The Pickens sentinel. [volume] (Pickens, S.C.) 1871-1903, 1894-02-08

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with all its imperfectlons. Christ Dough,
I It, and hoisted the pillars, and swung
| It's gates and lifted its arches, and cur.
tanned IL with upholstery crimson With
orucidxlon carnage. Come into 1t. {
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 ls very good subject for theologi.
cal students who have Just beaun 10
sermoniZe, but for older men il ia i'm.
proper. There Is no more proof In
that Bible that there Is a God than that
there are angels. Why, do not thew
swarm about Jacobs ladderp Are we
not told that they conducted Lazarus
upward; that thsy stand before the
throne, their races covered up with
their wings, while they cry, "Holy, ho
~, - the Lord God Almighty 2" Did
not DaVld STE thousands aud th0us.
andsf, DID not one angel slay 1856, 600
men IN Sennacherib's armyp Aud
at the judgmentp
There Is q line of loving, holy. mich
ty angels reaching to heaven, s,ip.
pose they reach from here to the yerv
gate, and when an audience is assem-.
0led for Christian worship the air Is
full OF them. If each one Of YOU has q
guardian angel, how many celestials
there are here! 'Chey crowd tho 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 doxology
Of the glorified Look! Bright i'm.
mortal, what news from the golden
cityp Speak, spirit blest! The re.
sponse comes melting on the air,
"Come, for all things are now readyW
Angels ready to bear the tidings, an
gels ready to drop the benediction, an
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 inva-
lldlsu; songs, but no RrOaDs; wedding
bells, but no funeral torches -eyes that
never weep, hands that never blister,
heads that never faint, hoarts that new
er break, friendships that are never
weakened.
Ready, all of theml Ready thrones,
princlpalities and powers! ready sera-
phiro and cherubimI Ready, Michael
the Archaugell
Again, your kindred in glory are all
ready tor your coming. l pronounce
modern spiritualism q fraud and a
sham. If John Milton and George
Whitefeld have no better business than
to crawl under a table and rattle the
leaves, they had better stay at home in
glory. WI lie l believe that modern
spiritualism is bad, because of 1ts men.
tai and domestic ravages, common
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 of God over
one sinner that repenteth. And If an
gels rejoice and know of 1t, shall not
our friends, standing among them,
know itp Some Of these spirits In
glory toiled for your redemption.
When they came to die, their chief
grief was that you were not a Chris
tian. They said, "Meet me in heaven -
and put their hands out from the cover
and said, "Goodby." Now, suppose
you should cross over from sinful life
to holy life. Suppose you should be
born into the kingdom. Suppose you
should now say: Farewell, o deceit.
nu1 "oilu! @e1 IlSo Buue, lHy Sln!
FIe upon all the follies! o Christ, help
me or l perish! l take thy I:omise.
L believe thy word. l enter thy ser
vice."
Suppose you should say and do this.
Why, the angel sent to you would
shout upward, "He Is comingw and the
angel. po1sing higher in the air, would
shout 1t upward, "He Is coming!" and
1t would run up all the line of light
from wing to wing and from trumpet
to trumpet until 1t reached the gate,
and then 1t would flash to "the house
of many mansions" and it would find
out your kindred there, and before your
tears of repentance hal been wiped
from the cheek and before you had fin.
ished your first prayer your kindred
In glory would know of 1t, 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 call 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 gloriGed
kindred are ready, then with all the
concentrated emphasis OF my soul 1
aSk you if you are ready2 You see
my subject throws the whole RESPONSE
billty upon yourself. If you do not
get into the Kings banquet, it Is be-
cause you do not accept the invitation.
You have the most importunate invi-
tatiOn. Two arms stretched down from
the cross, soaked in blood from elbow
to finger tips, two lips quivering in
mortal ana uish, 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 mo.
ment of her arrival. On, If the King
would come to the castle of your soul,
you might we'll 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, / wish I could 90 around from
circle to circle and invite every one of
you, according to the invitation Of my
text. saying, Gomez
l would like to take every one of you |
by the hand and say, "Comew Old