Ceredo advance. [volume] (Ceredo, W. Va.) 1885-1939, 1892-03-02

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under the yaslight. and your soul shud-
ders with II great horror No pity for
her. No commiseration for her. AS
she passes down the street, she hears a
song in the midnight mission, and rs
she listens to that song she hears:
All mny come whoever viii.
This Man receives poor sinners still
She puts into that harbor. she kneels
by the rough bench near by the door,
she says: 20 Lordi Thou didst have
mercy on Mary Magdalen. take my
blistered feet off the red hot pavement
of hell" God says: my daughter. thy
sins are forgiven thee; go in peace"
Now all tho four towers OF Heaven
strike silvery chime, and they who
pass through the celestial streets say:
whats that? why, the worst sinner
must have been saved. Hear all the
four towers ring. and ring. and
ring" And there is Joy in Heaven
among the angels of God over one sin
ner that repentcth"
My subject impresses you, l think.
with the thought that it is possible for
rs to augment the happiness of Heaven.
People think that souls before the
throne are rs happy as they can be.
i deny 1t Look mt that mother before
the throne of God. When she died she
left her son in this world n vagabond
That son repented of his iniquities and
came to God. The report of that saliva
ton has reached Heaven. Do You tell
me that mother before the throne of
God has not her Joy richly augmented?
| There is many man in this house to-
day who could go out with torch and
| l<indle new bonfire of victory on the
hills of Heaven. II you would this day
| repent and come TO God. the news of
your salvation would reach Heaven,
and then, harkl to the shout of the ran
| somed
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
mt nightfal with your pockets full of
| gifts for her, and no sooner did You put
your night-ley into the latch than she
began ut you, saying, Father. what
have you brought me?" She is now
before the throne of God. Can you
bring her gift to-day? You may.
Coming TO Christ and repenting of sin,
the tidings will go up to the throne of
| God, and yonr child will hear of it O,
what n gift for my soul to-day She
will skip with new gladness on the
everlasting hills when she hears of it.
was Mt Sharpsburg during the war,
and one day / saw n sergeant dash past
on n lathered horse, the blood dripping
from the spurs. l said, THAT sergeant
must be going on n very important
message, he must be carrying n very
| important dispatch, or he wouldn't ride
like that" Here are two angels of God
Hitting through the house. fitting to-
ward the throne on quick dispatch.
What is the news? Carry up the story
| of souls repentant and forgiven, carry
ing the news to the throne of God. car
rying the news to your kindred who are
| forever saved. O, there is ioy in
Heaven among the angels of God over
one sinner that repenteth." And sup
pose this whole audience should turn
to the Lord? Heaven would be filed
with doxologics. o, Heaven beat with
all thy hammers that the rock may
break. ., Heaven, strike with all thy
| cleaning swords that one soul may
| be free j was reading of n
king who, after gaining great victory,
said to his army: NO. no shouting; let
every thing he in quiet; no shouting"
But If this hour, your soul should come
to God, nothing could stop the shout
| ing of the armies of God before the
throne; for there is Joy in Heaven
among the angels of God over one sim
ner that repenteth." In some families
they keep n vacant chair and vacant
plate for the departed; but il in some OF
your households you kept vacant
chair and vacant plate for those who
have gone away from you into the
next world, the vacant chairs and the
vacant plates would outnum Der those
which are occupied. / once said 10 you
there are no vacant chairs in Heaven;
but / recall that Right beside your
loved one in that good land there is n
vacant chair, not made vacant by death,
for death never enters there; il is n
vacant chair for you, will You take it?
My subject also impresses me with
the idea that Heaven and earth are in
close sympathy People talk of Heaven
as though it were great way off. They
say il is hundreds of thousands of miles
before you can reach the first star, and
then you go hundreds of thousands of
miles before you get to the second star,
and then il is millions of miles before
your each Heaven. They say Heaven is
the center of the universe and we are on
rim of the universe. That is not the
idea of my text / 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 Fran
cisco. 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 you could voyage
from here 20 Liverpool Now you can
go that distance in six or seven days.
And so / measure the distance between
earth and Heaven. and / find IL only a
flash. 1t is one instant here, another
instant there. IL is very near to-day.
| Do you not feel the breath Of Heaven
on your face? Christ says in one place IL
is not tweuty-four hours distance, when
He say 20 the pcnitent thief: This
day shalt thou be with Me in Paradise"
IL is not day, IL is not an hour, IL is
not a minute, 10 is not n second. o.
how near Heaven Is 20 earth. by oce.
anic cable you send a message. As II
is expensive you compromise n great
deal OF meaning in few words Some
times in two words Won cnu mt zoe