The Pickens sentinel. [volume] (Pickens, S.C.) 1871-1903, 1890-04-10
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at all, never feel lonely
again or unregarded again! Angels
ell 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 bodyguard, This idea, until
this present study of angelology, |
supposed to be fanciful, but I find it
clearly stated in the Bible. When
the disciples were praying for Peters
dehverance from prison, and he ap-
peared at the door of the PRAYER
meeting, they cnuld not belive it was
Peter. They said: "It is his angel"
So these disciples, in special nearness
to Christ, evidently believed that
every worthy soul has an angel.
Jesus said of his followers: "Pheir
angels behold the face of nv Father"
Elsewhere it is said: "He shall give
his angels charge over thee, to keep
thee in all thy ways" Angel shielded,
angel protected, angel guarded, angel
canopicd art thou. No wonder that
Charles Wesley hymned these words:
Which "rthe petty kings ofearth
an boast guard like ours
F'I licled from our second mt,
W llh all the hetvchly bowers?
Nalorius and Rufnus were put to
death for ChIists sake in the year 287,
and, after the day when their bodies
had been whipped, and pounded into
Jelly, III the night in prison, and be
fore the next day when they were to
be executed, they both thought they
saw angels standing with two glitter
ing crowns saying: "Be of good cheer,
valianG soldiers of Jesus Christ! A lit
tie more of battle and then these
crown are yours And | am glad to
know that before many of those who
have passed through great suffering
III thlS life some angel of God ha $
held II blazing coronct of eternal re
ward
Yea; we are to have such IA guar
dian angel to take us upward when
our work is done. You know we are
told an angel conducted lazarus to
Abraham bosom. That shows that
none shall be SO poor III dying he can
not afford angelic escort. 1t would
be a long way to go alone, and up
paths we have never trod, and amid
blazing worlds swinging in unimagin-
able momentum, out and on through
such distances and across such intini-
tudeS OF space, we should shudder at
the Thought of going alone. But the
nngcllc escort will como to your Ian
guishing pillow, or the place of your
fatal accident, and says: Hail, i'm
mortal one. All is well; God hath
sent me to take you homc;" and with
out trcmor or slightest sense of peril
YOU will away and upward, further
ON and further on, until after awhile
heaven heaves i'll sight, and the rum
bic OF chariot wheels, and the roll of
mighty harmonies are heard in the
distance, and nearer you come, and
nearer still, until the brightness is
like many mornings sutlused into
one, and the gates lift and you are
inside the amcthysine walls, and ON
the banks of the Jasper sea, forever
sale, forever free, forever well, forever
rested, forever united, forever happy.
Mothers, don't think your little chil-
dren go alone when they quit this
world. Out of your arms into angelic
arms; Out of sickness into health.
Out OF the cradle into Il Saviour's
bosom. Not IN instant will the dar-
lIngs be alone between the two kisses.
the last kiss of earth and the first
KISS of heaven. "Now angels. do
your work J. cried an expiring chris
tan. Yes, u guardian angel for each
one OF you. Put yourself now in nc
cord with him. When he suggests
the right, follow it. When he warns
You against the wrong, shun it. Sent
forth from God to help you in this
great battle AGAINST sin and death,
accept his deliverancc. Paul Ind #
right when he said: "We wrestle not
against flesh and blood, but against
prlnclpalities, against powers, against
the rulers of the darkness of this
world, against spiritual wickedness
III nigh places" In that awful fight
may God send us mighty angelic re-
enforcement! We want all tbci,.
wings on our side, all their chariots
on our side.
Thank God that those who are for
us are mightier than those who are
against us. And that thought makes
me Jubllant as to the final triumph,
Belgium, you know, was the battle
ground OF England and France. Yea,
Belgium more than once was the bat,
tie ground Of opposing nations. r.
SO happens that this world is the Bel
gum, or battle ground, between the
angellc nations, good and bad. Mi
chael, the commander-in- chief on one
side; Lucifer, rs Byron calls him, or
Mephistophelcs, rs Goethe calls him,
or Satan, rs the Bible calls him. the
c;o1mmander-n-chief on the other side.
All pure angelhood under the one
leadership, and all abandoned angel
mood under the other leadership.
Many a skirmish have the two armies
had, but the great and decisive battle
Is yet to be fought. Either from our
earthly homes or down from orr
Supernal residences, may we come in
on the right side; for on that side are
dod and heaven and victory. Mean
while the battle is being set in array,
md the forces celestial and demonicai
IRE confronting each other. Hear
5he boom of the great cannondde al
,eady opened! Cherubim, Seraphim,
thrones, Dominations, Principalities
md Powers are beginn rid in
town Their foes, and until the work
$ completed "Sun, stand thou still |
lpS0n Gibeon, and thou Moon, in the |