The enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 188?-1899, 1892-02-24

Is to Garth. by oceanic cable you send
q message AS it is expensive to send
message, you compress a great dea: 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 the
angels of God over one sinner that re-
penteth."
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 suppose that
news would be carried to HeavenP 1t
would not be of enough Importance or
significance to be carried heavenward
II 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 revolution in France
or Spain would be carried to HeavenP
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, andy sardonyM And yet, the
news of your salvation makes Joy be-
fore the throne of God. You remem-
ber years ago, stage-drivcr in the
White Mountains became very reckless.
He had large number OF passengers
on the stage. aud 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,
drawn by wild, leaping, foaming and
ungovernable perils in this life, and II
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
trihing. It 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 Heaven adjourning
its other joys for this one JOY, l make
up my mind It is of very great import
ance II 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, II Il is OF such vast Importance Do
you wonder that Nettleton and Finley,
and Bishop Asbury, and John Wesley,
and George Whitefeld, 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. II the soul is saved, then
lip comes TO trumpet and fingers 10 harp
and hammer to bell and there is JOY
among the angels of,Gol over that one
soul forgiven" For such soul
plead.
Having found in my own experience
that this religion is a comfort and JOY
stand here TO commend IL toyou In
the days of my infancy ] was carried by
Christian parents TO the house OF God
and consecrated in baptism to the
Father and the Son, and the Holy
Ghost: but that did not save me. In
after time | was taught TO lineel at the
Christian family altar with father and
mother and brothers and sisters
the most of them now in glory
but that did not save me- In after
time | read Dodd5ige's Rise ant
Progress. and Baxter's Call TO the I'm
converted. and all the religious books
around nv fathers household; but that
did not save me. Bu; one day the voice
. OF Christ came into my heart saying,
"Repent, repent; believe, believe, and
accented the offer Of mercy. aud though
no doubt there was more Joy In Heaver
over the conversion OF other souls be
cause Of their far-rcaching influence,
J verify believe when gave my heart x
: God there were some spirits in Heaven
the pladder for the deed. There II
low in Heaven among the angels OF Goo
over one sinner that repenteth." Turn
his day to the Lord who bought you
Let this whole audience surrender
themselves TO Jesus Christ IL fo
; ten, twenty. fifty years you have moi
| prayed, begin now to pray. 'OP
You say, III can't pray" Can you moi
saw, "God be merciful to me, sinner?'
mo" you say, II can't say that" Their
, can yoti not look TO the throne Of mercy
, "No," you say. 81 can't look up" Car
you not then give some signal like tina
which was given by lhe lad in the hos
pital? He was sick and suffering ant
} dying, and wanted. speedily TO go away
| from ali suffering and pain and he saiC
TO his comrades in the hospital, 'it II
, strange TO me that Jesus doesn't SCI
me- when He goes through here night
and takes others TO Himself He goel
!. through here and He Doesn't see me.
must be asleep and lie doesn't know