The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1894-02-02

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have a guardian angel, how many
celestials there are here. They crowd
the place, they hover. they fit about,
they rejoice. Look. that spirit is just
come from the throne A moment ago
i. stood before Christ and heard the
doxology of the glorifed. Look!
Bright immortal, what news from
the Golden City! Speak, spirit blestl
The response comes melting on the
air: Come, for all things are now
readyr'
Ready, all of them. Ready thrones,
prinSpalities and powers; ready; SER
aphim and cherubiml Ready, Michael
the archangeL
Again, your kindred in glory are all
ready for your coming. 1 pronounce
modern spiritualism a fraud and a
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 spiritualism is bad because of
its mental and domestic ravages, COM
mon 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 IF God over
one sinner that repenteth; and if angels
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 a Christian. They said:
"Meet me in Heaven" and put their
hand out from the cover and said
| ''good-by" Now, suppose you should
cross over from sinful life to holy
life. Suppose you should be born into
the Kingdom. Suppose You should say
now: Farewell, o deceitful world! Get
thee gone, my SIM File upon all the fol-
lies. o Christ, help me or perish! l
take thy promise. believe thy word.
| 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 up
ward: '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 it
would flash to 1.-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 you had finished
your first prayer, your. kindred in glory
| would know of it, and another heaven
would be added to their JOY, and they
would cry: my prayers are answered
another loved one saved. Give me a
harp with which to strike the Joy.
| Saved! saved. savedr'
If 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, l
| 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 invitation. You have
the most importunate invitation. Two
| arms stretched down from the cross,
soaked in blood from elbow to. finger
| tip; two lips quivering in mortal an
guish: two eyes beaming with infinite
love, saying: Come, come, for all
| things are now ready"
i told you that when the queen came
to Kenilworth castle, they stopped all
| 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
moment 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:
'Come" / would like to take every
one of you by the hand, and say:
Come"
Come. those of you who are the far
thest 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.
Libertine. 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
love. Mercy for thee. o. the chief
of sinners. Harlot! thy feet foul
with hell, and thy laughter
the horror of the stretch, Mary Mag
dalen-look to Jesus 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 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 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. 1t is
only halfway shut! 1t is three-fourths
shut! 1t is only just a-jar. 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 l
call him now. This is the hour of thy
redemption.
While God invites. how blest the day.
How sweet the Gospels charming soundl
Come sinner haste. oh. haste away.
While yet pardoning God is found
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