Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1890-03-24


ticket that you never found. 1t
was an angel of God, and per-
| haps 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 be can tell of q repentant and
ransomed soul! Or you were some time
borne down with trouble, bereavement,
persecution, bankruptcy, sickness, and
all manner of trouble beating
their discords into your heart and
life. You gave up; you said: 81 can
not stand it any longer. / believe l will
take my life. Where is the rail train,
or the deep wave, or the precIpioe tn at
will end this torment of earthly exist
ence?' But suddenly your mind brig ht-
| ened. Courage came surging into your
heart like oceanic tides. You said:
"God is on nv side, and all these adj
versities He can make turn out for my
good. - Suddenly you felt a peace, q
deep peace, the peace of God that passeth
all understanding. What made that
change? A sweet. and mighty, ana
comforting angel of the Lord met you.
What an incentive to purity and right
eousness is this doctrine that we are con-
tinually under angelic observation Eyes
ever on you, so that the most secret mis-
deed is committed in the midst of an au-
dienee of immortals.
NO DOOR IS BOLTED,
no darkness SO Zimmerman, as to hinder
that supernal eyesight. Not critical
eyesight, not jealous eyesight not baleful
eyesight, but friendly eyesight, sympa-
thetio eYesight, helpful eyesight. Con-
fdential clerk of store, with great re-
sponsibility on your shoulder, and no one
to applaud your work when you do it
well, and sick with the worlds ingrati-
tude, think of the angels in the counting
room raptuTed at your fidelityl Mother
of household, stitching, mending, cook
ing, busting, planning, up half the
night. or all night, with the sick child,
day in and day out, year in and year out,
worn with. the monotony of a life that no
one seems to care for think of the angels
in the nursery, angels in all the rooms
of your tOiling, angels about the sick
cradle. and all in sympathy!
Railroad engineer with hundreds of
lives hanging on your wrist, standing
amid the cinders and the smutch, round
the sharp curve, and by appalling de-
clivity, discharged and disgraced If you
make a mistake, but not one word of
approval if you take all the trains in
safety for ten years, think of the angels
by the throttle valve, angels by the
roaring furnace of the engine, angels
looking from the overhanging craig,
angels bracing the racing wheels off
the precipice, angels when you mount
the thunderbolt of a train, and angels
when you dismount! 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
fend, the angelic voices saying, "You
did it well. You did it well?' If l
often speak of engineers it is because 1
ride so much with them. 1 always ac-
Cept their invitation to join them on
their LOGON olive, because l not 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 appreci-
ated at all, never feel lonely again, or
uuregarded 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 present. study of angel
ology, supposed TO be fanciful, but 1 find
it clearly stated in the Bible. When the
IL Dok
GRANGE from prison and he appeared at
the door OF the prayer meeting, they
could not believe it was Peter. They
said: cit Is his angel So these dis
ciples, in special nearness to Christ, evil
IDENTITY believed that every worthy soul
has an angel. Jesus said of His follow |
ers: "Their angels behold the face of |
my Father. - Elsewhere it Is said: che |
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 Ruinus were put to death |
for Christ s sake in the year 287 and. |
after the day when their bodies had been
whipped, and pounded into jelly, in
the night in prison, and before the next
day when they were to be executed. they
both thought they saw angels standing
with two glittering crowns saying, ''Be
of good cheer, valiant soldiers of Jesus
Christ! 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 suffer-
ings in this life some angel of God has
held a blazing coronet of eternal re-
ward.
Yea; we are to have such a guardian
angel to take us upward when our work
is done. You know we are told an angel
conducted Lazarus TO Abraham g bosom.
That shows that none shall be so poor in
dying that he cannot afford an angelic
escort. 1t would be a long way to go
alone, and up paths we have never trod,
and amid blazing worlds swinging in uu-
momentum, out and on
through such distances and across such
infinitudes of space, we should shudder
1T the thought of going alone. But the
angelic escort will come to your anguish
ing pillow, or the place of your fatal
accident, and say: 'fHail, immortal