Peninsula enterprise. [volume] (Accomac, Va.) 1881-1965, 1899-11-04

dlscrcdlt their Intelligence. NO one Dut
,, God himself can fully understand the
wonders of redemption. If all heaven
should study it for so eternities, they
would get no further than the A B c
of that inexhaustible subject. But near
ly all other realms of knowledge they
have ransacked and explored and COM
passed No one but God can tell them
anything they do not know. They have
read to the last word of the last line of
the Inst page of the last volume OF in
vestigation, and what delights me most
is that all their intelligence is to be at
our disposal. and. coming into their
presence they will tell US in five min
utes more than we can learn by 100
Years Of earthly surmising.
Velocity of Inmortn1n.
4 further Characteristic Of these i'm
mortals is their velocity. This the Bible
puts sometimes under the figure of
wings. sometimes under the figure Of q
flowing garment, sometimes under the
figure of naked feet. AS these superhu-
mans are without bodies. these express
sions are of course figurative and mean
swiftness The Bible tells us that Daniel
was praying and Gabriel flew from
heaven and touched him before he got
up from his knees. How far. then, did
the Angel Gabriel have to fly in those
moments of Daniels prayer2 Heaven is.
thought to be the center of the uni
verse, our sun and its planets only the
rim of the wheel Of worlds. In a mo-
ment the Angel Gabriel flew from that
center to this periphery. Jesus told
Peter he could instantly have 80. 600
angels present if he called for them.
What foot of antelope or wing OF al
batross could equal that velocity3 Law
of gravitation. which grips all things
else. has no influence upon angelic mo-
mentum. Immensities before them open
and shut like fan That they are here
is no reason why they should not be
uuintillion of miles hence the next min
ute. Our bodies hinder u.s. but our
minds can circle the earth in minute.
Angelic beings are bodiless and have no
Limitation. God may with his finger
point down to some world in trouble on
the outmost limits of creation, and in
stantly an angelic cohort is there to
help it. OF some celestial may be stand
ing at the farthermost outpost of inn
mensity, and God may say "ComeI'
and instantly it is in his bosom. Abra-
ham, Elijah. Hagar, Joshua, Gideon,
Manoah Paul st. John, could tell of
their unhindered locomotion. The red
feet of summer lightning are slow COM
pared with their hegirns. This doubles
up and congresses infinitudes into in
fnitesilnals. This puts all the astro-
nomical heavens into space like the
balls of child's rattle. This mingles
into one the here and the there, the
now and the then the beyond and the
yonder
Another remark have to make con-
corning these illustrious immortals is
that they arc multitudinous Their cen
sus has never been taken, and no one
but God knows how many they are,
but all the Bible accounts suggest their
immense numbers-companies of them,
regiments of them, armies of them.
mountain tops haloed by them. skies
populous with them. John speaks Of
angels and other beings round the
throne as ten thousand times ten thou
sand. Now. according to my calcula-
ton, ten thousand times ten thousand
are 100, 600, O0O But these are only the
angels in one place. David counted 2O,-
600 of them rolling down the sky in
chariots. When God came away from
the riven rocks of Mount Sinai, the
Bible says he had the companionship of
10, 600 angels think they are in every
battle. in every exigency. at every
birth, at every pillow, at every hour,
at every moment, the earth full of
them, the heavens full of them.
Outnumbcr the Human Race.
They outnumber the human race in
this world. They outnumber ransomed
spirits in glory When Abraham had
his knife uplifted to slay Isaac, it was
an angel who arrested the stroke, cry
ing "Abraham Abrahaml 1t was q
stairway of angels that Jacob saw while
pillowed in the wilderness. We are told
an angel led the hosts of Israelites out
of Egyptian serfdom. 1t was an angel
that showed Hagar the fountain where
she filled the bottle for the lad. 1t was
an angel that took Lot out OF doomed
Sodom. Il was an angel that shut up
the mouth of the hungry monsters when
Daniel was thrown into the caverns 1t
was an angel that fed Elijah under the
juniper tree. 1t was an angel that an
nounced to Mary the approaching ma
tivity. They were angels that chanted
when Christ was born. 1t was an angel
! that strengthened our Saviour in his
agony. It was an angel that encouraged
Paul in the Mediterranean shlpwreck
1t was an angel that burst open the
prison, gate after gate. until Peter was
liberated. It was an angel that stirred
the pool of Sloan. where the sick were
healed. 1t was an angel that John saw
flying through the midst of heaven. and
an angel with foot planted on the sea-
and an angel that opened the book, and
an angel that sounded the trumpet, and
an angel that thrust in the sickle and
an angel that poured out the walls, and
an angel standing in the sun. 1t will
be an angel with uplifted hand swear
ing that time shall be no longer In the
great final harvest of the world the
reapers are the angels Yea. the Lord
shall be revealed from heaven with
mighty angels Oh, the numbers and
she might and the glory of these SD.
pernals--heets of them, squadrons OF
them, host beyond host. rank above
rank millions on millions, and all on
our side if we will have theml
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