Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-03-24

/. | strengthened our Savior in His agony.
was an angel that ENCOURAGED Paul IN tn
Mediterranean shipwreck. 1t will be an angt
with uplifted hand, swearing that Time sha
be no longer. In the great final harvest of tn
world, the reapers are the angels. Yea, tn
Lord shall be revealed from heaven with might
angels. Oh, the numbers and the might an
the glory of these supernals! Fleets of them
| Squadrons of theml Host beyond host! RAM
above rank! Millions on millions! And all Of
our side if we will have them.
MINIsTERING SPIRITS.
This leads me to speak of the offices of thes
| supernals. To defend, to cheer, to rescue, t.
escort, to give victory to the right, and over
throw the wrong; that is their business. Jus
as alert to-day and efficient as when in Bibl'
! times they spread wing, or unsheathed sword, OF
rocked down penitentiaries, or filled the noun
talns with horses of fire, hitched to chariots Of
fire, and driven by relnsmen of fire. They have
| turned your steps a hundred times, and yor
| knew it not. You were on the way to do some
wrong thing, and they changed your course
| They brought Some thought 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 honorable and eleyating
/ or they took from your pocket some
| ticket to evil amusement, ticket that you
| never found. 1t was an angel of God, and per-
| haps the very one that guided you to this ser
| impression to be this morning made upon your
soul, tarrying with one foot upon the doorstep
of your immortal spirit, and the other foot
lifted for ascent into the skies. BY some prayer
detaln him until he can tell of repentant and
ransomed soull Or you were some time borne
down with trouble, bereavement, persecution,
bankruptcy, sickness and all manner of
troubles beating their dscords in your heart
and life. You gave up; you said: Il cannot
stand it any longer. 1 believe will take my
life" But suddenly your mind frightened.
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oceanic tides. You said: God is on my side,
and all these adversities He can make turn out
for my good" Suddenly you felt a 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 righteous
ness is this doctrine that we are continually
under angelic observationl No door SO bolted,
no darkness so Cimmeran, as to hinder that
supernal eyesight. Confidential clerk of store,
with great responsibility on your shoulder, and
no one TO applaud your work when you do it
well. and sick with the worlds ingratitude,
think of the angels in the counting room rap
tured at your fidelity! Mother of household,
stitching mending. cooking, busting, planning,
up halt 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, angels in all the rooms of your toiling,
angels about the sick cradle, and all in SYM
pathy!
A FAITHFUL BODY-GUARD.
Railroad engineer, with hundreds of lives
hanging on your wrist, standing amid the Gin
ders and the smutch, round the sharp curve,
and by appalling declivity, discharged and
disgraced if you make mistake but not one
word of approval if you take all the trains in
safety for ten years, think of the angels by the
throttle-vslve, angels by the roaring furnace of
the engine, angels bracing the racing wheels
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thunderbolt of train, and angels when you
dismounti Can you not hear them, louder than
the jamming of the car-coupling, louder than
the bell at the crossing, louder than the whistle
that sounds like the scream of flying fiend,
the angelic voices saying, You did it well, you
did il well?"
Men and women of all circumstances, only
partly appreciated, or not appreciated at all,
never feel lonely again or unregarded again.
Angels all around: angels to approve, angels to
help, angels to remember. Yea, while all good
angels are friends of the good, there is one spe-
cial agent your body-guard. This idea until
this present study of angelogy, ] supposed to
be fanciful. but / find IL clearly stated in the
Bible When the disciples were praying for
Peters dellverance from prison, and he ap-
peared at the door of the prayer meeting, they
could not believe it was Peter, They said: at
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: Their angels behold the face of
my father" Elsewhere it is said: "He shall
give his angels charge over thee, to keep thee
in all thy ways" Angel-shieided, angel-pro-
tected, angel-guarded, angel-canopied, art thou.
No wonder that Charles Wesley hymned these
words:
Which of the petty kings of earth
Can boast guard like ours,
Encircled from our second birth
With all the heavenly powers?
Valerius and Rufnus were put to death for
Christs sake in the year 2S7, and, after the dav
when their bodies had been whipped, and
pounded into Jelly, in the night in prison, and
before the next day when they we're to be exc
cuted they both thought they saw angels stand
ing with two glittering crowns saying. "Be of
good cheer, valiant soldiers of Jesus Christ!
little more OF battle and then these crowns are
yours" And i am glad to know that before
many of those who have passed through great
sufferings in this life some angel of God has
held blazing coronet of eternal reward. Yea;
we are TO have such guardian angel to take us
upward
WHEN OUR WORK rs DONE.
You know we are told an angel conducted
Lazarus to Abraham's bosom. That shows
that none shall be SO poor in dying he cannot
afford angelic escort. 1t would be a long way
to 60 alone. and up paths we have never rrod,
and amid blazing worlds swinging in unimag-
Unable momentum, out and on through such
distances and across such Infinitudes of space
we should shudoer at the thought of going
alone. But the angelic escort will come to
your languishing pillow, or the place of your
fatal accident, and say: Hail, immortal one !!
All is well; God hath sent me to take you
home;' and without tremor or slightest sense
of peril you will away and upward fur
ther and further on, until after awhile heaven
heaves in sight, and the rumble 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 suffused into one,
and the gates lift and you arc inside the |
walls on the banks of the Jasper |
forever rested. forever united, forever happy. |
Mothers don't think your little children go |
alone when they quit this world. Out of your |
arms into angelic arms. Out of sickness into |
health Out of the cradle into a Sayior's |
bosom. Not an instant will the darling be alone |
between the two kisses, the last kiss of earth |
and the first kiss of heaven. Now angels, do |
your work. cried an expiring Christian.
Yes, guardian angel for each one of vou |
Put yourself now in accord with him. When |
he suggests the right follow it. When he |
forth from God to help you in this great battle |
against SIN and death, accept his deliyerance. |
When tempted to feeling of loneliness and |
appropriate the promise: 1.-THE |
angel of the Lord encampeth around about |
them that fear Him and delivereth them" oh, |
l am so glad that the spaces between here and |
heaven are
THRoNGED WITH SUPERNATURALS |
taking tldlngs home, bringing messages here, |
rolling back obstacles from our path and Civ |
ing us defense. for terrific are the forces who |
dispute our way, and if the nation of the good |
angels is on our side the nation of bad angels |
is on the other side. Paul had it right when he |
said: "We wrestle not against flesh and blood |
but against principalities, against powers,
against the rulers of the darkness of this |
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