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1. The Book of Gold | 2. His Heavenly Monitor | 3. Ministers of Special Providence | 4. Elastic As the Light | 5. An Angel in the House | 6. Christ the Lord of Angels | 7. An Angel Leads | 8. With Watchful Care | 9. Angels Sympathize with Men | 10. "The Lord Hath Sent His Angels." | 11. Protect, Defend and Foster | 12. Peopling the Aerial Spaces | 13. "Ere I Lay me down to Sleep." | 14. Outward Help and Relief | 15. Personal Beings in Scripture | 16. Compassion over Us | 17. Invisible Friends | 18. Their Durance Immortal | 19. Allotments of Happiness | 20. Synonym of Perfection | 21. His Best Angel, Love | 22. Clad in Angelic Light | 23. Children of the Sun | 24. Word Spoken by Angels | 25. Ever-Blooming Youth | 26. Formed into Armies | 27. Celestial Hierarchy | 28. Angel-Worship | 29. Story of the Archangels | 30. "To You who are Troubled."
ALLOTMENTS OF HAPPINESS.
September 19.
Know ye not that we shall judge angels —1 Corinthians 6:3.
AS OUR nature is higher than the angels, in that we are to
instruct them (1 Cor. 11 :10), so, when we are told in addition
to this that we are to '' judge angels,'' our dignity immeasurably
increases. What therefore can be meant by the judging of
angels? We know that although it is quite certain that those
who obey not God shall be "cast into the fire prepared for the
devil and his angels," yet the judgment day has not yet come
to those who have died with the wrath of God hanging over them,
and in vain rebelling against Him, even as it has not come to
those who have died in His faith and fear; and therefore, as
there is a day of judgment yet to come for both the righteous
and the wicked among mankind, so there will be a day of judgment,
as it would appear, for angels, though their allotments of
happiness or woe may be already decided. Probably at the great
day of judgment, when the saints shall sit on the throne to judge
these mighty beings, they will have to fix that doom forever
which has been everlastingly determined by the Almighty. It
may be, indeed, that there shall be no longer any possibility of
sinning on the part of the angels who have "kept their first
estate;" these, however, are but conjectures; we have nothing
revealed on the subject, save the awful fact that it is from the
church they learn the unsearchable things of Christ, and that a
time will come when we shall have to pronounce on them their
eternal sentence. —Rev. H. Christmas.
And join thy voice unto the angel choir.
— Milton.
With white feet of angels seven,
Her white feet go glimmering;
And above the deep of heaven,
Flame on flame and wing on wing.
—N. B. Yeats. | |
