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magnificent, that ever the intelligence
of angelhood is confcunded before it.
The apostle says: (Which things the
angels desire to look into" That is
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 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 c 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 esFhan we can
learn by 100 years of earthly surmis-
ing.
Another remark have. to make con-
cerning these illustrious immortals is
that they are multitndinous. 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 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.
tion, ten thousand times ten thousand
are 100, 900, 900. But these are only the
angels in one place. David counted TO-.
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 compa nionship OF
10000 angels. 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. They out.
number the human race in this world
They outnumber ransomed spirits in
| glory. When Abraham had his knife
4 uplifted to slay Isaac it was an angel
who arrested the stroke, crying: "Abra'
i. ham, Abraham!" 1t was the stairway
of angels that Jacob saw while pillowed
in the wilderness. We are told an ange
led the hosts Of Israelites out of Egyp
tian serfdom. It was an angel that
showed Hagar the fountain where she
filed the bottle for the lad. 1t was al
angel that took Lot out of doomed
Sodom. 1t was an angel that shut uI
the mouth of the hungry monster!
when Daniel was thrown into the cav
erns. It was an angel that fed Eijaf
under the juniper tree. 1t was an ange
that announced to Mary the approach
. ing nativity. They were angels tha
Z chanted when Christ was born. 1t wal
an angel that strengthened our Saviour
u in His agony. 1t was an angel that en-
: couraged Paul in the Mediterranean
! shipwreck. It was an angel that burs
i open the prison, gate after gate, unit
. Peter was liberated. It was an ange
that stirred the. pool OF Sloan, wher'
t the sick were healed. It was an ange
i that John saw flying through the mids
of Heaven, and an angel with foot plant
: ed on the sea, land an angel that opene,
, the book, and an angel that sounded tn
l trumpet, and an angel that thrust il
: the sickle, and, an angel that poured ou
' the vials, and an angel standing in tn
, sun. It will be an angel with uplifte'
! hand swearing that time shall be n
r longer. In the great final harvest o
+ the world the reapers are the angels
: Yea, and the Lord shall be revealed fron
Heaven with mighty angels. Oh, tn
numbers and the might and the glor.
! Of these supernals-feets of them
! sauadrons Of them, host beyond host
: rank above rank, millions on millioni
! and all on our side If we will have them
What an incentive to purity and right
eousness is this doctrine that we ar
? continually under; angelic observation
: Ewes ever on you, so that the most y
! cret misdeed is committed in the mids
: Of an audience of immortals. No doc
20 boltet, no darkness SO Cimmerial
: as to hinder that supernal eyesigh
! Not critical eyesight, not jealous eyt
i sight. not balefuI eyesight, but friens
: " eyesight, sympathetic eyesight, ,.helI
4 ful eyesight. Confidential clerk {
: store, with great responsibility on yor
!. shoulder and no one to applaud yot
!. | work when you do it well and sick wit
: the worlds ingratitude, think of the Al
gels in the counting room raptured /
! your fidelity! Mother of househol,
Z stitching, mending, cooking. dustin
] planning, up half the night or all nigl
i with the sick child, day in and day ou
, wear in and year ont, worn with I'll
i monotony Of lite that no one seen
: to care for, think OF the angels in II
= nursery, angels in all the rooms of yos
: toiling, angelsa sabout'the sick cradle, On