Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1892-02-25

| the penitent thief. hear me cry lot Mer-
cv.'' And the Lord listens and pardons'
! and no sooner is the poor wretch par
| doned than three of the great towers OF
| Heaven strike up silvery cnlme. buo
here is a waif of the street. she passes
under the gaslight, and your soul shud-
ders with great horror. No pity Tor
her. No commiseratlon for her.
AS she passes down the street she
hears a song in midnight mission, ana
as she listens to that song she nears:
| All may come whoever will, I'm
| This Man receives poor sinners stlii.
She puts into that harbor; she kneels
by the rough bench near the door; she
saws: 80 Lord! Thou who dldst nave
mercy on Mary Magdalen, take my DIS
| tered feet off the red hot pavement OF
hell" God says, my daughter, my
sins are forgiven thee; go in peace.
Now all the four tours of Heaven strike
a silyery chime. and they VINO pass
through the celestial streets say:
.What,s that? Why, the worst sinner
must have been saved. Hear all the TOUR
towers ring and ring and ring! lana
there is Joy in Heaven among the angeis
of God over one sinner that repenteth:
Nv subject impresses you, think,
with the thought that it is possible Tor
us to augment the happiness OF heaven.
| Peonle think that souls before the throne
are as happy as they can be- l deny IL.
Look at that mother before the throne
of God. When she died she left her son
| in this world vagabond. That son re-
pented of his iniquities and came TO God.
The report of that salvation has reacned
Heaven. Do you tell me that mother De-
fore the throne Of God has not her JOY
richly augmented? There is many u
man in this house to-day who could go out
with torch and kindle new bonfire OF
victory on the hills of Heaven. III you
would this day repent and come to Co.,
the news of your salvation would reach
Heaven, and then, bark! to the shout of
the ransomed. Your little child went
away from you into the good land:
While she was here you brought her all
kinds of beautiful presents.
Sometimes YOU came home at nightfall
with your pockets full of gifts for her,
and no sooner did you put your night
| kew into the latch than she began at you,
saying, ''Father what have you brought
me?" She is now before the throne OF
God. Can you bring her a gift to-day?
You may Coming to Christ and repent
ing of sin, the tidings will go up to the
throne of God and your child will hear
of it, Oh, what gift for her soul to-
day. She will skip with new gIadness
on the everlasting hills when she hears
of it.
was at Sharpsburg during the war,
and one day / saw d sergeant dash past
on u lathered horse, the blood dripping
from the spurs. / said, THAT sergeant
must be going on very important mes
sage, he must be carrying very impor-
! i; oh, 1,n I,,sf ,iI 20
that" Here arc two angels of God fitting
through the house. fitting towards the
throne in quick dispatch What is the
news? Carrying up the story of souls re-
pentant and forgiven, carrying the news
to the throne of God, carrying the news to
your kindred who are forever saved. Oh,
there is JOY in Heaven among the angels
| of God over one sinner thai repenteth.'
And suppose this whole audience should
turn to the Lord? Heaven would he
| filled with doXOlogies o Heaven, beat
with all thy hammers that the rock may
| break. O Heaven, strike with all thy
cleaning swords that our souls may be
free.
81 was reading of king who, after
gaining a great victory, said to his army,
mo- shooting; let everything be in quiet;
no shouting" But if this hour your soul
should come to God, nothing could stop
the shouting 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 q vacant
! chair and a vacant plato for the departed,
but if in some OF your households you
kept a vacant chair and q vacant plate
for those who have gone away from you
into the next world, the vacant chairs
! and the vacant plates would Ouunumber
those which are occupied l once said
to you there are no vacant chairs in
Heaven, but / recall that Right beside
your loved one in that good land there is
a vacant chair, not made vacant by
death, for death never enters there; it is
a vacant chair for you. Will you take it?
NV subject also impresses me with the
idea that Heaven and earth are in close
sympathy. People talk of Heaven as
though it were a great way off. They
say it is hundreds of thousands 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 millions of miles before you
reach Heaven. 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. l think the heart of
Heaven beats very close to our world.
We measure distances by the time taken
to traverse those distances
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. IL
used to be six weeks before yon could
voyage from here to Liverpool. Now
| you can go that distance in six or seven
days. And so I measure the distance be-
tween earth and Heaven, and I find If is
only a flash. 1t is one instant here and
another instant there. 1t is yerv near
to-day. Do you not feel the breath of
Heaven on your face? Christ saws in ono