The Forrest City times., 1892-02-26
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that repenteth."
 My subject also impresses me with the idea that heaven and earth are In close sympathy People talk of heaven as thouyh it were great way oh They say it is hundreds of thousands of miles before you reach tho 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 uni verse and we are on tho rim of the uni verse. That IS not the idea of my text. think tue heart of heaven beats very close to our world We measure distances by the time taken to traverse those
 distances. It used to be long distance to San Franciso. Many weeks
 and months were passed before you could
 reach that city. Now it is six or seven days. It used to be six weeks before you could voyage from here to Liverpool | Now you can go that distance in six or | seven days. And so l measure the distance between earth and heaven, and | I find it is only flash. It is one instant | here, and another instant there. It IS very near to-day. Do you not feel the breath of heaven on your face! Christ
 said in one place it is not twenty -four | hours distance, when he says to the | penitent thief, "Ths day, this day, shalt | thou be with me in Paradise" It Is not
 day, it is not an hour, it is not minute, it
 is not second. O! how near heaven IS to
 eartL. By oceanic cable you send mes
 sage. As it is expensive to send message you compress a great deal of meaning in | few words Sometimes in two words you
 can put vast meaning. And it seems to | l of tod svh
 from earth to heaven. need to take up this
 hour in regard to your soul, only two | words in order to kindle with gladness all
 the redeemed before the throne, only two words Father saved" mother saved,"
 "son saved,'' daughter saved" And
 .there is joy in heaven among tho angels ] of God over one sinner that repenteth." l My subject also impresses me with the ] fact that tho salvation of the soul is of | vast importance. If you should make | s2O), 0C0 this year, do you suppose that news would be carried 10 heaveni It would not be of enough importance or | significance to be carried heavenward. If | at the next quadrennial election you are | made president of tho United States, do | you suppose that news would be carried l to heaven! Do you suppose that the news l of revolution in France or Spain would | Dc carried to beavcnf These things | are not of enough importance, but
 there is one item that is sure to be car | ried. 1t is the salvation Of your I soul, it Is your repentance before God | The flying hoofs Of Gods couriers clash through the gates and tho news goes from gate to mansion, and from mansion to l temple, and from temple to throne, and l there is joy in heaven" among the angels | of God over one sinner forgiven. It must l be of vast importance to be of any mo- | ment in heaven. your salvation, in that land where gladncsses are the everyday occurrence, in that land where the com
 mon stones Of tie fields are jasper and | emerald. and ebry soprasus, and carbun-
 ce and sardonyx. And yet, the news Of l your salvation makes joy before the | throne of God.
 You remember years ago stage driver in tho White mountains became very rcck-
 less. He had large number of pas
 sengers on the stage and the stage was | drawn by six horses, wild aud ungoverna-
 bio and he drove near tho prccipce, and | he drove on, the stage with it's precious
 freight rolling down the cmbankment,
 and many were slain but few were
 saved. suppose when they wrote home | they WlOtc WltH dt tuttr
 rescue The angels of God look down and
 they see men driving on the edge of great
 precipiccs of ruin and danger, drawn by
 wild, leaping, foaming and ungovernabie
 peris in this life, and If any shall escape
 before they capsize, do you not suppose
 the angels of God rejoice, crying: Good,
 good Saved from sin, saved from death,
 saved from hell, saved forcverf"
 Having found in my own experience that
 this religion is q comfort and joy,I stand
 here to commend it to you. In the days o1 my infancy was carrIed by christian pa
 rents to the house of God. and consecrated
 in baptism to the Father, and the Son. and
 the Holy Ghost; but that did not save me.
 In after tune 1 was taught to knccl at the christian family altar with father and
 mothcr and brothers and sisters the most
 of them now m glory. but that did not save
 me. In after time l read Doddridge's Rist
 aud Progress, and Baxtcr's Cau Co the Uncof,
 ue,tcd, and all the religious books around
 my fathers household; but that did not
 save me. But one day the voice of Christ
 came into my heart. saying; Repent, re | pent, believe, believe" and accepted the
 offer of mercy, and though no doubt there
 N as more joy in heaven over the couver
 son o. other souls because of their far reaching influence, verify believe when l gave my heart to God there were some
 spirits in heaven the gladdcr for the deed , There is joy in heaven among the angels
 of God over ono sinner that repent , cth." Turn this day to tho Lord wht f bought you Let this whole audience ! surrender themselves to Jesus Christ. II I for teu, twenty, fifty years you have mol prayed. begin now to pray, "Op yot , say. ''l can't pray" Can you not say
 God be mercfu 10 me, sinner1 D "No," you say. "l can't say that" Ther
 can you not look to the throne of mercy E "No,n you say, Il can't look up''
 Now I'll tell you how I'll arrange it |, Til go to sleep with my hand up, aud then when Jesus comes through the hospital by ! night he will see my hand lifted and ht t will know by that want to go with him. 9 | So it was done. For that night Jesus went through the hospital and took thu n suffering lad, and the next morning ths ' nurse passing thron,h the wards of tht hospital, saw dead hand lifted braced or ' one side against the pillow, and the Jeff 7 hand holding the elbow of the right arm r Jesus had seen the signal and answered it 9 Oi sick soul, wounded soul, dying soul r ranst thou not give some signals Will a | thou rot lift one hand or ono prayeri Got grant that this day there may be joy iI beaver among the angels of God over you c ,oul forgiyeni
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