Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1894-02-03
with upholstery crimson with crucifxioi
carnage. Come into it.

| it is a very good subject for theological
students who have lust begun to sermon
i2e, but for older men it is improper.
| There is no more proof in that Bible that
there is 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 1s5, 900 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. | suppose
they reach from here to the very gate,
and when an audience is assembled for
Christian worship the air is full of them.
II 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 1t stood before Christ and
heard the doxology of the glorifed.
Look! Bright immortal, what news
from the golden ethyl 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 klndle the JOY. They have stood
IN siory-they know all about 1t. They
have felt the JOY that Is feit where there
are no tears ana no graves; immortal
health, but no lnvalldlsm; songs, but no
groahs; wedding Deils, put no tuneral
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,
! prlnclpahtles and powers! Ready, sera-
phim ana cheruolm! Ready Michael
TIE Archangei!
Again, your kindred IN glory are all
ready for your coming. pronounce
modern splrituallsm fraud and sham
II John Milton and George Wmtefield
have no better business than to crawl
under table and rattle the leaves, they
had better stay at home in glory. Wmle
| 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-
demptlon.
This Bible says plainly there is joy in
! nf
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 a holy life. Suppose you
should be born into the Kingdom. Sup
pose You should now say: Farewell, o
deceiiful world! Get thee gone, my sin!
File upon all the folllesl . Christ, help
me or | perish! | take thy promise. /
believe thy word. enter thy service
Suppose You should say and do thisf
"hy' the anger sent TO you woulo shout
upwaro' ne Is coniihs1 anu .he anger
polsihs nisner III tue an "Vuiu Smut II
upward ne Is coming. anu IL would
run All up the ilile Oh ilghe from wing 10
Wing anu from trumpet 10 trumpet uhtii
IL reacheu tle sa'e' anu 'heii IL wouin !.
nasil 10 tiie mouse Vi many mansions
ana II would ma OUT your kihdred tilere,
anu oeioie youl 'ea,9 y, repentance llau
pee1i wipea iroh the cneek ana peiore
you hau nhisheo your nrst prayer your
Kindred III glory "oulu khow oi 1t, anu
another heaven "ouiu De auueo 10 their
JOY ana tfiey "ouiu cry MY prayers
are aiswered' aiioIner ioVeu one saved.
UNe ele iiarp Win WHICH 70 strihe the
Joy saved! saved oaVedS
FINAL EXPLOITATION. -
III nave SHOWN you 'hat an thihSs
are ready. that Chrlst Is ready that the
BOY spirit Is ready thas the church
is ready, that the angels III glory are
reauy' 'that your giorlhea kihufed are
ready lhen WITH an ths concentrated
emphasis OF my soul ask you II 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-
tation. You have the most importunate
invitation. Two arms stretched down
from the cross soaked in blood from>ei'
bow to finger tip, two lips quivering in
mortal anguish, two eyes beaming with
infinite love, saying, Come, come, for
all things are now ready"
told you that when the queen came
to Kenilworth 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 t.
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, | wish
could go around from circle to circle and
invite every one of you, according to thJ
invitation of my text, saying. Gomez
l would like to take every one of you
by the hand and say, Gomez Old man
! who has been wandering 90 or 70 years
thy sun has almost gone down. Through
the dust Of the evening stretch out youl
withered hand to Christ. He will not
cast thee off, old man. Oh, that one teai
Of repentance might trickle down thy
wrinkled cheek! After Christ has FED
thee all thy life long. do you not thinA