The commonwealth. (Greenwood, Miss.) 1896-1923, 1899-11-03

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the angels by the throttle valve, angels
By the roaring furnace of the engine,
angels looking from the overhangiug
crag, angels brueiug the racing wheels
off the precipice, angels when You
mount the thundefholt Of a train and
angels when you dismount, Can You
not hear them, louder than the the bell
at the crossing, louder than the whistle
that sounds like the scream of q flying
tiend, The angelic voices saying; You
did it we'll, you did it weIl"'" If often
speak of engineers, it is because | ride
so much with them. | always accept
their invitation 10 join them on their To-
conceive. and among them are some OF
the 0andest men alive.
Men and women of all circumstances.
only partly appreciated or not appre-
siated by all, never feel lonely again or
u%nregarded again. Angels all around;
ange.s 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 body
guard. This idea until this present
study of ares!olosy | supposed to be
fanciful. but ! find it clearly stated in
the Bible. When the disciples were
praying for Peters deliNorance from
prison aud ls appeared ut the door of
the prayer meeting, they could not be-
licyc it was Peter. They said: iii is
an angel" So these disciples, in spe-
cial uearness to Christ, evidently be
licved that every worthy soul has an
angel. Jesus said of his followers:
Their angels behold the face of my
Father" Eisewh here il is said: lie
shall give His angels charge over thee,
to keep thee in All thy ways Angel
shielded, angel-protected, angel-guard-
ed, alrgcl-canopied, art thou! No Won
der that Charles Wesley hymned these
words:
Which of the petty kings of earth
Can boast a guard Ike ours,
Encircled from our second birth
With all the heavenly powers?
Nalerius and l~tutinus were put to
death for Christ's sake in the year PSF,
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 wereto be executed,
they both though, they saw angels
standing with two gIittering crowns,
saying. BE of good cheer, valiant sol.
ditrs of Jesus Christ, \ little more
of battle, and then these owu are
yours" And | am glad to know that
before many of those who have passed
through great sutferings in this life
some angel of God has held a blazing
coronet of eternal reward. Yea. We are
to have such a guardian angel TO take
us upward when our work ia done. You
know, we are told an angel conducted
Lazarus to Abruham's bosom. That
shows that none shall be so poor in dy-
ing he cannot afford angelic escort. 1t
would be "A long way to go alone, aud
up paths we have never trod. and amid
blazing worlds swinging in unimagina-
bic momentum, out and On through
such distances and across such intini-
tudes Of space we should shuddcr at
the thought of going alone.
But the angelic escort will come TO
your lauguishing pillow or the place
of your fatal accident and say: Hail.
immortal one! All is we'll. God hath
sent me to take you home" And with
out tremor or slightest sense Of peril
you will away and upward, farther on
fuptIat. nm until aF,.r uu,LtIa
heaves in sight and the rumble
of chariot wheels and the roll of
mighty harmonies are heard in the dis
tance. and nearer you come, and nearer
still, until the brightness is like many
mornings sutfused into one, and the
gates lift, and you are inside the
ame1hystine walls and on the banks
of the jasper sea, forever safe, forever
free, forever well, forever rested, for
united. forever happy. Mothers.
do not think your little children go
alone when they quit this world. Out
OF your arms into angelic arms, out of
into health, out of the cradle
into II Saviour's bosom! Not an in
slant will the darlings be alone between
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