The Russellville Democrat., 1890-04-03


 tured at your fdslityi Mother q
 household, stitching mending. cook ing, dusting, planning, up hal
 the night or all night with ths sick child, day in and day out yeai in and year out, worn with the monot ony of life that no ono seems to cart for, think of the angels in tho nursery, angels in all the rooms of your toiling angels about the sick cradle, and all fl sympathyl
 Railroad engineer, with hundreds oi lives hanging on your wrist, standing amid the cinders and the smutch, round the sharp curve, and by appalling decliv ity, discharged and disgraced if you make mistake, but not one word oi approval if you take all the trains ir safety for ten years, think of the angels by the throttle valves, angels by the roaring furnace of the engine, angels looking from the overhanging crag, an gels bracing the racing wheels of the precipice, angels when you mount the thunderbolt of train, and angels when you dismountl Can you not hear them, louder than the jamming 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 we'll You did it we'll"
 If often speak of engineers it is be cause ride so much with them. I al ways accept their invitation to join them on their locomotive because I not only get to my destination sooner, but be. cause they are about the grandest men alive. Men and women of all circum. stances, only partly appreciated, or not appreciated at all, never feel lonely again or unregarded again! 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 body-guard. This idea, until this pres ent study of angelology, supposed to be fanciful, but find it clearly stated in the Bible. When the disciplas were praying for Peter's deliverance from prison and he appeared at the door of the prayer-meeting, they could not be. iieve it was Peter They said
 ''It is his angel.-
 So these disciples, in special near ness to Christ, evidently believed that every worthy soul has an angel. Jesus said of His followers: ''Their angels behold the face of my Father.n Else- where 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 canopied 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 Rufinus 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 a jelly, in the night in prison, and before the next day when they were to be exc cuted, they both thought they saw angels standing with two glittering crowns saying: Be of good cheer, val iant soldiers of Jesus Christi a little more of battle and then these crowns are yours" And 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 eternal reward.
 Yea; we are to have such qua rdian angel to take us upward when our work is done. You know we arc told an angel conducted Lazarus to Abraham's bosom. That shows that none shall be so poor in dying he can not afford angelic escort. It would be a long way to go alone, and up paths we have never trod, and amid blazing worlds swinging in unimagina- able momentum, out and through such distances and across such infinitudes of space, we should shndder at the thought of going alone. But the angelic escort will come to your languishing pillow, or the place of your fatal accident and say. Hail, immortal one! All is well; God hath sent mo to take you home;' and without tremor or the slightest sense of peril you will away and upward, further on and further on, until after awhile Heaven 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 brightness is like many morn- ings suffused into one, and the gates raise and you are inside the amethystine walls, and on tho banks of the jasper sea, forever safe, forever free, forever we'll, forever rested forever united, for ever happy. Mothers, don't think your little children go alone when they quit this world. Out of your arms into an- gelic arms. Out of sickness into health Out of the cradle into Saviour's bosom. Not an instant will the darlings be alone between the two kisses, the last kiss of earth and the first kiss of Heav- en. Now, angels, do your work" cried an expiring Christian.
 Yes, guardian angel for each one ot you. Put yourself ROW 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, accept his de. liverance. When tempted to feeling Oi loHtllheSS stiiu QiSuetTttUmenb dp- the promise: The angel of the Lord encampeth around them that fear Him and delivereth them" Oh, I am so glad that the spaces be- tween here and Heaven are thronged with these supernaturals taking tidings home, bringing messages here, rolling back obstacles from our path and giving us defense, for terrific are the forces who dispute our way, and if the nation of the good angels is on our side, the nation of bad angels is on the other side. Paul had it right when he said: 'We wrestle not against flesh and blood but against principali ties against powers, against rulers of the darkness of this world, against spiritual in high places" In that awful fight may God send us mighty angelic endorsements! We want all their wings oD our side, all their swords on our side, all their charlots on ou side.
 Thank God that those who are for us ,sa an ..f1 n n rk o xr. t..a.