Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1899-11-03

detain him until he can tell Of a re-
pentant and ransomed SOUL Or yor
were some time borne 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. | believe
will take my life. Where is the raj
train or the deep wave or the precipict
that will end this torment of earthly
existenceT But suddenly your mind
frightened Courage came surging into
your heart like oceanic tides. You said,
God is ON my side. and all these adj
versities he can make turn out for my
good. " Suddenly you felt peace, a
deep peace, the peace 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 observa-
ton Eyes ever on you. so that the
most secret misdeed is committed in
the midst Of an audience of immOrtals
No door so 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 fidelity Mother Of household,
stitching, mending. cooking. dusting,
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
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
decliyity. discharged and 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
roaring furnace Of the engine, angels
looking from the overhanging crag,
angels bracing the racing wheels off
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 fiend,
the angelic voices saying, "You did it
well. You did it welll" If 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.
Guarded by Angels.
Men and women Of all circumstances,
only partly appreciated or not appre-
ciated at all. never feel lonely again or
unregarded againl Angels all around,
angels to approve. angels 10 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 | find it
clearly stated in the Bible When the
disciples wero 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. evi-
IDENTIFY believed that every worthy soul
has an angel Jesus said Of his follow
ers, Their angels behold the face Of
my Father Elsewhere it is said. "He
shall give his angels charge over thes,
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,
Encrced from our second birth
With all the heavenly powerss
valerius 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
jelly. in the night in prison and before
the next day when they were to be ex-
ecuted, they both thought they saw
angels standing with two glittering
crowns, saying BE of good cheer,
valiant soldiers Of Jesus Christ A lit
tie more of battle, and then these crowns
are yours And | am glad 10 know
that before many Of those who have
passed through great sufferings in this
life some angel of God has held blaz'
ing coronet of eternal reward. Yea, we
are 10 have such a guardian angel to
take us upward when our work is done.
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 long way to go alone,
and up paths we have never trod. and
amid blazing worlds swinging in un-
imaginable momentum, out and on
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
tremor or slightest sense Of peril you
will away and upwaid. farther on and
farther on. until after awhile heaven
heavss in sight and the rumble of char
lot wheels and the roll OF mighty har-
monies are heard in the distance. and
nearer you come and nearer still, until
the brightness is like many mornings
suffused into one, and the gates lift,
and you are inside the amethystine walls
and en- the banks Of the jasper sea, for
ever safe. forever free. forever well.
forever rested forever unifed forever