The united opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1881-1970, 1894-02-02

God may hurl the very text into you
heart, "Come, for all things are nov
ready"
A GLORIOUS CHURCH.
Again, the church is ready. o man
if could take the curtain off these Chris
tian hearts, could show you a grea
many anxieties for your redemption
You think that old man is asleep be
cause his head is down and his eyes ar,
shut. No; he is praying for your re
demption and hoping that the word
spoken may strike your heart. Do yor
know the air is full of prayer? Do yor
know that prayer is going up from Full
ton street prayer meeting and from Fri
day evening prayer meeting, and going
up every hour of the day for the redemp
ton of the people? And if you should
Just start toward the door of the Chris
tian church, how quickly it would fly
open! Hundreds of people would say
"Give that man room at the sacrament
Bring the silver bowl for his baptism
Give him the right hand of Christian fel.
lowship. Bring him into all Christian
associations"
Oh, you wanderer on the cold noun
tains, come into the warm sheepfold. ]
let down the bars and bid you come in.
With the shepherds crook l 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 great mass of hypocrites,
but it is a glorious church with all its
imperfections. Christ bought it, and
hoisted the pillars, and swung its gates,
and lifted its arches, and curtained it
with upholstery crimson with cruclfixion
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. A
great many Christians think that the
talk about angels is fanciful. You say
it is 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 that
there is a God than that there are angels.
Why, do not they swarm about Jacobs
ladder? Are we not told that they con-
Quoted Lazarus upward; that they stand
before the throne, their faces covered up
with their wings, while they cry, "Holy,
holy is the Lord God Almighty" Did
not David see thousands and thousands
Did not one angel Stay $4,000 men in
Sennacherib's army? And shall they not
be the chief harvesters at the judgment:
IMMORTAL HEALTH.
There is 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 a guardian an
gel, how many celestials there are here!
They crowd the place, they hover, they
Hit about, they rejoice. Look, that spirit
s just come from the throne! A mo-
ment ago it stood before Christ and |
heard the doxology of the glorified.
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 readyw
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ready to drop the benediction, angels
ready to kindle the joy. They have stood
n glory-they know all about it. They
nave felt the joy that is felt where there
Ire no tears and no graves; immortal
health, but no invalidism; songs, but no
yroans; wedding bells, but no funeral
;orches; eyes that never weep, hands
hat never blister, heads that never faint,
hearts that never break, friendships that
ire never weakened.
Ready, all of theml Ready, thrones
and powers! Ready, sera-
,him and cherubim! Ready, Michael
he Archangel!
Again, your kindred in glory are all
eady for your coming. l pronounce
modern spiritualism fraud and sham.
f John Milton and George Whitefeld
AVE no better business than to crawl
Inder a table and rattle the leaves, they
ad better stay at home in glory. While
believe that modern spiritualism is
ad because of its mental and domestic
avages. common sense, enlightened by
he word Cf God. teaches us that our
riends in s.ory sympathize with our re-
emption.
This E. tie says plainly there is joy in
eaven uuoug the angels of God over
ne s-....r That repenteth, and if an
Ella iUjce and know of it shall not !
Ut .ienu standing among them know !
!? Som u these spirits in glory toiled
u yoar redemption. When they came :
, die, their chief grief was that you were
ot a Christian. They said, Meet Inc =
/ heaven" and put their hands out from ;
le cover and said, "Goodby." Now, =
!, pose you should cross over. from a ;
niul life to holy life. Suppose you :
lould lie born into the kingdom Sup !
1se you should now say: Farewell, o :
sceitful world CT thee gone, my SIM u
lie upon all the follies! q Christ. help +,
e or perish! | take thy promise !
,lieve thy word. | enter thy service"
Suppose you should say and do this?
Thy, the angel sent to you would shout
)ward, He is coIningr and the angel ,
using higher in the air would shout it n
lward. He is comingr' and it would O.
N all up the line of light from wing TO h
ing and from trumpet to trumpet until r.
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