Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1894-02-08

sI,i II. do not know what HYMN NAV
bring you to Jesus ! do not know
what words of the Scripture lesson
read may save your soul. Perhaps the
spirit of God may hurl the very text
into your heart, Come, for all things
are now ready"
Again, the church is ready. o, man,
II could take the curtain off these
Christian hearts, | could show you a
great many anxieties for your redemp-
ton. You think that old man is asleep,
because his head is down and his eyes
are shut. No. he is praying for your
redemption. and hoping that the words
spoken may strike your heart. DO you
know the air is full of prayer? DO you
know that prayer is going up from
Fulton street prayer meeting, and from
Friday evening prayer meeting. and
going up every hour of the day for the
redemption of people? And if you
should just start toward the door of the
Christian church, how quickly it would
fly open. Hundreds of people would
say: Give that man room at the sacra-
ment. Bring the silver bowl for his
baptism. Give him the right hand of
Christian fellowship. Bring him into
all Christian associations" O, you wan
derer on the cold mountains, come into
the warm sheepfold let down the
bars and bid you come in. With the
Shepherds crook point You the way.
Hundreds of Christian hands beckon
you into the church of God A great
many people do not like the church,
and say it is a great mass of hypocrites;
but it is a glorious church with all its
imperfections Christ bought il, and
hoisted the pillars, and swung its gates
and lifted its arches, and curtained it
with upholstery crimson with cruel
txion carnage. Come into it,
We are garden walled around.
Chosen and made peculiar ground;
little spot enclos, bg grace,
Out of the worlds wild Wide ness
Again, the angels of God are ready.
A great many Christians think that the
talk about angels is fanciful You say
1t Is very good subject for theological
students who have just begun to SER
monte; but for older men it is improp-
err There is no more proof in the Bible
that there is a 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
Almightyw Did not David see thou
sands and thousands? Did not one
angel slay one hundred and eighty-five |
Thousand men in Sennacherib's army?
And shall they not be the chief harves-
ters at the Judgment?
There is line of loving, holy. |
mighty angels reaching to Heaven. ! |
suppose they reach from here 10 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
a guardian angel. how many celestials
there are herel They crowd the place,
they hover. they fit about, they re-
joice. Look, that spirit is just come
from the throne. A moment ago il
stood before Christ. and heard the
ioxology of the glorified. Look.
Bright immortal. what news from the
golden city? Speak, spirit blest, The
comes melting in the air.
Come, for all things are now ready"
Angels ready to bear the tidings. an
gels ready to drop the benediction. an
gels ready to kindle the joy. They
have stood in glory-they know all
about 1t. They have felt the Joy that
S felt where there are no tears and no
graves; immortal health, but no in
Talidism; songs but no groans; we'd
ling bellies, but no funeral torches
eyes that never weep-hands that
never blister-heads that never faint
hearts that never break friendships
hat are never weakened.
Ready, all of them! Ready thrones.
and powersl Ready
and cherubim! Ready, Mi
.hael the archangel.
Again, your kindred in glory are all
eady for your coming. | pronounce
modern spiritualism fraud and
ham. If John Milton and George
Nhiteield have no better business
han to crawl under a table and rattle
he leaves, they had better stay at home
n glory. While | believe that modern
piritualism is bad, because of its men,
al and domestic ravages, common
ense. enlightened by the word of God.
caches us that our friends in glory
with our redemption. This
'ible says plainly there is joy in 4
ieaven among the angels of God over .
ne sinner that repenteth: and If angels
eioice and know of IL shall NOT onr Z
riends standing among them, know /
!? Some of these spirits in glory
oiled for your redemption. When
hey came to die. their chief grief !
-as that you were not a Christian.
hey said Meet nae in Heaven and
ut their hand out from the cover aud \
lid Goodbye" Now suppose you
lould cross over from a sinful life to
holy life. suppose you should be
orn into the kingdom. Suppose yon 4
Mould now say: Farewell, o deceitful
.nr1dl ftef thee roma ms es.f IL.