The way to the kingdom of heaven and what to do to be saved in it . t visited Abraham and feastedwith him under the oaks of Mamre brought gladtidings of a blessing for his old age; and revealedthe vengeance of God upon the cities of the not David say: There shall no evil befall thee,neither shall any plague come nigh thy dwelling. Forhe shall give his angels charge over thee, to keep theein all thy ways. They shall bear thee up in theirhands, lest thou dash thy foot against a stone. ( 10-12.) Now if we need anything else to confirm usin our belief in guardian spirits, let us
The way to the kingdom of heaven and what to do to be saved in it . t visited Abraham and feastedwith him under the oaks of Mamre brought gladtidings of a blessing for his old age; and revealedthe vengeance of God upon the cities of the not David say: There shall no evil befall thee,neither shall any plague come nigh thy dwelling. Forhe shall give his angels charge over thee, to keep theein all thy ways. They shall bear thee up in theirhands, lest thou dash thy foot against a stone. ( 10-12.) Now if we need anything else to confirm usin our belief in guardian spirits, let us go to St. seems to have put the question at rest by declar-ing that the whole company of angels were minis-tering spirits to the heirs of salvation. (Heb. i. 14.) How cheering the thought that the angels in blissWill bow their bright wings to a world such as leave the sweet joys of the mansions above,To breathe oer our bosoms some message of love! Some materialistic brother may say that is fancy,but Lazarus did not think so when the angels bore. THE angels EERAND. (140) The Way to the Kingdom of Heaven, Ittl him from the rich mairs gate to the bosom of Abra-ham. (Luke xvi. 24.) But if the good guardian spirits can approach us,why may not evil spirits? St. Paul tells us in thelast chapiter of Ephesians that we wrestle not againstflesh and blood, but, to put his saying in plain Eng-lish, ^against wicked siMrits. We are told that thegood si)irits minister to the heirs of salvation, thatthe camping angels are about those who fear theLord; but what about those who are not heirs ofsalvation and who do not fear the Lord? Every-thing ix)ints to the idea that on the condition of aman depends his spiritual atmosphere and surround-ings. If a man is pure and holy in his thoughts andlife, the heavenly spheres are opened and the de-scending angels minister, so that he feels as Jacobfelt at Bethel: ^This is none other but the houseof God, and this is the gate of heaven. If
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