saved, then
lip comes to trumpet and fingers to harp
and hammer to bell and there is Joy
, among the angels of God over that one
, soul forgiven" For such a soul
r plead.
Having found in my own experience
, that this religion is comfort aud Joy
stand here to commend it to you. Ii
: the days of my infancy was carried by
Christian parents to the house of God
/! and consecrated in baptism to the
2 Father, and the Son, and the Holy
l Ghost; but that did not save me- Ii
: after time was taught to kneel at the
. Christian family altar with father ant
, mother and brothers and sisters
:. the most of them now in glory
but that did not save me. In aftel
Z time / read Doddrige's Rise ant
I Progress and Baxter's Call to the I'm
Y converted and all the religious books
around my fathers household; but thai
n did not save me. But one day the voice
r of Christ came into my heart saying
!. "Repent, repent; believe, believe" and
y accepted the offer of mercy. and though
!" no doubt there was more Joy in HEAVIER
over the conversion of other souls be
u cause of their far-reaching influence,
S verify believe when gave my heart t.
r God there were some spirits in HEAVIER
d the gladder for the deed. There IL
n ioy in Heaven among the angels of Goo
over one sinner that repenteth." Turf
:, this day to the Lord who bought you
Let this whole audience surrender
I themselves to Jesus. Christ. Ii TO
}; ten, twenty, fifty years you have mo-
Il prayed, begin now to pray. %!
YOU say, 81 can't pray" Can you mo-
say, ''God be merciful to me- sinner"
n ono" YOU say, 81 can't say that" Their
!, can you not look to the throne of mercy
l No" YOU say, ~ can't look up" Car
y YOU not then give some signal like tina
s which was given by the lad in the hos
n pital? He was sick and suffering anC
S diving, and wanted speedily to go away
d from all suffering and pain, and he saiC
u to his comrades in the hospital, 1T Il
. strange to me that Jesus doesn't SCI
:, me when He goes through here night
I. and takes others to Himself He goe
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