The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1899-11-08
GUARDIAN ANGELS.
Rev. Dr.'1 aImage Says They keep
Watch Over Motta's.
NEXT TO..GOD in POWER.
They control.the DestinyEof; the
Humans Race. - They Cive-1s
Warning When Evil Ap-
NEXT TO. GOD in POWER.
They Control.the Destiny Eof: the
prcaches.

much to do with our everyday life.
The text IS Judges xiii, 10, And the
angel did wondroussy.
Fire built on rock. Mahoah and
his wife had there kiud.ed the flames
for sacrifice IN praise Of God and IN
honor of guest whom they supposed
TO be man. But as the flame rose
higher and higher their stranger guest
stepped into the fame and by one red
leap ascended into the skies. Then
they knew that.was an angel Of the
Lord. The angel did wonGrcu>ly.
Two hundred and forty-eight times
does the Bible refer,to TIC angels, yet |
never heard or read d sermon oD angel,
ology. The whole subject is relcga'eG
to the realms mythicai, weird, spectra!
and unknown. Such adjournment is
IN Scriptural and wicked. OF their
life, their character, their habits, their
actions, their velocities, the Bible gives
US full length portraits, and why this
prolonged and absolute silence con-
cerning them? Angelology IS my
theme.
There are two nations Of angels and
they are hostile to each other-the ma
ton Of good angels and the nation Of
bad angels. OF the former | chiefly
speak today. Their capital, their
headquarters, their grand rendezvous,
is heaven, but their empire is the uni,
verse. They are a distinct race OF
creatures. No human being can ever
join their confraternity. The little
child who in the Sabbath school sings,
81 want to be an angel" will never
have her wish gratiied. They are super
human, but they are of different grades
an6ranks, not all on the same level or
the same height. They have their su-
periors and Interiors and equals. |
prop, S. nc euessiDg'on this subject,
but take the Bible for my own authori-
~. Plato. the philosopher, guessed
and divided angels into supercelestlal.
celestial and subcelestial. Dionysius,
the A-eopagite, guessed and divided
them into three classes; the supreme,
the middle ana the last, and each OF
these into three other classes, making
nine in all. Philo said that angels
were related to Coo, Is the rays to the
sun. Fulgentius said that they were
composed of body and spirit. Clement
said that they were incorporeal. Au-
gustine said that they had been in dan
ger of falling, bat now are beyond be-
ing tempted. But the only authority
on this subject that I respect says they
are divided into cherubim, seraphlm,
thrones, denominations, principallties,
powers. Their commander in chief is
Michael. Daniel called him Michael.
St. John called him Michael. These
supernal beings are more thoroughly
organized 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
Sod. May the Angel of the New Gov
enant, who is the Lord Jesus, open our
eyes and touch our tongue and rouse
our soul while We speak Of their death
lessness, their intelligence, their num-
bers, their strength, their achieve
ments.
Yes, deathless. They had cradle.
but will never havea grave. The Lord
remembers when they were born, but
no one shall ever see their eye extin-
guished or their momentum slow up or
their existence terminate. The Oldest
Of them has not wrinkle or decrepi-
svoe CO hindrance, as young after
5000 years'as at the close of their first
hour. Christ said to the good IN hea-
Won, Neither can they die any more,
FOR they are equal unto the angels.
Yes, deathless are these wonderful
creatures Of whom speak. They will
see world after world 60 out but there
shall be no fading.os their .ewn hTil!i-
ance. Yee, after the"lsSt world has
taken It's last 4 'gh1. ,sev VIII be rssc>
for the widest circuit ,hIvugh lprm:n-
sity, taking quadrillion Of lai;-, in
enc sweep as easy as q pigeon ciTc:' 5
dovecot. They are never sick. They are
aeve rexhausted. They Dced no sleep for
shey are never tired. At Gods com
nand they smote with death, in one
night, 1S5, 900 Of Sennacherib's host.
but no fatality can snite them.
Awake, agile, nultipotent, deathless,
immortal!
There is only one thing that puts
them to their wits end. and the Bible
says they have to study that. They
have been studying it all through the
ages, and yet warrant they have not
fully graspe6 it the wonders Of re
demption. These wonders are so high,
50 deep, so grand, so stupendous, SO
magnificent, that even the intelligence
Of angelhood is confounded before it.
The apostle says, (which things the
angels desire to look into That is
subject that excites inquisitiSeness on
their part. That is a theme that
strains their faculties to the utmost
Thatis higher than they can climb,
deeper than they can drive. They have
a desire for something too big for their
comprehension. (Which things the
angels desire to look into. But that
does not discredit their intelligence.
No one but God himself can fully IN
derstand the wo-ders of redemption
If all heaven should study it for 30
centuries, they would get no further
than the A B C of that inexhauStible
subject. But nearly all other realms
Of knowledge they have ransacke6 and
explored and compassed. No one but
God can tell them anything they do
not know. They have read to the last
word of the line of the last page Of the
last volume of investigation and what
delights me most is that all their intel
ligence is to be at our disposal, AID,
coming into their nresenca. they will