The evening herald. [volume] (Shenandoah, Pa.) 1891-1966, 1893-01-31
OHUROHMATrERs.

The W, ". Revival ServiCer Very success
rul-Rov. Powick's rmon.
The revival services which have been held
IN the N + church since the new year began
have been steadily Increasing in interest and
give promise of still greater results. On Sum
day sixteen persons were received into the
fellowship of the church. making, with those
previously received twenty seven who have
been converted since the meetings began, to
say nothing of the bucksliders reclaimed and
some who have not yet joiued. The love
fcat iu the morning was season Of great
spiritual Refreshments The sermon which
followed, on individual effort to bring SIN
ners TO Jesus made a marked impression
upon the congregation And when those
who would pledge themselves TO renewed et
fort to bring at least one sinner TO the Lamb
Of God during the coming week were asked
to rise, goodiy number stood up.
In She evening chairs had to be placed in
| the aisles 10 accommodate the congregation
| The sermon was from the text, There isjoy
/ n heaven in the presence of the angels ol
| God over one sinner that repenteth, more
than over ninety and nine just persons which
need no repentance" Luke 10, 40 This
speaks to our heart Its message concerns
The intimate relation that exists between
heaven and earth God has only one prea.
family "the family in earth and in heaven
"1nough now divided by the str'am,
The narrow stream OF death"
When the Baby Of Bethlehem was born, tn,
angel who ANNOUNCED the fact to the wonder
ing shepherds was soon joined by "a multi
rude OF the heavenly host praisiug God and
saying glory TO God in the highest and on
earth peace, good will toward men," Who
| knows how many glorfed spirits Of just men
made perfect were among them? Certainly
they do not cease their interest i'll us When
they leave this world else why were Nose
and Elias permitted to return and coniel
| with Jesus upon the holy mount with refer
ence to that which he was soon to ac
complish at Jerusalem which things the
angels desire to look into"
In you celestial sphere where life is seer
in its true perspective, what are the inven
lions OF Edison, the victories Of Grant, th'
achievements of Lincoln, the fortunes OF
Vanderbilt, the patriotism of Washington
the Empire Of the Cgsars compared with tn,
penitence of brukcn.hearted prodigal who
coming to himself and realizing his dCsperat,
want. says, u will arise and go to my
! Father" This is the only thing that stir
the harmonies of heaven. Here is "a mothe
whose waywaid son left home in disgrace
He has been a companion Of drunkards ano
harlots. She has given him up for worst
than dead. One day she responds TO 60
knock at the door and there he stands
clothed in his right mind He found the
Saviour in a little country church where his
name had been terror and he has cont
nome to tell mother about it. The gift of p
Continent would be paltry nothing to tha.
mother compared to the recovery of her boy
The parable of the lost sheep pictures the
pity OF the sheI herd for the miseries of th,
lost. and the parable of the lost coin pictures
the sense Of loss which has been sustained by
the disappearance of the missing treasure
Both together they express the divine
soiicitude for sinners not only on account of
the misery Of the sinner but ON account oi
the loss which heaven suffers by their
estrangcment. We often pity sinners be
cause of the terrible doom they are counting
but who pites the sinners Saviour who dieu
to save him and who is defrauded Of his
claim? We may pity the prodigal but what
Of his poor father?
The joy of heaven over repentant sinners
is not restricted to the angels Of God Angels
are not the only inhabitants Of heaven
John tells us that he saw "a great multitude
whom no man could number, who had come
mp ont # great tribulation and washed then
robes and made them white in the blood OF
the Lamb" And # the veil sheuld be
drawn, and our eyes should be opened to
might we should doubtless see husbands OF
wives parents or children, brothers or sisters
OF friends looking with longing desire for the
decision you are about to make. And as one
and another decides for God we should see
that the joy in heaven is in the presence OF
the angels. shall it thrill the spirit of that
father OF mother you promised to meet in
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