The Wilmington daily Republican. (Wilmington, Del.) 1890-1902, 1899-10-30


disciples, in special nearness to Christ,
evidently believed that every worthy soul
has an angel. Jesus said of his follow
ers, 'Their angels behold the face of my
Father" Elsewhere it Is said, "He
shall give his angels charge over thee, to
keep thee in all thy ways" Angel shield
ed, angel protected, angel guarded. an
gel canopied, art thou! No wonder that
Charles Wesley hymned these words:
Which OF the petty kings Of earth
Can boast guard like ours,
Encircleu from our second birth
With all the heavenly powersf
Valerius and Rufnus were put to
death for Christ's sake in the year 2S7,
and after the day when their bodies had
been whipped and pounded into jelly.
in the night in prison and before the
next day when they were to be executed,
they both thought they saw angels stand
ing with two glittering crowns, saying:
BE of good cheer, valiant soldiers Of
Jesus Christ! A little more of battle,
and then these crowns are yours" And
l am glad to know that before many Of
those who have passed through great suf-
ferings in this life some angel of God
has held n blazing coronet of external re-
ward. Yea, we are to have such
guardian angel to take US upward when
our work is done. You know, we are
told an angel conducted Lazarus to Abra-
hams bosom. That shows that none
shall be so poor in dying he cannot af-
ford angelic escort. 1t would be long
way to go alone, and up paths we have
never trod, and amid blazing worlds
swinging in unimaginable momentum,
out and on through such distances and
across such infnitudes of space we
should shudder at the thought of going
alone.
But the angelic escort will come to your
languishing pillow or the place Of your
fatal accident and say: Hail, immortal
one! All is well. God hath sent me to
take you home" And without tremor or
slightest sense of peril you will away and
upward, farther on and farther on, until
after awhile heaven heaves in sight and
the rumble of chariot wheels and the roll
of mighty harmones are heard in the dis
lance, and nearer you come, and nearer
still, until the brightness is like many
mornings suffused into one, and the gates
lift, and you are inside the amethystine
walls and Oh the banks of the jasper sea,
forever safe. forever free, forever well,
forever rested, forever united, forever
happy. Mothers, do not think your little
children go alone when they quit this
world. Out of your arms into angelic
arms, out of sickness into health, out Of
the cradle into Saviour's bosom! Not
an instant will the darlings be alone be-
tween the two kisses-the last kiss of
earth and the first kiss of heaven. Now,
angels, do your work." cried an expiring
Christian.
Tidings Of Home.
Yes, guardian angel for each one of
you. Put yourself now in accord with
him. When he suggests the right, follow
it. When he warns you against the
wrong, shun it. Sent forth from God to
help you in this great battle against sin
and death, accept his deliverance. When
tempted to a feeling Of loneliness and
DISAGREEMENT, appropriate the promise,
"The angel of the, Lord encamps4h
around about them that fear him and de-
livereth them" Oh, am so glad that the
spaces between here and heaven are
thronged with these supernaturals TAX
ing tidings home, bringing messages here, |
rolling back obstacles from our path and |
giving us defense, for terrific are the |
forces who dispute our way, and if tne
nation Of the good angels is on our side
the nation of bad angels is on the other.
Paul had it right when he said, I'VE
~restle not against flesh and blood, but
against principalities, against powers,
against the rulers of the darkness of this
world, against spiritual wickedness in
high places" In that awful fight may
God send us mighty angelic reinforce
nent! We want all their wings on our
hide, all their swords on our side, all their
chariots on our side.
Thank God that those who are for US
are mightier than those who are against
us! And that thought ma me jubilant
as to. the final triumph. Belgium, you
know, was the battle-ground of England
and France. Yea, Belgium more than
once was the battle-ground Of opposing
nations. 1t so happens that this world
is the Belgium or battle-ground between
The angelic nations. good and bad, Mi
rhael the commander in chief on one
side; Lucifcr, as Byron calls him, or
Mephistopheles, as Goethe calls him, or
satan, us the Bible calls him, the COM
nander in chief on the other side. All
1ure angehood under the one leader
ship and all abandoned angelhood under
he other leadership. Many skirnish
lave the two armies had, but the great
md decisive battle is yet to be fought.
Either from Our earthly homes or down
rom our supcrnal residences may we
,ome in on the right side, for on that
de are God and heaven and victory.
Meanwhile the battle is being set in az
ay, and the forces celestial and demonia-
al are confronting each other Hear
he boom of the great cannonade already
pened! Cherubim, seraphim, thrones,
principalities and powers
re beginning to ride down their foes,
nd, until the work is completed, Sun,