New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1890-04-02

upon dnSeE6. mOm0n Gu m. universities be-
fore Them open and shut like a fan. That
not be a quintifion Of miles hence the next
minute. Our bodies hinder us, but our
minds can circle the earth in
minute. Angelic beings are, bodiless and
have no imitation. God may with his I'm
gers point down to some world in trouble on
the outm ost limits of creation, and instant
II an angelic eohort are there to help it. Or
some Celestial may be standing at thefuther-
most outpost of immensely, and God may
say Comet and Instantly itisin his bosom
Abraham. Elijah, Hagar, Joshua, Gideon,
Manoah, Paal, St. John, could tell of their
unhlndered l4eomo tion The red feet of sum-
mer lightning are slow compared with their
heglras. This doubles up and com presses in
hnltudes into infimtesimals. This puts all
the astronomical heavens into space like
the child g rattle. This mingles into one the
here and the there, the now and the then, the
beyond and The yonder. Another remark
l have to make concerning these illustrious
lmmortals is that they are multitudinous.
Their census has never been taken and no
one but God knows how many they are, bu.
all the Bible accounts suggest their i'm
mense numbers. Companies of them regi-
ments of them, armies of Them mount ain
tops haloed by them, skies populous
with them. John speaks of angels and
other beings round the throne as
4eSA laOuSdLu lAueb TEL GuOuSSQQ. NOW, &C
cordlng to- my calculating ten thousand
times ten thsusand are one hundred million
But these are only the angels in one place.
David counted 10000 of them rolling down
the sky i'll chariots. When God came away
from the river rocks of Mt. Sinai, the Bible
says, He had the companionship of 10000
angels. think they are in every battle, in
every exigency, at every birth, at every pill
low, at every hour, at every moment. The
earth full Of them. The heavens full of them
They outnumber the human race in this
world. They outnumber ransomed spirits
in glory. When Abraham had his knife up
lifted to slay Isaac, it was an angel who ar
ra d, the stroke, crying, abraham! Abra-
ham! Itwas stairway of angels that
Jacob saw while pillowed in the wilderness
We are told an angel led the hosts of Israel
out OF Egyptian serfdom. 1t was an angel
that showed Hagar the fountain where she
filled the bottle for the lad. 1t was an angel
that took Lot out of doomed Sodom.
1T Was.an angel that shut up the mouth of
thrown into the caverns. Itw was an angel
that fed Elijah under the juniper tree. It
was an angel that announced to Mary the
approaching nativity. They were angels that
chanted when Christ was born. 1t was an
angel that strengthened our Savior in His
agony: 1t was an angel that encouraged Paul
In the Mediterranean shipwreck. 1t was an
angel that burst open the prison, gate after,
gate. until Peter was liberated. 1t was an
angel that stirred the Pool of Sloan where
the sick were healed 1t was an angel that
John saw flying through the midst of heaven,
and an angel with foot planted on the sea,
and an angel that opened the book, and an
angel that sounded the trumpet, and an
angel that thrust in the sickles, and an angel
that poured out the walls, and an angel
standing in the sun. 1t will be an angel with
upllfted hand, swearing that Time shall be
no longer In the great final harvest of the
world, the reapers are the angels Yea the
Lord shall be revealed from heaven; with
mighty angels, Oh, the numbers and the
might and the glory Of these, supernals!
Fleets of them! Squadrons OF theml Host
beyond host! Rank above rank! Millions
on 1nillions And all on our side if We will
have them.
This leads me to speak of the Offices OF,
these supernals. To defend, to cheer, to res
cue, to escort, to give victory to the right,
and overthrow the wrong; that il their bust
ness just as alert to-day and efficient as
when in Bible times they spread wing, or I'M.
sheathed sword, or rocked down penitentia-
RES, or filled the mountains with horses of
fire hitched to chariots Of fire and;
driven by reinsmen of fire. They have
turned your step, hundred times and
you knew it not. You were on the way to
do some wrong thing, and they changed
your course. They brought some thoug ht
of Christian parentage, or of loyalty to your
own home, and that arrested you. They
arranged that some one should meet you
at that crisis, and propose something hon
your pocket some ticket to evil amusement,
q ticket that you never fonnd. 1t was an
angel of God, and perhaps the very one that
now waits to report some holy impression to
be this morning made upon your soul. tarry-
ing 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 he can tell Of a re-
pentant and ransomed SOUL. Or you were
some time borne down with trouble, bereave-
ment, persecution, bankruptcy, sickness, and
all manner of trouble beating their discords
in your heart and life. You gave up; you
said: II cannot stand it any longer 1 be-
train, or the deep wave, ort the preeipice that
will end this torment of earthly existence?'
But suddenly your mind frightened. Cour.
age came surging into your heart like ocean
ic tides. You said: "God is on my side, and
all these advsrsities we can make turn out
for my good" Suddenly you felt a peace,
deep peace, the peace OF God that passeth all
understanding. What made the change? A
sweet, and mighty, and comfortable angel of
the Lord met you. That was all.
What an incentive to purity and righteous
ness is this doctrine that we are continually
under angelic observation! Eyes sever on you,
SO that the most secret misdeed is commit ted
in the midst OF an audience of immortals.
No door so bolted, no darkness so Cimmer-
ian, az to hinder that supernal eyesight.
Not critical eyesight, not jealous eyesight,
not baleful eyesight, but friendly eyesight
sympathetic eyesight, helpful eyesight Con-
6dential clerk of store, with great response
bility on your shoulder, and no one to ap-
plaud your work when you do it well, and
sick with the worlds gratitude, think of the.
angels in the counting room raptured at your
fidelity! Mother Of household, stitching
mending, cooking, planning, up half the
night with the sick child, day in and day out,
year in and year out, wornswith thelmonot.
ony OF life that no one seems to care for,
think of the angels in the nursery, angels in
all the room ofyour toiling, angles about the
sick cradle, and all in sympathy!
Laws in China.
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