The Bolivar bulletin. (Bolivar, Tenn.) 1888-1946, 1895-03-22

duty Is SO dfStanCs no mission Is SO stu
pendous, but at Gods command they
are gladly obedient. When they sit
together in the heavenly places, Ga
briel, 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 founder
| ing corn-ship of Alexandria; and the
two angels that sentineled the
tomb of Christ; and the four an
gels that St. John saw in Apocalypse
at the four corners of the earth; and the
twelve angels that guard the twelve
swinging pearls; and the twenty thou
sand charioted angels that the psalm
ist described; 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 at mid
nooni His presence enough to make
| heaven if there were no other attrac-
toni say. when they meet together
in the council chambers close to the
! throne-Ahl that will be regalement
infinite. That will be a repast supernal.
| 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. If they thought
themselves too good to have anything
to do with us, would they have dropped
Christmas carols upon the shepherds,
some of them as bad as any of us have
ever been? Aye! If they sang for NOR
tails, will they not sing for us when
we become immortals?
Now, in the emerald palace of neav-
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, Celebrstive Ju-
pie who prided themselves on never
getting excited. They have cultivated
the phlegmatic. You never saw them
cry; you never heard them in
burst of laughter. They are mo-
notonous, and to me intolerable.
am afraid of = man or woman that
can not cry; / A1n afraid of a man or
woman who can not laugh. Christ
says in the book of Revelation that
such people are to Him nauseating,
and cause reorganization. (Revelation
iii, 16.) Because thou art lukewarm,
| and neither cold nor hot, l will spew
thee out of my mouth" But the
angels in Heaven have no Stolid-
ity or unresponsiveness. There is
one thing that agitates them in
to holy mirth. When that hap
pens if their harp be hung up they take
it down, and with deft fingers pull
from among the strings a canticle.
They run into 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 a festal table spread, and the
best of the angels food is set on
it. When is it? 1t is when
man or woman down in the world
who was all wrong, by the grace
of God, is made all right. Ouke
XIV. 1O) There is joy in the presence of
the angels of God over one sinner that
repentcth." Why are they SO happily
agitated? Because they know what a
a - -
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?" If we hear rolling out from
an auditorium the sound of a 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
father and mother will come into tho
Kingdom, and with more glee than they
ever danced in the hallway at your
coming home at eventide, they will
dance the floor of the heavenly man.
sion at the tidings of father and mother
saved. Besides that, the old folks
want to hear from you. They arc
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
they now 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 strug-
gle, battling, suffering, SHINING, weep,
ing. Why can they not see that Christ
is the only one who can help, and com,
fort, and save?"
That is what they are saying about
you. And if you will in this hour in
one prayer of surrender that will not
take more than a second to make, de-
eide this, then, swifter than tele.
graphic dispatch, the news would
reach them, and angels of God who
never fell would join your glori.
fad Irindrad in palahrafion and