The Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1837-1867, 1843-01-17
Moral and Religions.
SEEN OFAN GELS"

IL 10 impossible TO conceive what must have been
the emotions with which the angelic host looked on,
while tho dreadful work proceeded from the moment
ofour Lords agony in tho garden, to that of his being
taken down from the cross. We hardly rend
those words, 'Thnkest thou that cannot now pray
to my Father, and he shall presently give me more
than ten legons of angels' without lancyng every
flaming sword among the listening myriads starting
from its sheath, and every blazing with
ardor, to receive the command. They had witnessed
the dotesabe the nercenary traitor; they had
seen Satan enter into him and lead him 10 the chief
priests, and animate him 10 grasp with nvarcions de-
light the wretched bride, goody prize that they val
ued Him at, whose is the silver, and whose is the
gold and whose is the round world and all it contains!
md now they beheld the wr etched man conducting
his midnight band to the garden, the scene Of that
terrible agony, and that beauteous submission ofthe
Fathers will; they behed him approach, and salute
his Divine victim they the inconstant Peter now
fully reused from sleep, fighting for him with whom
he would not watch; they saw the bands, the cords,
the letters, the preparation for such horrors,
ly they could expected have beheId their heav
emily King subjected to; and they heard these words
of conscious power and majesty, in which he named
them--THEM, his own loyal, loving angels, as ready
to appear to the Oh, what blaze would
have burst upon that night of black darkness had
Oninipofence restrained the glowing legons "Bnt
how then shall the Scriptures be fulfilled, that thus it
must be'' added the meek Savior and the thought of
deliverance past Gabriel could not forget his
own message to Daniel; the seventy weeks were ac-
compiished, and the Messiah must he cut Off Their
intimate acquaintance with all that God has revealed
and the confden they have, that whatever he
hath spoken shall come TO pass, even as he has said
it, to the angels stead of forelnowledse that
no creature may attain TO; and five gave the like
heed to what God has declared and with the same
simple faith and plain understanding received it, we
should find ourselves far better forewarned than now
we are for the changes of this worldly scene, and
armed with n more perfect submission to what be-
tides us.
Tie sad events Of that evening in Gethsemane
were followed, as we all know, by others more ter
ribe far; and equally in the Jewish sanhedrn in
Piate's house, and IIerod's judgment-hal, in the
streets of Jerusalem, and on Calvary, was the Lord
Jesus ''seen of angels" They heard the false wit
ness borne, the Infamous sentence given; they saw
the scourglng the browning with diadem of thorns
the reed placed in that hand, which in its protecting
shadow had so long hidden the house of Israel from
their foes! They heard the soothing homage rendered
by the rude idolatrous heather soldiers Him whose
regal glories filed all heaven with splendor; they saw
the heavy cross lain that shoulder where God has
laid the government of all created things and they
were constrained to witness the payment of the
worlds ransom in the trucking drops that oozcd from
those pierced hands and feet The rocks were rent
but those awe-struck angels could not, fthey would
have burst bonds of obedience to the voice that babe
them be still; the sun hid himself, but through the
darkness of that unnatural night the bleeding Lamb
Of God was still "seen of anges.''