The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1895-03-15

| lest of them in holy consulta-
| ton. They plan out stellar, lunar,
solar, consolidated achievement. They
vie with each other as to who shall dc
the grandest thing for the eternals.
| They compose doxologies for the
Temple of the Sun. They preside over
coronations. If in the great organ of
the universe one key gets out of tune,
they plan for its returning. No under
taking is so difficult; no post of duty is
so distant; no mission is so stipend
GUS, but at Gods command
they are gladly obtained. When
they sit together in Heavens
places, Gabriel, and Michael, the
archangel, and the angel that pointed
Hagar to the fountain in the desert;
and the angel that swung open the
prison door of delivered Peter; and the
angels who are to be the reapers at
the end of the world; and the angel
that stood by Paul to encourage him
on the laundering corn ship of Alex
andria; and the two angels that som
tineled the tomb of Christ; and the
four angels that st. John saw in the
Apocalypse at the four corners of the
earth; and the twelve angels that
guard the twelve swinging pearls;
and the twenty thousand char
ioted angels that the psalmist de-
scribed; and more radiant than all
of them put together, and mightier
than all, and lovelier than all, THE
Angel of the Covenant the cadences
of his voice the best music that ever
entranced mortal or immortal ears; his
smile another noon risen on mid-noon;
his presence enough to make heaven
| If there were no other attraction
say, when they meet together in the
council chambers close to the Throne
All! that will be regalement infinite.
That will be angels food. And one of
my exciting anticipations of Heaven is
the prospect of seeing and talking with
some of them. Why not? What did
they come out for on the balcony
on that Christmas night and sing for
our world, if they did not want to be
put in communication with us? know
the serenade was in Greek, but they
knew that their words would be trans
lated in all languages. II they thought
| themselves too good to have anything
to do with us, would they have dropped
| Christmas carols upon the shepherds,
as bad as any of us have ever been?
Aye! If they sang for mortals, will
they not sing for us when we become
| immortals?
Now, in the emerald palace of Heav-
en-, let the cup-bearers and servants of
the King remove this course from the
banquet, and bring on another course
of angels food-the last course, and
the best; the dessert; the elimination
| of the feast, which is Celebrative Jubi-
lance. You and have known people
who prided themselves on never get
ting excited. They have cultivated
the phlegmatic. You never saw them
cry; you never heard them in a burst
of laughter. They are monotonous,
and to me intolerable. am afraid of
a man or a woman that cannot cry;
am afraid of a man or a woman who
cannot laugh.
Christ says in the Book of Revelation
that such people are to Him nauseat-
ing. and cause reorganization. CRevela-
ton, .iii:16( because thou art luke
warm, and neither cold nor hot, will
spue thee out of My mouth" But the
angels in Heaven have no stolidity or
unresponsiveness. There is one thing
that agitates them into holy warmth.
We know that absolutely. If their
harp be hung upon the panels of
amethyst, they take it down and with
def fingers pull from among the
strings a canticle. They run to their
neighbors' on the same golden street
and tell the good news. If Miriam
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 festal
table spread, and the best of the
angels food is set on it. When is it?
Is it when a man or woman down in
the world who was all wrong, by the
grace of God is made all right luke,
XIV. fO)? 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 tremendous thing it is to turn
clear around from the wrong, and take
the right road. 1t is because they
know the difference between swine's
trough with nothing but huslxs,
and a kings banquet with angels
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 full or
chestra, we say: What is. happening
there?' And when the angels of God
take on jubilance over a 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 fatherand mother
will come into the kingdom, and with
more glee than they ever danced in the
hallway at your coming home at even
tide, they will dance on the floor of the
Heavenly Mansion at tidings of father
and mother saved. Besides 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
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