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magnificent, that even the intelligence
of angelhood is coufounded before it,
The apostle says; (Which things the
angels desire to look into" That is
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 have n desire for
something too big for their compre-
hension. (Which things the angels
desire TO look into" But that does not
discredit their intelligence. No one
but God Himself can fairly understand
the wonders of redemption. If all
Heaven should study it for so centuries,
they would get no further than the
A b of that ineXhaustible subject,
But nearly all other realms of knowl-
edge they have ransacked 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
last line of the last page of the last
volume of investigation, and what de-
lights me most is that all their intelli-
gence is to be at our disposal, and, com
ing into their presence, they will tell
us in five minutes more than we can
learn by 100 years of earthly surmis-
ing.
Another remark I have TO make con-
cerning these illustrious immortals is
that they are multitudinous. Their
| census has never been taken, and no
one but God knows how many there
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 1O0,O00,000. 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
10000 angels. think they are in every
battle, in every cXigency, at every
birth, at every pillow, at every hour, at
every moment, the earth full of them,
the heavens full of them. They out
number 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, crying: "Abra-
ham, Abraham!" 1t was the stairway
of angels that Jacob saw while pillowed
in the wilderness. We are told an angel
led the hosts of Israelites out of Egyp-
tian 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. 1t was an angel that shut up
the mouth of the hungry monsters
when Daniel was thrown into the cav
erns. 1t was an angel that fed Elijah
under the juniper tree. 1t was an angel
that announced to Mary the approach
ing nativity. They were angels that
chanted when Christ was born. IT was
an angel that strengthened our Saviour
in His agony. 1t was an angel that en-
couraged Paul in the Mediterranean
shipwreck. II was an angel that burst
open the prison, gate after gate, until
Peter was liberated. 1t 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 plant
ed 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 vials, and an angel standing in the
sun. 1t will be an angel with uplifted
hand swearing that time shall be nc
longer. In the great final harvest oi
the world the reapers are the angels
Yea, and the Lord shall be revealed from
Heaven with mighty angels. Oh, the
numbers and the might and the glory
of these upernals-heets of them
squadrons Of them, host beyond host
rank above rank, millions on millions
and all on our side if we will have them!
Whatan incentive to purity and right
eousness is this doctrine that we are
continually under angelic observation
Eyes ever ON you, so that the most sc
cret misdeed is committed in the mids
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so bolted, no darkness so Cimmerian
as to hinder that supernal eyesight
Not critical eyesight, not jealous eye
sight, not baleful eyesight, but friend
ly eyesight, sympathetic eyesight, help
full syesight. Confidential clerk o
store, with great responsibility on you
shoulder and no one to applaud you
work when you do it well and sick will
the worlds ingratitude, think of the an
gels in the counting room raptured a
/, your fidelity! Mother of household
stitching, mending, cooking, busting
, planning, up half the night or all nigh
with the sick child, day in and day out
year in and year out, worn with tn
, monotony OF life that no one seem
| to care for, think of the angels in tn
! nursery, angels in all the rooms of you
( toiling, angels about the sick cradle, ant
all in sympathy!
/ Railroad engineer, with hundreds o
r lives hanging on your wrist, standing
, amid the cinders and the smutcf
= rounding the sharp curve and by ar
: palling declivity, dicharged and dis
e graced if you make mistake, but no
one word Of approval if you take all th
= trains in safety for ten years, think @
2 the angels by the throttle valve, angel
= by the roaring furnace Of the engine
Q angels looking from the overhangin
crag angels bracing the racing wheel
} off the precipice, angels when yo
: mount the thunderbolt of train an
' angels when you dismount! Can 70
b. not hear them, louder than the the be