Roanoke daily times. (Roanoke, Va) 1886-1890, 1890-03-25
and comforting angel Of the Lord met
1,ou That was all

most secret misdeed is committed in
the midst of an audience Of immortals.
No door is so bolted, no darkness So
Cimmerian. as to hinder that supernal
eyesight. Not critical eyesight moi
jealous eyesight, not baleful oyesight
but friendly eyesight, sympathetic
eyesight, helpful eyesight. Cont
dental clerk of store, with great Ire
sponsibility on your shoulder, and nc
one to applaud your work when you
do it we'll, and sick with the worlds
ingratitudc, think of the angels in the
counting room raptured at your tidel.
ityl Mother OF household, stitching,
intending. cooking, busting, planning,
up half the night, or 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 toiling, angels about the sick
cradle, and all in sympathy! ;,
Railroad engineer, with hundreds oil
lives hanging on your wrist, standing
amid the cinders and the smutch,
round the sharp curve, and BY appall,
ing decliyity, discharged and disgraced
if you make a 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 overhangins
crag, angels bracing the racing wheels
Off the precipice, angels when you
mount the thunderbolt Of a train, and
angels when you dismountl Cam you
not hear them, louder than the jam
ming of the car coupling, louder than
the bell at the crossing, louder than
the whistle that sounds like the scream
of a flying fiend, the angelic voices
saying: "You did it well. You did il
well1" If often speak of engineers,
it is because ride so much with them.
I always accept their invitation to join
them on their locomotive, because l
not only get to my destination sooner,
but because they are about the grand
est men alive.
ANGELS EVERYWHERE.
Men and women Of all circum-
stances, only partly appreciated, or not
appreciated at all, never feel lonely
again or unregnrdcd asnin Angels
all around; angels to approve, angels
to help, angels to remember. Yea,
while all the good angels are friends
of the good, there is one special angel
your bodyguard. This idea, until this
present study OF angelology, ! sup
posed to be fanciful, but l find 1t
clearly stated in the Bible. When the
disciples were praying for Peters de,
liverance 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
disciples, in special nearness to Christ,
evidently believed that every worthy
soul has an angel. Jesus said Of his
followers: Their angels behold the
face Of my Father" Elsewhere it is
said: "Hc shall give his angels charge
over thee, to keep thee in all thy
ways" Angel shielded, angel pro
tected, angel guarded, angel canopled
art thou. No wonder that Charles
Wesley hymned these words:
Which of the petty kings of earth
Can boast guard like ours,
Encircled from our second birth
With all the heavenly powers!
Valerius and Rufnus were put to
death for Christ's sake in the year 2S7,
and, after the day when their bodies
had been whipped, and pounded into
jelly, in the night i'll prison, and be-
fore the next day when they were to
be executed, they both thought they
saw angels standing with two glitter
ing crowns saying, BE OF good cheer,
valiant soldiers of Jesus Christ! lit
tie more of battle and then these
crowns are yours" And 1 am glad to
know that before many of those who
have passed through great sufferings
in this life some angel Of God has
held blazing coronet of etcrno& re-
ward.
GUARDIAN ASGELS.
Yea; we are to have such guardian
angel to take usupward when our work
is done. You know we are told an angel
conducted Lazarus to Abraham's bo-
som. That shows that none shall be
so poor in dying he cannot afford an
gelic escort. 1t would be long way
to 90 alone, and up paths we have
never trod, and amid blazing worlds
swinging in unimaginable momen-
tum, out and on through such dis.
tances and across such infinitudes OF
space, we should shudder at the
thought of going alone. But the an
gelic escort will come to your anguish
ing pillow, or the place of your fatal
accident, and say: Hail, immortal
one! All is well; God hath sent me
to take you home;" and without trem-
or or slightest sense of peril you will
away and upward, further on and
further on, until after, awhile heav-
en- heaves in sight, and the
rumble of chariot wheels, and
the roll OF mighty harmonies are
heard in the distance, and nearer you
come, and nearer still, until the bright
ness is like many mornings suffused
into one, and the gates lift and you are
inside the amethystine walls, and on
the banks OF the jasper sea, forever
safe, forever free, forever well, forever
rested, forever united, forever happy.
Mothers, don't think your little chill
dren go alone when they quit this
world. Out of your arms into angelic
arms. Out of sickness into health.
Out Of the. cradle. into Saviour's
bosom. Not an instant will the dart
lings be alone between the two kisses,
the last kiss of earth and the first kiss
of heaven. ''Now angels, do your
work u cried an expiring Christian.
Yes, a guardian angel for each one
of you. Put yourself now in accord
with him. When he suggests the
right, follow it. When he warns you
against the wrong, shun it. Sent
forth from God to help you in this
great battle against sin and death, &C
cept his deliverance. When tempted
to feeling of loneliness and disheart-
eminent appropriate the promise: 1.-THE
angel of the Lord encampeth around