Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1890-03-24
ANGELOLOGY.
There are Two Nations of Angels
and They are Hostile to :
Each Other.
They are Divided into Cherubim, Sera-
phim, Thrones, DOminations,
Principalitles, Powers.
Their Deathlessness, Their Intelligence, Their
Numbers, Their Strength and Their
Achievements.
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BROOKLYN, N. Y, March 23.-Tbe
Academy of Music was filed to overflow
ing this morning by the tabernacle con-
gregation and a large number of
strangers anxious to hear the famous
preacher. After the opening exercises,
which commenced with the singing of
the hymn,
Heaven is my fatherland,
Heaven is my home,
DR.. Talmage announced as his text:
Judges xiii, 10: "And the angel did won
drously." FoIlowingis verbatim re-
port of his sermon:,
Fire built on a rock. Manoah and his
wife had there kindled the flames for
sacrifice in praise of God, and in honor
of guest whom they supposed to be a
man. But as the fame rose higher and
higher, their stranger guest stepped into
the flame and by one red leap assembled
into the skies. Then they knew that he
WAS an angel of the Lord. "The angel
did wOndrously -
does the Bible refer to angels, yet never
heard or read sermon on angeIology.
The whole subject is relegated to the
realm mythical, weird, spectral and I'M
known. Such adjournment is unscrip-
tural and wicked. OF their life, their
character, their habits, their actions,
their velocities, the Bible gives us full
length portraits, and why this prolonged
and absolute silence concerning them?
Angelology is my theme.
There are two nations of angels, and
thew are hostile to each other the natiou
Of good angels and the nation of bad
angels. OF the former I chiefly speak
to-day. Their capital, their head
quarters, their grand rendezvous, is
heaven, but their empire is the universe.
They are distinct race Of creatures. No
human being can ever join their CONTRA
ternity. The little child who in the
Sabbath school sings, "I want to
be an angel" will never have
her wish gratIf1ed. They are
superhuman; but they are of diff
ferent grades and ranks, not all on the
same level, or the same height. They
have their superiors and interiors and
equals. 1 propose no guessing on this
subject, but take the Bible for my only
authority. Plato, the philosopher,
guessed, and divided the angels into
super-oelestial, celestial, and sub celes-
tiai. Dionysius, the Areopagite, guessed,
and divided them into. three classes-the
supreme, the middle, and the last-and
each of these into three other classes,
making nine in all. Philo said that the
angels were related to God, as the rays
to the sun. FuIgentius said that they
were composed of body and spirit.
Clement said they were incorporeal.
Augustine said that they had been in
danger of falling, but now are beyond
being tempted. But the only authority
on this subject that 1 respect says they
are divided into cherubim, seraphim,
thrones, nominations, municipalities,
powers. Their COMMUNICATIVE chief is
ch8l, St. John called him
Michael. These supernal beings
are more thoroughly organized than
ANY ARMY THAT EVER MARCHED.
They are swifter than any cyclone that
ever swept the sea. They are more
radiant than any morning that ever came
down the sky. They have more to do
with your destiny aud mine than any be-
ing in the universe except God. May
the Angel of the New Covenant, who is
the Lord Jesus, open our eyes, aud touch
our tongue, and rouse our soul, while we
speak of their deathlessness, their in
telIigence, their numbers, their strength,
their achievements.
Yes. deathless. They had cradle,
but will never have a grave. The Lord
remembers when they were born, but no
one shall ever see their eye eXtInguished,
or their momentum slow up, or their ex- !
istence terminate. The oldest of them !
has not wrinkle, or a decrepltude, or a
hindrance; as young after 5000 years as
at the close of their first hour. Christ
said Of the good in heaven,
"Neither can they die any more,
for they are equal unto the
angels Yes, deathless are these won
derful creatures of whom 1 speak. They |
will see world after world go out, but |
there shall be no fading of their own |
brilliance. Yea, after the last world |
has taken its last flight they will be ready |
for the widest circuit through immensely,
taking quadrillion of miles in one sweep |
as easy as a pigeon circles dovecot. |
They are never sick. They ares never |
exhausted. They need no sleep, for they |
are never tired. AT Gods command |
they smote with death in one night 1885, |
UUU OF SenudcneTlD' s most, out no 1atallty |
can smite them. Awake, agile, multi |
potent, deathless, immortal!
A further characteristic of these ra- |
diant folk is intelligence. The woman |
of Tekoah was right when she spoke to |
King David of the wisdom of an angel. |
We take in what little we know through |
eye and ear and nostrll and touch; but |
those beings have no physical encase-
ment, and hence they are all senses. A |
wall five feet thick is not solid TO them. |
Through it they go without disturbing |
flake of mortar or crystal of sand. |
Knowledgei It flashes on them. They |
take il in at all points. They absorb it.
They gather it up without any hinder
ment. No need Of literature for them! |
The letters of their books are stars. The
dashes of their books are meteors. The |
words of their books are consultations.
The paragraphs of their books are galax-
les. The pictures of their books are sun
rises, sunsets aud midnight auroras, and |
the conqueror on the white horse, with
the moon under his feet, aud seas of
glass mingled with fire. Their library is
an open universe. No need of telescopes
10 see something millions of miles away,
for instantly they are there to inspect