The Bolivar bulletin. (Bolivar, Tenn.) 1888-1946, 1894-02-09
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There is a line of loving, holy,
mighty angels reaching to Heaven; 7
sitpptse they reach from here to the
very gate, and when an audience is as
sembled for the Christian worship the
air is full of them. If each one of you
have guardian angel, how many ces
lestials thefe 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 it stood before Christ and heard
the dcxUlogy OF the glorifed. Look!
Bright immortal what news from the
golden city! Speak, spirit blestI The
response comes melting on the air:
Come for all things are now readyr'
Angels ready to bear the tidinEs,
angels ready to drop the t5snedictioii;
angels ready to kindle they 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 gravesg Immortal health,
but no ihvalidism; songs, but nd
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 powetsI teaaS
s6faphiih and cherlibimi Ready,
Michael, the archangel!
If have shown goii that ''al1 things
are ready that Christ is ready, shat
the Holy Spirit is ready, that the
church is ready, that the angels in
glory are ready that your gloriied
kindred are ready, then with all the
concentrated srhphasis of ta5 sBu1;
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 ins
vitatioi, Yoti have the most irhpof-
ttinate ihFitatiJi, rvs arms stfstehed
down from the cross, soaked in blood
from elbow to fnger-tip: two lips quiz
ering in mortal anguish; two eyes
beaming with infinite love, saying;
Come, come, fer 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 mo-
tnert of her arrival OH II the Ring
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,
Hiest tEGf1ehdSns: Eo-s, / Nish t
could go around from circle to circle
and invite every one of you, according
to the invitation of my text, saying:
''Comel" ] would like to take every
she OF rot by the hand and say;
been wandering seventy or eighty
years, thy sun almost gone
down, through the dust of
the evening stretch out. yeur witheted
hand TO Christ. He will not cast thse
off, old man. Oh, that one tear of re-
pentance might trickle down thy
wrinkled cheek. After Christ has fed
thee ell thy life long, do you think
yoE cap afford 70 speak one word IN
His praise?
Come, those of you who are the
farthest away from God. Drunkard!
Christ can put out the fire of thy
thirst, He eah bread that shaekie,
He cab restore thy. blasted home:
Go I'd Jesus. Libertine Christ !
saw thee where thou vert |
last night. He knows of thy sin.
Yet, if thou will bring thy pol
luted soul to Him this moment, He |
will throw over it the mantle Of His |
pardon ard 1--we: Mercy for thee, III |
the chief of sinner. Harlot! thy feet |
foul with hell and thy laughter the |
horror of the stretch, Mary Mag
to Jesus, Mercy for
thee poor lost wait IF the |
stfeetl Self-righteous man, thou |
must be born again. or thou canst see |
the kingdom Of God. Do you think |
you can get into the feast with ttoss |
rags? Why, the Kings servant would |
the gate YOU niust De 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-afid the King |
sits with His guests, and the servant
stands with his hand on the door of |
the banqleting room, and he begins
10 swing it shut. 1t is halfway shut
1t is three-fourths shut! 1t is only
just a-jar. Soon it will be shut.
Come, for all things are no1e ready"
Have missed one man? Who has not
felt himself called this hour? Then /
call him now. This is the hour of thy
While God invites, how blest the day,
How sweet the Gospels charming soundi
Come sinner, haste, oh, haste away.
While ye. pardoning God is found
-Do we not need to search our hearts