The Washington weekly post., 1899-10-31

| OF their books are stars. The dashes OF
their books are met teors. The words OF
| their books are consultations. The para
| graphs of their books are galaxies. The
pictures 9f their books are sunrfses and
| sunsets and midnight auroras aud the
Conqueror on the white horse with the
moon undP- his feet Their library is an
| open universe. No need of telescope TO
see something millions OF miles away, for
instantly they are there TO Inspect and ek-
p!ore IL All ASTRONOMERS. all geologes, all
eotanies, all PHILOSOPHERS at their feet.
what an opportunity for Intelligence Is
theirs! What facilities for knowing every
thing and knowing II right awayi
Wonders of Redemption.
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 II all through the ages. and yet
! warrant they have not fully grasped it,
the wonders of redemption. These won.
GERS are so high. so deep, so grand, so
stupendOus, so magnificent that even the
Intelligence Of angeIhood Is confoundsd
before H. 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 comprehen-
sion Which things the angels desire TO
llok into But that does not discredit
their Intelligence No one but God him
self can fully understand the wonders of
redemption. IL all HEAVIER should study
II Tor nifty eternities, they would get no
further than the A r C of that mex
! haustible subject But nearly all other
realms OF knowledge they have ransaClIed
and explored and compassed. No one tuI
God can tell them anything they 90 rot
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 intel!i-
sence is 70 be at our disposal, and. coming
into their presence. they whi tell rs IN
five minutes more than We can learn by
one hundred years of earthly surmisinE.
"A further characteristic of these i'm
Tnortals is their velocity This tho Bible
puts sometimes under the figure Of wings
sometimes under the figure of flowing
garment, sometimes under the figure of
naked feet. As these supeThumans are
without bodies, these expressions are
Of course figurative. and mean swiftness
The Bible tells Us that Daniel was pray
ing, and Gabriel flew from heaven and
touched him before he got Up from his
knees. How far, then, did the angel
DaniePs prayer Heaven is thought TO
be the center of the universe Our sun
and its planets only the rim of the wheel
OF worlds. In a moment the angel Ga
brlel few from the center to this periph-
cry. Jesus told Peter he could in
stantly have sixty thousand angels pres
ent if he called for them. Wnat foot of
antelope or wing Of albatross could equal
that velocity? Law of gravitati0E, which
grips all things else, has no influence
upon angelic momentum. Immenslties De-
fore them open and shut like fan.
Their Census Never Taken.
''That they are here is no reason why
they should not be a quintillion of miles
hence the next minute. Our bodies hinder
US, but our minds can circle the earth in
a minute. Angelic beings are bcdiess and
have no limitation. God may with His fin
ger point down TO some world in trouble
on the outmost limits Of creation, and
instantly an angelic cohort is there to
help it. Or some celestial may be stand
ing at the faTthermost outpost of ,mmen-
sty, and Cod may say Gomez and in
Stantly it is in His bosom. Abraham. Eli
jah. Hagar, Joshua, Gideon, Mauoah,
Paul, ST. John, could tell of their unhin-
dered locomotion. The red feet of summer
lightning are slow compared with their
hegiras This doubles up and congresses
infinitudes into ininitesimals. This puts
all the astronomical heavens into a space
like the balls of child's rattle This min
giles into one the here and the there, the
now and the then, the beyond and the
yonder.
Another remark have to make con-
corning 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 I
or them, armies of them, mountain tops |
haloed by them, skies pOpulOus with them. |
Jonn speaks of angels and other beings |
round the throne as ten thousand times !
ten thousand. Now, according TO my CAL |
culatiOn, ten thousand times ten thou
sand are one hundred million. But these !
are only the angels in one place. David |
counted twenty thousand of them rolling /
down the sky in chariots. When God came /
away from the riven rocks of Mount ST. |
mai, the Bible says He had the eompan-
lonship OF ten thousand angels. l think /
they are IN every battle, IN every eXlg-
ency, at every birth. at every pillow, at
every nour, at every moment. The earth :
full Of them. The heavens full of them. /.
They. outnumber the human race in this T,
world. They outnumber ransOmed spirits 1
in glory.
al on pHf si0e.
when Ahraham had his knife dplifted I
TO siay Isaac, it was an angel who ar
rested the stroke, crying, Abraham Alb /
rah@m! 1t was stairway OF angels that {
Jacob saw while piliOWed in the wilder .
ness. We are told an angel led the hosts .
OF Israelites out Of Egyptian serfdom. 1t .
was an angel tnat showed Hagar the .
fountain wnere she filled the bottle for .
the lad It was an angel that took Lot /
out of doomed Sod3m. 1t was IN 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. II was an
angel that announced to Mary The ap-
preaching nativity. They were angels
that chanted when Christ was born. 1t
was an angei that strengthened our Saw
iour in His agony. ii was an angel that
encouraged Paul N the Mediterranean .
shipwreek- II was an angel that burst
open the prison, gate after gate, until
Peter was liberated. IT was aa ANGEL
that stirred the POOL of Sloan where the .
sick were Eealed. L vas an angel that
John saw flying through the midst Of /
heaven, and an angel with foot planted |
on the sea. and m angel that opened the I
book, and an angel that sounded the
trumpet, and an angel that thrust IL the .
sickle, and an angel that poured cut the .
yials, and an angel standing in the sun.
II Will be an angel vita uDlifted kand,
swearing that Time shall be no longer
IN the great final harvest OF the WCrid.
the reapers are the angels. Yea. the Lord
shall be revealed from heaven with
mighty angels. On. the numbers ard the
might and the glory Of these suEerualsi
Fleets OF themi squa1roas OF theIal Host
beyond hosti Rank above rank! Millions
on millions, And all on our siCe II we
will have them
What They De for Us.
This leads me TO speak OF the Offices
Of these sapernals 10 defend. &c cheer.
10 rescue, to escort, 10 give victory 20 the