Connecticut western news., 1894-02-01

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 Ait about, they rejoice. Look, that spirit is just come from the thronei A mo- ment ago it stood before Christ and heard the doxology of the glorifed.
 Look! Bright immortal, what news
 from the golden cityl Speak, spirit blestl The response comes melting on the air,
 "Come, for all things are now readyp 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 health, but no inyalidism; 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 theml Ready, thrones, principalities and powers! Ready, sera- phim and cherubimi Ready, Michael the Archangel!
 Again, your kindred in glory are all ready for your coming. l pronounce
 modern spirituaIsm 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 I believe that modern spiritualism is bad because of it's mental and domestic ravages, common sense, enlightened by the word of God, teaches us that our friends in glory sympathize with our re- 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 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 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 pose you should now say: Farewell, o deceitful worldl Get thee gone, my sin! Fie upon all the folliesl O Christ, help me or I perishl I 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 comingp and the angel poising higher in the air would shout it upward, He 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 1t would flash to 'the house of many mansions" 1" 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 1t, and another heaven would be added to their joy, and they would cry: My prayers are answered; another loved one saved. Give me harp with which to strike the joy. Savedi Saved! Savedr'
 FINAL APPROPRIATION.
 If l 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 I 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 invi-
 Vo,, bovo tho ,,noof ko
 invitation. Two arms stretched down
 from the cross soaked in blood from el-
 how to finger tip, two lips quivering in
 mortal anguish, two eyes beaming with
 infinite love, saying, Come, come, for
 all things are now ready"
 I told you that when the queen came
 to Wentworth castle they stopped all the
 clocks, that the finger of time might be pointed to that happy moment of her ar
 rival. 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 bless ed, 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, "Comew would like to take every one of you by the hand and say, "ComeI" Old man, who has been wandering 60 or 70 years, thy sun has 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 cheeki After Christ has fed
 thee all thy life long. do you not think you can afford to speak one word in his
 praise?
 Come, those of you who are farthest
 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, ibertinei
 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
 mantle of his pardon and love. Mercy
 for thee, oh, thou chief of sinnersi Har-
 lot, thy feet foul with. hell and thy
 laughter the horror of the street. Oh,
 Mary Magdalene, look to Jesusl Mercy
 for thee, poor lost waif of the street.
 Self righteous man, thou must be born
 again, or thou canst not see the king
 dom of Godl
 Do you think you can get into the feast
 with those rags? Why, the Kings serv-
 ant would tear them off and leave you
 naked at the gate. You must be 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 banqueting
 room, and he begins to swing it shut? It
 is half way shut. It is three-fourths
 shut. It is only just ajar. Soon it will
 be shut.
 Come, for all things are now ready. ]"
 Have missed one man? Who has not
 felt himself called this hour? Then call
 him now. This is the hour of thy re-
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