New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1890-04-02
,HEA VENI, Z HOME.
D. TalmageTe LIS us all About
The Land Beyond the
River.
He Also Gives us a Desert tion
Of the Angelic Inllabit-
ants Thereof.

BROOKLYN, Ny, Special. Dr. Talmage
announced as his text, Judges T3:s19, ''sAnd
the Angel did Wondrously' Following is, a
verbatim repor5fof his Sermon:
& Fire built on rock. Menoah and his wife
had there kindlsd the flames for sacrifice IN
praise OF God, and in honor Of sguest whom
they supposed to be man. But as the
fame rose higher, their strangeraguest step
ped into the fame and by onsred leap as
cended into the skies. Then they; knew that
ne was an Angel Of the Lord. "The Angel
did wondrousW.''
Two hundred and forty -eigh 5times does.the
Dlole refer TO- the angels, yet never read or
neard sermon on Angelology. The whole
81 b1ect IS relegated to the realm my thical,
weird, spectral and unknown. Such adjourn
menuis unscriptural and wickad Oftheirlie,
their character, their habits their actions,
their velocibies, the Bible gives us full.length
portraits, and why this prolonged ana alb
solute silence concerning than2 Angelology
is my theme ~
There are two nations of angels, and they
are hostile to each other; the. nation of good
angels aad the nation of bad angles OF the
former, chiefly speak to-day Their capital
Their headquarters, their grand rendezvous
Is heaVes, but their empire, is the universe
lhey aRe distinct race Of creatures No
human&belng can ever join their confrater-
NIFTY The little child who in Sabbath school
sings, 4 want to be an ANGLE" will never.
have her wish gratifed. They are superhu-
man but they are of different grades and
RANKS, not all on the same level, or the same
height. They have their superiors and infe-
sr1orS and equals. propose no guessing
on this subject, but take, the
Bible for my only authority. Plato
the, philosopher, guessed and divided
angels INTO super-celestial, celestial, and sub
eees1ia!. Dlonysius, theAreopagite,, guessed,
aad divided them into three classes-the su-
pEeme the middle, and the last-and each of
these into three other classes, making nine
IN ALL Phllo said that the angels were relat-
90 to God, as the rays to the sun. Fulgeni-
sus said they were composed of body and
spirit. Clement said they were iHcorporeal
Augustine said that they had been in danger
of falling but now arc beyond being TEMPTED.
But the only authority on this subject that
respect says they are divided into Cheru bin,
Seraphim, Thrones, Dominations, Principal
tiles, Powers. Their commander-in- chief is
Michael. Daniel. called him Michael, St. ohm
called him Michael. Thesesupernal beings are
more thoroughly organized than any army
thatever marched. They are swifter than any
more radient than any morning that ever
came down tho sky. They have more to do
with your destiny and mind than any being
IN the universe except God, May the Angel
OF the New Covenant, who is the Lord Jesus,
open our eyes, and touch our tongue, and
rouse our souls, while we speak of their
deathlessness, their intelligence their num-
beers, their strength, their achievements.
Yes, deathless. They had cradle, but
Will never have grave The Lord remem-
bers when they were born, but no one shall
ever see their eye extinguished, or their mo-
mentun slow up, or their existence termin-
ate. The Oldest of them has not wrinkle.
OF daeaerepltude, or ahindrance; as young aft
er 5000 years as at the close of their first
hour. Christ said of the good in heaven,
Neither can they die any more, for they are
equal unto the angels" Yes, deathless are
these wonderful creatures of whom speak
They will see world after world go out, but
there shall be no fading OF their own brill
lance Yea after the last world has taken
Its last Hight they will be ready for the wild
est circuit throughimmensity, taking quad
rillion OF miles in one sweep as a pigeon cir
cies dovecot: They are never sick. They
are never exhausted. They need no sleep,
for they are never tired. At Gods command
they smote with death in one night 1885,
300 of Sennacherib's host, but no fatality
can smite them. Awake agile, multiple
A further characteristic of these radiant
folk is intelligence. The woman of Tekoah
was right when she spoke to King David of
the wisdom of an angel. We take in what
little we know through eye and ear and nor
trll and touch; but those beings have no ply
steal encasement and hence theyare all senses,
wall five feet thick ia notsolid to them.
Through it they go without disturbing flake
OF mortar or crystal ofsand. knowledge!
1t flashes on them. They take it in at all
points. They absorb it. They gather it up
without any Underwent No need OF litera-
ture for them. The letters of their books are
stars. The dashes of their books are meteors.
The words of their books are consultations.
The paragraphs of their books are galaxies.
The pictures of their books are sunrises, and
sunsets and midnight auroras, and the Con-
quoror on the white horse with the moon
under his feet, and seas of glass mingled with
ire. Their library is an open universe No
need OF telescope to see something millions of
miles away, for instantly they are there to
inspect and explore it, All ASTRONOMERS, all
geologies, all botanies, all PHILOSOPHERS at
their feet. What an opportunity for intelli-
gence is theirs! What facilities for knowing
everything and knowing it right awayl
there is only one thing that puts them to
their wits end, and the Bible says they have
ostudy that They have been studying it all
through the ages, and yet warrant they
nave AOt 1uny RFdHpeu 2lG-UQe wonders OF
Redemption. These wonders are so high. 80
deep, SO grand, SO stupendous, SO magnifi-
cent that even the intelligence of angelhood
is. COMPOUNDED before it. The apostle saws.
hich things the angles desire to look into
That is a subject that exctes inquisitiveness
on their part. That is theme that strains
their faculties to the utmost. That is higher
than they can climb, and deeper than they can
dive. They!have desire for something too big
for their comprehension. Which things the
angles desire to look into But that does
discredit their intelligence. No one but God
Himself can fully understand the wonders of
the redemption. If all heaven should study
it for SO sternities they would get no further
than the A B G of that mex haustible su beet.
But nearly all other realms of knowledge
they have ransacked and explored and com
passed. No one but God can tell them any,
thing they do not know. They have read to
the last word of the last line of the last page
Of the last volume Of investigation And
what delights me most is that all their in
telligence il to be at our disposal, and, com
Ing into their presence, they will tell us in
five minutes more than Ne can learn by one
hundred years of early surnising. g
a further characteristic of these mmor-
tails In their velocity This the Bible puts
sometimes under tho figure at wings, some
times under the figure of 8 flowing garment,
sometimes under the figure of naked feet !.
Az these superhumans are without bodies
these expressions are Of course .fgurative,