The Goodland republic. [volume] (Goodland, Kan.) 1891-1907, 1902-07-18
a. ANGELs ALWAYs nIAsCULINE.

AXE ANNTEl4S ALh n - MEASND
The editor of the Topeka State Jour
nal, in the Saturdays issue, flung off
from his versatile pen the following
four-line editorial. "a bible student
at Erie, Pa, after considerable re-
search, has decided that there are no
women in heaven, and yet, who ever
heard of man angelo"
"Who ever heard of a man angelo
That settles it. The pungent quill
driver, sex cathedra," has decided a
very important theological question
for all time to come. He ought to have
a cromo. Males will please hereafter
refrain from singing:
81 want to be an angel,
And with the angels stand"
It is useless, Sonny, for according to
the aforesaid high authority all the
angels are always feminine, sweet lit
tie girls or engaging young women.
Don't cry, it can't be helped. The
Sunday school man has made a mis-
take.
This editorial only shows that per
son may be well informed and highly
educated, as the world goes, and at the
same time be in the Kindergarten class
when it comes to religious, theological
and biblical subjects, indeed may be
grossly ignorant. The fact is that all
angels specifically and definitely men
toned in the scriptures are referred to
as males and are placed dramatically
in the masculine gender.
The angel Jehovah, rendered in our
English versions angel Of the LORD, IS
always masculine, and is understood
to refer to the second Person of the
trinity, afterward called the Son of
God, and in the old testament some
times referred TO as the "AngeI of the
Covenant The prOnOuns employed
to indicate this sublime Parsonage are
always he, his, him. This is the One
who stayed Abraham when he would
have sacrificed his son at Jehov ali
jireh and cOntended with Jacob at
PenieI, when there "wrestled a man
with him unto the breaking of the
Jay anu " hAOL4 4C cA4ICA " a No AE-
ferred when blessing the sons of JO-
seph. saying, "the Angel that redeemed
me from all evil bless the lads"
But subordinate angels are also
masculine. In the opening Of Isaiah,
chapter 6, verses IA, there is a descrip-
ton of the seraphim, a plural of ser
aph, Of each Of whom it is said, with
twain he covered his face, with twain
he covered his feet and with twain he
did fly" employing the masculine pro-
noun in each case. In the prophecy
Of Daniel, chapter 8, verse Is, he heard
3 mzn's voice commanding Gabriel to
make the prophet understand the Wis
ion; and in chapter 8, verse 81, Gabriel
IS called "the man, Gabriel" Many
centuries afterwards this mighty angel
announced to Zacharias the birth of
John the Baptist, and to the Virgin
Nary the birth of Jesus That was
nearly 1900 years ago, and there is in
the ehistian city of Topeka an editor
Of a daily paper who sagely inquiries,
who ever heard of a man angelo" Did
he think Gabriel was womans
When Jesus arose from the dead,
Luke PA '.two men in shining gar
msnts" announced to the weeping
women, st the sepulchre in the early
dawn, the most momentous event of
All the ages They were @men angels, .
bat the Topeka penny-s- liner never
heard Of the circumstance. From the
top Of Mount Olivet Christ assembled
into heaven, Acts /: 10: II, stwo men
angels stood By the disciples and to
them predicted his coming again. Has