Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1890-04-03

lOclty. Law OF graYlLaGlOn, WHICH grips
all things else, has no influence upon
angelic momentum. Immensities be-
fore them open and shut like q fan.
That they are here is no reason why
they should not be a euintillion OF
miles hence the next minute. Our
bodies hinder US, but our minds can cir
Gle the earth in a minute. Angelic be-
ings are bOdiless and have no limitation.
God may with His finger point down ~
some world in trouble on the outmost
limits of creation, and instantly an an
gelic cohort is there to helpit. Or some
celestial may be standing at the further
most outpost of immensely and God may
say Gomez and instantly it is in His
bosom. Abraham, Elijah, Hagar, Joshua,
Gideon, Manoah, Paul, st. John, could
tell of their unhindered locomotion.
The red feet of summer lightning are
slow compared with their hegiras. This
doubles up and congresses infinitudes
into infnitesimals. This puts all the
astronomical heavens into a space like
the balls of a child's rattle. This min
giles into one the Here and the There,
the Now and the Then, the Beyond and
the Yonder.
Another remark have to make con-
corning these illustrious immortals is
that they are multitudinous. Their
census has never been taken and no one
but God knows how many they are, but
all the Bible accounts suggest their i'm
mense numbers. Companies of them,
,f ho1
by them, skies PopulOus with them.
John speaks of angels and other beings
around the throne as ten thousand times
ten thousand.
Now, according to my calculation, ten
thousand times ten million are one hun
dred million. But these are only the
angels in one place. David counted
twenty 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 COM
partnership of ten thousand angels. l
think they are in every battle, in every
eXigencv, at every birth, at every pill
low, at every hour, at every moment.
The earth full of them. Tho heavens
man race in this world, They outnum-
Der the ransomed spirits in glory. When
Abraham had his knife uplifted to Stay
Isaac it was an angel who arrested the
stroke, crying Abraham, Abraham!
1t was a stairway of angels that Jacob
saw while pillowed in the wilderness.
We are told an angel led the hosts of
Israelites out of Egyptian serfdOm. 1t
was an angel that showed Hagar the
fountain where she filed the bottle for
the 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 fed Elijah under the
juniper tree. 1t was an angel that an
nOunced to Mary the approaching nativ-
ity. They were angels that chanted
when Christ was born. 1t was an angel
that strengthened our Saviour in His
agony. 1t was an angel that encouraged
Paul in the Mediterranean shipwreck.
1t was an angel that burst open the
prison, gate after gate, until Peter was
liberated. 1t was an angel that stirred
the pool of Sloan, where the sick were
healed. 1t was an 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 out the walls,
and an angel standing in the sun. 1t
will be an angel with uplifted hands
swearing that time shall be no longer.
In the great final harvest of the world
the reapers are the angels
This leads me to speak of the offices
of these supernals To defend, to cheer,
to rescue to escort, to give victory to the
right and overthrow the wrong: that is
their business. Just as alert to-day and
efficient as when in Bible times they
spread wing, or unsheathed sword, or
rocked down penitentiaries, or filled the
mountains with horses of fire hitched to
chariots of fire and driven by reinsmen
of fire. They have turned your steps a
hundred times and you knew it not
You are on the way to do some wrong
thing and they change your course.
They brought some thought of Christian
parentage, or loyalty to your own home,
and that arrested you. They arranged
that some one should meet you at that
crisis, and propose something honorable
and elevating, or they took from your
pocket some ticket to evil amusement, a
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 lift
ed for ascent into the skies. By some
prayer detain him until he can tell of a
repentant and ransomed soul! Or you
were sometime borne down with trouble,
bereavement persecution, bankruptcy,
sickness, and all manner of troubles
beating their discords in your heart and
life. You gave up; you said: Il can
not stand it any longer. l believe l will
take my life. Where is the rail train, or
the deep wave, or the precipice that
will end this torment of earthly exist
ence?" But suddenly your mind bright
ened. Courage came surging into your
heart like oceanic tides. YOU said: God
is on my side, and all the adversities He
can turn for my good" Suddenly you
felt peace, deep peace, the peace of
God that passeth all understanding.
What made the change? A sweet anu
mighty comforting angel of the Lord
met you. That was all.
What an incentive to purity and
righteousness is this doctrine that we