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

GOu nlnscI can iully understand III
wonders of redemption. If all heave
should study it for 80 eternities, the
would get no further than the A B
of that inexhaustible subject But near
ly all other realms Of knowledge the
have ransacked and explored and com
passed. No one but God can tell then
anything they do not know. They hav
read to the last word Of the last line O
the last page of the last volume Of in
vestigaton, and what delights me mos
is that all their intelligence is to be a
our disposal. and, coming into thei
presence, they Will tell us in FIVE min
utes more than we can learn by 10
years Of earthly surmising.
Velocity of Immortals.
A further characteristic Of these i'm
mortals is their velocity This the Bibl
puts sometimes under the figure o
wings, sometimes under the figure of
flowing garment, sometimes under tn
figure of naked feet. As these superhu
mans are without bodies, these expires
sions are of course hgurative end meal
swiftness The Bible tells Us that Danie
was praying and Gabriel flew from
heaven and touched him before he go
up from his knees. How far. then. dc
the Angel Gabriel have to fly in thcs,
moments Of Daniels prayer Heaven il
thought to be the center Of the uni
verse, our sun and its planets only tn,
rim Of the wheel Of worlds In a mo
ment the Angel Gabriel flew from thai
center to this periphery Jesus told
Peter he could instantly have 10000
angels present if he called for them
What foot Of antelope or wing Of al
batross could equal that velocity? Law
Of gravitation, which grips all thing.
else has no influence upon angelic mo
mentum. Immensities before them oper
and shut like a fan That they are here
is no reason why they should not be q
quintillion Of miles hence the next min
ute Our bodies hinder rs but oul
minds can circle the earth in a minnie
Angelic beings are boiiies, and have no
limitation God may with his finger
point down To some Wo-. in trouble "a
the outmost limits of creation. GAl in
stantly an angelic cJhogt is ta.rc e.
help it, or SOME celestial ll-. J., rta1l-
ing at the farthorm0st outr0 Ci in
mensity. and God may soy "Cone'
and instantly it is in his bosom A5ra
ham. Elijah, Hagar Joshua. Gideon.
Manoah, Paul, st. Join could tell Of
their unhindcred lo-omotion Tho rai
feet of summer lightning ar, slow com.
pared with their hegiras This doubles
up and compresscs infinitudes into in
fnitesimals This puts all the a-tro-
nomical heavens into a space ike the
balls Of a child's rattle. This mingles
into one the here and tho there the
now and the then, the beyond and the
yonder
Another remark | have to make con
cerning these illustrious immortals is
that they are emultitudinous. Their cen
sus has never been taken and no one
but God knows how many they are.
but all the Bible accounts suggest their
immense numbers-companies Of them,
regiments Of them. armies Of them,
mountain tops hal0ed by them. skies
populous with them John speaks Of
angels and other beings round the
throne as ten thousand times ten thou
sand Now. according to my calcula-
tion, ten thousand times ten thousand
are 100, 600, OO0. But these are only the
angels in one place. David counted 20, p
600 Of them rolling down the sky in
chariots. When God came away from
the riven rocks Of Mount Sinai. the
Bible says he had the ccmpanionship Of
10. 600 angels think they are in every
battle. in every exigency, at every
birth at every pillow. at every hour,
at every moment the earth full Ct
them, the heavens full Of them.
Outnumber the Human Race.
They outnumber the human race in
this world They outnumber ransomed
spirits in glory When Abraham had
his knife uplifted TO slay Isaac, it was
an angel who arrested the stroke. cry
ing. abraham. Ahraham!' 1t was a
stairway Of angels that Jacob saw while
pillowed in the Wilderness. We are told
an angel led the hosts Of lsraelites ont
of Egyptian serfdom 1t was an angel
that showed Hagar the fountain where
she filed the bottle for the lad 1t was
an angel that took Lot out Of doomed
Sodom. II was an angel that shut up
the mouth of the hungry monsters when
Daniel was thrown into the caverns. 1t
was an angel that fed Elijah under the
juniper tree 1t was an angel that am
nounced TO Mary the approaching ma
tivity They were angels that chanted
when Christ was born 1t was an angel
that strengthened our Saviour in his
agony. 1t was an angel that encouraged
Paul in the Mediterranean shipwreck-
1t was an angel that burst open the
prison. gate after gate until Peter was
liberated. 1t was an angel that stirred
the pool Of Sloan, where the sick were
healed 1t was an angel that John saw
flying through the midst Of heaven. and
IN angel with foot planted on the sea,
and an angel that opened the book, and
an angel that sounded the trumpet, and
an angel that thrust in the sickle. and
an angel that poured out the vials, and
an angel standing in the sun. 1t will
be an angel with uplifted hand swear
ing that time shall be no longer In the
great final harvest of the world the
reapers are the angels. Yea. the Lord
shall be revealed from heaven with
mighty angels Oh the numbers aho
the might and the glory of these su-
pernals-heets of them. squadrons OF
them, host beyond host, rank above
rank, millions on millions, and all on
our side if we will have theml
This leads me to speak Of the offices
Of these supernals. To defend, to cheer
TO rescue. to escort. TO give victory to
the right and overthrow the wrong
that is their busincss-just as alert to-
day and efficient as when in Bible times
they spread wing or unsheathed sword
or rocked down penitcntiaries or filled
the mountains with horses Of fire hitch
ed to chariots Of fire and driven by
reinsmen of fire. They have turned