Democratic Northwest. [volume] (Napoleon, Ohio) 1869-1894, 1890-03-27

The Academy Of Music was filed to
overhowing Sunday morning, March 23,
BY the Tabernacle congregation, and q
large number of strangers anxious to
hear the famous preacher. After the
opening exercises which commenced
with the singing Of the hymn,
Heaven is my fatherland,
Heaven is my homo.
DR.. Talmage announced as his text
Judges xiii, 10: And the angel did Won
drously. Following is q verbatim re-
port of his sermon:
Fire built on rock. Manoah and his
wife had there kindled the flames for
sacrifice in praise of God. and in honor
of guest whom they supposed to be
man. But, as the flame rose higher and
higher, their stranger guest stepped
into the flame and by one red leap as
cended into the skies. Then they knew
that he was an angel of the Lord. The
angel did wondrously."
Two hundred and forty eight times
does the Bible refer to the angels, yet
never heard or read n sermon on Angel
ology. The whole subject is relegated
10 the realm mythical, weird, spectral
and unknown. Such adjournment 10
unscriptural aud wicked. OF their life,
their character, their habits, their ac-
tions, their velocities, the Bible gives
us full length portraits, and why this
prolonged and absolute silence con-
cerning themP Angelology is my theme.
There are two nations of angels, and
they are hostile to each other; the ma
tion of good angels and the nation of
bad angels. OF the former, l chiefly
speak to-day. Their capital, their head
quarters, their grand rendezvous, is
Heaven, but their empire is the uni
verse. They are distinct race of crea-
lures. No human being can ever join
their confraternity. The little child
who in the Sabbath school sings,
want to be an angel" will never have
her wish gratified. They are superhu-
man; but they are of different grades
and ranks, not at all on the same level,
or the same height. They have their
superiors and interiors and equals. I
propose no guessing on this subject,
but take the Bible formy only authority.
Plato. the philosopher, guessed, and
divided angels into SUPERB celestial,
celestial and sub celestial. Dionysius,
the Areopagite, guessed, and divided
them in three classes-the supreme, the
middle and the last-and each of these
into three other classes, making nine in
all.
Philo said that angels were related to
God, as the rays of the sun. Fulgentius
said that they were composed of body
and spirit. Clement said they were in
corporal. Augustine said that they
had been in danger of falling, but now
are beyond being tempted. But the only
authority on this subject that l respect
says they are divided into Cherubim,
Seraphim, Thrones, Dominations, Prin-
cipalities, Powers. Their commander
in-chief is Michael. Daniel called him
Michael. st. John called him Michael.
These supernal beings are moro
thoroughly organized than any army
that ever marched. They are swifter
than any cyclone that ever swept the sea.
They ARE more radiant than any morn
ing that ever came down the sky. They
have more to do with your destiny and
mine than any being in the universe ex-
cept God. May the Angel of the New
Covenant, who is the Lord Jesus, open
our eyes, and touch our tongue, and
rouse our soul, while we speak of their
deathlessness, their intelligence, their
numbers, their strength, their achieve
ments.
Yes, deathless. They had cradle,
but will never have grave. The Lord
remembers when they were born, but no
one shall ever see their eye extin-
guished, or their momentum slow up, or
their existence terminate. The Oldest
of them has not wrinkle, or q decrepi-
tude, or hindrance; as young after six
thousand years as at the close of their
Gxnk s.k Nf he IT,
Heaved, Neither can they die any more.
Yes, deathless are these wonderful crea-
world after world 90 out, but There shall
be no fading of their own brilliance.
Yea, after the last world has taken its
last flight they will be ready for the
widest circuit through immensity, taking
quadrillion Of miles in one sweep as
easy as pigeon circles dovecot. They
are never sick. They are never ex-
hausted. They need no sleep, for they
are never tired. At Gods command
they smote with death, in one night,
one hundred and eighty-ive thousand
of Sennacherib's host, but no fatality
can smite them. Awake, agile, multipo-
tent, deathless, immortal!
further characteristic OF these ra-
diant 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 nostril and touch; but
those beings have no physical encase-
ment and hence they are all senses. A
wall FIVE feet thick is not solid to them.
Through it they go without disturbing
fake of mortar or crystal of sand.
knowledge! 1t flashes on them. They
take it in at all points. They absorb it.
They gather it up without any hinder
ment. No need of literature 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 theirbo are gaiax-
les. The pictures of their books are
sunrises, and sunsets, and midnight
auroras, and the Conqueror ON the white
horse with the moon under his feet, and
seas of glass mingled with fire. 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 astrono-
mics. all geologies, all botanies, all
PHILOSOPHERS at their feet. What an op-
portunity for intelligence is theirs!
What faculties for knowing everything
and knowing it right away!
There is only one thing that puts them
to their wits end, and the Bible says
they have to study that. They have been
studying ii all through the ages, and yet
warrant they have not fully grasp it,
the wonders OF Redemption. These
wonders are SO high, so deep, SO grand,
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