The Olneyville times. (Olneyville [Providence, R.I.]) 1887-1917, 1894-02-02

shut. No; he is praying for your re-
demption 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 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:
sGive that man room at the sacrament.
Bring the silver bowl for his baptism.
Give him the right hand of Christian fell
lowship. Bring him into all Christian
associations"
Oh, you wanderer on the cold noun
tains, come into the warm sheepfold. l
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 It's
imperfections. Christ bought it, and
hoisted the pillars, and swung its gates,
and lifted its arches, and curtalned 1t
with upholstery crimson with crucltiXlon
carnage. Come into it.
We are a 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 slay $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 guardian an
gel, 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 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 ready"
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.
Ready, all of them! Ready, thrones,
principalities and powers! Ready, sera-
phim and cherubim! Ready, Michael
the Archangel!
Again, your kindred in glory are all
ready for your coming. l pronounce
modern spiritualism fraud and sham.
If John Milton and George Whiteield
have no better business than to crawl
under table and rattle the leaves, they
had better stay at home in glory. While
1 believe that modern spiritualism is
bad because of its 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 Apirits 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" j." 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, 0
deceitful world Get thee gone, my sin!
Fie upon all the follies! o Christ, help
me or 1 perish! take thy promise. 1
believe thy word. l enter thy service"
Suppose you should say and do this?
Why, the angel sent to you would shout
upward. He is comirgp and th3 angel
posing 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 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 harp with which to strike the
Joy. Saved! Saved! Saved"
FINAL EXPLOITATION.
If I have shown you that ''all things
are ready" that Christ is ready, that the
Holy Spirit is ready, that the church