St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1899-12-02

ciated by all, never feel lonely again or
unregarded again! Angels all around;
angels to approve, angels to help, an
gels to remember. Yea, while all the
good angels are friends of the good,
there is one special angel your body
guard. This idea until this present
study of angelology l supposed to be
fanciful, but ind it clearly stated in
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: ut is
an angel" So these disciples. in spe-
cial nearness to Christ, evidently be-
lieved that every worthy soul las an
angel. Jesus said of his followers:
Their angels behold the face of my
Father" Elsewhere it 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 thou! No won
der that Charles Wesley hymned these
words:
" HICu OL TIE petty AiuSS VI SdA AA
Can boast guard like ours.
Encircled from our second birth
With all the heavenly powers!
Valerius and Rufinus were put &c
death for Christ's sake in the year 2s7,
and after the day when their bodies had
been whipped and pounded into q jelly.
in the night in prison and before the
next day when they were to be executed,
they both thought they saw angels
standing with two glittering crowns.
saying: 'Be of good cheer, valiant sol
diers of Jesus Christ! A little more
of battle, and then these crowns arc
yours" And am glad to know that
before many of those who have passed
through great sufferings in this life
some angel of God has held a blazing
coronet of eternal reward. Yea, we arc
to have such q guardian angel to take
us upward when our work is done. You
know, we are told an angel conducted
Lazarus to Abraham's bosom. That
shows that none shall be SO poor in dy-
ing he cannot afford angelic escort. 1t
would be long way to go alone. and
up paths we have never trod, and amid
blazing worlds swinging in unimagina-
bic momentum, out and on through
such distances and across such infini'
tudes of space we should shudder ut
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,
immortal one! All is well. God hath
sent me to take you home" And with
out 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 chariot wheels and the roll of
mighty harmonies are heard in the Gis-
tance, 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, forever safe, forever
free, forever we'll, forever rested, for
ever united, forever happy. Mothers,
do not think your little children go
alone when they quit this world. Out
of your arms into angelic arms, out of
sickness into health, out of the cradle
into a Saviour's bosom! Not an in
slant will the darlings be alone between
the two kisses-the last kiss of earth
and the first kiss OF Heaven. "Now,
angels, do your work." cried an ex-
piring Christian.
Yes, 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 deliverance.
When tempted to feeling of loneliness
and DISAGREEMENT, appropriate the
promise: "The angel Of the Lord en-
campeth around about them that fear
Him and delivereth them" Oh, 1 am
SO glad that the spaces between here
and Heaven are thronged with these
taking tidiDgs home,
bringing messages here, rolling back OBJ
stacles from our path and giving us de-
tense, for terrific are the forces who
dispute our way, and if the nation of
the good angels is on our side the ma
tion of bad angels is on the other. Paul
had it right when he said: "We wrestle
not against flesh and blood, but against
municipalities. 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 reinforce
ment! We want all their wings on our
side, all their chariots on our side.
Thank God that those who are for
us are mightier than those who are
against us! And that thought makes
me mbilant as to the final triumph.
Belgium, you know, was the battle
ground of England and France. Yea,
Belgium more than once was the bat
tle-ground of opposing nations. 1t SO
happens that this world is the Belgium
or battle-ground between the angelic
nations. good and bad. Michael, the
in chief, on one side; Luz
cifer, as Byron calls him, or Mephis-
topheles. as Goethe calls him, or Satan,
Is the Bible calls him, the commander
in chief on the other side. All pure
angelhood under the one leadership
ano all abandoned angelhocd under
the other leadership. Many a skirmis5
have the two armies had, but the great
and decisive battle is yet to be fought.
Either from our earthly homes or down
from our supe-nal residences may we
some in on the right side, for ON that
side are God and Heaven and victory j
the battle is being s.t IN |
array, and the forces celestial and de-
noniacal are confronting each other. |
Hear the boom of the great canncnade
already opened Cherubim. seraphim,
thrones. nominations. priucipalities,
ind powers arc beginning to ride down |
heir foes, and. until the work is COM
,leted. "Sun. stand thou still upon Glib.
ON, and thou. moon. in the valley ~
Ajaloai"