The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1899-11-10


subject that excites inquisitiveness on
their part. That is theme that
strains their faculties to the utmost.
That is higher than they can climb
deeper than they can dive. They nave
a desire for something too big for their
comprehension. (which things the
angels desire to look into" But that
does not discredt their intelligence.
No one but God himself can fully I'M
derstand the wonders of Redemption
II all heaven should study 1t for h1ty
eternities they would get no further
than the A B c of that inexhaustiDle
subject But nearly all other realms
OF knowledge they have ransacked ana
explored and compassed. No one Dut
God can tell them anything they do not
know. They have read to the last
word Of the last line OF the last page
of the last volume Of investigation.
And what delights me most is that all
their intelligence is to be at our as
posal, and, coming into their presence
they will tell us in five minutes more
than we can learn by one hundred
years of earthly surmising.
Another remark have to make CON
corning these illustrious immortals Is
that they are multitudinous. Their
| census has never been taken ana 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 Oh
them, mountainous haloed by them'
skies populous with them. John
speaks of angels and other beings
round the throne as ten thousand
| times ten thousand. Now, according
to nv calculation, ten thousand times
ten thousand are one hundred million
But these are only the angels in one
place. David counted twenty thousand
of them rolling down the sky in char-
lots. When God came away from the
riven rocks of Mount Sinai, the BlDle
says he had the companionship of ten
thousand angels. l think they are III
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.
They outnumber the human race IN
this world. They outnumber ransomed
spirits in glory. When Abraham had
his knife uplifted to Stay Isaac, 1t was
an angel who arrested the stroke, cry
ing. Abraham! Abraham" 1t was
a 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'
II was an angel that showed Hagar the
fountain where she filled the bottle Tor
the lad. 1t was an angel that took
Lot out of doomed Sodom. 1t 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 announced
to Mary the approaching nativity
Thev were angels that chanted when
Christ was born. 1t was an angel that
strengthened our Savior in his agony
It was an angel that encouraged Paui
in the Mediterranean shipwreck. IL
was an angel that burst open the
prison, gate after gate. until Peter was
liberated. 1t was an angel that stlrreu
the Pool of Sloan where the SICK
we're healed. 1t was an angel tnat
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 thrust III
the sickle, and an angel that poureu
cut the walls, and an angel standing
in the sun. 1t will be an angel Win
unified hand, swearing that Time
shall be no longer. In the great mai
harvest of the world, the reapers are
the angels. Yea, the Lord shall be
revealed from heaven with mighty
angels. Oh. the numbers and the
might and the glory of these super
mails. Fleets of them! Squadrons of
them! Host beyond host! Rank
above rank! Millions on millions.
And all on our side if we will have
them.
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 pres
ent study of angelology, l supposed to
be fanciful, but find it clearly stated
III the Bible. When the disciples were
praying for Peters deliverance from
prison, and he appeared at the door OF
the prayer meeting, they could not be-
lieve it was Peter. They said, 1T Is
his angel" So these disciples, in spe-
cial nearness to Christ. evidently be-
lieved that every worthy soul has an
angel. Jesus said of his followers;
Their angels shall behold the face oil
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
guarded. angel-canopied. art thou! No
wonder that Charles Wesley hymned
these words: