The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1894-01-31

| rs. 600 men in Sennacherib's army? And
| shall they not be the chief harvesters at
the Judgment?
1 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 a guar
| dian angel how many celestials there are
| herei They crowd the place they hover
| they fit about, they rejoice. Look, That
| spirit is just come from the throne. A
| moment ago it stood before Christ and
/ heard the doXology of the glorified. Looki
! Bright immortal, what news from the
golden city? Speak. spirit blest! The
| response comes melting on the air
| Come, for all things are now readyr'
| 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.
bad business for John Milton.
Ready. all of them Ready thrones.
| principalities and powers! ready
seraphim and cherubim! Ready, Michael
the Archangel!
Again, your kindred in glory are all
! ready for your coming. 1 pronounce
modern spiritualism a fraud and 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 spirituaiism is bad
common 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 il, shall not our
friends. standing among them, know IL?
Some of these spirits in glory toiled for
your redemption. When they came to
die. their chief grief was that you were
not a Christian. They said, Meet me in
| heaven" and put their hands out from
the cover and said. "Good-by" Now
suppose you should cross over from a
sinful life to a holy life Suppose you
should be born into the kingdom. Sup
pose you should now say: Farewell. o
deceitful world Get thee gone, my SIM
Fie upon all the follies! o Christ, help
me or 1 perish / take Thy promise I
believe Thy word. I enter Thy service"
Suppose you should say and do this
Why, the angel sent TO you would shout
upward, He is coming"' and the angel
posing higher in the air would shout
It upward He is cOmingi" and it would
run up all the line of light from wing TO
wing and from trumpet to trumpet I'M
til it reached the gate, and then 1t would
flash to the house of many mansions"
and IL would find out your kindred there,
and before your tears of repentance had
been wiped from the cheek End before
you 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
joy. Saved. saved, saved!'
Ii | 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 gloriied inbred are
ready, then with all the concentrated
emphasis Of my soul ] ask you if you
are ready? You see my subject throws
the whole responsibility upon yourself.
If YOU do not go into the Kings ban
duet. it is because you do not accept
the invitation. You have the most inn
Fortunate invitation. Two arms
stretched down from the cross, soaked
in blood from elbow to finger tips, two
lips qUivering in mortal anguish, two
eyes beaming with infinite love, saying,
"Come. come, for all things are now
ready"
An Eloquent PerOratiOn.
I told YOU that when the queen came
to Kenilworth castle they stopped all
the clocks, that the finger of time might
be pointed to that happy moment of her
arrival oh. if the King would come to
the castle of your soul, you might well
afford to stop all the clocks, that the
hands might forever point TO this mo-
ment as the one most bright, most
blessed. most tremendous Now. l wish
l could go around from circle TO circle
and invite every one of you, according
to the invitation of my text, saying,
Gomez
1 would like to take every one of you
by the hand and say, Come Old man,
who hast been wandering sixty or sew
enty years. thy sun almost gone down,
through the dust of the evening stretch
out your withered hand to Christ. He
will not cast thee off, old man. Oh. that
one tear of repentance might trickle
down thy wrinkled cheek After Christ
has fed thee all thy life long, do You
not think you can afford to speak one
word in His praise2
Come, those Of you who are farthest
away from God. Drunkardl Christ can
put out the fire of the thirst. He can
break that shacl<le. He can restore thy
blasted home. Go to Jesus. Libertinei
Christ saw thee where thou vert last
thou wilt bring thy polluted soul to Him
this moment. He will throw over Il the
mantle OF His pardon and love. Mercy
for thee, oh. thou chief Of sinners, Har-
lot, thy feet foul with hell and thy
laughter the horror OF the street Oh,
Mary Magdalene, look to Jesus. Mercy
for thee. poor lost waif Of the street
SeIf-righteous man, thou must be born
again. or thou csnst not see the kingdom
of God.
Do you think you can get into the
feast with those rags? Why. the
Kings servant would tear them off and
leave you naked at the gate. You must
he born again. The day is far spent.
The cliffs begin to slide their long
shadows across the plain. Do you know
the feast has already begun-the feast
to which you were invited-and the King
sits with His guests, and the servant
stands with his hand on the door Of the
banquetipg room, and he begins to
swing 1t shut 1t is half way
shut. 1t is three-foyrths shut. 1t is
only just ajar. Soon il will be shut.
Come. for all things are now ready"
Have I missed one man? Who has not
felt himself called this hour? Then I
call him now. This is the hour of thy
redemption.
While God invites. how blest the day.
How sweet the gospels charming sound
Come. sinner. haste, oh, haste away,
While yet "A pardOning God is found.
Queen Caroline.
In an English book entitled Foot
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