Democratic Northwest. [volume] (Napoleon, Ohio) 1869-1894, 1890-03-27

NO one Dut Ooo can tell them anything
they do not know. They have read TO
the last word of the last line Of the last
page Of the last volume of Investigation.
And what delights me most is that all
their intelligence is to be at our dis
posal, and, coming into their presence,
they will tell us in five minutes more
than We can learn by one hundred years
of earthly surmising.
A further characteristics of these i'm
mortals is their velocity. This the
Bible puts sometimes under the figure
of wings, sometimes under the figure of
flowing garment, sometimes under the
figure of naked feet. As these super
humans are without bodies these ex-
pressions are of course iguratiye, and
mean swiftness. The Bible tells us
that Daniel was praying, and Gabriel
flew from Heaven and touched him be-
fore he got up from bis knees. How
far. then, did the angel Gabriel have to
fly inthose moments of Daniels prayer?
Heaven is thought to be the center of
the universe. Our sun and it's planets
only the rim Of the wheel of worlds. In
moment the angel Gabriel few from
that center to this periphery. Jesus
told Peter he could instantly have sixty
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them. What foot of antelope or wing
Law of gravitation, which grips all
things else, has no influence upon an
gslic momentum. Immensities before
them open and shut like q fan. That
they are here Is no reason why they
should not be quintillion of miles
hence the next minute. Our bodies
hfr1ar hrYf an1F do norn oir Ia ha
earth in minute. Angelic beings are
bodiless and have no limitation. God
may with His finger point down to some
world in trouble ON the outmost limits
of creation, and instantly an angelic
cohort are there to help it. Or some
celestial may be standing at the further
most outpost of immepsity, and God
may say -Comel" and instantly it is in
His bosom. Abraham, Elijah, Hagar,
Joshua, Gideon, Manoab, Paul, st. John,
could tell of their unhindered locomo-
tion. The red feet of summer lightning
are slow compared with their hegiras.
This doubles up and congresses in
finitudes into infnitesimals. This puts
all the astronomical heavens into q
space like the balls of child's rattle.
This mingles into one the Here and the
There, the Now and the Then, the Be-
yond and the Yonder.
Another remark have to make con-
cerning these illustrious immortals is
thst they are multitudinous. Their
census has never been taken and no one
but God knows how many they are, but
all the Bible accounts suggest their inn
mense numbers. Companies of them,
regiments of them, armies of them,
kas, kal H. a1-
populous with them. John speaks of
angels and other beings roundthe throne
as ten thousand times ten thousand.
Now, according to my calculation, ten
thousand times ten thousand are one
hundred million. But these are only
the angels in one place. David counted
twenty thousand of them rolling down
the sky in chariots. When God came
away from the riven rocks of Mount
Sinai, the Bible says he had the COM
panionship of ten thousand angels. I
think they are in every battle, in every
exigency, at every birth, at every pillow,
at every hour, at every moment. The
of them. They outnumber the human
ransomed spirits in glory. When Abra-
Isaac, it was an angel who arrested the
stroke, crying: Abraham! Abraham!"
It was a stairway of angels that jacob
saw while pillowed in the wilderness.
We are told an angel led the hosts of
Israelites out of Egyptian serfdom. 1t
was an angel that showed Hagar the
fountain where she filed the bottle for
the lad. 1t was an angel that took Lot
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that shut up the mouth of the hungry
monsters when Daniel was thrown into
the caverns. 1t was an angel that fed
Elijah under the juniper tree. 1t was
an angel that announced to Mary the
approaching nativity. They were an
gels that chanted when Christ was born.
1t was an angel that STRENGTHENED our
Saviour in his agony. 1t was an angel
can shipwreck. 1t was an angel that
burst open the prison, gate after gate,
until Peter was liberated. It was an an
gel 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 ange1that
thrust in the sickle, and an angel that
poured out the yials, and an angel
standing in the sun. 1t will be an angel
with uplifted hand, swearing that Time
shall be no longer. In the great final
angels. Yea, the Lord shall be revealed
from Heaven with mighty angels. Oh,
the numbers and the might and the
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themi Squadrons of them! Host be-
yond hostl Rank aboyerank! Millions
on millions! 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 rescue, to escort, to give vic
tory to the right, and overthrow the
wrong; that is their business. just as
alert day and efficient as when in
Bible times they spread wing, or un-
sheathed sword, or rocked down peni-
tentiaries, or filled the mountains with
horses Of fire hitched to chariots Of fire
and driven by reinsmen of fire. They
have turned your steps 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 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 ele-
waiting, or they took from your pocket
some ticket to evil amusement, a ticket
that you never found. 1t was an angel
of God, and perhaps the very one that
guided you to this service, and that now
waits to report some holy impression to