Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1892-02-27

| gard to your soul, only two words in order
to kindle with gladness all the redeemed
before the throne. only two words, Father
saved" mother savei.n sson saved, y
daughter saved And ''there is joy in
heaven among the angels of God over one
sinner that rapenteth-
Ny subject also inDressss ms with the
fact that the salvation of the soul is of vast
Importance. Ii you should make $201 900
this year, do you suD2ose that news would
be carried to heaven? It would not BE- OF
enough Importance or significance to be car
ried heavenward- If at the nsxs quadren-
NAL election you are made President of the
United States, do you suppose that news
would be carried to heaven Do you sup
pose that the news of revolution in Francs
or Spain would be carried to heaven These
things are not of enough Importance but
there is one itsn that is sure to be carried.
1t is the salvation of your souI. 1t is your
repentance before God.
The flying hooss Of COTS curriers' CLASH
through the gates AMI the news goes from
gate to mansion, and from mansion to TEN
pie, and from temple to throne aud there
is JOY in heaven" among thu angels of God
over one sinner forgiven. 1t must be of vast
Importance to be of any moment in heaven,
your salvation in that land where gladnessss
are the every day occurrence, in that land
where the common stones of the field are
Jasper and emerald and chrysoprasus and
carbuncle and sar6onyx. And yet the news
of your salvation makes joy before the
throne OF God.
Having found IN my own experience that
this religion is comfort and Joy, stand
here to comment it to you. In the days of
my infancy / was carried BY Christian pa
rents to the house of God, and consecrated in
baptism to tia Father, and the Son, and the
Holy Ghost, but that did not save me. In
after time | 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 dill not save
me.
In after time l read Do1dridge's '.Riss
and Progress and Bakers "Call to the
Unconverted,n and all the religious books
around my fathers household, but that did
not save me. BuS one day the voics of
Christ came into my heart saying, Repent,
recent; believe, believe" aud accepted the
offer OF mercy, and though no doubt there
joy in heaven over the conversion of
other souls because of their fsr-reacoing in
fuence, l verify believe when | gave my
heart to God thsF5 were some spirits in
heaven the g adder for the deed. There is
joy in heaven among the auge.s of God over
one sinner that repenteth Turn this day to
the Lord who bought you. Let tdis whole
audience surren Ter themselves to Jesus
Christ If for ten, twenty, fifty years you
have not prayei. begin now to pray.
Oh you say 81 can't pray" Can you
not say, "God be merciful to me, a sinnerg
NO" you say, II can't say that" Then
can you not look to the throne OF mercy?
NO." you say. Il can't look up Can you
not give some signal like that which was
given by the lad in the hospital? He was
SICK and suffering and dying, and wanted
speedily to go away from all suffering and
pain, and he said to his comrades in the hos
pital, lit is strange to me that Jesus doesn't
see me when He goes through here nj cats
and takes others to Himself He goes
through here and He doesn't see me. l must
be asleep and He doesn't know | want to go.
Now, 1 tell you how I'll arrange it. I'll
go to sleep with my hands up, and then
when Jesus comes through the hospital by
night He wild see my hand lifted, and He
will know 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 dead
hand lifted bracad 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. On, sick soul, wounded
soul, dying soul, canst thou not give some
signalg Wilt thou not lift one hand or one
prayer? God grant that this day there may
be joy in heaven among the angels of CO.
over your soul forgiveni