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

OF your soul: Il is your Repentance >.
fore God The flying hoofs OF ca
couriers clash through the yates ~
the news goes from gate To rnans,o.,
and from mansion to temple. and Sro,,'
temple TO throne. and .'there is low -
Heaven" among the angels of God ovo-
one sinner forgiven. 1t must be OF va,
/ Importance to be of any moment T.,
Heaven, your salvation. in tina, lana
whore gladnesses are the EVERYDAY o.
currence. in that land where the com.
mon stones of the field are JASPER ara
emerald and chrysoprasus and car.
buncle and sardonyN. And vet the
news of your salvation makes iov be-
fore the throne of God
You remember, years ago, n stog.
driver, in the White Mountains became
very reckless He had n large nutnbe-
of passengers on the stage. and tho
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 weight rolling
down the embanlSment. and many were
slain, but few were saved l supnose
when they'wrote home they wrote with
congratulation Mt their rescue. The an
gels of God look down and they see
men driving on the edge of great preci.
pieces of ruin and danger, drawn by wild.
leaping foaming and ungovernable per.
lis in this life, and IL any shall escape be.
fore they capsizc, do you not suppos,
the angels of God rejoice, CRYING.
Good. goodl Saved from sin, saved
from death, saved from hell. saved for.
ever?"
The supreme court of the United
States does not adjourn for ANYTHING
tritiing. II must be the death of n cab
met minister. or the death of a presi.
dent. or some matter of very great mo-
mont When find all Heaven adjourn.
ing its other joys for this one iov.
make up my mind it is of very great i'm.
portance If Heaven can afford TO ad.
journ 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-saving IL it is of such vast inn
portance? Doyou wonder that Ncttle-
ton and Finley, and Bishop Asbury. and
John Wesley, and George Whiteficld.
and Paul, and angels, and Christ, and
God stripped themselves for the worlxp
Around that one soul circles the mist
the fire. the darkness, the joy, the an
them. the wailing, the hallclujah. and
the woe of Gods universe. If the soul
is saved, then lip comes TO trumpet and
fingers 70 harp and hammer to bell, and
there is JOY among the angels of God
over that one soul forgiven" For such
n soul l plead
Having found in my own experience
that this religion Is n comfort and n
JOY, L stand here to commend il To Won.
In the days of my infancy / was car.
ried by Christian parents TO the house
of God, and consccrated in baptism TO
the Father, and the Son, and the Holy
Ghost; but that did not save me.
In after time i was taught To lSneel
at the Christian altar with father
and mother and brother and sis
ters, the most OF them now in glory.
but that did not save me. In after
time read Doddridge's Rise and
Progress," and Bakers Call TO the
Unconverted," and all the religious
books around my fathers household;
but they did not save. me. But one day
the voice of Christ came into my heart,
saying: Repent, repent; believe, be-
lieve;" and l accepted the offer of
mercy. and though no doubt there was
more Joy in Heaven over the CONVEX
sion of other soulssbecause of their far
reaching inf aence, l verify believe
when l gave any heart TO God there was
some spirits in Heaven the gladder for
the deed. There is Joy in Heaven
among the angels of God over one sim
ner that repenteth." Turn this day to
the lord who bought you Let this whole
audience surrender themselves To Jesus
Christ If for ten, twenty, fifty years
you have not prayed, begin now to
pray. "ohv' you say, ~ can't pray"
Can you not say, ''God be merciful to
me sinner" No" you say, IL can't
say that" Then can you not look TO
the throne of mercy? mo" you say,
81 can't look up" Can you not then
| give some signal like that which was
| given by the lad in the hospitalP lie
was sick and suffering and dying, and
wanted speedily to go away from all
suffering and pain, and he said 10 his
comrades in the hospital. at is strange
to me that Jesus doesn't see me wheI
he goes through here nights and takes
Others to himself He goes through
here and He doesn't see me ! must be
asleep and he doesn't know / want 10
| go.
Now, | tell you how I'll arrange II.
I'll go to sleep with my hand up, and
then, when Jesus comes through the
hospital by night He will see my hand
lifted, and He will know by that want
to go with Him" So il was done For
that night Jesus went through the hos
pital and took the suffering lad, and
the next morning the nurse passing
through the wards of the hospital, saw
n dead hand lifted braced on one side
against the pillow, and the left hand
holding the elbow OF the right arm
Jesus had seen the signal and answered
1t. OF sick soul, wounded soul dying
soul; canst thou not give some signa2
Wilt thou not lift one hand or one
| prayer? God grant that this day there
may be JOY in Heaven among the an.
| gels of God over your soul forgivenl
Phenomena OF Life and Death.
The neurology of the old year is AL
ways read by thousands with mournful
interest. In perusing these sad records
the mind unconsciouslv reverts To the
wcll-known aXioms. which tell us that
the average human life is a span OF but
thirty-three and onc-third short years