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

we'll. II OIUen speak Oh engineers,
it is because [ ride so much with them.
| always accept their invitation to join
them on their locomotive, because [
not only get to my destination sooner,
but because they are about the grand
est men alive.
ANGELS EVERYWHERE.
Men and women of all circum-
stances, only partly appreciated, or not
again or unregarded again! Angels
ali 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, [ sup
posed to be fanciful, but [ find it
clearly stated in the Bible. When the
disciples were praying for Peters de-
hverance from prison, and he appeared
at the door of the prayer meeting,
they could not believe it was Peter.
They said: ut 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 shielded, 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 Christ's sake in the year 287,
and, after the day when their bodies
had been whipped, and pounded into
Jelly, in 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,
valiant soldiers of Jesus Christ lit
tie more of battle and then these
crowns are yours" And am glad to
know that before many of those who
have passed through great sufferings
in this life some angel of God has
held q blazing cOronet of eternal re-
ward.
GUARDIAN ANGELS.
Yea; we are to have such a guardian
angel to take US upward when our work
is done. You know we are told an angel
conducted Lazarus to Abraham's bo-
SOM That shows that none shall be
so poor in dying he cannot afford an
gelic escort 1t would be a long way
to go alone, and up paths we have
never trod, and amid blazing worlds
swinging in unlmaglnable momen-
tum, out and on through such dis
tances and across such infinitudes of
space, we should shudder at the
thought of going alone. But the an
gelic escort will come to your anguish
ing pillow, or the place Of your fatal
accident, and say: Hail, immortal
one! All is we'll; God hath sent me
to take you home;" and without trem-
or or slightest sense of peril you will
away and upward, further on and
en- heaves in sight, and the
the roll of mighty harmonies are
heard in the distance, and nearer you
come, and nearer still, until the bright
ness is like many mornings suffused
into one, and the gates lift and you are
inside the amethystine walls, and on
the banks of the jasper sea, forever
safe, forever free, forever well, forever
rested, forever united, forever happy.
Mothers, don't think your little chill
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 a Saviour's
bosom. Not an 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!' cried an expiring Christian,
Yes, a guardian angel for each one
of you. Put yourself now in accord
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, &C
cept his deliverance When tempted
to a feeling of loneliness and disheart-
eminent appropriate the promise: 1.-The
angel of the Lord encampeth around
about them that fear him and deliver
eth them" Oh, / am so glad that the
spaces between here and heaven are
thronged with these supernaturals tax
ing tidings home, bringing messages
here, rolling back obstacles from our
path and giving 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: 1--WE wrestle not against
flesh and blood, but against Principal
tiles, against Powers, against the rulers
of the darkness of this world, against
spiritual wickedness in high places"
In that awful fight may God send us
mighty angelic reinforcement! We
want all their wings on our side, all
their swords on our side, all their
chariOtS on our side.
THANK GOD FOR THE ANGELS.
Thank God that those who are for
US are mightier than those who are
against u.s. And that thought makes
me iubilant 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. 1t so
happens that this world is the Bel
GUM, or battle ground, between the
angelic nations, good and bad. Mi
chael. the cOmmander-in-chief on one
side; Lucifer, as Byron calls him, or
Mephistopheles as Goethe calls him,
or Satan, as the Bible calls him, the
commandments on the other side.
All pure angelhood under the one
leadership, and all abandoned angel
hood under the other leadership.
Many sl1irmish have the two
armies had, but the great and
decisive battle is yet to be fought.
Either from our earthly homes or
down from our supernal residences,
may we come in on the right side; for
on that side are God and heaven and
victory Meanwhile the battle is be-
ing set in array, and the forces celes-
tial and Economical are confronting
each other Hear the boom of the
great cannonade already opened!
Cherubim, Seraphim, Thrones, Dom
nations, Principalities and Powers
are beginning to ride down their foes,
and until the work is completed, ''Sun,
stand thou still upon Gideon, and thou,
Moon, in the valley of Ajalon!"
Explosion of an Oak Tree.
On the incorporation line southeast
of the citV near PrOSpect street stood