Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1899-11-02
A sweet and mighty and comforting an.
gel of the Lord met you. That was all.
purit-

A sweet and mighty and comforting an
gel of the Lord met you. That was all.
incentive to Purity.
What an incentive to purity and right
eousness is this doctrine that we are con
tinually under angelic obscrvationl Eyes
ever on you. so that the most secret mis-
deed is committed in the midst OF an
audience of immortals. No door so bolt
ed no darkness so Cimmerian, as to hin
der that supernal eyesight Not critical
eyesight. not Jealous eyesight, not bale
full cyesight, but friendly cyesght, sym
pathetic eyesight, helpful eyesight. Con-
fdential clerk of store, with great respon-
sibility on your shoulder and no one to
applaud your work when you do it well
ard sick with the worlds ingrattude,
think OF the angels in the counting room
raptured at your fidelity! Mother of
household, stitching, mendng, 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 a life that no one seems TO
care for, think Of the angels in the nurs-
cry, angels in all the rooms of your toll
ing, angels about the sick cradle, and all
in sympathy!
Railroad engineer, with hundreds of
lives hanging on your wrist, standing
amid the cindcrs and the smutch, round
ing the sharp curve and by appalling de-
clvity, discharged and disgraced if you
make a mistake, but not one word Of APP
prevail if you take all the trains in safety
for ten years, think of the angels by the
throttle valve, angels by the roaring fur
,f hn Inaltny
the overhanging crag. angels bracing the
racing wheels off the precipice, angels
when you mount the thunderbolt Of n
train and angels when you dismount
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 n
flying hend, the angelic voices saying,
You did it well, you did it WE'LL" If
often speak Of engineers, it is because
ride so much with them. | always accept
their invitation to join them on their loco
grandest men alive.
Heavenly Powers.
Men and women Of all circumstances
only partly appreciated or not appre
ciated at all, never feel lonely again OF
unrcgarded again. Angels all around
angels to approve, angels to help, an
gels 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
angelogy | supposed to be fanciful, but
l find it clearly stated in the Bible
When the disciples were praying fol
Peters deliverance from prison and he
appeared at the door of the prayer meet
ing. they could not believe it was Peter
They said, at is an angel" SO these
disciples, in special nearness to Christ
evidently believed that every worthy sou
has an angel. Jesus said of his follow
ers. Their angels behold the face OF my
Father" Elsewhere it is said. "Ht
shall give his angels charge over thee, tc
keep thee in all thy ways" Angel shield
ed, angel protected, angel guarded. an
gel canopied, art thou, No wonder that
Charles Wesley hymned these words:
Which Of the petty kings of earth
Can beast a guard like ours,
Fncircled from second birth
With all the heavenly powers2
Valerius and Rufinus were put t.
death for Christ's sake in the year 2S7
and after the day when their bodies hac
been whipped and pounded into jelly
in the night in prison and before the
next day when they were to be executed
they both thought they saw angels stand
ing with two glittering crowns, saying
BE of good cheer, valiant soldiers OF
Jesus Christ! A little more of battle
and then these crowns are yours" Ant
| am glad to know that before many OF
tlDGn W ln Ia M SSnI fhrnut,l c,,f
ferings in this life some angel OF Goo
has held blazing coronet of external re
ward. Yea, we are to have such
guardian angel to take us upward whcr
our work is done. You know, we ar,
told an angel conducted Lazarus to Abra
hams bosom. That shows that non,
shall he so poor in dying he cannot ar
ford angelic escort. 1t would be a lon.
way to go alone, and up paths we hav,
never trod, and amid blazing worlds
swinging in unimaginable momentum
out and on through such distances ant
across such infnitudes of space w,
should shudder ut the thought of gon,
alone.
But the angelic escort will come to you
languishing pillow or the place of you
fatal accident and say: Hail, immorta
ph'' al 10 Ntll NfDl III sent ne u
take you home" And without tremor o
slightest sense of peril you will away anC
upward, farther on and farther on, unit
after awhile heaven heaves in sight all,
the rumble of chariot wheels and the rol
of mighty harmonies are heard in the dis
lance, and nearer you come, and neare
still, until the brightness is like man,
mornings suffused into one, and the gate
lift, and you are inside the amethystin
walls and on the banks of the jasper sea
forever safe, forever free, forever well
forever rested, forever united, foreve
happy. Mothers, do not think your littl
children go alone when they quit thi
world. Out of your arms into ANGEL
arms, out Of sickness into health, out o
the cradle into n Saviour's bosom. No
an instant will the darlngs be alone be
tween the two kisses-the last kiss o
earth and the first kiss of heaven. "Now
angels, do your work" cried an expiring
Christian.
TidinEs of Home.
/ Yes, guardian angel for each one o
you. Put yourself now in accord witt
him. When he suggests the right, folloy
/ 1t. When he warns you against tn
wrong, shun it. Sent forth from God t
/ help you in this great battle against si
and death, accept his deliverance Whe
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