The Canton times. (Canton, Miss.) 1893-1906, 1895-03-22

! getting eScited They have cultivated
\ the phlegmatic. You never saw then
2 cry; you never heard them In
3 burst Of laughter They IRE mo
notonons, and to me intolorable
Y I am afraid Of man or d woman tina
. can not cry; I am afraid Of man d
q woman who can not laugh. Christ
says IN the book Of Revelation tina,
such people are to Him nauseating
and cause reorganization. Revelation
III, l8.) Because thou art lukewarm
and neither cold nor hot, will spew
thee out OF my mouth But the
angels IN Heaven have no stolid.
ity or unrcsponsiyeness. There ID
one thing that agitates them in
to holy mirth. When that hap
pens II their harp be hung up they take
1t down, and with deft fingers pull
from among the strings canticle.
They run into their neighbors on the
same golden street and tell the good
news. II Miriam has there cymbals
anything like those with which she
performed on the banks of the Red
sea, she Chaps them In triumph, and
there is q festal table spread, and the
best OF the angels food is set on
1t. When is it? 1t Is when a
man or woman down in the world
who rss all wrong, by the grace
OF God, = made all right. luke
XIV. 1o). Table 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
tremendous thing it is to turn clear
around from the wrong road, and take
the right road. 1t is because they
know the difference between swine's
trough with nothing but husks,
and kings banquet with angels
food. 1t is because they know the in
finite, the everlasting difference be-
tween down and up. And then, their
festivity is catching. If we hear the
bells OF city ring, we say: what is
that for?" It we hear rolling out from
an auditorium the sound of full or
chestra, we say: What is happening
here?" And when the angels of God
take on jubilance over case of earth
ly acceptance, your friends in Heaven
will say: What new thing has hap
pened? Why full diapason? Why the
chime from the oldest towers of
eternity?" The fact is, my hear
ers. there are people in Heaven who
would like to hear from you. Your
children there are wondering when
'ather and mother will come into the
and with more glee than they
'ver danced in the hallway at your
coming home at eyentide, they will
lance the floor Of the heavenly man
ion at the tidings of father and mother
aved. Besides that, the old folks
want to hear from you. They are
landing at the head of the celestial
tairs waiting for the news that
heir prayers have been answered, and
hat you are corning on to take from
heir lips kiss better than that which I
hey now throw you. Calling you by J,
our first name, as they always did,
hey are talking about you and saying:
There is our son." or, There is our :
aughter down in that world of strug.
lie, battling, suffering, SHINING, weep-
lg. Why can they not see that Christ Q
the only one who can help. and com. y
,rt, and save?"
That is what they are saying about P
ou. And if you will in this hour in q
ne prayer Of surrender that will not s.
Ike more than second to make, de- p
de this, then, swifter than tele- 3
-aphic dispatch, the news would q
ach them, and angels OF God who O
ever fell would join your glori- q
ID kindred in celebration, and m
e caterers of Heaven would do their W
st, and saints and seraphs side le
7 side would take angels food. Glory i
} to God for such a possibility! Oh, tt
at this moment there might be a rush NJ
r Heaven in
% Spirit and the bride say: Come, Pt
Rejoicing saints re-echo. Come;
ho faints, who thirsts, who will, may come: We
Thy Saviour bids thee come. Ia