Peninsula enterprise. [volume] (Accomac, Va.) 1881-1965, 1899-11-04
ACcOMAc c. H., VA, SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 4, 1900

and perhaps the very one that guided
you to this service and that now waits
to report some holy impression to be
made upon your soul. tarrying with
ono foot upon the doorstep OF your i'm
mortal spirit and the other foot lifted
for ascent into the skies By some prayer
detain him until he can tell Of u re-
pentant and ransomed SOUL Or you
were some time horne down with trou-
BILE. bereavement. persecution. bank
ruptcy, sickness and all manner of trou-
bles beating their discords in your heart
and life. You gave up. You said: 81
cannot stand it any longer. l believe l
will take my life. Where is the rail
train or the deep wave or the precipice
that will end this torment of earthly
existence7' But suddenly your mind
frightened. Courage came surging into
your heart like oceanic tides. You said,
"God is on my side. and all these ad-
versities he can make turn out for my
good Suddenly you felt peace, q
deep peace, the pence Of God that pass
eth all understanding. What made the
changer A sweet and mighty and COM
forting angel of the Lord met you
That was all
An Incentive to righteousness.
What an incentive to purity and
righteousness is this doctrine that we
are continually under angelic OBSERVE
tion Eyes ever on you. so that the
most secret misdeed is committed in
the midst of an audience Of immortals.
No door 30 bolted. no darkness so CHM
merriam, as to hinder that supernal eye
sight. Not critical eyesight. not jealous
eyesight, not baleful eyesight, but
friendly eyesight. sympathetic eyesight,
helpful eyesight. Confidential clerk Of
store, with great responsibility on your
shoulder 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 raptured
at your fdelityl Mother Of household.
stitching. mcnding. cooking busting,
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
monotony of 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,
aud all in sympathy
Railroad engineer, with hundreds Of
lives hanging On your wrist, standing
amid the cinders and the smutch. round
ing the sharp curve and by appalling
declivity, discharged and disgraced If
you make mistake. but not one word
of approval if you take all the trains in
safety for ten years. think of the angels
by the throttle valve. angels by the
roaring furnace of the engine, angels
looking from the overhanging crag,
angels bracing the racing wheels of
the precipice angels when you mount
the thunderbolt of train and angels
when you dismountl Can you not hear
them, louder than the jamming of the
car coupling, louder than the bell at the
crossing louder than the whistle that
sounds like the scream of flying fend,
the angelic voices saying, "You did it
we'll, you did it welll" If often speak
of engineers, it is because l ride so
much with them. always accept their
invitation to join them on their loco
motive, and among them are some OF
the grandest men alive
Guarded by Angela.
Men and women of all circumstances,
only partly appreciated or not appre-
ciated at all. never feel lonely again or
unregarded againI 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 your bodyguard. This
idea until this present study of angelolo-
gy supposed to be fanciful, but l find it
clearly stated in the Bible When the
disciples were praying for Peters de-
liverance from prison and he appeared
at the door of the prayer meeting. they
could not believe it was Peter. They
said at is his angel. So these disci-
pies, in special nearness to Christ, evil
IDENTIFY believed that every worthy soul
has an angel Jesus said of his follow
ers, "Their angels behold the face OF
nv Father Elsewhere it is said, HE
shall give his angels charge over thee,
to keep thee in all thy ways. Angel
shielded, angel protected, angel guard
ed, angel canopied, art thou No Won
der that Charles Wesley hymned these
words:
Which OF the petty kings OF earth
Can boast guard like ours,
Encirccd from our second birth
With all the heavenly powers?
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