The Globe-republican., 1899-11-09

Copyright 1889 by Louis I<lcpsch.)
Fire built on a rock. ManOah anG
his wife had there kindled the flames
for sacrifice in praise OF God, and il
honor of guest whom they supposed
higher and higher, their stranger guess
stepped into the flame and by one red
leap assembled into the skies. Then
they knew that he was an angel of the
Lord. THE angel did wondrously."
Two hundred and forty-eight times
does the Bible refer to the angels, YET
l never heard or read sermon on
Angelology. The whole subject is
relegated to the realm mythical, weird
spectral and unknown. Such adjourn
nent is unscriptural and wicked. OF
their life, their character, their habits,
their actions, their velocities, the Bible
gives US full-length portraits, and why
this prolonged and absolute silence
concerning them? Angelology is my
theme.
There are two nations of angels,
and they are hostile to each other;
the nation of good angels and the ma
ton of bad angels. OF the former l
chiefly speak today. Their capital.
their headquarters, their grand rem
devious, is heaven, but their empire is
the universe. They are distinct race
of creatures. No human being can
ever join their confraternity. The lit
tie child who in the Sabbath school
sings, Iwant to be an angel" will
never have her wish gratified. They
are superhuman, but they are of diff
ferent grades and ranks, not all on the
same level, or the same height. They
have their superiors and interiors and
equals. i propose no guessing on this
subject, but take the Bible for my only
authority. Plato, the philosopher,
guessed and divided angels into super
celestial, celestial and sub-celestial.
Dionysius, the Areopagite, guessed
and divided them into three classes
the supreme, the middle and the last
and each Of these into three other
classes, making nine in all. Philo
said that the angels were related to
God, as the rays to the sun. Fulgen-
thus said that they were composed OF
body and spirit. Clement said they
were incorporeal. Augustine said that
they had been in danger of falling,
but now are beyond being tempted.
But the only authority on this sub
ject, that l respect, says they are d.
vided into Cherubim, Seraphim.
Thrones, Dominations, Principalities.
Powers. Their commander-in-chief is
Michael Daniel called him Michael.
st. John called him Michael. These
supernal beings are more thoroughly
than any army that ever
They are swifter than any
cyclone that ever swept the sea. They
are more radiant than any morning
that ever came down the sky. They
have more to do with your destiny and
mine than any being in the universe
except God. May the Angel of the
New Covenant, who is the Lord Jesus.
open our eyes, and touch our tongue.
and rouse our soul, while we speak of
their deathlessness, their intelligence,
their numbers, their strength, their
Yes, deathless. They had a cradle.
but will never have grave. The Lord
when they were born, but
no one shall ever see their eye ex-
or their momentum slow
up, or their existence terminate. The
oldest of them has not wrinkle, or
! decrepitude, or a hindrance; as
young after six thousand years as at
The close of their first hour. Christ
said of the good in heaven, Neither
can they die any more, for they are
equal unto the angels" Yes, death
ess are these wonderful creatures OF
whom l speak. They will see world
after world go out. but there shall be
10 fading of their own brilliance.
Yea, after the last world has taken it's
asst fight, they will be ready for the
widest circuit through immensely, TAX
ng a quadrillion of miles in one sweep
Is easy as pigeon circles a dovecot.
A further characteristic of these ra-
liant folk is intelligence. The woman
II Tekoah was right when she spoke |
o King David of the wisdom of an
nigel. We mortals take in what little |
We know through eye and ear and nos
ril and touch; but those beings have |
10 physical encasement and hence they |
ire all senses. A wall five feet thick is |
lot solid to them. Through it they go |
without disturbing fake of mortar or |
rystal of sand. knowledge! 1t fash
IS on them. They take it in at all |
Joints. They absorb it. They gather
up without any Underwent. No
iced of literature for them! The let
ers OF their books are stars. The |
askes of their books are meteors.
The words of their books are corstella-
ions. The paragraphs Of their books
re galaxies. The pictures Of their
looks are sunrises, and sunsets, and
midnight auroras, and the Conqueror
n the white horse with the moon IN
Ter his feet. Their library is an open