The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1892-03-28

as angels see them, we need to see the conflict
mat Is mere going on a. the angels see it We
neeu 70 see them in their reality Things are
Ieai mere ana coming with this thought there
mus. DC another admitted to our minds as the
ange.s are being considered in connection with
tne gospel OF Jesus. And that is the thought Of
TINS reoemption's glorious Immortality.
why 90 want an everlasting gospel? Be-
cause am an everlasting being. l can stop at
no point till l find an immortal Savior. It is
an immortal soul that is in jeopardy here
Think OF it in the right light, and you will see
mat immortal beings are not dispatched on
wings oil lightning from the courts Of glory to
rms speck OF earth to contend over an existence
winch Is for century, or two OF five centuries,
ana Then shall be no more. 1t is an awful mis-
take TO imagine that the Savior would have
come TO the cross of shame, and brought to his
assistance myriads OF angels to assist in the
WORK OF saving souls for day. The
reality OF this matter reaches beyond
All ume, and can be measured by nothing
Dut eternity. Immortal destiuies are
the objects which stir the angel minds in
paradise, and cause them to fy to our earth so
willingly to assist in q work OF such vast i'm
portance. You have often heard sinners saying
that If these things were so real the Gospel
presents them, and as we Christian people be-
heve them to be, would not there be more en-
ergy In this matter for them?
Decidedly, yes. But that 10 only half the
question and half the answer. Is NOS there
now far more being done for them than they
are apprecia:ing? Who among the uncovered
in this presence will call in question this state
ment? There is tar more being done for every
one OF you than you are approaching. Then,
keep in mind the spiritual law that one angel
visit rudely turned away makes the next visit
longer and of less effect when it is made. And
these things dulling your sense makes it harder
for ynVx 70. hat -. - zff Aarf
that is being made for you. If you had not
shut up your spiritual faculties to all the spirit
ual influences around, and If you saw just what
is being done for you, all the wonder would be
turned the other way. Did you ever say: "Why
were not the preachers words more burning
aud seraphic2 Why were there not put into
this Book words of a more stirring character?
Why do not Christians act differently"
Have these been your questions? Then the
answer should be very different one from any
that has ever been given on this question be-
fore. That answer is that If you would not SO
dull your senses you would see all and much
more than all the seraphic earnestness in the
message of life than you ever desired. Much
more would be there seen than the most unrea-
sonable demand that ever you made OF your
fellow men. You would not ask as to why
there were not different words put into these
pages so as to attract your attention; you
would see that there are words of such reality
and such burning intensity that you would be
thoroughly sstonished that you did not hear
them long, long ago.
There il the right answer to this series of
questions You have shut up your spiritual
doors and blunted all the powers by which you
could perceive spiritual things. Therefore you
are not aware of what awful intensity there is
going on around you at this very moment. IL
you could but get from under the power OF the
great moral deadener of men; If you could be
far enough from his binding power to see the
flashes Of the angels hands they are trying
even now to get down through the grossness OF
your dull spirituality and there fix q divine
truth for an eternal harvest; if you could see
how many Satanic efforts have already been
thwarted again and again by heavens warriors
clad in white that you might have chance to
believe; If you would do so, then say that
your whole trend of thought would be changed
on this matter. Some of you have go sighted
this matter, have given 20 little attention to 1t,
that you are really not aware that two worlds OF
spirits have been in deadly conflict over your
soul for years. These arc not guesses; they ere
terrible realities. An angel OF light fought for
the very moment that you are now spending in
this sanctuary; 1t is just possible that the an
gels Of God had to contend for every inch OF
ground over which you csme to this place OF
worship. Are there not some OF you here who
thought you would come, and then you thought
you would not; then again you renewed your
ought to know that what was an unreal affair
with you In your dull apprehension OF this
matter was q fearful reality in the spiritual
rea.m.
Again I affirm that this is what 10 needed.
You need spiritual quickening. You need to
know what 1t is that moves the hearts OF the
angel choristers. Then will you see what is
tho reality of things as you have not yet seen
them And you will see that they are eternal
Let me read to you what an able thinker has
said about this effort of Christ to open these
spiritual faculties to higher truths:
"Hsre, then, 10 Christ on one side. contriving
how to open this immense upper world OF the
soul, and you, on your side, protesting that
there is not and must not be any such upper
world in you. He would make the soul sky
full of glorious and blessed coneourse, and you
set yourselves to it, As problem worthy OF
your industry, to make 1t . cavern. His WORK
may be q hard one, but yours will be much
harder The emptiness of your cavern will
ring back answers, stronger to most men, after
ALL than your arguments. For heaven is as
much a necessity to men as bread, and the soul
can no more live without the supernatural than
the senses without matters OF sense.
And just notice that you cannot have the con-
ception of heaven without its being peopled
with angelic inhabitants. This thought must
be q reality to you or you are in the Jog OF the
unreal.
To think of heaven without heavenly beings
is out of the question. You must think OF tnat
abode az ons where these immortal spirits live
You must have spiritual insight enough to see
that the king in Zion sits enthroned with his
myriad attendants, and as your soul comes into
fellowship with this thought yon are able to
think of that place AZ your own home And
then you long for it az the tired servant waits
for the shadows of evening
That 10 the thought OF Immortality. Think
for a moment rs to what the effect of COM
munion with spiritual ideas on your spirits.
And what if you were conversing with . person
who had been living for 10, 0)0 years. would not
this thought expand your ideasf What If you
had an exchange of ideas with one who had
been living in a place for 10000 years? How
even that short space of time would flood your
thoughts with the light of Immortality. How
real then would all these things become to your
awakened senses; o, what change from the
dull and unreal way that you have been looking
at things here.
"Ths changs is so great as to be sometimes
even bewildering. 1t is as if some wondrous,
unknown light had broken in: the whole sky is
luminous The soIl is in day, for the day has
dawned, and the day-star has risen. God,
eternity, immortality, universal love and So
cietv into these broad ranges 1t has come, and
in these il is free. having them all for its ele-
ment and its conversation in them, as in
heaven The unknowng state, the old, blank
ignorance that was, because Of the blindness OF
the heart, is gone; and a wondrous knowledge
opens because the heart can see"
So I come 10 think that this Gospel Is an
eternal verify. That it is not going to fail nor
come short in any OF the work which has been
intended by its author, There are glorious
things TO be done by it, and there are armies of
miuistering spirits TO to il that it shall go on
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