Peninsula enterprise. [volume] (Accomac, Va.) 1881-1965, 1894-02-03

With the shepherds crook point yo
the way. Hundreds of Christian hand
beckon you into the church of God.
great many people do not like the churc
and say it is great mass Of hypocrites
but it is a glorious church with all it
imperfections. Christ bought it, an
hoisted the pillars, and swung its gates
and lifted its arches, and curtained j
with upholstery crimson with cruci6xiol
carnage. Come into it.
We IRE 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. 4
great many Christians think that tn
talk about angels is fanciful. You SAY
it is a very good subject for theological
students who have just begun to sermon
ize, but for older men it is improper
There is no more proof in that Bible tina
there is God than that there are angels
Why, do not they swarm about Jacob:
ladder? Are we not told that they con
Quoted Lazarus upward; that they stand
before the throne, their faces covered W
with their wings, while they cry, "Holy
holy is the Lord God Almighty DID
not David see thousands and thousands
Did not one angel slay $4,000 men in
Sennacherib's army? And shall they not
be the chief harvesters at the judgment:
IMMORTAL HEALTH.
There is a line of loving, holy, mighty
angels reaching to heaven. l suppose
they reach from here to the very gate,
and when an audience is assembled for
Christian worship the air is full of them.
If each one of you has guardian an
gel, how many celestials there are herel
They crowd the place, they hover, they
fit about, they rejoice. Look, that spirit
is just come from the thronel A mo-
ment ago it stood before Christ and
heard the doxology Of the glorifed.
Look! Bright immortal, what news
from the golden ethyl Speak, spirit blest!
The response comes melting on the air
"Come, for all things are now readyl'
Angels ready to bear the tidings, angels
ready to drop the benediction, angels
ready to kindle the joy. They have stood
in glory-they know all about it. They
have felt the joy that is felt where there
are no tears and no graves; immortal
health, but no invalidism; songs, but no
groans; wedding bells, but no funeral
torches; eyes that never weep, hands
that never blister, heads that never faint,
hearts that never break, friendships that
are never weakened.
Ready, all of them! Ready, thrones,
principalities and powersl Ready, sera
phim and cherubim Ready, Michael
the Archangel!
Again, your kindred in glory are all
ready for your coming. I pronounce
modern spiri tualism fraud and sham.
If John Milton and George Whitefeld
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
demption.
This Bible says plainly there is Joy in
heaven among the angels Of God over
one sinner that repenteth, and if an
gels rejoice and know of it shall not
our friends standing among them know
it? Some of these spirits in glory toi!ed
for your redemption. When they came
to die, their chief grief was that you were
not q Christian. They said, Meet me
in heaven. and put their hands out from
the cover and said, "Goodby." Now,
suppose you should cross over from a
sinful life to holy life. Suppose you
should be born into the kingdom. sup
nose YOU should now say: Farewell, 0
deceitful world Get thee gone, my sin.
File upon all the folliesl o Christ, help
me or l perish! 1 take thy promise. l
believe thy word. enter thy service"
Suppose you should say and do this'
Why, the angel sent to you would shout
inward, HE is coming" and the angel
posing higher in the air would shout 1t
upward, HE is coming" and it would
run all up the line of light from wing to
wing and from trumpet to trumpet until
if reached the gate, and then it would
flash to '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
Won had finished your first prayer your
kindred in glory would know of it, and
another heaven would be added to their
low and they would cry: MY prayers
are answered; another loved one saved.
Give me harp with which to strike the
ioy. Saved! Saved! SavedT
A FINAL EXPLOITATION.
IF I 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 glorihed kindred are
ready. then with all the concentrated
emphasis of my soul l ask you If you
are ready2 You see my subject throws
the whole responsibility upon yourself
If you do not get into the Kings banquet
II is because you do not accept the lnvl'
tation. You have the most importunate
invitation. Two arms stretched down
from the cross soaked in blood from ell
bow to finger tip, two lips quivering II l.,
mortal anguish, two eyes beaming Will
infinite love, saying, Come, come fol
all things are now ready"
told you that when the queen came
to Kenilworth castle they stopped all TIT
clocks, that the finger of time might b
pointed to that happy moment OF her ar
rival. Oh, if the King would come u |,
the castle of your soul, you might wei
afford to stop all the clocks, that tn
hands might forever point to TINS mo
ment as the one most bright, most oless
ed, most tremendous. Now, wish
could go around from circle to circle an
invite every one of You, according TO L, IN
invitation of my text, saying, "ComeF
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