The enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 188?-1899, 1890-03-26

the mountains with horses OF hre
hitched to chariots Of FIRE, and driven
by reinsmen Of fire. They have turned
your steps q hundred times, and
you knew 1t not. You were on the
way to do some wrong thing
and they Changed your course. They
brought some thought OF Chris
tian parentage, or Of loyalty to your own
home, and that arrested you. They ar
ranged that some one should meet you
at that crisis, and propose something
honorable and elevating, or they took
from your pocket some ticket to evil
amusement, a 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 re-
port some holy impression to be this
morning made upon your soul, tarrying
with one foot upon the door step Of your
immortal spirit, and the other foot
lifted for ascent into the skies. BY
some prayer detain him until he
can tell Of repenant and ransoned
soull Or you were some time
borne down with trouble, bereave-
ment, persecution, bankruptcy, sick
ness and all manner OF troubles beating
their discords in your heart and life.
You gave up; you said: II can not
stand 1t any longer. believe will
take my life. Where is the rail train,
or the deep wave, or the precipice that
will end this torment Of earthly exist
ence?" But suddenly your mind bright
ened. Courage came surging into your
heart like oceanic tides. You said:
God is on my side, and all these ad-
versities He can make turn out for my
good" Suddenly you felt peace, a
deep peace, the peace Of God that
passeth all understanding. What made
the change? A sweet and mighty and
comforting angel Of the Lord met you.
That was ALL
What an incentive to purity and
righteousness is this doctrine that we
are continually under angelic observa-
ton! Eyes ever on you, so that the
most secret misdeed is committed in the
midst Of an audience Of immortals. No
door so bolted, no darkness SO Cim-
merian as to hinder that supernal eye
sight. Not critical eyesight, not jealous
eyesight, not baleful eyesight, but
friendly eyesight, sympathetic eyesight,
helpful eyesight. Confidential clerk
Of store, with great responsibility
on your shoulder, and no one to applaud
your work when you do 1t we'll, and sick
with the worlds ingratitude, think Of
the angels in the counting room raptured
at your fidelity! Mother Of household,
stitching mending, cooking, 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 life that no one seems TO care for,
think OF the angels in the nursery, an
gels in all the rooms Of your toiling, an
gels 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 II you
make mistake, but not one word Of ap-
proval II you take all the trains in safe
ty for ten years, think Of the angels
by the throttle-valve, angels by the
roaring furnace Of the engine, an
gels looking from the overhang-
ing crag, angels bracing the racing
wheels of 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 ecar-coupling, louder than
the bell at the crossing, louder than the
whistle that sounds like the screams OF
flying Aend, the angelic voices saying,
You did 1t we'll. You did 1t we'll" II
often speak Of engineers It is be-
cause l ride so much with them. l
always accept their invitation to Join
them on the locomotive, because | not
only get to my destination sooner, but
because they are about the grandestmen
alive.u
Men and women OF all circumstances,
only partly appreciated, or not appreci-
ated 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 present
study of anselology, l supposed to
be fanciful, but find 1t clearly
stated In the Bible. When the d.
sciples were praying for Peters deliv-
erance from prison, and he appeared
at the door Of the prayer-meeting,
they could not believe II was Peter.
They said: at is his angel" So these
disciples, in special nesrness 10 Christ,
evidently believed that every worthy
soul has an angel. Jesus said OF his fol-
lowers: "Their angels behold the face
OF my Father" Elsewhere II Is said: |
"He shall give his angels charge over
thee, 10 keep thee In all thy ways"
Angel-shielded, angel-protected, angel
guarded, angel-canopied, art thou. No
wonder that Charles Wesley hymned |
these words: ir anf .ase i
Which OF the petty kings OF earth
Can boast guard like ours,
Encircled from our second birth
With all the heavenly powers.
valerius and Ruhnus 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 I
angels standing with two glittering I
crowns saying: "Be Of good cheer,
valiant soldiers Of Jesus Christi q little