The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1890-03-24


angels looking from the overhanging crag,
angels bracing the racing wheels of the
precplce, angels when You mount the thun-
derbolt Of a tTain,and angels when you dis
mount! Can you not hear them, louder
than the jamming of the car-coupling, than
the bell at the crossing, louder than the
whistle that sounds like the scream Of a
flying flend, the angelic voices saying,
You did it well! You did it well"f IL
often speak of engineers it is because | ride
so much with them. | always accept their
invitation to Join them on their locomotive,
because | net only get to my destination
sooner, but because they are about the
grandest men alive.
Men and women of all circumstances
only partly appreciated, or not appreciated
ut all, never feel lonely again or unregaTded
again! Angels all around; angels to APP
prove, 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 present study
of angel0logy, | supposed to be fancifu, bus
find it clearly stated in the Bible. When
the disciples were praying for Peters deliv-
erance from prison, and he appeared at the
door of the prayer meeting, they could not
believe it was Peter. They said: at
is his ANGEL SO these disciples, il special
nearness to Christ, evidently believed that
every worthy soul has an angel. Jesus said
of his followers: 'Their angels behold the
face of my Father Elsewhere it is said:
"He shall give his angels charge over thee,
to keep thee in all thy ways" Angel
shielded, angel-prorected, angel-guarded.
augel-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 powersf"
Valerius and RuniiGs 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 u jelly, In tho night in
prison, and before the next day when they
were TO be executed, they both thought
they saw angels standing with two glitter
ing crowns, saying: "Be of good cheer.
valiant soldiers Of Jesus Christ little
more or battle and then these crowns are
yours" Aud [ am glad TO know that be-
fore many OF those who have passed through
great sufferings in this life som3 angel of
God has held a blazing coronet of eternal
reward
Yea; we are to have such a guardian
angel to teke us upward when our work is
done. Yoa know we are told an angel con-
Quoted Lazarus to Abraham's bosom That
shows that none shall be 30 poor in dying he
cannot afford angelic escort. 1t would be a
long way to go alone, and up paths we
have never trod, and amid blazing worlds
swinging III unlmaginable momentum, out
and on through such distances and
across such infinitudes of space, we
should shudder at the Thought Of
going alone. But the angelic escort
will come to your languishing pill
low, or the place of your fatal accident, and
say Hail, immortal one! All is well
God hath sent me TO take you home;n and
without tremor or slightest sense of peril
you will away and upgard, further on and
further on, until after awhile heaven
heaves in sight, and tne rumble of chariot
wheels and the roll Of mighty harmonies
are heard in the distance, aud nearer you
come, aud nearer sill, until the brightness
is like many mornings suifused into one,
and the gates lift and you
are inside the amethystine walls,
and on the banks of the jasper
sea, foreV er SAFE forever free, forever well,
forever rested, forever united, forever
happy. Mothers, don't think your little
children so alone when they quit this world.
Out of your arms into angelic arms. Out
Of sickness into health. Out Of the cradle
into "a Saviors bosom. Not an instant will
the darlings be alone between the two
kisses, the last kiss Of earth and the first kiss
of heaven. "Now, angels, do your work."
cried an expiring christian.
Yes, a guardian angel for each one Of
you Put yourself now in accord with him.
When he suggests the right. follow it.
When he warns you against the wrong,
shun 1t. Sent forth from God to help you
in this great battle against sin and death,
accept his dellverance. When tempted to
feeling OF loneliness and disheartenment,
appropriate the promise: "The angel Of the
Lord encanpeth around about them that
fear him and delivereth them" o, am so
glad that the spaces between here and
heaven are thronged with these supernat-
urals 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, aud il the
nation Of the good angels is on our side the
nation Of the bad angels is on the other
side. Paul had it right when he said:
1--WE wrestle not against flesh and blood
but against principalitles, against powers,
against the rulers of the darkness of this
world, against spiritual wickedness in high
places" In that awful fight may God send
us mighty angelic reinforcement We
want all their wings on our side, all their
swords on our side, all their chariots on our
side
Thank God that those who are for us are
mightier than those who are against US I
And that thought makes me jubilant as to
the final triumph. Belgium, you know was
the battle-ground of England and France.
Yea, belgium more than once was the battle
ground Of opposing nations Ii SO happens
chat this world is the Belgium or battle
ground between the angelic nations, good
and bad. Michael, the commander-in-chief
on one side. Lucifer, as Byron calls him,
or Mephistopheles, as Goethe calls him, or
Satan, as the Bible calls him, the COM
mander-in-chief on the other side
All pure angelhood uader the one
leadership, and all abandoned angel
hood under the other leadership. Many
a skirmish have the two armies had, but
the great and decisive battle is yet to be
fought Either from our earthly homes or
down from our supernal residences, may we
come in on the right side; for on tnat side
are God and heaven and victory. Mean
while the battle is being set in array, and
the forces celestial and Gemoniacai are con-
fronting each other. Hear the boom Of the
great cannonade already opened! Cher
ubim, Seraphiin, Thrones, Dominations,
Principalities, ana Powers are beginning to
ride down their foes and until the work is
completed, "Sun, stand thou still upon
Gibeon, and thou, Moon, in the valley OF
Ajalonp