The Globe-republican., 1894-02-02

glorious church with all its imperfec-
tons Christ bought it. and hoisted
the pillars, and swung its gates, and
: lifted its arches, and curtained it with
upholstery crimson with crucifxion
} carnage. Come into it.
We are \ garden walled around
Chosen and made peculiar ground:
A little spot inclosed by grace,
Out OF the worlds wild wilderness
Again. the angels of God are ready.
great many Christians think that
the talk about angels is fanciful You
say it is q very good subject for theo-
logical students who have just begun
to sermOniZe: but for older men it is
improper. There is no more proof in
the Bible that there is God than that
there are angels, Why. do not they
swarm about Jacobs ladder? Are we
not told that they conducted Lazarus
upward? that they stand before the
throne. their faces covered up with
their wing, while they cry: Holy.
holy. is the Lord God Almightyr' Did
not David see thousands and thousands?
Did not one angel slay lS5. 600 men in
Senacherib's army? And shall they
not be the chief harves.ers at the judg-
ment?
| There Is line of loving. holy,
mighty angels reaching to Heaven.
suppose they reach from here to the
very gate, and when an audience is as
sembled for Christian worship the air
is full of them. If each one of YOU
have guardian angel, how many
celestials there are here They crowd
the place, they hover. they fit about,
they rejoice. Look, that spirit is just
come from the throne. A moment ago
il stood before Christ and heard the
doxology of the gloritied. Look.
Bright immortal, what news from
the Golden City! Speak. spirit blest!
The response comes melting on the
air: Come, for all things are now
ready"
Again. your kindred in glory are all
ready for your coming. | pronounce
modern spiritualism fraud and a
sham. If John Milton and George
| Whitefield have no better business
than to crawl under table and rattle
the leaves, they had better stay at
home in glory. While ] believe that
modern spiritualism is bad. because of
its mental and domestic ravages, COM
mon sense enlightened by the Word of
God teaches us that our friends in
glory sympathize with our redemption.
This Bible says plainly there is joy in
Heaven among the angels of God over
one sinner that repenteth; and if angels
rejoice and know of it. shall not our
| friends, standing among them, know
it?
Some of these spirits in glory toiled
for your redemption When they came
to die. their chief grief was that you
were not Christian. They said:
Meet me in Heaven" and put their
hand out from the cover and said
''good-by." Now, suppose you should
cross over from a sinful life to holy
life. Suppose you should be born into
the Kingdom. Suppose you should say
now: Farewell o deceitful world! Get
thee gone, my sin. Fie upon all the fol-
lies! y Christ. help me or perish. l
take thy promise. / believe thy word.
l enter thy service" Suppose you
should say and do this? Why. the angel
sent to you would shout upward: lie
is coming and the angel. posing
higher in the air. would shout it up
ward: ''IIe is cOming" and it would
run all up the line of light, from wing
to wing and from trumpet to trumpet,
until it reached the gate: and then it
would flash to 1.-The house of many
mansions" and it would find out your
kindred there, and before your tears of
repentance had been wiped from the
cheek, and before you had finished
your first prayer. your kindred in glory
would know of it, and another heaven
would be added to their joy, and they
would cry: My prayers are answered
another loved one saved Give me a
harp with which to strike the joy.
Saved! saved. saved!''
If have shown you that ''all things
are ready" that Christ is ready, that
the Holy Spirit is ready, that the
church is ready, that the angels in
glory are ready. that your glorified
kindred are ready. then with all the
concentrated emphasis of my soul, l
ask YOU if you are ready? You see my
subject throws the whole responsibility
upon yourself. If you do not get into
the Kings banquet. it is because you
do not accept the invitation You have
the most importunate invitation. Two
arms stretched down from the cross,
soaked in blood from elbow to finger
tip; two lips quivering in mortal an
guish; two eyes beaming with infinite
love, saving: Come, come, for all
things are now ready"
Come, those of you who are the far
thest away from God. Drunkard!
Christ can put out the fire of thy thirst.
He can break that shackle. He can
restore thy blasted home. Go to Jesus
Libertine! Christ saw thee where thou
vert last night. He knows of thy sin.
Yet, if thou wilt bring thy polluted
soul to him this moment, He will throw
over it the ma tile of His pardon and
love. Mercy for thee, o! the chief
of sinners. Harlot! thy feet foul
with hell, and thy laughter
the horror of the street-oh. Mary Mag
dalen-look to Jesus Mercy for thee.
poor lost waif of the street! Self