Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1899-10-30

the might and the glory OF these su-
pernals -feets of them, squadrons Of
them, host beyond host, rank above
rank, millions on millions, and all on
our side if we will have themi
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 business-just as alert to-
day and efficient as when in Bible times
they spread wing or unsheathed sword
or rocked down penitentiaries or filled
the mountains with horses of fire hitch
ed to chariots Of fire and driven by
reinsmen of fire. They have turned
your steps hundred times, and you
knew it not. You were on the way to
do some wrong thing, and they changed
your course They brought some thought
of Christian parentage or of loyalty to
your own home, and that arrested you.
They arranged that some one should
meet you at that crisis and propose
something honorable and eevating, or
they took from your pocket some ticket
to evil amusement, a ticket that you
never found It was an angel of God,
and perhaps the very one that guided
you to this service and that now waits
to report some holy impression to be
made upon your soul, tarrying with
one foot upon the doorstep of your i'm
mortal spirit and the other foot lifted
for ascent into the skies. By some prayer
detain him until he can tell of a re-
pentant and ransomed soull 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: 81
cannot stand it any longer. I believe
will take my life. Where is the rail
train Or the deep wave or the precipice
that will end this torment Of earthly
existence?" 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
change? 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 CHM
merriam, as to hinder that supernal eye
sight. Not critical eyesight, not jealous
eyesight, not baleful eyesight, bus
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 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 if
you make a mistake, but not one word
of approval if you take all the trains in
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 off
the precipice, angels when you mount
the thunderbolt of a train and angels |
when you dismountl Can you not hear
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 tiend, |
the angelic voices saying, 'You did it |
we'll, you did it well?' If I often speak |
of engineers, it is because I ride so
much with them. I always accept their |
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 or
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 angelolo- |
gy supposed to be fanciful, but find it
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