Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1899-11-23
DIR. TALMAGES SERMON.
SUNDAYS DISCOURSE BY THE NOTED
DIVINE.

OIvtNEs
Subject: A Heavenly Guard-Mission of
the Angels-Have Much to Do With
the Everyday A.airs of Life-A Guard
ian Angel For Every One.
Copyright. Louis Klopsch. 1891
WASHINGTON, D. C.-The brilliant beings
supposed by some to be imaginary nre by
Or. Talmage in this sermon shown to be real
and to have much to do with our everyday
life. The text is, Judges kill, 10, "And
the angel did wondrously."
Fire built on rock Manoah and his
| wife had there kindled the flames for sac
rlfice in the praise of God and in honor of
a guest whom they supposed to be a man.
their stranger guest stepped into the flame
and by one red leap ascended into the
/ skies. Then they knew. that he was an
angel of the Lord. "The angel did Won
drously.''
Two hundred and forty-eight times does
the Bible refer to the angels, yet never
heard OF read sermon en- angeloloey.
The whole subject is reiegated to the
realm mythical, weird, spectral and un-
known. Such adjournment is un-Scriptural
and wicked. OF their life, their character,
their habits, their actions, their velocites,
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 nation OF bad an
! gels. OF the former I chiefly speak to-
! day. Their capital, their headquarters,
| their grand rendezvous, ls heaven, but
tkeir empire is the universe. They are
| distinct race of creatures. No human be-
ing can ever join their confrat ernlty. The
little child who in the Sabbath school
sings, II want to be an angel" will never
have her wish gratihed. They are super
human, but they are of different grades
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 philoso-
pher. guessed and divided angels into
superceestial, celestial and subcelestial
0ionysus, the Areopagite, guessed and
divided them into three classes, the su-
preme, the middle and the last, and each
of these into three other classes, making
nine in all. Philo said that the angels were
Fulgentius 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 SUBJECT that 1 re-
spect says they are divided into cherubim,
seraphim, thrones, nominations, principal
itie1, powers. Their commander in chief
is Michael. Daniel called him Michael.
ST. John called him Michael. These
supernal beings are more thoroughly or
ganized than any army that ever marched.
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 achieve
ments.
Yes. deathless. They had a cradle, but
will never have grave. The Lord remem-
bers when they were born, but no one
shall ever see their eye extinguished or
their momentum slow up or their existence
terminate. The oldest of them has not
wrinkle or a decreptude or Il hindrance,
as young after 5000 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 to the angels" Yes
deathless are these wonderful creatures of
whom 1 speak. They will see world after
word go out, but there shall be no fading
of their own brilliance. Yea, after the last
world has taken its last flight they will be
ready for the widest circuit through I'm
mensity, taking quadrillion of miles in
one sweep us easy as pigeon circles IL
uOVecOt. lucy are never SICK. Iuey are
never exhausted. They need no Sleep for
they are never tired. At Gods command
they smote with death In one night 1856 900
OF Sennacheribs host, but no fatality can
smite them. Awake, agile, multipotent,
deathless, immortHil
A further characteristic of these radiant
folk is intelligence. The woman of Tekoah
was right when she opoke to King David of
the wisdom OF an angel. We mortals take
in what little We know through eye and
ear and nostrl and touch, but those beings
have no physical encasement, aud hence
they are all senses. wall five feet thick
is not solid to them. Through 1t they go
without disturbing fake Of mortar or crys-
tai Of sand. Knowledge! It flashes on
them. They take it in at all points. They
absorb it, They gather 1t up without any
hinderment No need Of literature for
them. The letters CT their books are stars.
The dashes OF their books a-e meteors. The
words OF their books ere consultations
The paragraphs OF their books are galax-
les. The pictures OF their books are sun
rises and sunsets and midnight auroras
and the Conquero- on the wEite horse with
the moon under his feet. Their library is
an open universe. no need Of telescope TO
see something millions OF miles away, for
instantly they are there to inspect and ex-
plore it. hll astronomies, al, geologies, all
botanies, all phi.osophies, at their feet
Whet el opportunity for intelligence is
theirsl What facilities for knowing every
thing and Knowing 1t right away!
There is only one thing that puts them
to their wits end. and the Bible says they
have to study that. They have been study
ing It all through the ages. and yet war
rant they have not fuily grasped 1.-THE
wonders Of redemption. These wonders
are SO high, SO Deep so grand, SO stupen-
dous, so magnificent. that even the in |
telligence of angeihood is confounded be-
fore it The apostle says, (Which things |
the angels desire TO look into" That is a |
subject that excites inqcisit;veness on their |
part. That is u theme that strains their |
faculties to the utmost That is higher |
than they can climb, deeper than they can
dive. They have desire for something
too big for their comprehension. (which
things the angels desire to look into"
But that does not ciscredit their intelll-
gence. No one but God Himself can fully
understand the wonders OF redemption.
If all heaven should study it for fifty
e.ernit.es, they would get no further than
the 4 b 9 OF that ineAhaustibie subject.
But nearly all other realms CT knowledge |
they have ransacked and explored and