The Camden journal. [volume] (Camden, S.C.) 1866-1891, 1890-04-10

times ten thousand. Now, according to my
calculation. ten thousand times ten thousand
are one hundred million. But these are only
the angels in one place. David counted TWEEN
ty thousand Of them rolling down the sky in
chariots. When God came away from the
riven rocks of Mount Sinai the Bible says He
had the compauionship of ten thousand an
gels. think they are in every battle, in
every e1igency, at every birth, at every pill
low, at every hour, at every moment. Tho
earth full of them. The heavens full Of them.
They outnumber the human race in this
world. They outnumber ranSomed spirits in
glory. When Abraham had his knife up
lifted to slay Isaac, it was an angel who ar
rested the stroke crying: Abraham! Abra-
hamp 1t was 4 stairway OF angels that Ja-
cob saw while pillowel in the wilderness.
We arc told an angel led the hosts of Israeli
ties ont of Egyptian serfdom. 1t was an all
gel that showed Hagar the fountain where
she filled the bottle for tho lad. 1t was an
angel that took Lot out of doomed Sodom.
1t was an angel that shut up the mouth OF
the hungry monsters when Daniel was thrown
into the caverns. 1t was an angel that fet
Elijah under the jilHiper Ircc 1t was an an
| gel that announced to Mary the approaching
nativity. They were angels that chanted
when Christ was born. ltwas an angel that
strengthened our Saviour i'll His agony. 1t was
nm angel that encouraged Paul in the Med.
iterranean Shipwreck. 1t was an angel that
burst open the prison, gate after gats, until
Peter was liberated 1t was an angel that
stirred the Pool of Sloan where the sick
were healed. 1t was all angel that John saw
| flying through the midst of heaven. and an
angel with foot planted on the sea, and an
| angel that opened the book and an angel that
| sounded the trumpet and an angel that
| thrust in the sickle, and an angel that poured
| ont the vials, aud an angel standing in the
sun. 1t will be an angel with uplifted hand,
tn, great fiual harvest of the world, the
| reapers are the angels. Yea, the
Lord shall be revealed from heaven
with mighty angels. Oh, the numbers
AMI the might and the glory Of these
supernals! Fleets of them! Squairons of
them! Host beyond host! Rank above
rank! Millions on millions! Aud all OIL our
si,le if we will have them.
This leads me to speak Of the Offices OF
these supernols. To defend, to cheer, to res
cue. to escort, to give victory to the right
and overthrow the wrong; that is their busi-
ness. Just rs alert today and efficient as
when in Bible times they spread wing, Or
uIsheathei sword, Or rocked down penitens
tiaries, OF filled the mountains with horses Of
fire hitchsd to chariots OF fire and driven by
reinsmen of fire. They have turned your
steps hundred times, and you knew it not.
You were on the way to do some wrong
thing, aud 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 sonnet ing 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 oil manner of troubles
beating their discords in your heart and life.
You gave up; you said: II cannot stand it
any longer. | believe I will take my life.
Where is the rail train or the deep wave, OF
the precipice that will end this torment Of
earthly eIistence% But suddenly your mind
your heart like oceanic tides. You said;
God is on my side, AMI all these aiversities
He can make turn out fer my good" Sud
peace of God that passsth 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 inl-
mortals. No doors so bolted, no darkness so
Cimmerian as to hinder that supernal eye
sight. Not critical eyesight, not jealous
eyesight, not baleful eyesght, 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 do it well,
and sick with the worlds ingratitude, think
of the angels in the counting-room raptured
at your fidelity! Mother of household, stitch
ing, mending, cooking dustiug planning up
half the night OF all night with the sick child,
day in aud day out, year in and year out,
worn with the monotony Of life that no ons
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 oil in
sympathy!
Railroad engineer, with hundreds Of lives
hanging on your wrist, standing amid tue
cinders and the smutch, round the sharp
curve and by appalling declvity discharged
aud disgracei if you make mistake, but not
one word of approval it you take all the
angels by the throttle valve, angels by the
roaring furnace of the engine, angels looking
from the overhanSng crag, angels braclnS
the racing wheels OF the precipice, angels
when you mount the thuuderbolt OF train
and angels when you disnount! Can You
not hear them, louder than the jammtng of
the cur coupling loa Ter than the bell ut the
crossing, louder than the whistle that sounds
like the scream OF n flying henl, the an-
gelic voices saying: "You did it well!
You did it weltr' II [ o.t,n speak
Of engineers it is because ride so much
with them. Ialways accept their invitation
to join them on their locomotive, because
not only get t. my destination sooner, but
because they are about tho grandest men
alive
Men and women Of all circumstances, only
partly appreciated, or not appreciated at all.
never feel lonely again, or unregarled again!
Angels all around; angels to approve, angels
to help, angels to remcT5er. Yea, while all
the gool anseisare friends OF the good, there
is one special agent Your body guard. This
idea, until this present study OF angeloloogy,,
supposed to be taucful, but lini it clearly
stated in the Bible. When the disciples were
praying for Peters deliverancs from prison,
and he appeared at the door of the prayer
meeting, they coaid not believe it was Peter.
They said "lt is his angel" So these dis
ciples in special nearness to Christ, evidently
believed that every worthy soul has an angel.
Jesus said of His followers. Their angels be-
hold the face of Hy 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 guarded,
angel canopicl, art thou. No wonder that
Charles Wesley hymned these words:
Which OF the petty Kings of earth
Can boast guard like ours,
Eucrclcd from our second birth