Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1892-09-08

ants sword and with his other, paw
Caught his shield. The man took HI:
Knife from his g:rdle and slewthe beast.
The king, sitting in the gallery, said,
-"That was not fair; the lion must be
slain by a sword" Other lions were
turned out and ti;s poor victim fell,
You cry, '.Shame! shame" at such
meanness. But the king in this case is
our brother, and he will see that we
have fair play. He will forbid the rush
ING out of more lions than we can meet.
He will not suffer us to be tempted above
that wesare able. Thank God! The
King is mthe gallery! His eyes are on
us. HIS heart is with US. His hand
will deliver US. blessed are all they
VINO put their trust in him."
THE CELESTIAL GUARDIANS.
: l look again and I see the angelic
gallery. There they are; the angel that
swung the sword at the gate Of Eden,
the same that Ezekiel saw upholding
the throne of God, and from which l
look away, for the splendor is insuffer-
able. Here are the guardian angels.
That one watched patriarch; this one
protected a child. That one asbeen
pulling soul out of teRptationl All
these are messengers of light. Those
drove the Spanish Armada on the rocks.
This turned SeDnacherib's living hosts
into sheap of one hundred and eighty
Ave thousand corpses. Those yonder
chanted the Christmas carol over Beth
lehem until thechant axHke the shepa
herds. These, at crea1 stood in the
balcony of heaven anehaded the
newborn world. wrapped IN swaddhng
clotSe. of light. And therethelier and
mishtier than all, is Michael, the arch
angel. To command an earthly host
gives dignity, but this one is leader Of
the twenty thousand chariots of God,
and of the ten thousand times ten thou
sand angels. l think God gives COM
marsd to the archangel, and the arch
angelic tho seraphim, and the seraphim
to the clfabiln, until all the lower
orders of heaven hear the command
and 60 forth on the high behest.
Now, bring on your lions! Who can
fear: All the spectators in the angelic
gallery are our friends. ''He shall give
his angels charge over thee. to keep the
in all thy ways. They shall bear thee
up in their hands lest thou dash thy
foot against stone. Thou shalt tread
upon the lion and adder; the young lion
and the dragon Shalt thou trample un-
der foot"
Though the arena be crowded with
temptations we shall, with the angelic
help, strike them down in the name of
our God and leap on their fallen car
cases. o blending throng of bright an
gelic faces and swift wings and lightning
foot. hail you today from the dust
and struggle of the arena!
look again and see the gallery OF
the prophets and apostles. Who are
those mighty ones 40 yonder: Hosea
and Jeremiah and Daniel and Isaiah
and Paul and Feter and John and
James. There sits Noah, waiting for
all the world tocome into the ark; and
Moses, waiting till the last Red sea shall
divide; and jeremiah, waiting for the
Jews to return; and John, of the Apoc-
aly,se, waiting for the swearing Of the
angel that Time shall be no longer.
Glorious spirits! Ye were howled at.
.ye were stoned; ye were spit upon!
/ They have been in this fight themselves,
and they are ell with us. Daniel knows
all about lions. Paul fought with beasts
at Ephesus.
THE INTERESTED ri ERF.EsGE WITNESSES.
In the ancient ampht:heater the peo-
pie got so excited that the, would shout
from the galleries to the men in the
arena: Att again" Forward" "One
more stroke Look out" ''Fall
back" "HdzZa! Huzza" So IN that
--,''',.,- ,,~nnhAtic and apostolic, they