The united opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1881-1970, 1892-02-26

And suppose this whole audience
should turn to the Lord2 Heaven
would be filled with doxologies. C
heaven, beat with all thy hammers
that the rock may break. % heaven,
strike with all thy gleaml Aswords
that our souls may be free.
was reading of king who, after
gaining a great victory, Sd to his
army, mo, no shouting; |every
thing be in quiet; no shout )" But
If this hour your soul shouldcome tc
God nothing could stop the outing
OF the armies of God before the
throne; for there is joy in heaven
among the angels of God over one
sinner that repenteth.
In some families they keep avacant
chair and vacant plate forrthe de-
parted, but if in some of your house
holds you kept vacant chair and q
vacant plate for those who have gone
away from you into the next world,
the vacant chairs and vacant plates
would outnumber those which are
occupied. / once said to you there
are no vacant chairs in heaveff, but
recall that Right beside your loved
one in that good land there is va
can't chair not made vacant by death,
for death never enters there; it is
vacant chair for you. win you
take it2
HEAVEN AND EARTH IN |apATHY
My subject also I'M ne with
the idea that heaven rth are
in close sympathy. TX of
heaven as though it WI way
off. They say it is hui pou-
sands of miles before I'd the
first star, and then you eds
of thousands of miles befoN) Won get
to the second star, and then sis mil
lions of miles before you reach heav-
en-. They say heaven is thu center
of the universe and we are On the
rim of the universe. That is not the
idea of my text. I 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 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 Liv-
erpool. Now you can go that dis
lance in six or seven days. And so /
measure the distance between earth
and heaven and l 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 minute, it is not a second.
Oh, how near heaven is to earth.
By oceanic cable you send message.
AS it is expensive to send message,
you compress great deal ofmeaning
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 redeemed before the 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 |
the fact that the salvation of the soul
is of vast Importance. If you should |
make 5000, 600 this year, do you sup
pose that news would be carried to
heaven? 1t would not be of enough |
or significance to be car
red heavenward. If at the next |
luadrennial election you are made
president of the United States, do YOU
suppose that news would be carried
20 heaven? Do you suppose that the
news of a revolution in France or
spain would be carried to heaven2
These things are not of enough i'm
)ortance; but there is one item that
S sure to be carried. 1t is the saliva
ion of your soul; it is your repent
lnce before God.
The flying hoofs of Gods couriers
lash through the gates and the news
,oes from gate to mansion and from
to temple and from temple
o throne, and there is joy in
heaven" among the angels of God
'ver one sinner forgiven. 1t must be
# vast Importance to be of any mo-
nent in heaven, your salvation in
hat land where gladnesses are the
occurrence in that land