Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1890-03-29

Lord shall be revealed from heaven
| with mighty angels Oh, the numbers
supernalsl Fleets of them Squadrons Of
| them Host beyond host Rank above
| rankl Millions on millionsl And all on our
side il we will have them.
This leads me to speak of the Offices of
these supernals. To defend, TO cheer to res
cue. to escort, to give victory TO the right.
and overthrow the wrong; that is their bust
ness. just as alert to-day and efficient as
when in Bible times they spread wing, or
| unsheathei sword or rocked down peniter-
tiaries, or filled the mountains with horses of
fire hitched to caariots of fire aud driven by
| rensmen OF fire. They have turned your
steps a hundred times AMI you knew it not.
You were on the way to do some wrong
thing, and they changed your course They
brought some thought of Christian parent
age, or of loyalty to your own home, and
that arrested you. They arranged that some
one should meet you at that crisis, and pro-
pose something honorable and elevating or
they took from your pocket some ticket to
evil amusement ticket that you never
found 1t was an angel of God. and perhaps
the very one that guided you to this service,
and that now waits to report some holy
impression to be this morning made
upon your soul, tarrying with one foot
upon the doorstep of your immortal spirit,
and the other foot lifted for ascent into the
skies By some prayer detain him until he
can tell of a repentant and ransomed SOUL
Or you were some time borne down with
trouble, bereavement, persecution, bank
ruptcy, sickness and all manner of troubles
beating their discords in your heart and life
You gave up; you said: Il cannot stand 1t
any longer. / believe l will take my life
Where is the rail train, or the deep wave, or
the precpice that will end this torment of
! earthly existence? But suddenly your mind
frightened. Courage came surging into
your heart like oceanic tides You said:
''God is on my side, and all these Universities
He can make turn out for my good" Sud
denly you felt peace, deep peace. the
peace of God that passeth all understanding.
What made the change? A sweet, and
mighty. and comforting angel of the Lord
met you. That was ALL
What an incentive to purity and righteous
ness is this doctrine that we are continually
under angelic observation Eyes ever on
you so that the most secret misdeed is COM
mitted in the midst of an audience of I'M
mortals No doors so bolted, no darkness 50
Cimmeran as to hinder that supernal eye
sight. Not critical eyesight, not jealous
eyesight, not baleful eyesight. but friendly
eyeSight sympathetic eyesight, helpful eye
sight Confidential clerk of store. with great
responsibility on your shoulder, and no one
to applaud your work when you Gv it well,
and sick with the worlds ingratitude, think
of the angels in the counting-room rapJured
at your fidelity Mother Of household, stitch
ing, mending, cooking, busting, planning, up
half the night OF all night with the sick child,
day in and day out, year in and year out
worn with the monotony Of life that no one
seems to care for, think of the angels in the
nursery, angels in all the rooms of your toll
ing angels about the sick cradle and all in
sympathy
Railroad engineer, with hundreds Of lives
hanging on your wrist standing amid the
fiud md thn tph shaFD
curve and by appalling deelivity, discharged
and disgraced il you make mistake, but not
one word of approval If you take all the
trains in safety for ten years, think OF the
angels by the throttle valve, angels by the
roaring furnace of the engine angels looking
from the overhanging crag, angels bracing
the racing wheels off the precipice, angels
when you mount the thuuderbolt of train
AMI angels when you dismountl Can you
not hear them, louler than the jamming of
the CIR coupling, lou Ter than the bell at the
crossing, louder than the whistle that sounds
like the scream of fsing fien1, the an
gallo voices saying: lyon did it WE'LL
You did it welir' IL l often speak
of engineers it is because | ride 50 much
with them. always accept their invitation
10 join them on their locomotive, because
not only get TO my destination sooner, but
because they are about the grandest men
alive.
partly appreciated OR not appreciated at all,
never feel lonely again, or uuregarIed again.
Angels all around; angels to approve, angels
TO help, angels to remember. VI ca, while all
the good angels are friends OF the good, there
is one special agent your body guard. This
idea until this present stuly of angelology, |
supposed to be fancifu, but find it clearly
stated in the Bible When the disciples were
praying for Peters deliveranee from prison,
and he appeared at the door Of the prayer
meeting they could not believe it was Peter.
They said: ut is his angel" So these dis
ciples, in special nearness to Christ. evidently
believed TIL very worthy soul has an angel
Jesus said Of Ills followers: Their angels be-
hold the face of My Father" Elsewhere it
is said. HE shall give His angels charge over
thee, TO keep thee in all thy ways" Angel
shielded, angel protected, angel guai led,
angel canoped, art thou. No wonder that
Charles Wesley hymned these words.
Which of the petty Kings OF earth
Can boast guard like ours,
EHc,rced from our second birth
With all the heavenly powers?
Nalerius AMI Rufinus were put to death for
Christ's sake in the year PSI, aud, after the
day when their bodies had been whipped and
pounded into jelly in the night i'll prison.
] AMI before the next day when they were to
be executed, they both thought they saw
angels staining with two glittering crowns
saying: "Be of good cheer valiant soldiers
of Jesus Christ! little more of battle and
then these crowns are yours" Aud am
glad to know that before many of those who
have passed through great suiferings in this
life, some angel of God has held blazing
coTonet of eternal reward.
Yea; we are to have such a guardian angel
TO take us upward when our work is done.
You know we are told an angel conducted
Lazarus to Ahrahams bosom. That shows
that none shall be SO poor in dying he cannot
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TO go alone and up paths we have never
trod, aud amid blazing worlds swinging in
unimaginable momentum, out and on through
such distances and across such inlintudes of
space, we should shudder at the thought of
going alone. But the angelic escort will
come to your languishing pillow, OF the place
of your fatal accident and SAYS Hail i'm.
mortal onel All is well; God hath sent me
to take you home;' and without tremor or
sli ghtest sense of peril You will away ami
upward, further on aud further on, until
after awhile heaven heaves in sight, and the
rumble of chariot wheels, and the roll of
mighty harmonies are heard in the dis
lance, and nearer You come, and nearer
still, until the brightness is like many morn
ings sulfused into one, and the gates lift and
you are inside the amethystine walls aud on
! the banks Of the jasper sea, forever safe, for
ever free forever well, forever rested, for
ever united, forever happy. Mothers, don't
( think your little children go alone when they
quit this world Out of your arms into an
gelic arms. Out of sickness into health Out
OF the cradle into Saviour's bosom. Notan
| instant will the darlngS be alone between the
two kisses, the last kiss of earth and the first
kiss of heaven 'Now, angels do your
! work." cried an expiring Christian.
| Yes guardian angel for each one OF you
| Put yourself now in accord with him When
he suggest the right, follow it. When he
warns you against the wrong, shun it. Sent
forth from God to help you i'll this great bat
| tie against sin and death, accept his deliver
ance When tempted to a feeling of loneli-
ness and DISAGREEMENT appreciate the
| promise: "The angel of the ord encampetb
| around about them that fear Him and deliv-
! ereth them" Oh, l anu so glad that the
spaces between here and heaven are thronged
with these supernaturals taking tidings home
| bringing messages here rolling back obstacles
| from our path and giving us defense, for ter,
| rife are the forces who dispute our way and
| if the nation of the good angels is on our side,
| the nation of bad angels is on the other side
| Paul had it right when he said: 1--WE wrestlt
not against flesh and blood, but against Prin
| CAPABILITIES, against Powers, against the ruler:
of the darkness of this world against spirit
! ual wick edness in high places" In that
awful fight may God send us mighty angelic
! Reinforcement We want all their wings
! on our side, all their swords ON our side, al
| their chariots on our side.
| Thank tod that those who are Tor us art
mightier than those who are against us And
| that thought makes me jubilant as to the
| final triumph. Belgium, you know, was the
battle ground Of England and France. Yea,
| Belgium more than once was the battle
| ground of opposing nations. 1t so happens
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