Akron daily Democrat. [volume] (Akron, Ohio) 1892-1902, 1899-10-31

mortal spirit and the other foot lifted
for ascent into the skies. BY some prayer
detain him until he can tell of re-
pentant and ransomed soul! Or You
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: 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
existencef' But suddenly your mind
frightened. Courage came surging into
your heart like oceanic tides. You said,
God is on my side, and all these ad-
versities he can make turn out for my
good" Suddenly you felt a 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 Cim-
merriam, as to hinder that supernal eye
sight Not critical eyesight, not jealous
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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, 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
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
declivity, discharged and disgraced ii
you make mistake, but not one word
of approval if you take all the trains III
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 of
the precipice, angels when you mount
the thunderbolt of a train and angels
when you dismountl Can you not heal
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 il
we'll, you did it welll" If often speak
of engineers, it is because l ride st
much with them. always accept then
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 ol
unregarded again. Angels all around,
angels 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 angeloio-
gyI supposed to he fanciful, but find il
clearly stated in the Bible. When the
disciples were 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, sit is his angel" So these disci'
pies, in special nearness to Christ, evi
IDENTIFY believed that every worthy sou
has an angel Jesus said of his follow
c1.s. "Their angels behold the face ot
my Father Elsewhere it is said, "Ht
shall give his angels charge over thee
to keep thee in all thy ways" Ange
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,
Encrcled from our second birth
| With all the heavenly powers?
Valerius and Rufnus were put tt
death for Christ's sake in the year 2S7
and after the day when their bodie
had been whipped and pounded into !
Jelly, in the night in prison and befor'
the next day when they were to be ex
ecuted. they both thought they say
angels standing with two glitterin:
crowns, saying: 'Be of good cheer
valiant soldiers of Jesus Christ A lit
tie more of battle. and then these crown
are yours. And / am glad to know
that before many of those who hav
passed through great sufferines in thi
life some angel of God has held blaz
ing coronet of eternal reward. Yea, We
are to have such n guardian angel II
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 poo
in dying he cannot afford angelic escort
1t would be long way to go alone
and up paths we have never trod. ant
amid blazing worlds swinging in I'M
imaginable momentum, out and ol
through such distances and across suci
infnitudes of space we should shuddel
at the thought of going alone.
But the angelic escort will come Il
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