Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1890-04-04

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.nelr intelligence is to be Mt onr AZ, q.
poeai, ana coming into their presence
.ney VIII tel! US in five minutes mors
.aan we can learn by one hundred years
OF earthly surmising. years
A further characteristic of these i'm
R RSl.ais Is their velocity. This the
= N e puts sometimes under the figure
= ~angs' sometimes under the figure of
Lowing garment, sometimes under the
ntgure of naked feet. AS these smnare
humans are without bodies these az
pressions are of course fiourotiye. and
mean swiftness. The Bible tells us
tnat Daniel was praying, and Gabriel
new from Heaven and touched him be-
tore he got up from his knees. How
Tar, then, did the angel Gabriel have to
ny IN those moments of Daniels PRAYER?
heaven is thought to be the center of
the universe. Our sun and its plnneta
only the rim of the wheel of worlds. In
q m the angel Gabriel few from
that center to this periphery. jesus
told Peter he could instantly have sixty
thousand angels present if he called for
them: What foot of antelope or wing
OF albatross could equal that velocity?
Law OF .gravitation, which grips all
Things else, has no influence upon an
gene momentum. Immensities before
them open and shut like q fan. That
they are here is no reason why thew
should not be q quintillion Of miles
hence the next minute. Our bodies
hinder US, but our minds can circle the
earth in a minute. Angelic beings are
bodlless 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 %immensity, and God
may say Comet" and instantly it is in
His bosom. Abraham, Elijah, Haear.
Joshua, Gideon, Manoah, Paul, St. John.
could tell OF their. unhindered locomo-
ton. The red feet OF summer lightning
are slow compared with their heeiras.
This doubles up and congresses in
hnltudes into infnitesimals. This puts
all b astronomical heavens into a
Ihls mlngles into one the Here and the
There, the Now and the Then, the Be-
You'd and the Wonder.
corning 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,
mountain tops haloed by them. skies
populous with them. John speaks of
angels and other beings roundthe throne
as ten thousand times ten thousand.
Now, according to my calculation, ten
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 CON-
partnership of ten thousand angels. 1
exigency, at every birth, at every pillow,
earth full of them. The Heavens full
of them. They outnumber the human
race in this world. They outnumber
ransomed spirits in glory. When Abra-
ham had his knife uplifted to Stay
Isaac, it was an angel who arrested the
crying: abraham! Abraham"
1t was a stairway of angels that Jacob
saw while pillowed in the wilderness.
We are told an angel led the hosts of
out of Egyptian serfdom. 1t
was an angel that showed Hagar the
fountain where she filled the bottle for
the lad. 1t was an angel that took Lot
out of doomed Sodom. 1t was an angel
that shut up the mouth of the hungry
monsters when Daniel was thrown into
the caverns. 1t was an angel that fed
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
that encouraged Paul in the Mediterran-
can %shipwreck. 1t was an angel that
burst open the prison, gate after gate,
until Peter was liberated. 1t was an an
gel that stirred the Pool of Sloan,
where the sick were healed. 1t was an
angel that John saw flying through Che
of Heaven. and an angel with
foot planted on the sea, and an angel
that opened the book; and an angelthat
sounded the trumpet, andsan angel that
thrust in the sickle, and I'll angel that
poured out the walls, and an angel
standlnB III tue sun. IL VIII De an anger
with uplifted hand, swearing that Time
shall be no longer. In the great final
harvest Of the world the reapers are the
Yea, the Lord shall be revealed
from Heaven with mighty angels. Oh,
the numbers and the might and the
glory of these supernals! Fleets of
Squadrons of them! Host be-
yond host! Rank above rank! 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
to rescue, to escort, to give vic
tory to the right, and overthrow the
wrong: that is their business. Just as
alert to-day and efficient as when in
Bible times they spread wing, or I'M
sheathed sword, or rocked dow penl-
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 a 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 tn ght 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