Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1894-02-02

and daylight poured INTO MS Dlinucd
soul So IL is now that the Spirit
of God takes that humble prayer
meeting talk, which seems to be the
very saliva of Christian influence, and
anoints the eyes of the blind, and
pours the sunlight of pardon and peace
upon the soul. o, my friend, wish we
could feel it more and more, that if any
good is done it is by the power of
Gods omnipotent Spirit l do not
know what hymn may bring you to
Jesus. 1 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"
Again, the church is ready. Oh
man, if / could take the curtain off
you great many anxieties for your
redemption. You think that old man
is asleep, because his head is down and
his eyes are shut. No, he is praying for
your redemption, 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 prayermeeting, and from
Friday evening prayer-meeting, and
going up every hour of the day for the
redemption of the people? And if you
should just start toward the door of
the Christian Church, how quickly it
would fly open. 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 fellowship. Bring him into
all Christian associations" Oh, you
wanderer on the cold mountains, come
into the warm sheepfold. / lot down
the bars and bid you come in. With
the Shepherds crook 1 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 it's arches,
and curtained it with upholstery Grim
son with crucifixion carnage. Come
into il.
We are a garden walled around
Chosen and made peculiar ground;
A little spot enclosed 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 theologi-
cal students who have just begun to
sermonize; but for older men it is inn
proper 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 conducted Laza-
rus upward? that they stand before
the throne, their faces covered up with
their wing, while they cry: Holy,
holy, is the Lord God Almighty" Did
not David see thousands and thou
sands? Did not one angel Stay one
hundred and eighty-fve thousand men
in Sennacherib's army? And shall
they not be the chief harvesters at the
judgment?
There is a 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
have a guardian angel, 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 moment ag o
it stood before Christ and heard the
doxology of the gloriied. 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 readyr'
Angels ready TO bear the tidings,
angels ready TO drop the benediction,
angels ready to lSindle 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.
Again, your kindred in glory are all
ready for your coming. pronounce
modern spiritualism a fraud and a
sham. If John Milton and George
( Whitefeld have no better business
than to crawl under table and rattle
the leaves, they had better stay at
home in glory. While l 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 redemption. This Bible says
plainly there is joy in heaven among
the angels of God over one sinner that
repenteth; and if angels rejoice and
know of it, shall not our friends, stand
ing 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