Capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1893-1895, 1894-01-31

spirit. l do not know what hymn may
bring you to Jesus. do not know what
words of the Scripture lesson read may
save your soul. Perhaps the spirit of
God may hurl the very text into your
| heart, Come, for all things are now
ready"
A GLORIOUS CHURCH.
Again, the church is ready. o man,
if l could take the curtain off these Chris
tian hearts, l could show you great
many anxieties for your redemption.
You think that old man is asleep be-
cause his head is down and his eyes are
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
openl 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 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 its
imperfections. Christ bought it, and
hoisted the pillars, and swung its gates,
and lifted its arches, and curtained it
with upholstery crimson with crucifxion
carnage. Come into it.
We are garden walled around,
Chosen and made peculiar ground,
A little spot nclosed 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 a very good subject for theological
bluNltlilS W llO lldNO ltoO D0S llll w lllOAA
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,
Ln1 -, bn a,.l God 1,,,iphtxy9f hid
not David see thousands and thousands
Did not one angel slay 1876, 600 men in
Sennacherib's army? And shall they not
be the chief harvesters at the judgment?
IMMORTAL HEALTH.
There is a 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 herel
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 glorifed.
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
aud irnTnnrfa1 a
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,
and powers! Ready, sera-
phim and cherubiml Ready, Michael
the Archangel!
Again, your kindred in glory are all
ready for your coming. | pronounce
modern spiritualism 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 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
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 a 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 |
leceitful worldl Get thee gone, my sin! |
Fie upon all the follies! o Christ, help |
me or | perish! take thy promise.
believe thy word. l enter thy service"
Suppose you should say and do thisf
Why, the angel sent to you would shout
inward. HE is comingw and the angel |