Akron daily Democrat. [volume] (Akron, Ohio) 1892-1902, 1899-10-31

God himself can fully understand the
wonders of redemption. If all heaven
should study it for 30 eternities, they
would get no further than the a G
of that inexhaustible subject. But near
" all other realms of knowledge they
have ransacked and explored and COM
passed No one but God can tell them
anything they do not know. They have
read to the last word of the last line of
the last page of the last volume of in
vestigation, and what delights me most
is that all their intelligence is to be at
our disposal, and. coming into their
presence, they will tell us in five min
utes more than we can learn by 100
Years of earthly surmising.
Velocity of Immortals.
\ further characteristic of these i'm
mortals is their velocity. This the Bible
puts sometimes under the figure of
wings, sometimes under the figure of a
| flowing garment, sometimes under the
figure of naked feet. As these superhu-
mans ale without bodies, these express
sions are of course fgurative and mean
SW1ltutSS- iit blblt ttllc US lhot DhhANA
was praying and Gabriel flew from
| heaven and touched him before he got
up from his knees. How far. then, did
the Angel Gabriel have to fly in those
moments of Daniels prayerI Heaven is
| thought to be the center of the uni
verse, our sun and its planets only the
rim of the wheel of worlds. In mo-
ment the Angel Gabriel few from that
center to this periphery. Jesus told
Peter he could instantly have GO.
angels present if he called for them.
What foot of antelope or wing of al
batross could equal that velocity? Law
of gravitation, which grips all things
else, has no influence upon angelic mo-
mentum Immensities before them open
and shut like fan. That they are here
is no reason why they should not be a
quintillion of miles hence the next min
ute Our bodies hinder us, but our
minds can circle the earth in minute.
Angelic beings are bodiless and have no
limitation. God may with his finger
point down to some world in trouble on
| the outmost limits of creation, and in
stantly an angelic cohort is there to
help it, or some celestial may be stand
ing at the farthermost outpost of i'm
mensity, and God may say Come +
and instantly it is in his bosom. Abra-
ham, Elijah, Hagar, Joshua, Gideon,
Manoah, Paul, st. John, could tell of
their unhindered locomotion. The red
feet Of summer lightning are slow COM
pared with their hegiras This doubles
up and congresses infinitudes into in
fnitesimals. This puts all the astro-
nomical heavens into space like the
balls of child's rattle. This mingles
into one the here and the there, the
now and the then, the beyond and the
yonder.
Another remark have to make con-
cerning these illustrious immortals is
that they are multitudinous. Their CEN
sus has never been taken, and no one
but God knows how many they are,
but all the Bible accounts suggest their
immense numbers-compa of them,
regiments of them, armies of them,
mountain tops haloed by them, skies
populous with them. John speaks OF
angels and other beings round the
throne as ten thousand times ten thou
sand Now. according to my calcula-
ton, ten thousand times ten thousand
are 100, 900, 00O But these are only the
angels in one place. David counted 30,
OO0-o them rolling down the sky in
chariots. When God came away from
the riven rocks of Mount Sinai, the
Bible says he had the cOmpanionshlp OF
10, 900 angels I think they are in every
battle, in every exigency, at every
birth, at every pillow, at every hour,
at every moment the earth full OF
them, the heavens full of them.
Outnumber the Human Race.
They outnumber the human race in
this world They outnumber ransomed
spirits in glory. When Abraham had
his knife uplifted to slay Isaac, II was
an angel who arrested the stroke, cry
ing. abraham, Abraham!" 1t was 8
stairway of angels that Jacob saw while
pillowed in the wilderness. We are told
an angel led the hosts of Israelites out
of EGYPTIAN serfdom. 1t was an ange
that showed Hagar the fountain where
she filled the bottle for the lad. 1t was
an angel that took Lot out OF doomed
Sodom 1t was an angel that shut VI
the mouth of the hungry monsters wheI
Daniel was thrown into the caverns II
was an angel that fed Elijah under thu
juniper tree 1t was an angel that an
uounced to Mary the approaching ma
tivity. They were angels that chante6
when Christ was born. 1t was an ange
that strengthened our Saviour in hi!
agony It was an angel that encouraged
Paul in the Mediterranean shipwreck
1t was an angel that burst open tht
prison. gate after gate, until Peter wa
liberated 1t was an angel that stirred
the pool of Sloan. where the sick wer'
healed 1t was an angel that John saV
fiying through the midst of heaven, ant
an angel with foot planted on the sea
and an angel that opened the book, ant
an angel tlr5t sounded the trumpet. an'
an angel that thrust i'll the sickle, AM
an angel that poured out the vials, ant
an angel standing in the sun. 1t vii
be an angel with uplifted hand swear
ing that time shall be no longer. In tn
great final harvest of the world tn
reapers are the angels. Yea. the Lor'
shall be revealed from heaven wit
, mighty angels. Oh the numbers an
the might and the glory of these su
{ pernals-feets of them, squadrons o
them, host beyond host. rank abov'
rank, millions on millions, and all ol
our side if we will have them!
This leads me to speak of the Office
of these supernals. To defend, to cheer