Connecticut western news., 1899-11-02


 at your fidelityi Mother of household. stitching. mending, cooking, dusting, 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 dismount! 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 fiend, the angelic voices saying, "You did it we'll, you did it wellg" If I often speak of engineers, it is because l ride so much with them. always accept their invitation to join them on their loco motive, and among them are some of the grandest men alive.
 Guarded by AuUeIs
 Men and women of all circumstances, only partly appreciated or not appre- ciated at all. never feel lonely again or unregarded againl 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 1 find 1t clearly stated in the Bible. When the disciples were praying for Peter's de- liverance from prison and he appeared at the door of the prayer meeting. they could not believe it was Peter. They said, "It is his angel" So these disci- ples, in special nearness to Christ, evil dently believed that every worthy soul has an angel. Jesus said of his follow CTS, Their angels behold the face of my Father. Elsewhere 1t is said, He shall give his angels charge over thee. to keep thee in all thy ways" Angel shielded, angel protected, angel guard ed, angel canopied, art thoul No won- der that Charles Wesley hymned these words:
 Which of the petty kings of earth
 Can boast a guard like ours
 Encircled from our second birth
 With all the heavenly powersf
 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 ex- ecuted, they both thought they saw angels standing with two glittering crowns, saying: "Be of good cheer, valiant soldiers of Jesus Christi A lit tie more of battle, and then these crowns are yours. And I am glad to know that before many of those who have passed through great sufferings in this life sosee angel of God has held blaz- ing coronet of eternal reward. Yea, we are to have such a guardian angel to take us upward when our work is done. You know, we are told an angel con ducted Lazarus to Abraham's bosom. That shows that none shall be so poor in dying he cannot afford angelic escort. 1t would be a long way to go alone, and up paths we have never trod, and amid blazing worlds swinging in un- imaginable 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, i'm mortal onei 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 char iot wheels and the roll of mighty har- monies are heard in the distance, 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 on the banks of the jasper sea, for ever safe, forever free. forever well, forever rested, forever united, forever happy. Mothers, do not think your lit tie children go alone when they quit this world. Out of your arms into an- gelic arms out of sickness into health, out of the cradle into Saviour s bosomi Not an instant will the darlings be alone between the two kisses-the last kiss of earth and the first kiss of heav- en. ''Now, angels, do your workl" cried an expiring Christian.
 Guardian Angel For All.
 Yes, a 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 deliv- erance. When tempted to feeling of loneliness and disheEtenment. appro- priate the promise, 1.-The angel of the Lord encampeth around about them that fear him and delivereth them" Oh, am so glad that the spaces be- tween here and heaven are thronged with these supernaturals taking tidings home, bringing messages here, rolling back obstacles from our path and giv- ing us defenses, for terrific are the forces who dispute our way, and if the 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. We wrestle 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 re-en- forcementl We want all their wings on our side, all their swords on our side. all their chariots on our side.
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