Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1895-03-11

| ll1Ue us klliEo tAANA 3
and tho Lamb. TO him be glory! Ihat
will be mamma enough 1or III he"S ca co. ~.
feed on. That will be q DahqueE 80 lo'
! immortals. That will be ahseis loou'
Now. in the emerald palace OF hed' en-
let the cup-bearers and servants Oh the
! KING remove this course from the pan
met and bring on another course OF
! angels food, which Is, Laying OuI Vi
MIGHTY Enterprise The Bible lets US
! know positively that the angels nave
orr worlds affairs on their heart Ihey
! orrord the rapid transit from Worlu 10
/ ,gorid Ministaring spirits, escortnls
! shirts defending spirits. guardian
shirts Yea. they have all worlds on
} l5oir thought. We are told they sang
I tooather AT the Creation, and that I'M
MED not only the creation OF our
World hut of other worlds. Shall they
nlnn only for our little planet, and be
! npcoDcerned for a planet three hun
| dred times larger? No. Fhey nave
! all the galaXies under their oDserVa-
ton: mighty schemes of helpfulness TO
! be laid out and executed:
SHIPWRECKED WORLDS
TO be towed in; planetary fires to be
/ r,,t ont. demOniac hosts riding up TO
| he hurled back and down. These an
/ gels of light unhOrse an ApollyOn with
one stroke of bautle-aXe celestial They
talk these matters all over. They bend
toward each other in sublimest colo
guy. They have cabinet meetings OF
winged immortals. They assemble the
mightiest OF them in holy consultation.
U M crDllaF IIrn2T solar
! consolidated achievement. They vie
with each other as to who shall 40 the
grandest thing for the eternities. They
COMPOSE d0Xologies for the Temple OF
/ The Sun. They preside over corona
tions. Ii IN the great organ OF the uni
verse one key gets out Of tune, they
MAN for its returning. No undertake
ing is so difficult; no post OF duty is so
distant: no mission is so stupendous,
but at Gods command they are gladly
obediont. When they sit together in
the heavenly places. Gabriel, and Mich
2eI the archangel, and the angel that
Dointed Hagar to the fountain in the
desert: and the angel that swung open
the prison door of delivered Peter; and
the angels who are to be the reapers
at the end of the world; and the angel
that stood by Paul to encourage him
on the laundering corn-ship Of Alex
andria: and the two angels that SEN
tineled the tomb of Christ; and the
! four angels that st. John saw in Apoc-
alypse at the four corners OF the earth;
and the twelve angels that guard the
twelve swinging pearls; and the TWEEN
" thousand charioted angels that the
Psalmist described; and more radiant
than all OF them put together, and
mightier than all, and lovelier than
all. The Angel of the Covenant" the
cadences of his voice, the best music
that ever entranced
MORTAL OR IMMORTAL EARS;
his smile another noon risen on mid
noon: his presence enough to make
heaven if there were no other atuac-
toni say, when they meet together
in the council chambers close to the
Throne-ah! that will be regalement
infinite. That will be a repast super
nal. That will be angels food. And
one of my exciting anticipations OF
heaven is the prospect of seeing and
talking with some of them. Why not?
What did they come out for on the bal
cony on that Christmas highland sing
for our world, if they did not want to
be put in communication with us? l
know the serenade was in Greek, but
they knew that their words would be
translated in all languages. II they
thought themselves too good to have
anything to do with us, would they
have dropped Christmas cards upon
the shepherds some of them as bad as
any Of us have ever been?Aye! If
they sang for mONals, will they not
sing for us when we become immor-
tails?
Now, in the emerald palace Of heav-
en-. let the cup-bearers and servants Of
the King remove this course from the
banquet, and bring on another course
of angels food-the last course and the
best the dessert; the elimination OF
the feast, which is Celebrative Jubi-
lance. You and l have known people
who pride themselves on never getting
excited. They have cultivated the
1hlegmatic. You never saw them cry;
you never heard them in a burst of
laughter. They are mOnotOnous, and
10 me intOlerable. | am afraid Of
man or q woman that cannot cry; 1
am afraid of a man or a woman who
cannot laugh. Christ says in the
book Of Revelation that such people
are to him Rauseating, and cause re-
gurgitation Revelation iii. 16) Be
cause thou art lukewarm, and neither
cold nor hot, will spue thee out of my
mouth But
THE ANGELS IN HEAVEN
have no stolidity or unresponsiveness.
There is one thing that agitates them
into holy mirth. When that happens
t their harp be hung up they take it
down, and with deft fingers pull from
among the strings a canticle. They
run in to their neighbors on the same
golden street and tell the good news.
If Miriam has there cymbals anything
ike those with which she performed
on the banks of the Red Sea, she claps
/ hem in triumph, and there is a festal
table spread, and the best Of the an
gels food is set on it. When is it?
{ is when a man or woman down in
the world who was all wrong, by the
grace of God is made all right. luke
Nv. 100 There is joy in the presence
Of the angels of God over one sinner
that repenteth" Why are they so
happily agitated? Because they know
what a t. rs thing it is to turn
clear arouuD the wrong road and
take the RICH, tuod 1t is because they
know the difference between swine's
trough with nothing but husks, and a
Kings banquet with angels food 1t
is because they know the infinite. the
everlasting difference between down
and un. And then. their festivitY is