The Brookhaven leader. [volume] (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1883-1891, 1890-04-03
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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 hundred times,
and you knew 1t not. You were on the
way to do some wrong thing, and they
changed your course. They brought
some thought Of Christian par
entage or Of loyalty to your
you. They arranged that some one
should meet you at that crisis, and pro-
pose something honorable and elevating,
or they took from your pocket some
ticket to evil amusement, ticket that
you never found. 1t was an angel Of
God, and perhaps the very one that
guided you to this service and that now
waits TO report some holy Impression to
be this morning made upon your soul,
tarrying with one foot upon the door
step of your immortal spirit, and the
other foot lifted for ascent into the
skies. By some prayer detain him until
he can tell of repentant and ransomed
soul! Or you were some time borne
down with trouble, bereavement, perse-
cution, bankruptcy, sickness and all
cords in your heart and life.
You gave up; you said: 81 can not
stand it any longer. 1 believe / will
take my life. Where is the rail-train,
or the deep wave, or the precipice that
will end this torment of earthly exist
enceP" But suddenly your mind bright
ened. Courage came surging into your
heart like oceanic tides. You said:
"God is on my side, and all these ad-
versities He can turn out for my good"
Suddenly you felt a peace, deep peace.
the peace of God that passeth all un-
derstanding. What made the change?
A sweet, and mighty, and comfortable
angel of the Lord met you. That was
all.
What an incentive to purity and
righteousness is this doctrine that we
are continually under angelic observa-
ton! Eyes ever on you, so that the
most secret misdeed is committed in
the midst of an audience of immortals.
No door is bolted, no darkness SO Gin,
merian, as to hinder that supernal eye
sight. Not critical eyesight, not ieal-
GUS eyesight, not baleful eyesight, but
friendly eyesight, sympathetic eyesight.
helpful eyesight. Confidential clerk OF
store, with great responsibilities on
your shoulders, and no one to applaud
your work when you do it well, and sick
with the worlds ingratitude, think Of
the angels in the counting-room rap
tured at your fidelity! Mother Of
household, stitching, mending, cook
ing, dusting, planning, up half
the night or all night, with the
sick child, day in and day out, year
in and year out, worn with the monot-
ony of a life that no one seems to care
for, think of the angels in the nursery.
angels in all the rooms of your toiling,
angels about the sick cradle, and all in
sympathy!
Railroad engineer, with hundreds of
lives hanging on your wrist, standing
amid the cinders and the smutch, round
the sharp curve, and by appalling decliv-
ity, discharged and disgraced if you
make a mistake, but not one word of
if you take all the trains in
safety for ten years, think of the angels
by the throttle valves, angels by the
roaring furnace of the engine, angels
looking from the overhanging crag, an
gels bracing the racing wheels of the
precipice, angels when you mount the
of a train, and angels when
you dismount! Can you not hear them,
louder than the jamming of the car
ouplipg, louder than the bell at the
crossing, louder than the whistle that
sounds like the scream of flying fiend,
the angelic voices saying:
'You did it we'll. You did it we'll"
If often speak of engineers it is be-
cause ride so much with them. / al
ways accept their invitation to join them
on their locomotive, because l not only
get to my destination sooner, but be-
cause they are about the grandest mon
alive. Men and women of all circum-
stances, only partly appreciated, or not
appreciated at all, never feel lonely
again or unregarded again! Angels all
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 youf
body-guard. This idea, until this pres
ent study of angelology, supposed to
be fanciful. but find it clearly stated
in the Bible. When the disciples were
praying for Peters deliverance from
prison and he appeared at the door Of
the prayer-meeting, they could not bes
lieve it was Peter. They said:
''It is his angel"
Thank God that those who are for us
are mightier than those who are against
usl And that thought makes me jubi,
liant as to the final triumph. Belgium.
you know, was the battle-ground of En-,
gland and France. Yea, Belgium more
than once was the battle-ground of OPP
posing nations. It so happens that this
world is the Belgium or battle-ground
between the angelic nations, good and
bad. Michael, the commander-in-chiei
on one side; Lucifer. as Byron call him,
or Mephistopheles, as Goethe calls him,
or Satin as the Bible calls him, the COM
mander-in-chief on the other side. All
pure angelhood under the one leader.
ship, and all abandoned 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 Apr on that side are
God and Heaven and victory. Mean
while 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
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