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KEEP WATCH OVER US
We Are Guarded by Angels Says
DR.. Talmage.
supernnl Beings Who Give warning
When EVIL Approachcs-Next 10
God, They Control Our
Destiny.

md TO have much to do with our every
DAY life. The text is Judges 1919;
"And the angel did wondrously."
Fire built on rock. Manoah and his
wife had there kindled the flames for
sacrifice in praise of God and in honor
of guest whom they supposed to be
man. But as the flame rose higher and
higher their strange guest stepped into
the flame and by one red leap ascended
into the skies. Then they knew that was
an angel of the Lord. 1.-The angel did
wondrously."
Two hundred and forty-eight times
does the Bible refer TO the angels, yet |
never heard or read sermon on angel
ology. The whole subject is relegated
to the realm mythical, werd, spectral
and unknown. Such adjournment is
un-Scriptural and wicked. OF their life,
their character, their habits, their ac-
tions, their velocities, the Bible gives
us full length portraits, and why this
prolonged and absolute silence con-
cerning them? Angelology is my
theme.
There are two nations of angels, and
they are hostile to each otber-the ma
ton of good angels and the nation of
bad angels. OF .he former l chiefly
speak to-day. Their capital, their head
quarters, their grand rendezvous, is
Heaven, but their empire is the uni
verse. They are a distinct race of crea-
lures. No human being can ever join
their confraternity. The little child
who in the Sabbath school sings: 81
want to be an angel" will never have
her wish gratifed. They are superhu-
man, but they are of different grades
and ranks, not all on the same level or
the same height. They have their su-
periors and interiors and equals. Ipro-
pose no guessing on this subject, but
take the Bible for my authority. Plato,
the philosopher, guessed and divided
angels into supercelestial, celestial and
subcelestial. Dionysius, the Areopa-
Cite, 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 angels were related to God,
as the rays of the sun. Fulgentius said
that they were composed of body and
spirit. Clement said they were incor-
poreal. Augustine said that they had
been in danger of falling, but now are
beyond being tempted. But the only
authority on this subject that respect
says they are divided into cherubim,
seraphim, thrones, dominions, princi-
paHties, powers. Their commander in
chief is Michael. Daniel called him
Michael. st. John called him Michael.
These supernal beings are more thor
oughly organized than any army that
ever marched. They are swifter than
any cyclone that ever swept the sea.
They are more radiant than any morn
ing that ever came down the sky. They
have more to do with your destiny and
mine than any being in the universe eX-
cept 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 achieve
ments.
Yes, deathless. They had cradle,
out will never have a grave. The Lord
remembers when they were born, but
no one shall ever see their eye eXtin-
guished or their momentum slow up
or their existence terminate. The old
est of them has not wrinkle or de-
crepitude or hindrance, as young
after 5000 years as at the close of their
first hour. Christ said to the good in
Heaven: Neither can they die any
more, for they are equal unto the an
gels" Yes, deathless are these won
derful creatures of whom speak. They
will see world after world go out, and
there shall be no fading of their own
orilliance. Yea, after the last world
has taken its last flight, they will be
ready for the widest circuit through i'm
mensity, taking a quadrillion Of miles
in one sweep as easy as pigeon circles
dovecote. They are never sick. They
are never exhausted. They need no
sleep, for they are never tired. At Gods
command they smote with death, in one
night, 1876, 900 of Sennacherib's host, but
no fatality can smite them. Awake,
agile, multipotent, deathless, immortal!
A further characteristic of these
radiant folk is intelligence. The woman
Of Tekoah was right when she spoke
to King David of the wisdom of an
angel. We mortals take in what little
we know through the eye and ear and
sostril and touch, but those beings
have no physical incasement, and hence
they are all senses. A wall five feet
thick is not solid to them. Through
it they go without disturbing fake ot
mortar or crystal of sand. knowledge
It flashes on them. They take it in al
all points. They absorbit. They gather
it up without any Underwent. Nc
need of literature for them. The let
ters of their books are stars. The
dashes of their books are meteors. TIL,
words Of their books are consultations
The paragraphs of their books are gal
axes. The pictures of their books arr
sunrises and sunsets and midnight au
roras and the Conqueror on the Whit
horse with the moon under his feet
Their library is an open universe. Ne
need of telescope to see something
millions of miles away, for Instant!
they are there to inspect and explore it
All ASTRONOMERS, all geologies, all bot
anies, all PHILOSOPHERS at their feet
What an opportunity for intelligenc
is theirsl What facilities for knowing
everything and kns wing it right away