The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1896-04-09

day and each meeting grows IN inter-
est. DIR. Dixon is preaching with great
mower and doing great good in the COM
munity.
"HEAVEN UPON EARTH.
Extracts from sermon at 1890 yes
terdav morning and at 3 o'clock last
night.
MORNING SERVICE.
Extarets from sermon of Rev. A. G..
Dixon in First Baptist church at 1890
Yesterday morning.
Eye are come unto Mount Zion, etc.
Heb. 12:1s-20.
He said in part: 1T is well that we
are going to heaven: it is better that
heaven may come to US, and we have
in this scripture a summary OF the
things which make the Christians e1-
perience heaven upon earth. We may
eat of the grapes of the eternal mus
before we cross the Jordan. a JEWISH
legends tells us that before the famine
i'm Canaan. Joseph ordered his officers
to throw upon the waters OF the Me,
the wheat and the chaff that the peo-
pie might see that there was plenty
above. God puts upon the river Of
life some of the wheat from the
heavenly fields, in order that we, nav
ing taste of it, may desire more, and
seek things that are above.
We have here and now the enjoy
ment of Gods presence. Every hlH IS
a Mount Zion. Every place IS hoiy
of holes. The mercy seat stands eV.
ervwhere. what do you think OF
dying?" said friend to an old scotch
man. ut matters not, replied he,
.sbecause. if die, / will go and be
with Christ, and, if | live, Christ VIII
be with me-"
Heaven is a redeemed city without
the possibility of Tamnlany Hail. we
are citizens here and should try 70
make our cities as much ike the
heavenly city as possible. But TO US
belong. after all, better country; our
citizenship is in heaven. The nag OF
heaven protects us. An American in
Cuba during the insurreetion, was
brought before tribunal accused OF
something for which death was the
penalty. Passion running high, he was
condemned to death, but, just as the
soldiers were about TO fire, the Amerl-
can Consul, taking the stars and stripes
wrapped them around his eountrymen'
and said, Fire, at your peril
Firing upon those flags would have
been firing upon the American govern
ment. And SO the citizens Of heaven
are protected by all the powers that
God has at His command.
We share now in the glory Of every
triumph of Christianity, and are rlch
in every truth taught By the Christian
church. / ana richer to-day because
calxin lived and made emphatic the
soyereigntv of God / am richer be-
cause John Wesley lived and magni-
fed the witness of the Spirit am
richer because Luther lived and up
held the doctrine of justification py
faith. / am richer because Madame
Union and Fenelon lived, and wrote OF
the mystic relation between ~ anu
God. i am richer because Of the truth
preached BY Spurgeon, Moody and
Jobn Mcneil. Whatever God gives 70
any member of His church he gives
for the enrichment of all.
We have here a heaven Of perfect
freedom from the guilt of sin. We
have already come to God, the Judge OF
ali > seThere is therefore now no CON
damnation.v I have no fear OF the
GREAT white throne. Ny case has been
Settled IN the court of mercy, IN which
God IS Judge and Jesus Christ is the
advocate If Won desire to take an ap-
neal from this court of mercy 70 the
Supreme Court of Justice, that shall
assemble at the trumpet Of the arch
angel. YOU may do So / prefer 70 come
to God. the Judge Of all to-day when
NAV be represented by such an al
vocate as Jesus Christ.
The friends who have gone 70 heaven
are still ours. The people VINO nave
died are the ones who most truly llVeu
The true throne of England Is I'D West
minister Abbey. The living men o.
BROOKLYN are in Greenwood cemetery
Those who influence our lives most are
s.the spirits of just men made per
feet. When Christ assembled he came
most truly to his disciples His depart
ure was in a sense of larger revelation
While he was there in the body, he
was like the alabasteT box sealed up
but. when he assembled, he became like
the alabaster box of ointment broken
and its perfume filling all the room
while we have our loved ones with US
,ye do not appreciate them often as
We should; we do not konw them a.
we do when they have passed into
heaven. Thomas Carlyle said Of his wife
chat he did not know that he had an
g an0el with him until it had flown away
'rhus we come into full enjoyment OF
All the glorified saints.
We have now, in a word, full saliva
tion through the blood of Christ ''1e
ARE come TO the blood of sprinkling
chat speaketh better things than that
,9f Abel The blood of Abel spoke
for retribution; if cried from the
ground against Cain. The blood Of
Christ speaks better things than that;
III cries to God for mercy. Whatever
The blood means we have, and we know
that it means cleansing, justification
. ,,eaoTa IN nY.4