Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1890-03-24
THEY ARE INTELLIGENT.

THEY ARE INTELLIGENT.
A further characteristic of these "a
diant folk is intelligence. The woman
of Tekoah was right when she spoke to
King David of the wisdom of an an
gel. We take in what little we know
through eye and ear and nOstril and
touch; but those beings have no physi-
cal encasement and hence they are all
senses. y wall five feet thick is not
solid to them. Through it they go
without disturbing flake of mortar or
crystal of sand knowledge! It
flashes on them. They take it in at all
points They absorb it. They gather
it up without any Underwent. No
need of literature for them! The letters
of their books are stars. The dashes of
their books are meteOrS. The words of
their books are consultations. The
paragraphs of their books are galax-
les. The pictures of their books are
sunrises, and sunsets, and midnight
auroras, and the Conqueror on the
white horse with the moon under his
feet, and seas of glass mingled with
fire. Their library is an open uni
verse. No need of telescope to see
something millions of miles away, for
instantly they Gre there to inspect and
explore it. All ASTRONOMERS, all geolo-
gies, all botanies, all philosophers at
their feet. What an Opportunity for
intelligence is theirs What faculties
for knowing everything and knowing
it right away!
THE WONDERS OF THE REDEMPTION.
There is only one thing that puts
them to their wits end, and the Bible
says they have to study that They
have been studying it all through the
ages, and yet [ warrant they have not
fully grasped 1.-THE wonders Of Re
demption. These wonders are SO high,
so deep, so grand, so stupendous, SO
magnificent that even the Intelligence
of angelhood is COMPOUNDED before it.
The apostle says, (Which things the
angels desire to look into" That is a
subject that excites inquisitiveness on
their part That is theme that strains
their faculties to the utmost. That IS
higher than they can climb, and deep
er than they can dive. They have a
desire for something too big for their
comprehension. (Which things the
angels desire to look into.
But that does not discredit their in
telligence. No one but God himself
can fully understand the wonders of
Redemption. If all heaven should
study it for fifty eternities they would
get no further than the A B G Of that
ineXhaustible subject. But nearl y all
other realms of knowledge they have
ransacked and explored and compass
ed. No one but God 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 disposal, and, coming into
their presence, they will tell us III five
minutes more than we can learn by
one hundred years of earthly surmis-
ing.
THEIR ~-OCITY.
A further characteristic of these i'm
mortals is their velocity. This the Bi-
BILE puts sometimes under the figure of
wings, sometimes under the figure of
a flowing garment, sometimes under
the figure of naked feet As these su-
perhumans are without bodies these ex-
pressions are of course fgurative, and
mean sWiftueSs The Bible tells us