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

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 grasped 1.-THE wonders of re-
demptiOn. These wonders are so high,
so deep, so grand, SO stupendous, sc
magnificent, that even the intelligence
of angelhood is COMPOUNDED before it.
The apostle says, (Which things the
angels desire to look into. That is a
subject that excites inquisitiveness on
their part. That is a theme that strains
their faculties to the utmost. That is
higher than they can climb, deeper
than they can dive They have a desire
for something too big for their compre-
hension. (Which things the angels de-
sire to look into" But that does not
discredit their intelligence. No one but
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 last 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 ImmortaIs
A 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
flowing garment, sometimes under the
figure of naked feet. AS these superhu
mans are without bodies these express
sions are Of course fgurative and mean
swiftness. The Bible tells us that Daniel
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 it's planets only the
rim OF the wheel Of worlds. In mo-
ment the Angel Gabriel flew from that
center to this periphery. Jesus told
Peter he could instantly have 60, 900
angels present if he called for them.
What foot of antelope or wing of al
batross could equal that velocity? Law
of gravitation, which grips all things
else, has no influence upon angelic mo-
mentum. Immensities before them open
and shut like a fan. That they are here
is no reason why they should not be a
quintillion of miles hence the next min
ute. Our bodies hinder us, but our
minds can circle the earth in a minute.
Angelic beings are bodiless and have nc
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, or some celestial may be stand
ing at the farthermost outpost of i'm
mensity, and God may say "Comel"
and instantly it is in his bosom. Abra
ham, Elijah, Hagar, Joshua, Gideon,
Manoah, Paul, st. John, could tell Of
their unhindered locomoton. The red
feet of summer lightning are slow com
pared with their hegiras. This doubles
up and congresses infnitudes into in
fnitesimals. This puts all the astro
nomical heavens into a 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 I have to make con-
corning these illustrious immortals is
that they are 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, 000 But these are only the
angels in one place. David counted 90
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 I 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.
Outnu,nber the Human Race.
They outnumber the human race in
this world. They outnumber ransomed
spirits in glory. When Abraham had
his knife uplifted to Stay Isaac, it was
an angel who arrested the stroke, cry
ing, abraham, Abrahamr' 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. It was an angel
that showed Hagar the fountain where
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