Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1890-04-04

| yelic voices saying: You did it we'll
/ You did it weiir' II | often speak
| Of engineers it Is because I ride 50 much
/ with them. always accept their invitation
! 10 join them their locomotive because
! not only get 10 my destination sooner, bur
/ because they are about the grandest men
/ alive.
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
! 10 help, angels to remember. Yea while all
! the good angels are friends Of the good, there
is one special agent your body guard. This
idea, until this present study Of angeloiogy,
supposed TO be fanciful, but l find it clearly
stated in the Bible. When the disciples were
praying for Peters dehverance from prison,
and he appeared at the door OF the prayer
meeting. they could not believe it was Peter
They said: 1T is his angel" So these dis
clples, in special nearness TO Christ evidently
believed that every worthy soul has an angel
Jesus said of His followers Their angels be-
hold the face Of Ny Father" Elsewhere il
Is said: He shall give His angels charge over
thee, to keep thee in all thy ways" Angel
shielded, angel protected, angel guarded,
angel canopied, art thou No wonder that
Charles " esley hymned these words.
Which Of the petty Kings OF earth
Can boast guard like ours,
Encrccd from second birth
with all the heavenly powers?
dLSEItiS am IuLlnuS were put 10 death for
Christ's sake in the year 2s7, and, after the
day when their bodies had been whipped and
pounded into a Jelly in the night in prison
and before the next day when they were to
be executed they both thought they saw
angels standing 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 | am
glad to know that before many of those who
have passed through great suiferings 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 is done.
You know we are told an angel conducted
Lazarus to AbrahamS bosom. That shows
that none shall be so poor in diving he cannot
afford angelic escort. 1t would be long way
to go alone, and up paths we have never
| trod, and amid blazing worlds swinging in
unimaglnable momentum, out and on through
such distances and across such infiRitudes of
space we should shudder at the thought of
going alone. But the angelic escort will
come to your languishing 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 home;' and without tremor or
slightest sense of peril you will away and
upward, further on and further on, until
after awhile heaven heaves in sight, and the
I rumble Of chariot wheels, and the roll Of
mighty harmonies are heard in the dis
lance, and nearer you come, and nearer
ings suffused into one, and the gates lift and
you are inside the amethystine walls and on
the banks Of the jasper sea, forever safe, for
aver free forever WE'LL forever rested, for
ever united, forever happy. Mothers, don't
think your little children go alone when they
quit this world. Out of your arms into
yelic arms Out of sickness into health Out
Of the cradle into SaviOur'S bosom. Not an
instant will the darlings 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 suggest the right, follow it. When he
warns you against the wrong shun it. Sent
forth from God to help you in this great bat
tie against sin and death, accept his deliver
ance. When tempted to a feeling of loneli-
ness and disheartenment appreciate the
promise: ''The angel of the Lord encampeth
around about them that fear Him and deliv-
ereth them" Oh, | so glad that the
spaces between here and heaven are thrOnged
with these supernaturals taking tidings home,
bringing messages here, rolling back obstacles
from our path and giving us defense, for ter.
rife 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 Prin,
CAPABILITIES, against Powers against the rulers
of the darkness of this world, against spirit
ual wick edness 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, al,
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 jubilant as to the
final triumph. Belgium, you know, was the
battle ground of England and France. Yea
Belgium more than once was the battle
ground of opposing nations. 1t so happens
that this world is the Belgium OF battle
ground between the angelic nations, good and
bad. Michael, the commander-in-chiefo on
one side; Lucifer, as Byron calls him, or
Mephistophees, as Goethe calls him, or
Satan, as the Bible calls him, the commander.
in-chief on the other side. All pure angel
hood under the one leadership, and all aban-
doned angelhood under the other leadership
Many 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 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 being set in array and the forces
celestial and demoniacal are confronting
each other Hear the boom Of the great
cannonade already openedl Cherublm,
Seraphim, Thrones, Dominations Princi-
palities and Powers are beginning to ride
down their foes, and until the work is COM
pleted, Sun, stand thou still upon Gideon,
and thou, Moon, in the valley Of AjalonT