Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1892-02-25
soul. 1t is your repentance

your soul. 1t is your repentance
God. 0e'l
The flying hoofs of Gods courio.
through the gates and the no .s cl
from gate to mansion, an from ,"S
to temple, and from temple to NaNs
and land there is JOY in Heavenn UFo
the angels of God over one sinn ama
given. 1t must be of vast imnor. et
be of any moment in Heaven W. rn 'ancd
walton. in that land where gloa
are the everyday occurrence "
land where the common storon
field are jasper and emerald ana VI
oprasus and carbuncle and sarS Il1
And yet the news of your S",
makes JOY before the throne of Guy %'sa
You remember years ago,
driver in the White Mountains hos
very reckless. He had large N.Y. onv
of passengers on the stage, and tb mu II
was drawn by six horses, wild anS
governable, and he drove near tbo
pice, and he drove off, the stage wi pI
precious freight rolling down t I''l
bankment, and many were slain h',
were saved. l suppose when thov
home they wrote with congratula,i"
their rescue. The angels of God Oi
down and they see men DRIVING ~
edges of great precipices of ruin and
ger, drawn by wild. leaping toa
and ungovernable perils in this Efo
if any shall escape before they r,n.
do you not suppose the angels Of GaS
joice, CRYING: Good, good S.
from sin, saved from death, saved =
hell, saved forever!
The Supreme Court of the T.,
States does not adjourn for anvil
tritling. It must be the death OF - y
net Minister, or the death of D.
dent, or some matter of very grant
ment. When l find all Heaven adio
ing its other joys for this one ioyI nj
up my mind it is OF very great in
lance if Heaven can afford to adionrn
other festivities to celebrate this ono
umph.
Do you wonder that so many of n
Christian people have toiled night
day in this work of soul-saving, if n
of such vast Importance? DO Won VI
der that Nettleton and Finley and Eis
Asbury and John Wesley and Gqo
Whitetield and Paul and angels
Christ and God stripped themselves
the work? Around that one soul cir
the mist, the fire, the darkness, the !
the anthem, the -Wailing, the haeni
and the woe of Gods universe. If
soul is saved, then lip comes to trum
and fingers to harp and hammer to
and there is JOY among the angel
God over that one soul forgiven"
such a soul l plead.
Having found in my own experje&
that this religion is a comfort and
l stand here to commend it to you
the days of my infancy / was carried
Christian parents to the house of d
and consecrated in baptism to
Father, and the Son, and the h
Ghost; but that did not save me.
after time I was taught to kneel at
Christian family altar with father
mother and brothers and sisters
most of them now in glory; but that
not save me.
In after time 1 read Doddridges II
and Progress" and Baxter's Call to
Unconverted," and all the religious 0
around nay fathers household, but
did not save me. But one day the I'd
of Christ came into my heart sayi
'sRepent, repent; believe, believe, al
accepted the offer of mercy, and thong
doubt there was more 10y in Heaven
the conversion of other souls becauS|
their far-reaching influence, | verify
lieve when gave my heart to God til
were some spirits in Heaven the glad
for the deed. "There is JOY in Hca
among the angels of God over one sin
that repenteth. Turn this day to
Lord who bought you. Let this WI
audience surrender themselves to j
Christ. If for ten, twenty, fifty ID
you have not prayed, begin now to p
"Oh," you say, II can't pray"
you not asy, "God be mercitul to md
sinner?' No" you say, 81 can't
that" Then can you not look to
throne of mercy? NO" you say
can't look up" Can YOU not then
some signal like that which was gve
the lad in the hospital? He was
and suffering and dying, and wan
speedily to go away from all suffer
and pain, and he said to his comrade
the hospital, sit is strange to me
Jesus doesn't see me when tie
through here nights and takes other
Himself. He goes through here ana
doesn't see me. l must be asleep ana
doesn't know l want to go,
"Now, I tell you how I'll arrange
I'll go to sleep with my hand up
then when Jesus comes through the
pital by night He will see my hand III
and He will know by that | want 70
with Him." So it was done. fof
night Jesus went through the hoSp
and took the suffering lad, and the
morning the nurse passing throusE
wards of the hospital saw deaa i
lifted braced on one side against Ins
low, and the left hand holding the e
of the right arm. Jesus had seen 'ne
nal and answered it. On, SICK
wounded soul, dying soul, canst Il n,.
give some signal? Wilt thou not III
hand or one prayer? God gran.
this day there may be JOY IN n'1
among the angels of God over your
forgiven
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