Rensselaer Republican, Volume 22, Number 31, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 April 1890 — Page 6

skc Republican. 9m S. Ma m all, Publisher. ■!—■*». INDIANA

The till® of Henry M. Stanley’* forthcoming book will be “The Darkest Africa; the Quest, Rescue and Retreat of Emin.” A Philadelphia dentist advertises that his false teeth lit so snugly and so perfect that they ache and hurt just like natural teeth.

Oregon is thought to be one of the young states, and it has been in the union for yet thirty-one years. Thed istaut sister has not made much impression on the sisterhood.

The Mexican demand for American hogs is gradually increasing. The duty is now $2.50 per head, but dealers are trying to get the duty N modified to so much per pound instead of per head.

“The biography and letters of Sarah Bernhardt, 1884-188!),” by an old and well known military officer, is soon to appear in Paris. The book is to contain a preface written by a man now dead.' Ella Wheeler Wilcox recently gave a reception in New York at which the conversation throughout the eveZ ning was in the French language. The only things there to the manner born were the guests.

The North Dakota legislature made a law compelling all non-resident newspaper publishers seeking hews in that territory to appoint a resident agent on whom process may be served in actions at law.

Mrs. Elizabeth Cady Stanton, ono of those enviable veterans who do not lag superfluous on tho stage, has left for Europe, to live henceforth in London, near her daughter and her clever son Theodore Stanton. General Sherman confesses that he tikes tho bands to play “Marching Through Georgia” in his honor. He was surprised by hearing the tune as a serenade when he visited Ireland, and was surprised to learn that it was an ancient Irish air. Pennsylvania seems to have a claim on the Russian Mission. Charles Emory Smith is the seventh minister from that state to the court at St. Petersburg, his predecessors having been Messrs. Boker, Curtin, Cameron, Dallas, Wilkins, and Buchanan.

When General Alger goes out to the Pacific coast this summer on his tour of inspection Mrs. Logan, widow of General Logan will accompany him as the guest of Mrs. Alger. Like a nemesis, but not of evil, in all hi? walks, his ambitions, she will be the geu•ral’s Logaq, The veil has always been an important adjunct to the toilette of a woman, and just uow, when lovely woman stoops to folly and looks upon the rouge when it is red, the strip of illusion becomes more than ever a necessity. A veil is a coquetry to a pretty girl, a charity to an ugly one. In Germany women physicians, however well qualified, have no legal standing, and are forbidden to sign a prescription. No matter what their attainments, they are only regarded as dabblers (Kurpfuscher). Thoughtful German women, however, are beginning to put in a plea fof* women doctors.

Switzerland proposes to hold at Lausanne in June a fair that will present specimens of all known alimentary substances, taking in breads, confectioneries, pastries, cooked dishes, vegetables, groceries, preserves, chocolates and so on through all that tho hum m stomach knows. Can anything more comprehensive be couceived,

1 , - ' ...» —! — One of the best shooting territories in this country east of the Rocky Mon ntains is found in and near the Okifinokee swamp, which covers a large area in Charlton, Ware and Clincii counties, Georgia, and Baker county, Fla. It includes numerous lakes, the haunt of wild fowl, and forests of timber, the abode of large and small game in great profusion. a The election of Mrs. Charles D. Hair.es as president of the Haines Medina-Valley Railroad company, the line of road now being built between Lacoste and C&stroville, Tex., places for the first time in the history of railroad building in America a lady as president of & ateam railroad. Mrs. Haines is tbe wife of the senior member of the firm of Haines Bros., the Short Line railway builders of Flew York.

A PHOTOGRAPHER at Warren, Pm, lowered a camera into an oil well which bad been torpedoed at the depth of 1,700 feet, and by springing a magnesium Hash light succeeded in getting. a 'ood picture of the chamber made by the explosion of the torpedo. The success of this photograph!o experiment suggests the thought that by a similar method a view might be secured ol some of the ‘'bottomless pits” of the Mammoth Case and other great oavantc *

THE NEWS OF THE WEEK.

A negro was lynched at Mari am oa, Fla., on the 25th. Maryland proposes to prohibit pool soiling at races. The Sooners have been bounced from the Cherokee Strip. A wholesale arrest iof freight car thieves has been made at St. Paul. Whitelaw Reid, U. S, Minister to France arrived in New York on the 36th. Pioneer, Ohio, a village of 1300 people, was distroyed by fire on the 36th. The Treasurer of Maryland is charged with misappropriating State funds. The Standard Company has bought out its competitor, the Lima Oil Company. Fifty families have established a cooperative boarding house at Decatur, IIL The Chicago Board cf Trade will discontinue furnishing quotations after April IstChinese women are being surreptitiously shipped to New York from San Francisco. Mrs. Giles, an abandoned wife in New York, on the 26th cut off her hand and bled to death.

The trotting stallion May King has been sold to Sibley & Miller, of Frankfort, Pa., for $30,000. Mrs. Nat C. Goodwin, inafitof jealousy, tried to commit suicidfe with carbolic acid at St. Louis. George W. Peck, the humorist, was on the 24th nominated for Mayor* by the Democrats of Milwaukee. Oneof the new war vessels of the United Stats Navy is named theCencord. It will help keep the peace. • •

James W. Myers, a veteran soldier, an his little grandchild were buried in one grave at Tiffin, 0., on the 4th. An agent of an English syndicate is in Danville, Va., trying to buy eight of the largest tobacco factories there. An explosion in the Chicago Sugar Re fining Company’s plant on the 28 tn killed three men and injni-ed ten others. The big rat, mice, sparrow and hawk hunt, Benton, 0., has ended in the bagging of 7,111 head of theso pests. An epidemic of fatal happenings an murders is prevailing in Colorado. Ten violent deaths were reported on the 25th alone. ...• ; ——

Rev. R. F. Sbinn, pastor of tho Congregational church, in Norris, 111., dropped dead in his pulpit at the close of Sunday’s service. Fire in the business portion of Laredo Tex., on Monday morning, destroyed SIOO,000 worth of property. Partly covered by insurance. Kilrain’s convict services having been purchased by Charles Rich, on whose plan--ation the Sullivan fight took place, the ex-champion is in for two months of ease. Ex-City Treasurer John A- Davis, of Rochester, N. Y„ pleaded guilty on the 27tli to embezziemont. He was sentenced to five cyears in prison. His shortage amounted to $60,777.13. The Massachusetts House refused to adopt a resolution protesting against the imposition of duty on raw hides. The resolution was adopted by a rising vote, but on roll call was defeated—99 to 91. The Presidents of the County Farmers’ Alliances of Kansas met Tuesday and declared against the rc-elec tion of Senator John J. Ingalls. Sixty counties, repres - enting 140,000 votes, were present at the meeting. A Chicago paper says Tuesday tha trouble is brewing among the glass manufacturers of the country, and that their numbers uro likely to be divided. It is said that every glass manufacturer in the country has ceased making goods. Mr s. Frank Kent, a Chicago widow on the 25th, publicly horsewhipped U. S. Commissioner Simon W. King. She grabbed him by the whiskers and held him while she vigorously applied the lash. She accuses him of circulating false reports about her. The Susquehanna Coal Company posted notices on the 24th that from April 1 the company’s mines at Nanticoke win ~work~ full time during tho whole season. The five thousand miners who have been on the verge of starvation for months are nearly wild with joy, and every humble home in Nanticoke is a place of thankfulness and happiness.

Mont Clair, N. J., reports a case of Dr. Jekeyl and Mr. Hyde. James Tuthiel came their five years ago. He connected himself with the church and joined several social clubs. During the day he was a very respectable business man. It now developes that at night he was a veiy common bui'glar, and Ills arrest followed. The cellar of his house was filled with the booty of his night raids. His pretty wife is under arrest as an accessary.

An intimation was received a few days ago by Mr. Charles Fliut the representative of this country from New York, from the representatives of tho South American countries in the Pan-American, that their countries might be willing to givecomplete reciprocity in everything, provided this country would do the same. The whole situation was talked over with Mr. Blaine, and the outcome of it was that the repre sentatives qf this country were authorized, in the name of the secretary of State and with his approval of the scheme, to make a proposition of absolute reciprocity to the

representatives of the South American conntries. The adoption of the plan would bring about absolute free trade in every article of commerce between the United States anu the South American countries. The Republicans of lowa are having a very perceptible effect, upon the Republican members of the committee by demanding that there shall bo no reduction of the internal taxes so tong as any duty on sugar is retained. The lowa people are apparently solid for free sugar. Thoy might be content with tho repeal of tba whole sale and retail license of the tax on tobacco but they are unalterably opposed to any reduction of the tobacco tax in other forms. Major Conger, who represents the Des Moines district, said to your correspondent Thursday: “The lowa delegationia-snlid. ly opposed io any reduction whatever of the Internal taxes. We will fight to tho last any modification of the tobacco taxes. W® will also fight for free auger. Thor two propositions we are solid upon, and : do not see how we oan keep lowa Repub licau if we reduce the internal revenue taxes and keep up a sugar duty. We have been giving too much protection to the lar?

interests and too little attention to the common consumers.” FOREIGN. The liberty of Finlanders is seriously threatened by the despotic ruler of Russia. A meat famine is impending in Paris The wholesale butchers threaten to close the abattoirs if their demands concerning the importation of foreign c-attia ar ft not granted. General Boulanger has written a letter in which he renews his promise to return to France provided the Government will permit him to be tried by the Court of Appeals or by a court martial. Dispatches from Crete say that at Paliama, on Sunday, a priest was dragged from his pulpit and paraded through the street amid the jeers of the mob. Sixty four of the villagers are starving in prison. Mr. Balfour introduced an Irish land purchase bill in Commons on Monday night. It proposes to amalgamate the five bodies now having control over the valuation and sale of lands into one. The bill is very complicated. Parnell opposes it. The Standard says it is ingenious. The Pall Mall Gazette pronounces it abomin able.

A Paris, dispatch states that a young Parisian artist, Jules Renaud, has killed himself, in Algiers, because Amelia RivesChandler Jilted him while they were studying together in Paris. Her rebuff failed to dampen his ardor. He followed her to Algiers, renewed Tiis courtship and received his final conge last Friday, when, he destroyed himself, leaving a sensational letter asking for sympathy. Renaud had remarkable talent. ■ Price®Bismarck has deposited all his stars, crosses and medals in the Reich bank. The jeweler s estimate of their value is £5,000. The Prince retails the order of the Golaen Fleece and that of the Black Eagle. “No more uniforms or medals for me,” the veteran statesman is reported to have said; “you have forced me into retirement, where I shall wear a frock coat and only heed my iron cross.”: Prince Bismarck will leave Berlin for Friederichsruh on Thursday. He said to an interviewer, Tuesday: “You will never see me in Berlin again.” All the Generals oftheaEmy-stationed ißrßei-lin and vicinity hye paid him farewell visits. -

NATIONAL CONGRESS.

The Senate on the 24th discussed tho Sherman anti-trust bill. The House transacted no business of ; interest. j The House Committee on Pensions I Monday, ordered two general pension bills to be reported to tbe House with favorable recommendations. The first of these is the Richardson bill, granting pensions to the survivors of the Indian wars, and to the surviving widows of these men who were married prior to their discharge, and who have not remarried, at the rate of $8 per month. The second bill was introduced by Mr. Norton and proposes to amend the Mexican war pension act so as to include the soldiers who served sixty days in the Mexican war, or were engaged in a battle and those personally named by Congress for specific service in that war and the widows of such soldiers. , The Senate devoted the 25th to the con-! siderat-ion of the anti trust bill. The House decided to dedicate tho I World’s Fair buildings on October 13, < 1592, but to postpone the fair itself to 1593., The Wyoming admission bill was con , sidered. . | The Senate occupied all of the 26th in ; debating the anti-trust bill. Tho House considered the Wyoming ad,‘ mission bill. ■’ i The Senate on the 27th passed the bill allowing special census agents $3 per day. A bill appropriating $25,000 to purchase tents for the flood sufferers in the South was passed. The anti-Trust bill was taken up, debated and referred to the Judiciary Committee. The bill to pension ex-soldiers and sailors, who- are incapacitated from manual labor, and for dependent relatives of deceased soldiers, was considered. The Honse at once resumed consideration of the Wyoming admission bill. Several Democrats spoke in opposition to the billThey were opposed to it 3 woman suffrage provision to its constitution, and for other i reasons opposed the admission of the terri tory. An earnest attempt was made to eradicate the woman suffrage clause, but tho attempt was defeated. The bill was then passed by yeas, 139; nays, 127. If the Senate passes the bill Wyoming will become a State. » Neither the Senate nor Housetransacted any business on the 28th, though both bodies were in session.

POPULAR BISMARCK:

The farewell audience between the Emperor and Prince Bismarck was held on tbe 26th. The interview lasted three-quarters of an hour. Tho retiring Chancellor was heartily cheered on his wav to the palace bv crowds which had gathered along the route. As the Prince was driving past the bridge between the Lustgarten and Uuter den Lindeu, his horses shied and one of them became entangled in the traces. It was necessary to stop the carriage until the harness was rearranged. A crowd quickly gathered about the ex Chancellor, and ladies threw him bouquets and kissed their hands to him. Prince Bismarok was

bo greatly affected that he shed tears. He shook hands with a number of those about his carriage, and his voice faltered as be thanked the people for their demonstrations of affection. The accident was of a trifling nature and as soon as the harness was arranged the Prince resumed his drive amid cheers. His passing through the streets was a veritable triumphal procession. The people wanted to unharness .the horses and drag the carriage themselves. Those nearest the carriage thrust in their bands to the hands of Bismarok, and it was with the utmost dHßcutty that i passage could be made through tho crowd. It was the pressure of the throng upon the carriage that caused the accident which delayed the Prinoe’s progress. A now idea in cofTee-spoonß is to have each one of the set Bhaped like a different flower, with a long stem for the handle. * I,' ' o* I t *

THE REALM OF THE ANGELS.

Their Home,, tbs Heavens j Their Empire, the "Daly yse, Angelology the Theme of Dr. Talmage.—He Draws Aside the Dorset That Veils Angelie Habitation.-r The Angel of the Lord in —Manoah’s Flame on the Bock. Sunday morning at the Brooklyn Academy of Music, Rev. Hi Dewßt Talmage announced his text Judges 13: 19—“ And the angel did wondrously,” and said: Fire built on a rock. Manoah and his wife had there kindled the flames for sacrifice in juraise of God, and'in honor of a guest they supposed to be a man. But, as the flame rose higher and higher, their stranger guest stepped into the flame jnd by one red leap ascended into the skies. Then they knew that he was an Angel of the Lord. “The angel did wondrously.” Two hundred and forty-eight times does the Bible refer to the angels, yet I never heard or read a sermon on Angelology. The whole subject is relegated to the realm mythical, weird, spectral, and unknown. Such adjournment is unseriptural and wick ed. Of their life, their character, their habits,their action, their velocities, the Bible irives full length portraits,and why this prolonged and absolute silence concerning them? Angelology is my theme.

There are two nations of angels, and they are hostile to each other: the nation of good angels and thb nation of bad angels. Of the former, I chiefly speak to-day. Their capital, their headquarters, their grand rendezvous, is heaven, but their empire is the universe. The are a distinct race of creatures. No human being can aver join their confraternity. The little child who in the Sabbath school sings, “I wanttoßsr an angel,” will never have hor wish. gratified. They are superhuman; hut they are of different grades and ranks, not all on the same level, or the same height. They have their superiors and inferiors and equals. 1 propose no guessing on this subject, but take the Bible for my only authority. Plato, tho philosopher, guessed, and divided angels into super-celestial, celestial, and sub-celestial. Dionysius, the Areopagite, guessed, and divided them into three classes —the supremo, the middle and the last—and each of these into three other classes, making nine in all. Philo said the angels were related to God, as the rays to the sun. Fulgoutius said that they were composed of body and spirit. Clement said they were incorporeal. Augustine said that they had been in danger of falling, but now aw beyond being tempt d. B-ut the only authority on this subject that I respect says they are divided into Cherubim, Seraphim, Thrones, Dominations, Principalities, Powers. Their commander-in-chief is Michael. Daniel called him Michael, St. John called him MichaoL These supernal beings are more thoroughly organized than any array that ever marched. They are swifter than any cyclone that ever swept the sea. They are more radiant than any morning that ever came down the sky. They have more to do with your destiny and mine than any being in the universe oxcept God. May the Angel of tne New Covenant, who is the Lord Jesus, open our eyes and touch our tongue, and rou3e our soul, while we speak of their deathlessness, their intelligence, their numbers, their strength, their achievements. Yes, deathless. They bad a cradle, but Avili never have a grave. The Lord remembers when they were born, but no one shall ever see their eye extinguished, or their momentum slow up, or their existence terminate. The oldesr, of them has not a wrinkle, or a decrepitude, or a hindrance; as young after six thousand years as at the close of their first hour. Christ said of the good in heaven, “Neither can they die any more, for they are equal unto the angels.” Yes, deathless are these wonderful creatures of whom I speak. They will see world after world go out, but there shall bo no fading of their own brilliance. Yea, after the last world jiaa taken its last flight they will be ready for the widest circuit through immensity, taking a quadrillion of miie3 in ono sweep as easy as a pigeon circles a dovecot. They are never siok. They are never exhausted'. They need no sleep, for they are never tired. At God’s command they smote with death, in ono night, one hundred and eighty-five thousand of Sennacherib’s host, but no fatality can smite them. Awake, agile, omnipotent, deathless, immortal! A further characteristic of these radiant folk is intelligence. The woman of Tekoah was right whenurixo-spoke to King David of the wisdom of an angeL Wo take in 1 what little we know through eye and ear and nostril and touch; but those beings have no physicaL encasement and hence they are all senses. A wall five ieet thick is not solid to them. Through it they go without disturbing flake of mortar or crystal of sand. Knowledge I It flashes on them. They take it in at all points. They absorb it. They gather it up without any hinderment. No need of literature for them! The letters of their books are stars. The dashes of their books are meteors. The words of their books are constellations. The paragraphs of their hooks are galaxies. The pictures of their books are sunrises, and sunsets, and midnight auroras, and the Conqueror on the white horse with the moon under his feet, and seas of glass mingled with fire. Their library is an open universe. No need of telescope to soe something millions of miles away, for instantly they are there to inspect and explore it. All asironomie3, all geologies, ad botanies, nil philosophies at their feet. What an opportunity for intelligence is theirs! \i hat facilities for knowing everything and. knowing it right away!

There is only one thing that puts them to their wit’s end, and the Bible says they have to study that. They have beeu studying it_a.ll through the ages, and yet I warrant They have not fully grasped It-the wonders of Redemption. These wonders rre so high, so deep, so grand, so stupendous, so magnificent that oven the intelligence of angelhood '.f confounded before it The apostle says, "Which things tho 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, and deeper than they can dive. They have a desire for something too big for their comprehension. “Which things tho angels to look lota” Bat that does not discredit their intelligence. No one but God Himself can fully understand the wonders of Redemption. If all heaven should study It for fifty eternities the* would get no further than the A U C of that inexhaustible subject. But all other realms lines or the realms of know!: edge they have ransacked and explored uml compassed. No one but God can tell them anything they do not know." TTKoyfiave read to tna Tost word of the last page of tho last volume of investigation. And what delights me most is that all their intelligence is to be at our disposal, and, coming Into their presence, they will tell us in five minutes more than we can learn by One hundred years of earthly surmising. A further characteristic of tneae immortals is their velocity. This tha Bible puts somettmos under the figure of wings, some*

’ times under the figure of a Jawing garment, sometimes under the figure of naked feet. As these snnerhnmans are without bodies these expressions are of course figurative, and mean swiftness. The Bible tells ns that Daniel was praying, and riel flew from heaven and touched him before he got up from his knees. Huw far, then, did the angel Gabriel have to fly in those moments of Daniel’s prayer? Heaven is thought to be the center of the universe. Our sun and its planets only the rim of the wbeeL_ot worlds. In a moment the angel Gabriel flew from that centre to this periphery. Jesus told Peter He could instantly have sixty thousand’angels present if He called for them. What foot of antelope or wing of albatross could equal that velocity? Law oi gravitation, which grips all things else, has no influence upon angelic momentum. Immensities before them open and shut like a fan. That they are here is no reason why they should not be a quintiilion of miles hence the next minute. Our bodies binder us, but our minds can circle the earth in a minute. Angelic beings are bodiless and have no limitation. God may with His finger point down to some world in trouble on the outmost limits of creation, and instantly an angelic cohort are there to help it. Or some celestial may be standing at the furthermost outpost of immensity, and God may say “Come I” and in. Btantly it is in His bosom. Abraham, Elijah, liagar, Joshua, Gideon, Manoah, Paul, St. John, could tell of their uuhindered locomotion. The red feet of summer lightning are slow compared with their hegiras. This doubles-up and compresses infinitudes into infinitesimals. This, puts all the astronomical heavens into a space like the balls of a child’s rattie. This mingles into one the Here and the There, the Now and the Then, the Beyond and the Yonder. Another remark I have to make concerning these illustrious immortals’is that they, are multitudinous. Their census hasnever been taken and no one but God knows how many they 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 around the throne as ten thousand times ten thousand. Now according to my calculation, ten thousand times ten thousand are one hundred million. But these are only the angles in one place. David counted twenty thousand of them rolling down the sky in chariots. When God came away from the riven rock 3 of Mount Sinai, the Bible says He had the companionship of ten thousand angels. I think the,} are in -SvhFy Dattie, 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 outnumber the human race in this world. They outnumber ransomed spirits in glory. \\ hen Abraham had his knife uplifted to slay Isaac, it was an angel who arrested the stroke, crying, “Abraham, Abraham 1” It was a stairway of angels that Jacob saw while pillowed in the wilderness. Y\ e are told an angel led the hosts of Israelites out of Egpytian serfdom. It was an angel that showed liagar tho fountain where she filled the bottle for the lad. It was an ange that took Lot out of doomed Sodom. It was an angel that shut up the mouth of the hungry monsters when Daniel was thrown into the caverns. It was an angel that fed Elijah under the juniper tree, it was an angel that announced to Mary the approaching nativity. They were angels that chanted when Christ was born. It was an angel that strengthened our Saviour in His agony. It was an angel that encouraged Paul in the Mediterranean shipwreck. It was an angel that burst open the prison, gate after gate, until Peter was liberated. It was an angel that stirred the Pool of Siloam where the sick were healed. It was an angel that John saw flying through the midst of heaven, and an angel with foot planted ou the sea and an agei 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. It will be an angel with uplifted hand, swearing that Tima shall be no ionger. In the great final harvest of the world, the reapers are tne angels, Yea, the Lord shall be revealed from heaven with mighty angels. Oh, the numbers and the might and the glory of these supernuls! Fleets of them 1 Squadrons of them! , Host beyond host! Rank above rankl Millions on millions! And all on our side if we will have them.

This leads me to speak of the offices of these supernals. To defend, to cheer, to rescue, to escort, to give victory to the right! and overthrow the wrong; that is their business. Just as alert to-day and efficient as when in Bible times they spread wing, or unsheathed sword, or rocked down penitentiaries, or filled the mountains with horses of Are hitched to chariots of lire and driven by reinsmen of lire. They have turned your steps a hundred times, and you knew it not. You were on the way to do some wrong thing, and they changed your course. They brought somo thought of Christian parentage, or of loyalty to your own home, and that arrested you. They arranged that some one should meet you at that crisis, and propose something honorable and elevating, or they took from your pocket some ticicet to evil amusement, a ticket that you never found. It was an angel of God, and perhaps the very one that guided you to this service, and that now waits to report some holy impression to be this morning m.ido upon your soul, tarryiug with one foot upon ttie doorstep of your immorial spirit, and the other foot lifted for ascent into the skies. By some prayer detain him unit he cau tell of a repentant and ransomed soul) Or you were sometime borne down with trouble, bereavement, persecution, bankruptcy, sickness, and all manner of troubles beating their discords in your heart and life. You gave up; you said: “I cannot stand it uny longer. I believe I will take my life. Where is the rail-train, or the deep wave, or the precipice that will end this torment of earthly existence*" But suddenly your mind brightened. Courage came surging into your heart liko oceanic tides. You said: “God is on my side, and all these adversities He can maku turn out for my good." Suddenly you felt a peace, a deep peace, the peace of God that passeth all understanding. W hat made the change* A sweet, and mighty, and comforting angel of the Lord met you. That was aIL W bat an incentive to purity and righteousness is this doctrine that we are continually under augel'to observation 1 Eye*ever on yon, «o that the most secret misdeed Is oommitted in of an audience of immortals. No door so bolted, no darkness so Cimmerian, as to hinder that supernal eyesight. Not critical eyesight, not jealuus eyesight, not baleful eyesight, but friendly eyesight, sympathetic eyesight, helpful eyesight. Contldentlal clerk of store, with great responsibility on your shoulder, and no one to eppltHid your work when you do it well, and sick with the world’s ingratitude, think of the uncels in the count-ing-room raptured at your fidelity I Mother of homehold, stitching; mending, cooking, dusting, planning, up half the night, or all the Bight, With the sick child, day in and, day out. year in and year out, worn wltjh. too monuvmiy «f a it»e that no one seems to case for. think of the augels in the nursery, angels in all the rooms of your toilia*

— ■- ' ■ I angels about tne sick cradt i, ana mm mm sympathy I . Railroad engineer, with hundreds of lives hanging on your wrist, standing amid , the cinders and the smvtch, round the the sharp curve, and by ap;>ivliiug declivity, discharged and disgraced if you make a ; mistake, but not one word of approval if you take all the trains in safety for ten years, think of the angels by the throttlei valve, angels by the roaring furnace or the engine, angels looking from the overhangj ing erag, angels bracing the racing wheels ; °® kb® Precipice, angels when yon mount ; the thunderbolt of a train, and angels I when you dismount! Can you not hear them, louder than the jamming of the car-coupling, leiidei than the bell at the crossing, louder than the whistle that sounds like the scream of a flying fieni,the angelic voices saying, “You did it welL You did it well?” If I often speak of engineers it is because I ride so much with them. I always- accept their invitation to join them on their locomotive, because I not only get to my destination sooner, but because they are about the grandest men alive. Men and woman of all circumstances, only partly appreciated, or not appreciated at all, never feel lonely again or unregarded againl Angels ail around, angels to approve, angels to help, angels 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 angology, 1 supposed to be fancifnl, but ! find it clearly stated in the Bible. When the disciples were praying for Peter’s delivorance from prison, and he appeared at the door of the prayer-meeting, tney could not believe it was Peter. They said: “It is his angeL” So these disciples, id special" nearness to Christ, evidently believed that every worthy soul has an angeL Jesus said of his followers: “Their angels behold the face of my Father.” Elsewhere it iB Sttid: “He shall give hta afigala chau-ga over thee, to keep thee in all thy ways.’ Angol-shielded, angel-protected, angelguarded, angel-canopied, art thou. No wonder that Charles Wesley hymned these words: “V\ hich of the petty kings of earth Can boast a guard like ours, Encircled from our second birth With all the heavenly powers?” Valerius and Rufinus wore put to death for Christ’s sake in the year 387, and, after the day when their bodies had been whipped, and pounded into a a jelly, in the nigiit in prison, and before tho next day when they were to be executed, they both thought they saw angels standing with two glittering crowns saying, “lie of good cheer, valiant soldiers of Jesus Christ! a little more of battle and then these crownsare yours.” And I am glad to know thatbefore many of those who have passed through great sufferings in this life soma angel of God has held a blazing coronet of' eternal rewurd. Yea; we are to have such a 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 dying he cunot afford angelic escort. It would boa long way to go alone, and up paths we have never trod, and amid blazing worlds swinging in unimaginable momentum, out and on through such distances and across such infinitudes of space, we should shudder at the thought of going alone. Hut 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 your home;” and without tremor or slightest dense of peril you will away and upward, furttter on and further on, until after awhile heaven heaves in sight, and the rumble of chariot wheelsand the roll of mighty harmonies are heard in the distance, and nearer you come, und nearer still,until the brightness is like many mornings suffused into one, and the gates lift and you are inside the umethystine walls, and ,on the banks of the jasper sea, foreveF safe, forever free, forever well, forever rested, forever united, forever happy. Mothers, don’t think your little children go alonewhen they quit this world. Out of your arms into angolio arms. Out of sickness into health. Out of tho cradle into a Sav* iour’s bosom. Not an instant will the darlings be alone between the two kisses, the lost kiss of earth and tho first kiss of* heaven. “Now angels, do your „workl” cried an expiring Christian. Yes, a guardian angel for each ono of you. Put yourself now in accord with him. V\ hen 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. Vt hen tempted to a feeling of loneliness and disheartehment appropriate the promise: “The angel of the Lord encampeth aroundabout them that fear Him and deliveretb them.” Oh, lam so glad that the spaces between here and heaven are thronged with these supernaturals taking tidings home, bringing messages here, rolling back obstacles from our path and giving us defence, for terrific are the forces who dispute our way, and if the nation of the good angels is on our side, the nation of bud angels is on the other side. Paul had it right when he said: “v\« wrestle not against fiesh and blood but against Principalities, against Powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this world, against spiritual wickedness in high places.” In that awful fight may God soud us mighty angelic reinforcement! We want all their wings on our side, all their swords 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 I And that makes me jubilant as to the final triumph. Belgium, you know, was the battle ground of fingland and France. Yea, Belgium more than once was the battleground of opposing nations. It so happens that this world is the Belgium or battleground between the angelic nations, good and bad. Michael, the commander-in-chief on one side; Lucifer, as Byron calls him, or Mephlstopheios, as Goethe calls him, or Satan as the Bible calls him, tha commander-in-chief on the other side. All pure angelhood under the one leadership. And nil abandoned angelhood under the other leadership Many a skirmish have the two armies had, but the great and decisive battle is yet to do fought. Either from ou» earthly homes or down from our supernal residences, may we come in on the right side; for on that side are God and heaven and viotory. Meanwhile tts* battle in bewa* wL Va. array, and the forces celestial and demoniacal are confronting each other. Hear tha boom of the great cannonade already opened! Cherubim. Seraphim, Thrones, Dominations, Principalities, and Powers are beginning to ride down their foes, and until the work Is completed, “Sun, stand thon still upon Gibeon, and thou, Moon, is the valley of AJaioni

What He Would Do.

Sunday School teacher (to new pupil)—We are taught by the Bible that when some one smites us on on« cheek we should turn the other to him. Isn’t that a beautiful sentiment? "Yes, ma’am.” “Now, if an enemy were to smite you ou one ohoek what would you do?” “I’d pound the top of his hew* t C* —Nebraska Stele Journal