The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1890-04-09

Men and women OF ali crcumstan
ces, only partly appreciated, or no
appreciated at all, never feel lionel.
again or unregarded again! Angels
all around; angels to approve, angel:
to help, angels to remember. Yea
while all the good angels are friend:
of the good, there is one special ange
your bodyguard This idea, unit
this present study Of angelology. J
supposed to be fanciful, but I find il
clearly stated in the Bible. Whe1
the disciples were praying for Peter
deliverance from prison, ans: he ap
peared at the door of the pray
! meeting, they cauld not behve it was
Peter. They said: 1T 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: Then
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 protected, angel guarded, angel
canopied art thou No wonder that
Charles Wesley hymned these words;
Which Of the petty kings ofearth
Can boast guard like ours,
Encirc!ed from our second birth
With All ths heavenly powers:
Valerius and Rufnus were put to
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 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! A lit
tie more of battle and then these
crown are yours And I am glad to
know that before many Of those who
have passed through great suferings
in this life some angel Of God has
held blazing coronet OF eternal re-
ward
Yea: we are to have such guar
dian angel to take US upward when
our work is done. You know we are
told an angel conducted Lazarus to
Abraham's bosom. That shows that
none shall be so poor in dyinghe can
not afford angelic escort. It would
be long way to so alone, and up
paths we have never trod, and amid
blazing worlds swinging in unimagln-
able momentum, out and on through
such distances and across such inhni-
tudes of space, we should shudder at
the thought of going alone. But the
angelic escort will come to your Ian
gushing pillow, OF 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 with
out tremor or slightest sense OF peril
you viii away and upward, further
on and further on, until after awhile
heaven heaves in sight, and the rum
bic 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 sufused into
one, and the gates lift and you are
inside the amethysine 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 so alone when they quit this
world. Out of your arms into angelic
arms. Out of sickness into health.
Out of the cradle into a Saviours
bosom. Not an instant will the dar-
Gngs 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 chris
tian. Yes, guardian angel for each
one of you. Put yourself now in ac-
cord 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,
accept his deliverance. Paul had it
right when he said: "We wrestle not
against flesh and blood, but against
principalties, 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 re-
enforcement! We want all their
wings on our side, all 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 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-ch chief on one
side; Lucifer, as Byron calls him, OF
Mephistopneles, as Goethe calls him,
or Satan, as the Bible calls him, the
commander-in-chief on the other side.
All pure angelhood under the one
leadership, and all abandoned angel
hood 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 or1
supelnal residences, may we come IN
| on the right side; for on that side are
God and heaven and victory. Mean
while the battle is being set in array.
and the forces celestial and demonical
are confronting each other. Heal
the boom of the great cannonade al
ready opened. Che1ubim, Seraphim
Thrones, Dominations, Principaities
and Powers are beginn ride in
down their foes, and until the work
is completed, Sun, stand thou still
upon Gideon, and thou Moon, il the
valley of Aialon!'
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