The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1899-11-01


sion to be made upon your soul, tarrylng
with one foot upon the doorstep of your
immorta. spirit and the other foot lifted
for ascent into the skies. BY some pray
er detain him until he can tel of a re-
pentant and ransomed soul. Or you were
some time borne down with trouble, be-
reayement, persecution, bankruptcy, sick
ness and all manner of troubles beating
their discords in your heart and life. You
gave up. You said: Il cannot stand it
any longer. | believe / will take my
life. Where is the rail train or the deep
wave or the precipice that will end this
torment Of earthly existence" But sud
denly your mind frightened. Courage
came surging into your heart like oceanic
tides. You said, 'God is on my side, and
all these Universities he can make turn
out for my good" Suddenly you felt
peace, deep peace, the peace of God
that passeth all understanding What
made the change? A sweet and mighty
and comforting angel 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 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 bolt
ed, no darkness so Cimmerian, as to him
der that supernal eyesight. Not critical
eyesight, not jealous eyesight, not bale
full eyesight, but friendly eyesight, SYM
pathetic eyesight, helpful eyesight. Con-
fidential clerk of store, with great respon-
sbility 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 fidelity! 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 i;fe 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
lives hanging on your wrist, standing
amid the cinders and the smutch, round
ing the sharp curve and by appalling de-
cliyity, discharged and disgraced it you
make q 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
mace of the engine, angels looking from
the oyerhanging crag, angels bracing the
racing wheels off the precipice, angels
when you mount the thunderbolt of
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
flying fend, the angelic voices saying,
You did it well, you did it well?" #
often speak of engineers, it is because |
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.
Heavenly Powers.
Men and women of all circumstances,
only partly appreciated or not appreciate
ed at all, never feel lonely again or UNI
regarded again. Angels all around; an
gels 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 angelology
| supposed to be fanciful, but | find it
clearly stated in the Bible. When the
disciples were praying for Peters deliv
erance from prison and he appeared at
the door of the prayer meeting, they
could not believe it was Peter. They
said, 1T is an angel" SO these disciples
in special nearness to Christ, evidently
believed that every worthy soul has an
angel. Jesus said of his followers, Their
angels behold the face of my 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 guarded, angel canopied,
art thou! No wonder that Charles Yves
ley hymned these words:
Which of the petty kins of earth
Can boast guard like ours,
Encircled from our second birth
With all the heavenly powers?
Talerius and Rufnus were put to
death for Christ's sake in the year 2S7,
and after the day when their bodies had
been whipped and 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 stand
ing with two glittering crowns, saying:
BE of good cheer, valiant soldiers Of Je-
sus Christ! A little more of battle, and
then these crowns are yours" And / am
glad to know that before many of those
who have passed through great sufferings
in this life some angel Of God has held
blazing cOronet Of eternal reward Yea,
we are to have such a guardian angel to
take us upward when our work is done.
You know, we are told an angel conduct
ed Lazarus to Abraham's bosom. That
shows that none shall be so poor in dying
he cannot afford angelic escort 1t would
be long way to go alone, and up paths
we have never trod, and amid blazing
worlds swinging in unimaginable momen.
tum, out and through such distances and
across such infnitudes of space we
should shudder at the thought of going
alone
But the angelic escort will come TO
your languishing pillow or the place of
your fatal accident and say: Hail. i'm
mortal one! All is well. God hath sent
me to take you home" And without ire
NOR or slightest sense of peril you will
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