The Washington weekly post., 1899-10-31

tfoDu- saved sin, saved from QGltn.
saved fOreverT And II angels are thus
/ interested in soul-saving ought we 10 b.
surprised that so many good men and
women are absorbed with the work? Do
you wonder that Nettleton, and Finney,
and Bishop Asbury, and John Wesley
snd Richard Cecil and George Whitfield
ard Paul and Christ, and God stripped
themselves for the work? And II the
work is successful, then lip comes to
trumpet. and fingers to harp, and ham,
mer to bell. and speed TO wing, and there
is joy among the angels over one sinner
that repenteth.
Eyes Always Upon Us.
What an incentive to purity and right
eOusness is this doctrine that We are con
tinually under angelic observation! Eyes
/ ever on you. so that the most secret mis-
deed is committed in the midst of an
audience of immortals No door so bolted
no darkness so Cimmerian. as 20 hinder
that supernal eyesight. Not critical eye
sight, not jealous eyesight. not balefu
eyesight, but friendly eyesigh symPa-
; thetic eyesight helpful eyesight. Conf
Dental clerk Of store, with great respOn.
sibiliJy 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-r room
raptured at your fideltyl Mother of
household, stitching, mending, 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 nur-
sery, angels in all the rooms of your toll
ing, angels about the sick cradle, and all
in sympathy
Railroad engineer with hundreds of
tues d rfNNg.
amid the cinders and the smutch. round
ing the sharp curve and by appalling de-
cliyity, disgraced if you make a 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 rearing furnace OF the en-
gine, angels looking FROM the Uyerhang-
ing crag, angels brdcing the revolving
wheels off the precipice, angels when you
mount the thuEGerbolt of a 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, !ouGer tnan the whistle that
sounds like the scream OF a flying fiend-
the angelic voices saying, You did IL
we'll; you did il well?' If often speak of
engineers, il is because l ride so much |
with them. | always accept their invita- I
ton to join them on their locomotive, and |
among them are some of the gTandest /
men alive.
Friends of the Coed.
Men and women OF all circumstances, /
only partly appreciated, or not appreciat- /
ed at all, never feel lonely again or unFe- 1
garded again. Angels all around, angels /
10 approve. angels to help, angels to re- |
member. Yea, while all the good angels |
are friends of the good, there is one spe- I
cial angel your bOGyguard. This idea, un- |
til this present study OF angelogy. i sup |
posed to be fanciful, but / find it clearly /
stated in the Bible. When the disciples /
were praying for Peters deliVerance from /
prison and he appeared at the door of the /
prayer meeting, they could not believe it /
was Peter. They said 1t is his angel So /
these disciples, IN special neaTness TO .
Christ, evidently believed that every wOr- .
tiny soul has an angel. Jesus said OF His .
followers: Their angels beheld the face /
of my Father Elsewhere il is said: He .
shall give His angels charge over thee, TO /
keep thee in all thy ways Angei-shielded. /
angel-protected, angel-guarded, angel /
canopied, art thou! No wonder that
Charles Wesley hymned these words:
Which Of the petty kings Of earth
Can boast guard like ours,
Encirciea fTcM Cur second bifth
With all the heayenly poTersl
"Valerius and Rufnus were put to death
for Christs sake IL the year Si. and |
after the d2y when their bodies had been
whipped ard pounded into a Jelly, in the /
night In prison, and before the next day
when they were to be executed, they both /
thought they saw angels standing with /
two glittering Gowns saving. BE Of good /
cheer, valiant soldiers of Jesus Christ.
little more of battle and then these
crowns ere yours And I am glad 10
know that before many OF those who have
passed through great sulferings in this /
al Of Cd haf1 Zi ~
COTOnct of eternal reward. Yea, We a-c !
To have such guardian angel 10 take Us
upward when our work is Gcne.
Angelic Escorts for All.
"You know. we are told an angel con-
Quoted Lazarus TO Abraham's bosom.
That shows that none shall be so poor In
dying he cannot afford angelic escort 1t
would be a long way TO go alone, and up 4
paths We have never trod, and amid blaz-
ing worlds swinging in unimaginable mo-
mentum, GU. and on through such dis
tances and across such infnitudes Of
space, We should shudder at the thought
OF going alone. But the angelic escort viii /
come to your languishing pillow or the
place Of your fatal accident, and say.
Hail. immortal onei All Is well; Cod
hath sent me 10 take you home And,
without tremOr OF slightest sense Of peril,
you VIII away ana upward, farther On
and farther on. until after awhile heaven
heaVes in sight, and the rumble Of chariot
wheels and the roll Of mighty haTmOnies
are heard In the distance. and nearer you
come, and nearer still. until the bright
ness Is Ike many mornings sufIused into
one. and the gates lift. and you are inside
the amethystine walls and On the banks OF
the jasper sea- forever safe. forever free.
forever well. forever rested forever
united. forever happy. Mothers, do not
think your little children 20 alone when
they quit this world. Out OF your arms
into angelic arms; out Of s!ckness into
health; out OF the cradle into a Saviour
bosom. Not an instant will the darIlHgs
BE- alone between the Two kisses-the last
kiss Of earth and the frst kiss Of heaven.
Now. angels, do your work" cried an *
pi-ing Christian.