Democratic Northwest and Henry County news. [volume] (Napoleon, O. [Ohio]) 1894-1905, 1895-03-14
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bary ures 10 Dc put out, 0emonlac nOstS
riding up to be hurled back and down.
These angels Of light unhorse an Apollyon
with one stroke of battleax celestial. They
talk these matters all over. They bend
tSward each other In sublimest colloquy
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They have cabinet meetings of winged i'm
mortals. They assemble the mightiest of
them in holy consultation. They plan out
stellar, lunar, solar, consolidated achieve
ment. They vie with each other as to who
shall do the grandest thing for the eter-
nails. They compose doxologies for the
temple Of the sun. They preside over coro-
nations. If In the great organ of the uni
verse one key gets out Of tune, they plan
for its returning. No undertaking is so
difficult, no post of duty is so distant, no
mission is SO stupendous but at Gods
command they are gladly obtained. When
they sit together in heavens 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
foundering cornship of Alexandria, and
the two angels that sentineled the tomb of
Christ, and the four angels that st. John
saw in Apocalypse at the four corners of
the earth, and the 10 angels that guard the
10 swinging pearls, and the 90 900 chariot
ed angels that the psalmist described, and
more radiant than all Of them put to-
gether, and mightier than all, and lovelier
than all, 1.-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 midnoon,
his presence enough to make a heaven II
there were no other attraction-I say,
when they meet together in the council
chambers close to the throne, ah, that will
be regalement infinitel That will be a re-
past supernal. That will be angels food.
And one of my exciting anticipations of
heaven is the prospect of seeing and talk
ing with some of them. Why notS 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 ser
enade was in Greek, but they knew that
their words would be translated in all Ian
guages, If 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?
Celebrative Jubilance.
Now in the emerald palace of heaven
let the cupbearers 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 jubilance You and have
known people who prided themselves on
never getting excited. They have culti-
waited the phlegmatic. You never saw
them cry; you never heard them in burst
of laughter. They are monotonous and to
me intolerable ! am afraid of man or
a woman that cannot cry. | am afraid Of
man or a woman who cannot laugh.
Christ says in the book of Revelation that
such people are to him nauseating and
cause regurgitation-- Revelation iii, 16)
Because thou art lukewarm and neither
cold nor hot will spew 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 up on the panels OF
| amethyst, they take it down and with
deft fingers pull from among the strings a
oanticle They run in to their neighbors
| on the same golden street and tell the
| good news. If Miriam has there cylnbals
anything like those with which she per-
| formed 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 1t. 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-(Luke XIV, 10)
| "There is joy in the presence of the angels
of God over one sinner that repenteth. "
| Why are they so happily agitated? Be-
| cause 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 swines'
trough with nothing but husks and a
! kings banquet with angels food. 1t is
because they know the infinite, the ever
lasting difference between down and up.
| Time of Festivity.
| And then their festivity is catching. II
we hear the bells of city ring, we say,
! "What is that forS" If we hear rolling
out from an auditorium the sound of a
full orchestra, we say, what is happen
ing here?" And when the angels of God
| take on jubilance over case of earthly
repentance your friends in heaven will
say: 'NWhat new thing has happened2 Why
full diapasoni Why the chime from the
Oldest towers of eternity?" The fact is,
my hearers, there are people in heaven who
would like to hear from you. Your chill
dren there are wondering when father and
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 the floor Of the heav-
emily mansion at the tidings of father and
! mother saved. Besides that the old folks
want to hear from you. They are stand.
| ing at the head of the celestial stairs wait
ing for the news that their prayers have
been answered. and that you are coming
on to take from their lips a kiss better
than that which now they throw you.
Calling you by your first name, as they al.
ways 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, weeping.
Why can they not see that Christ is the
only one who can help and comfort and
saver"
That is what they are saying about you,
and, if you will this hour in one prayer OF
surrender that will not take more than a
second to make decide this, then swiftoI
than telegraphic dispatch the news would
reach them, and angels of God who never
fell would join your gloriied kindred in
celebration, and the caterers of heaven
would do their best, and saints and seraphs
side by side would take angels food.
Glory be 10 God for such a possibility! Oh,
that this moment there might be rush
for heavenl
The Spirit and the Bride say, Come,
Rejoicing saints re-echo, Come.
Who faints, who thirsts, who will, may come
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