Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1890-03-24


but their empire is the universe. They
are distict race of creatures. No hu
man being can ever join their contra
ternity. The little child who. in th,
sabbath school, sings: Il want to bc am
angel, " will never have her wish graf
iied They are Supcrhuman; but they
are
OF DIFFERENT GRADES
and ranks. not all ON the same level. ol
the same height They have their su
periorS and interiors and equals. IprO
pose mo- guessing on this subject. bu'
take the Bible for my only authority.
These Supcrnal beings are more thor
oughly organized than any army thai
ever marched. They are swifter than
any cyclone that ever swept the sea
They are more radiant than any morn
ing that ever came down the sky. They
have more 20 do with your destiny anC
mine than any being in the universe cN
cept God. May the Angel Of the New
Covenant. who is the Lord Jesus. opcI
our eyes and touch our tongue. anC
rouse our soul, while We speak of theil
dcathlesSness. their Intelligence. THEN
numbers. their strength, their achieve
mentS.
Yes. dcathleSS. They had cradle
but will never have grave. The Lord
remembers when they were born. bUi
no one shall ever see their eye cN.
tuguiShcd. or their momentum slow up
or their existence terminate. The old
est of them has not a wrinkle. or de-
crepitudc. or hindrancc; as young af
ter six thousand years aSat the close OF
their first hour. Christ said of the
good iu heaven. Neither can they die
any more. for they are equal unto tho
angels" Yes, dcathlcSS are these won
derful creatures of whom / speak. They
will see world after world 90 ont, hut
there shall Doe mo- fading of their OWL
brilliaucc. Yea. after the last world
has taken its last flight they will b,
ready for the widest circuit through inn
mensity, taking % Quadrilion ofmilcs il
one sweep
A. EASY A. A PIGEON
circles "a doyc-cot. They are never
sick. They are never exhausted. They
need mo- sleep. for they are never tired
Al Gods command they Smotc Will
DEATH i'm one night. one hundred AND
cighty-iiyc thousand of Scnnachcrib'
host. but mo- fatality can Smite them
Awake. agile. multipotcnt, dcathlcSS
immortal.
A further characteristic OF these radi
amt folk is intelligence. There is only
one thing that puts them To their wit
end. and the Bible says they have u
study that. They have been studying
10 all through the ages. and yet / war
rant they have not fully graSped it-th'
wonders of Redemption. These won
dcrs are SO high, So deep, So grand, $,
stupendouS, So magnificent that ever
the intelligence of angelho0d is con
founded before it. The apostle says
(Which things the angels desire TO loOb
into" That is a subject that excite
inquisitivencSS ON their part. Thai
is a theme that strains their facul
ties to the utmost. That Is
higher than they can climb. ant
deeper than they can dive. They have
desire for something too big for theu
comprchensiOn. (which things th'
angels desire to look into But tha
does not discrcdit their Intelligence. N
one but God Himself can fully under
stand the wonders of Redemption. J.
an heaven should study il for fifty cter
mites they would get no further thar
the A b G. of that incXhauStible subject
But nearly AN other realms OF knowl
edge they have ranSacked and oXplorcC
and compaSScd No one but God ear
tell them anything they do not know
They have read 10 the last word OF the
last line of the last page of the last vol
mmc of investigation. And what de
lights me most is that
ALL THEIR INTELLIGENCE
/, to be- at our disposal. and. coming IN
to their presence. they will tell MS more
I'm five minutes than We can learn by one
hundred years of earthly SurmiSing.
A further characteristic of these i'm
mortals is their velocity. This the
Bible puts sometimes under the figure o
wings. sometimes under the figure OF
flowing garment. sometimes under the
fgurc of naked feet. As these super
humans are without bodies, these eN
pressions are of course iigWative, an'
mean SwifmcSS.
Another remark | have 10 make con
corning these illuStriOus immortalS D.
that they are multituninouS' Ihel
census has never been taken and no on
but God knows how many they are, ou
alIthe Bible accounts suggest their I'm
mcnse numbers. Companies OF them
regiments of them. armies of them
mouutain-tops hal0ed by them, Skio
populouS with them. John speaks o
angels and other beings round the thron
as ten thousand times ten thousand
/ Now. according To my calculation. tel
I thousand times ten thousand are ON
hundred million. But these are ohi
the angels IN one place. David counte'
twenty thousand of them rolling
down the sky i'm chariotS. Nhel
God came away from tn
rivcn rocks of Mount Sinai, the Bibl
/ saws He had the companionShlp OF ten
/ thousand angels | think they are il
every battle. I'm ovcry cXigency. at ever.
birth. at every pillow. at every hour, a
every moment. The earth full of them
/ The heavens full of them. They ont
number the human race in this world
/ They outnumber ranSomcd spirits u
/ glory. When Abraham had his knif'
uplifted To Slay Isaac, il was the ange
who arrested the stroke, crying: 'Abra
ham. Abraham 1t was "a stairway q
angels that Jacob saw while pillowcd II
/ the wilderness. We are told an
ANGEL. LED THE HOSTS
of Israelites out of Egyptian Serldou
II was am angel that showed Hagar th
fountain where she filled the bottle fo
the lad. It was an angel that took Lo
out of doomed Sodom, 1t was an angt
that shut up the mouths OF the hungr
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