Evening capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1888-1893, 1892-02-22

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tTifing. il must be the death OF a
cabinet minister or the death Of a
president, or some matter of very
greet moment. When [ find all
heaven adjourning It's other Joys for
this one joy, / make up my mind it
Is OF very great Importance If haav-
On can afford TO adjourn all other
festivities to celebrate this one (.
tInph.
Do you wonder that 80 many of
these Christian people have t,iIed
night and day in this work of soul
saving, If it IL Of such vast I'M rnor-
tancel Do you wonder that Ncttle-
ton and Finley and Bishop As5ury
and John Wesley and George White
field and Paul and angels and Christ
and God stripped themselves for the
work3 Around that one soul circles
the mist. the fro. the darkness. the
JOY. the anthem, the wailing. the
hallelujah and the woe of Gods uni
verse If the soul is saved, then lip
comes to trumpet and fingers to harp
and hammer to bell and There Is
joy among the angels of God over
that one soul forgiven" For such a
soul plead.
RELIGION COMFORT AND A 10Y.
Having found in my own expert
ence that tl:s religion is a comfort
and joy, Lsta1Id here to commend
It 10 you. La the days of my infancy
l was carried By Christian parents 10
the house Of God, and consec1atsd in
baptism ~ the Father, and the Son,
and the Holy Ghost but that did
not save me. la after time | was
taught to Rneel at the Christian
family altar with father and mother
and brothers and sisters, the most of
them now in glory; but that did not
save me.
In after time l read Doddridge's
Rise and Progress" and Baxter's
Call to the Unconverted, and all
the religious books around my ia
theirs household, but that did not
save me. But one day the voice of
Christ came into my heart, saying,
Repent, repent; believe, believe" " |
and | accepted the offer of mercy,
and though no doubt there was more |
joy in heaven over the conversion of
other souls because of their far reach
ing influence, verify believe when
gave my heart to God there were
some spirits in heaven the gladder
for the deed. There is joy in heaven
among the angels of God over one
sinner that repenteth."
Turn this day to the Lord who
bought you. Let this whole audi
ence surrender themselves to Jesus
Christ If for ten, twenty. fifty
years you have not prayed, begin
now to pray. "Oh, you say, Il can't
pray" Can you not say, God, be
merciful to me, a sinner2" NO"
you say, II can't say that" Then
can you not look to the throne of
mercy9 No" you say, 81 can't
look up"
Can you not then give some signal
like that which was given by the lad
in the hospital2 He was sick and
suffering and dying, and wanted
speedily togo away from all suffering
and pain, and he said to his comrades
in the hospital: 1T is strange to me
that Jesus doesn't see me when he
goes through here nights and takes
others To himself He goes through
here, and he doesn't see me. l must
be asleep, and he doesn't know l
want to go.
'Now, l tell you how I'll arrange
it. 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 it was
done. For that night Jesus went
through the hospital and took the
suffering lad, and the next morning
the nurse passing through the wards
Of the hospital saw a 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 it. o sick
soul, wounded soul, dying soul, canst
thou net give some signal2 Wilt thou
not lift one hand or one prayerl God
grant that this day there may be joy
N heaven among the angels of God
over your soul forgiven