Peninsula enterprise. [volume] (Accomac, Va.) 1881-1965, 1896-10-17

the subjects Of angelology. But the
glorious spirits around the throne and
all the bright immortals that fill the
galleries and levels Of the universe are
to take part In that last great fight, and
the regiments angelic are the only regi-
ments capable Of meeting the regiments
plutonio. To show you something Of an
angels power, ask you to consider
that just one Of them slow 1876, 600 Of
Sennacheribs host in a night, and it is
not a tough arithmetioal question to
solve, il one angel can Stay 1856, 600
troops in q night, how many can
500, 900, 600 Of them slayf The old book
says that "they excel in strength. F" 1t
is not celestial mob, but disciplined
host, and they know their rank. Cher
ubim, sernphim, thrones, principalities
and powers. And tho leader Of those
regiments is Michael the ArchaDgel.
David saw just one group Of angels
sweep past, and they were 20, 900 char
ioted. Paul, who in the Canadian COL
loge had his faculties SO wonderfully
developed, oonfesses his incapacity to
count them by saying, Eye are come to
Mount Zion and an innumerable COM
pany Of angels" If each soul on earth
has a guardian angel, then there must
be l, 600, 900, 900 angels on earth today.
Besides that, heaven must be full of an
gels, those who stay there. Not only
the IL angels who, we ore told, guard
the 10 gates but those angels who help
in the worship and go on mission from
mansion to mansion and help to build
the hosannas and inthrone the hallelu-
iahs and roll the doxologies of the serv-
ice that never ends. But they all, if re-
quired, will be in the last fight between
holiness and sin. Heaven could afford
to adjourn just one day and empty all lis
temples and mansions and palaces and
boulevards into that one battle. I think
all the angels of God will join in it.
Fire Footed Hosts.
The one that stood wi tn sword OF
flame at the gate Of paradise. The one
that pointed Hagar to the fountain in
the wilderness. The one that halted Ba-
laam on the highway. The orc that
warned Lot to flee the doomed city. The
one that took part with Joshua against
the Canaanites. The one that informed
Mary of the approach of the Nativity
The ore that wrestled with Jacob at the
brook Jabbok The one that swung open
the gate for the incarcerated Apostle
Peter. The one that strengthened Christ
in his last paroxysm. All, I think, will
be there-their velocities inoonceivable,
SO that when Daniel was in prayer &C.
briel, we are told, came from heaven to
speak to him, and if heaven be at the
center of the universe that angel must
have travelled thousands Of millions Of
miles in all instant. Talk Of earthly
regiments on double quick march, What
will be the speed of the regiments an
golic when at the command OF the
archGngel, Down to oarthl Forward
into the battlel' those regiments an
gclic, Lightning winged, rainbow CIR
died, fire footed, shall sweep into the
great Armageddon.
The next regiments that see march
ing into the fight will be the regiments
eccIesiastic. According to the last 40.
count, and practically only in the be-
ginning Of the great gospel movement
which proposes to take the whole earth
for God, there are 1900, 900 Methodists.
1875, 900 Baptists, 1880, 338 Presby-
terians, $50, 900 Lutherans and $40, 900
Episcopalians. But the present statistics
Of churches will be utterly swamped
when, after all the great denominations
have done their best work, the slowest
OF all the scots will have more numbers
than the present enrolment of all de-
nominations throughout Chrlstendom.
You see, by that time an atheist or an
infdel will be o curiosity, and he will
be looked at as we look at man with
long hair reaching below his shoulders
and long finger nails that are never cut
and stare in the eyes indicating incipi-
ent lunacy-not to be argued with, but
to be pitied-while it will not be any
unusual thing to see men as much de-
voted to their religion as Francis Ga-
vier was devoted to his religion, when
he went through the streets asking all
to come to hear his faith expounded, in
ten years planting the gospel in 80 ma
lions and baptizing over 200, 600 souls.
And the great hosts of believers will
fill the earth, making the 2,9l7, 900
oombatants that Xerxes reviewed cor.
poral's guard in comparison.
The Regiments Ecclesiastio.
see them, the regiments ecclesias-
tic, moving into that last battle. The
Lutherans headed by some great Martin
Luther yet to be born. The Methodists
headed by some George Whitefield yet
to come. The Presbyterians headed by
some John Knox yet to arise. The Epis-
copalians headed by some Bishop Char
mock yet to be enrobed. The Baptists
headed by some Missionary Carey yet
to bless the world. The Congregational
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