The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1892-03-28

sentative Is a wise and righteous man, we infer
tnat such is his nation. So are the angels repre-
sentatives OF that world to which our attentions
are called
is Eeaven myth? Some of you may have
sucn dim conception OF the outer world that
= Is scarcely reality to you. ! think that we
sAouio gain some clearer view of this matter by
Iooking at 1t through those who come to US TO
represent 1t to u.s. You find one on the resur-
.ec'lon morning. He has rocked the world with
=. eai'nquake; he has taken the seal of the
nonhn governor from the tomb of Jesus and
Nv sns down upon the broken tombstones
s. en ATTEST his victory. He is clothed in
49, lutisy. Power and purity are not al
mat you could all see that this Il not a country
=. ios' from which such people as are here seen
th Let your thoughts grasp the fact of
sne .ino OF company you are to be in as soon IS
~ !o.n the company of these holy ones. And
lain -. 'nis learn also the kind of country to
n,on you are going, If indeed you battling
~ heaven. Have you sometimes thought that
neasen Is half reality7 1 wan. you to notice
nat such company OF persons does no, come
s.. VI .ne unreal things OF which you have been
.ninKing. That is a land of moral g.auts But
az most real. Aud when we look at it from
ms standpoint we shall how real is this
gospel which the angel of God takes to bear
I
should see the majesty of our work in q way
'nat would never allow US to go to sleep over it
any more.
You would find that there are real dangers to
shun; there is a real happiness TO gain. If the
soul Is lost it is really lost to that which is fear
iui. There are battles to be fought if one would
gam heaven. There are giant enemies in the
way. God would not send those heavenly war
riors here If there were no enemies to block your
way 10 eternal peace. So / would have you look
wei to the fact that these things which are
brought to light in the Gospel are real They
are no fabrication to deceive those who read
them. They are more real than the solid earth
upon which your feet stand. Reslitiea o,
how this thought ought to lift our work before
u.s. now1t should press upon us the high calling
81 those who are companions with the angels in
this work. Your life task is such an one as to
attract the mighty angels OF God. You should
magnify your office.
Let US notice in the next place that this angel
ministry assists in approaching the "Godlike
thought in human deeds"
Our thoughts are liable to fall out of heavenly
currents very easily. Then our actions are liable
to follow them. We find it difficult to main
tain, for any length of time, heavenly thoughts
How much we do that 10 unholy, unworthy of
the highest and most noble purposes. You come
to compare the actions OF lifetime with the
standard We should get from this text, and
there is not so much upon which we should
care to have the angels in their purity looking
Those We have been most pleased to have done
are such as are akin to the angels.
believe that one of the verities in connection
with the preaching OF this Gospel by s1e angel
Is to be that of the "higher spiritual sense"
Horace Bushnell says that when Eden was
closed the spiritual sense was shut up. That
before this man could walk and talk with the
highest spiritual perzonages, hut after that the
visits of angels became very few. So much SO
that we have become accustomed to say of
things that do not often occur that they are like
angel visits We know that We are not walk
ing and talking with angels. We have the
privilege OF 30 doing, but we have hard time
to keep ourselves in respectable Christian walk
We often speak of walking and talking with
the Savior Himself We have the promise of
the Holy Spirit and that he shall abide with us.
Out of this has come thought that we do not
care much about the holy ones who once came
to minister to the saints. We show by our lit
erature that we think ourselves practically
higher than to need any companionship of the
angels. 1 wish that this frightful mistake
could speedily be corrected.
Do you not see that though you have the privi-
lege of continuous walk with Jesus, and the
presence Of the Holy Spirit to abide with you,
yet you are not even above the very serious
need of Christian fellowship, poor As that is
You see the fact sadly illustrated that if one
comes to think that he is able TO do without tho
ministry OF mon III ehTlAly puipitS, anu IL NO
begins to forsake this means OF uplifting, he il
soon found in 4 lanentable condition spirit
ually. The chances are all against hiEa. The
fact is that no matter how spiritual he is. IL he
begins to cut loose from Christian associations
and from the preaching Of the Gospel, that one
IL near fall. He will have a hard enough time
Of it to keep himself in the love of God and in
the fellowship OF the Spirit when he is dill
gently using all the means which God has given
him in these earthly tabernacles. This, too, you
notice. with all these promises of the gift Of the
Holy Spirit, and the abiding of Christ Jesus in
Us. New what does all this mean?
1t shows the spiritual condition under which
we are laboring. Not that the heavens are shut
up to US, and the angels have received military
orders to steer shy OF this earth, and when they
go out to visit the distant worlds they must NOS
20 through our Samaria. Not so, but the gates
of Paradise are as much open as ever they were,
and the angels come to our " orld as frequently
AZ ever they did. Only we are liable to DO en-
gagged in such way as to not admit them.
must be allowed to hold the firm belief that the
ministry of the holy angels has not ceased IN
connection with redemption.
Carving this thought further, do you not see
how God can use the ministry OF the angels in
connection with all these other means OF grace!
You can easily see what the effect is of COM
munion with the high spiritual powers OF this
world You had the promise OF the Holy Spirit,
and ii you are a child of God you had that
spirit with you, and yet how the coming OF some
devoted servant OF God did lift you up in spirit
usl things What sweet and precious
memory some of thee servants OF His did leave
upon the heart You have referred to II In az
ter life as q visit from an angel. Well, think
how much more might it be an uplifting II some
holy being from the other shores could be adj
mitted into your company
And YOU are very c. 4rly taught that II you
are 10 have these inhabitants OF the heavenly
world to visit you, these visits must be appre-
ciated when they are made There is more in
that old SAYING thsn you may ct first think,
athat If YOU talk Of angels they will appear.
Now. 1 am impressed that the spiritual sense is
to be expanded and heightened BY the ministry
of the angels .,.,.,
and most spiritually minded people believe that
there is a contest over every soul on earth. That
while demons are trying TO pull the soul down.
ward to the pit, the angels are around to 90 all
that can be done in harmony with the Tree
agency Of man that the soul may be saved
There are good indications that suea 10 the case.
Take the parable of the sower aud the seed. Thu
b. scholars are satisfied that this strife is still
soinO on. 1.-THE devil comcth and catcheth IL
away. l., At; ,,
oxar souls and 1t is a resi- strife, al awful con-
nic, While good angels are trying to plant the
,,-inc,nles of life in the heart for harvest OF
s,ernal life the Evil One is diligent in trying 10
,irct aw.v the good seed. think that when
the seed is once plueked away It leaves the SOIL
Y.-v ohdurste and less fit for good seed 10 take
nod in the soil after that What is the eject OF
the visit of a demon 10 the human hearth "has
cordi,ton In which 1t is left If one OF these
hardening powers comes through the soul. l