News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1892-02-25
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importance or significance to be car
ried heavenward If at the next
quadrennial election you are made
| president of the United States, do you
suppose that news would be carried
to heaven? Do you suppose that the
news of a revolution in France OF
Spain would be carried to heaveni
These things are not of enough i'm
pOrtance; but there is one item that
is sure to be carried. 1t is the saliva
ton of your soul; it is your repent
ance before God.
The flying hoofs of Gods couriers
clash through the gates and the news
goes from gate to mansion and from
mansion to temple and from temple
to throne, and there is joy in
heaven" among the angels of God
over one sinner forgiven 1t must be
of vast Importance to be of any mo-
ment in heaven, your salvation in
that land where gladnesses are the
everyday occurrence in that land
where the common stones of the field
are jasper and emerald and chryso-
prasuS and carbuncle and sardonyX.
And yet the news of your salvation
makes Joy before the throne of God.
You remember years ago a stage
driver in the White mountains be-
came very reckless. He had large
number of passengers on the stage,
and the stage was drawn by six
horses, wild and ungovernable, and
he drove near the precipice, and he
drove off, the stage with its precious
freight rolling down the embank-
ment, and many were slain, but few
were saved. l suppose when they
wrote home they wrote with con-
gratulations at their rescue. The
angels of God look down and they
see men driving ON the edge of great
precipices of ruin and danger drawn
by wild, leaping, foaming and I'M
governable perils in this life, and if
any shall escape before they capsize,
do you not suppose the angels of God
rejoice, crying: Good, goodl Saved
from sin, saved from death, saved
from hell, saved forever"
The supreme court of the United
States does not adjourn for anything
tri1ing.. It must be the death of n
cabinet minister, or the death of 81
president, or some matter of very
great moment. When / find all
heaven adjourning its other joys for
this one joy, make up my mind it
is of very great importance if heav-
en- can afford to adjourn all other
festivities to celebrate this one tri
umph.
Do you wonder that so many of
these Christian people have toiled
night and day in this work of soul
saving, if it is of such vast impor-
tance2 Do you wonder that Nettle-
ton and Finley and Bishop Asbury
and John Wesley and George White
field and Paul and angels and Christ
and God stripped themselves for the
work. Around that one soul circles
the mist, the fire, 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 I plead.
RELIGION A COMFORT AND A JOY.
Having found in my own expert
ence that this religion is a comfort
and joy, I stand here to commend
it to you. In the days of my infancy
l was carried by Christian parents 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 time l was
taught to kneel 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 I 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 l 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
ng influence, 1 verify believe when |
gave my heart to God there were |
some spirits in heaven the gladder |
;or 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
1ow to pray. ooh" you say, can't |
pray" Can you not say, God, be
nerciful to me, a sinner" No" |
you say, Il can't say that" Then
IAN you not look to the throne of |
nercy2 mo" you say, Il can't
ook up"
Can you not then give some signal |
ike that which was given by the lad
n the hospital2 He was sick and |
and dying, and wanted |
speedily to go away from all suffering
md pain, and he said to his comrades
n the hospital: 1T is strange to me
hat Jesus doesn't see me when he |
goes through here nights and takes
others to himself. He goes through
lere, and he doesn't see me. I must
De asleep, and he doesn't know l
want to go.
"Now, tell you how I'll arrange
t. I'll go to sleep with my hand up,
ind then when Jesus comes through
he hospital by night he will see my
land lifted, and he will know by that
want to go with him. So it was
lone For that night Jesus went
through the hospital and took the
lad, and the next morning
he nurse passing through the wards
If the hospital saw dead hand lifted
1raced on one side against the pillow,
md the left hand holding the elbow
If the right arm. Jesus had seen
he signal and answered it. o sick
'oul, wounded soul, dying soul, canst
hou not give some signal? Wilt thou
lot lift one hand or one prayer2 God
rant that this day there may be JOY
n heaven among the angels of God
'ver your soul forgiven!
Queer Things in Science.
Fourteen years ago Professor Pic
ct, OF Geneva, reduced hydrogen
or the first time to liquid. 1t was