The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1895-03-15

out OF my mouth But the angels In
heaven have no stolidity or unrespon-
siveness. There is one thing that agi-
tates them into holy warmth. We know
that absolutely. IL their harp be hung
up on the panels Of amethyst, they take
IL down. and with def fingers pull
from among the strings a canticle. They
run In to their neighbors on the same
golden street, and tell the good news.
IL Marian has there cymbals anything
like those with which she performed on
the banks OF the Red Sea, she claps them
in triumph, and there is a festal table
spread. and the best OF the angels food
is set on II. When Is It? 1t is when q
man or woman down in the world who
was all wrong. by the grace OF God Is
made all right. duke 15:lO) There Is
Joy In the presence OF the angels OF
God over one sinner that repenteth."
Why are they so happily agitated?
Because they know what a tremendous
thing 1t is to turn clear around from the
wrong. and take the right road. II is
because they know the difference be-
tween swine's trough with nothing but
husks, and a kings banquet with an
gels food. 1t is because they know the
infinite, the everlasting difference be-
tween down and up. And then, their
festivity Is catching. II we hear the
bells of a city ring. we say: What Is
that for?" If we hear rolling out from
an auditorium the sound of a full or
chestra, we say, What is happening
hereY' And when the angels of God
take on jubilance over case OF earth
ly repentance, your friends In heaven
will say, What new thing has hap
pened? Why full diapason? Why the
chime from the oldest towers of eter-
nity?" The fact is. my hearers, there
are people in heaven who would like to
hear from you. Your children there are
wondering when father and mother will
come into the Kingdom, and with more
glee than they ever danced in the hall
way at your coming home at eventide.
they will dance the floor of the heaven
ly mansion at the tidings of father and
mother saved. Beside that, the old
folks want to hear from you. They are
standing at the head of the celestial
stairs waiting for the news that their
prayers have been answered, and that
you are coming on to take from their
lips kiss better than that which now
they throw you. Calling you by your
first name. as they always did, they are
talking about you and saying: There
is our son." or, There is our daughter
down in that world of struggle, bat
Ting, suffering. SHINING, weeping. Why
can they not see that Christ is the only
on who can help, and comfort. and
saver"
That is what they are saying about
you. And II you will this hour in one
prayer of surrender that will not take
more than a second to make, decide
this. then, swifter than telegraphic dis
patch the news would reach them, and
angels of God who never fell would
join your glorifed kindred In cclebra-
ton, and the caterers of heaven would
so their best, and saints and seraphs
Idle by side would take angels food.
Glory be to God for such a possibility!
oh, that this moment there might be
rush for heaveni
The Spirit and the bride say, Come.
Rejoicing saints re-echo. Come;
Who faints, who thirsts. who will, may
come;
Thy Savior bids thee come.