Connecticut western news., 1896-11-12
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\SohtiiiuCo lIou AouI LII baSOl minute tell all there IS of It: Full par don for the worst man on earth, If Ee will believe in Christ whose blood can instantly wash away the foulest crimes Full comfon for the most narrowing distress that ever crushed human be- ing. At your first moment of belief, a process by which the whole universe of God will turn clear around for your eternal advantage. For the mere asking, if the asking be in earnest and you throw everything into that asking, com plete solace and helpfulness for the few years of this life, and then a wide open heaven, which you can reach in less time than it takes me to pronounce that imperial word, flashing with all tine joy that an infinite God knows how to be- stow-heaven.
 The Gospel Divine
 In this world God never does his best. He can hang on the horizon grander mornings than have ever yet been kin dled and rainbow the sky with richer colors than have ever been arched and attune the oceans to more majestic dox- ologies than have ever yet been attuned, but as near as ! can tell, and I speak 1t reverently, heaven is the place where God has done his best He can build TO greater joys, lift no mightier splendors, roll no loftier anthems, march no more imposing processions, build no greater palaces and spread out and interjoin and wave no more transporting mag nifcence. I think heaven is the best heaven God can construct and 1t is all yours for the serious asking. How do you like the offer? Do you really think it is worth accepting? If SO pray for it Get not up from that pew where you are sitting, nor move one inch from where you are standing, before you get full title for it. written in the blood of the Son of God, who would have all men come to life present and life ever lasting.
 If you have been in military life, you know what soldiers call the Hong roll" All the drums beat 1t because the enemy is approaching, and all the troops must immediately get into line. What scurrying around the camp and putting of the arms through the straps of the knapsack and saying "Goodhy' to comrades you may never meet againl Some of you Germans or Frenchmen may have heard that long roll just be- lore Sedan. Some of you Italians may have heard that long roll just before BergNnso. Some of you northern and southern men may have heard 1t just before the battle of the Wilderness You know its stirring and solemn meaning, and so sound the long roll today. I beat this old gospel drum that has for centuries been calling thousands to take their places in line for this battle, on one side of which are all the forces beatifc and on the other side all the force demoniac. Here the long roll call: "Who is on the Lord's side?' Quit yourselves like men," In solemn col umn march for God and happiness and heaven. So glad am I that do not have to "wish myself accursed" and throw away my heaven that you may win your heaven. but that we may have whole convention of heavens-heaven added to heaven, heaven built on heaven-and while l dwell upon the theme I begin to experience in my own poor self that which l take to be something like pas sion for souls. And now unto God, the only wise, the only good, the only great, be glory foreverl Ameni