One to leave him to his nature,
And so let him go his way.
Two recording spirits, reading
All his life's minutest part,
Looking in his soul, and listening
To the beatings of his heart.
Each with pen of fire electric,
Writes the good or evil wrought;
Writes with truth that adds not, errs not,
Purpose, action, word, and thought.
One, the Teacher and Reprover,

Marks each heaven-deserving deed;
Graves it with the lightning's vigour ;
Seals it with the lightning's speed;
For the good that man achieveth-
Good beyond an angel's doubt-
Such remains for aye and ever,
And cannot be blotted out.

One (severe and silent Watcher)
Noteth every crime and guile,
Writes it with a holy duty,"

Seals it not, but waits awhile;
If the evil-doer cry not-

"God, forgive me!" ere he sleeps, Then the sad stern spirit seals it,

And the gentler spirit weeps. P. Prince.

ANGELS (Evil)-Employment of.

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They are (remember! so far as God permits) governors of the world." So that there may be more ground than we are apt to imagine, for that strange expression of Satan (Matt. iv, 8, 9), when he showed our Lord "all the kingdoms of the world, and the glory of them." "All these things will I give Thee, if Thou wilt fall down and worship me." It is a little more particularly expressed in the fourth chapter of St. Luke: The devil showed unto Him all the kingdoms of the world in a moment of time." (Such an astonishing measure of power is still left in the prince of darkness!) And the devil said, All this power will I give Thee, and the glory of them; for that is delivered unto me; and to whomsoever I will, I give it" (ver. 5, 6). They are the rulers of the darkness of this age (so the words are literally translated), of the present state of things, during which the whole world lieth in the wicked one. He is the element of the children of men, only those who fear God being excepted. He and his angels, in connection with, and in subordination to him, dispose all the ignorance, all the error, all the folly, and particularly all the wickedness of men, in such a manner as may hinder most the kingdom of God, and advance most the kingdom of darkness. J. Wesley.

ANGELS (Evil)-Liberty and Work of.

They are sometimes permitted to wander throughout the whole earth, the air, and heaven itself, to execute the judgments of

God. (Job i, 7) "from going to and fro in the earth." (1 Sam. xvi, 15) "the Spirit of Jehovah departed from Saul, and an evil spirit from Jehovah troubled him." (John xii, 31) the prince of this world." (2 Cor. iv, 4) "the god of this world." (Matt. xii, 43) "he walketh through dry places." (Eph. ii, 2) "according to the prince of the power of the air." (vi, 12) "against spiritual wickedness in high places." They are admitted into the presence of God (Job i, 6, ii, 1). (1 Kings xxii, 21) "there came forth a spirit and stood before Jehovah." (Zech. iii, 1) "he showed me Joshua the high priest standing before the angel of Jehovah, and Satan standing at his right hand to resist him." (Luke x, 18) "I beheld Satan as lightning fall from heaven." (Rev. xii, 12) "woe to the inhabiters of the earth, for the devil is come down unto you." Their proper place, however, is the bottomless pit, from which they cannot escape without permission. See Luke viii, 31; Matt. xii, 43; Mark v; Rev. xx, 2, 3; Job i, 12; Matt. viii, 31.

So stretched out huge in length the ArchFiend lay,

Chain'd on the burning lake, nor ever thence

Had ris'n or heav'd his head, but that the will

And high permission of all-ruling Heav'n Left him at large to his own dark designs. Milton.

God holds them chain'd in fetters of His power;

That, without leave, one minute of an hour
They cannot range.
Du Bartas.

ANGELS (Evil)-Prince of.

The devils also have their prince. (Matt. xii, 24) "Beelzebub, the prince of the devils." See also Luke xi, 15. (Matt. xxv 41)" the devil and his angels." (Rev. xii, 9)" the great dragon was cast out. and his angels." They retain likewise their respective ranks. (Col. ii, 15) "having spoiled principalities and powers." (Eph. vi, 12) " against principalities, against powers."

The Stygian council thus dissolv'd, and forth

In order came the grand infernal peers;
Midst came their mighty Paramount.

Their leader is the author of all wickedness, and the opponent of all good. (Job i and ii; Zech. iii, 1) "Satan." (John viii, 44) "the father of lies." (1 Thess. ii, 18) Satan hindered us." (Acts v, 3) "Satan hath filled thine heart." (Rev. xx, 3, 8) "that he should deceive the nations no more." (Eph. ii, 2) "the spirit that

now worketh in the children of disobe

dience." Hence he has obtained many names corresponding with his actions. He is frequently called "Satan," that is, an enemy or adversary (Job i, 6; 1 Chron. xxi, 1). "The great dragon, that old serpent, the devil," that is, the false accuser (Rev. xii, 9). "The accuser of the brethren" (ver. 10). "The unclean spirit" (Matt. xii, 43). "The tempter" (iv, 3). “Abaddon, Apollyon," that is, the destroyer (Rev. ix, 11). "A great red dragon" (xii, 3). Milton.

ANGELS (Evil)—Punishment of.

Held me in soft embrace;

Three little cheeks, like velvet peaches soft Were placed against my face.

Three pairs of tiny eyes, so clear, so deep, Looked up in mine this even ;

Three pairs of lips kissed me a sweet "Good night,"

Three little forms from heaven.

Ah it is well that "little ones" should love us!

It lights our faith when dim,

know that once our blessed Saviour

bade them

Bring "little ones" to Him.

And said He not," Of such is heaven," and blessed them,

And held them to His breast? Is it not sweet to know that when they leave us,

ANGELS OF THE HOUSE.

I know a man. He is not a Christian, His daily life is not in accordance with even principles of morality. He has three beautiful, well-behaved children. The other day he told me this incident of one of them, his little girl, three or four years old.

Said he-"Perhaps some people would think it sacrilege, but I don't; but for some time back I have been in the habit of reading the Bible and of having prayers every night before the children go to bed. I have done it because it has a good influence on the children, and because I hope it may have a good influence on myself. Last night I went to Lodge' (he is a Mason), and did not get home till after 11 o'clock. The children, of course, were all abed, and I supposed asleep. Before going to bed I knelt down by my bed to pray, and had been there but a moment when I heard Nobie get up from her bed in the next room, and her little feet came pattering across the floor toward me. I kept perfectly still, and she came and knelt down beside me without saying a word. I did not notice her, and in a moment, speaking just above her breath, she said, 'Pa, pray 'oud.' I prayed. I kissed her, and she went back to bed; and I tell you, G-, I have had nothing affect me so for the Last ten years. I have thought of nothing else all day long but just that little- Pa, pray 'oud." Dr. Haven.

'Tis then they go to rest? And yet, ye tiny angels of my house,

Three hearts encased in mine, How 'twould be shatter'd if the Lord should

say,

"Those angels are not thine!"

Had I a careful and pleasant companion, that should show me my angry face in a glass, I should not at all take it ill. Some are wont to have a looking-glass held to them while they wash, though to little purpose; but to behold a man's self so unnaturally disguised and disordered, will conduce not a little to the impeachment of anger. Plutarch.

It is an easy matter to stop the fire that is kindled only in hair, wool, candle-wick, or a little chaff; but if it once have taken hold of matter that hath solidity and thickness, it soon inflames and consumes,— "Advanced, the highest timber of the roof;" as Eschylus saith; so he that observes anger while it is in its beginning, and sees it by degrees smoking and taking fire from some speech or chaff-like scurrility, he need take no great pains to extinguish it, but oftentimes puts an end to it, only by silence or neglect. For as he that adds no fuel to fire, hath already as good as put it out; so he that doth not feed anger at the first,

ANGER-Deformity of.

The angry man is compared to a ship sent into the sea, which hath the devil for its pilot. The anger of mortal man should be mortal like himself. But we say of many, as Valerius Maximus of Sylla, it is a question, whether they or their anger die first, or whether death prevents them both together. If you look into this troubled sea of anger, and desire to see the image of a man, behold, you find fiery eyes, a faltering tongue, gnashing teeth, a heart boiling in brine, and drying up the moisture of the flesh; till there be scarce any part left of his right composition. T. Adams. ANGER-Description of.

Anger sets the house on fire, and all the spirits are busy upon trouble, and intend propulsion and defence, displeasure and revenge; it is a short madness, and an eternal enemy to discourse, and sober counsels, and fair conversation; it is a fever in the heart, and a calenture in the head, and a fire in the face, and a sword in the hand, and a fury all over. It hath in it the trouble of sorrow, and the heats of lust, and the disease of revenge, and the bodings of a fever, and the rashness of precipitancy, and the disturbance of persecution. If it proceed from a great cause, it turns to fury; if from a small cause, it is peevishness; and so it is always terrible or ridiculous. It makes a man's body deformed and contemptible, the voice horrid, the eyes cruel, the face pale or fiery, the gait fierce. It is neither manly nor ingenuous, and is a passion fitter for flies and wasps than for persons professing nobleness and bounty. It is a confluence of all the irregular passions. There is in it envy and scorn, fear and sorrow, pride and prejudice, rashness and inconsideration, rejoicing in evil, and a desire to inflict it. Bp. Taylor.

ANGER-Foolishness of.

To be angry, is to revenge the fault of others upon ourselves. Pope.

his daughter to prevent her violation. Neither will all men be disposed to view our quarrels precisely in the same light we do; and a man's blindness to his own defects will ever increase in proportion as he is angry with others, or pleased with him. self.

ANGER-Examples of.

C. Colton.

Cain (Gen. iv, 5, 6); Esau (Gen. xxvii, 45); Simeon and Levi (Gen. xlix, 5, 7); Moses (Num. xx, 10, 11); Balaam (Num. xxii, 27); Saul (1 Sam. xx. 30); Ahab (1 Kings xxi, 4); Naaman (2 Kings v, 11); Asa (2 Chr. xvi, 10); Uzziah (2 Chr. xxvi, 19); Haman (Est. iii, 5); Ne. buchadnezzar (Dan. iii, 13); Jonah (Jon. iv, 4); Herod (Matt. ii, 16); Jews (Luke iv, 28); High Priest (Acts v, 17, vii, 54).

ANGER-Self-cured.

Anger is like

Anon.

A full hot horse, who, being allow'd his Self-mettle tires him. Shakespeare.

way,

ANGER-Short Continuance of.

The English by command of William the Conqueror always raked up their fires and put out their candles when the curfew bell was rung; some part of which laudable custom of those times remaineth yet, in the ringing of our eight or nine o'clock bell. Let it then mind us thus much, that the sun go not down upon our wrath; let it not carry news to the antipodes in another world of our revengeful nature, but rather quench all sparks of anger, rake up all heat of passion that may arise within us.

ANGER-without Sin.

Spencer.

One of the late Dr. Spencer's parishioners in Brooklyn, New York, met him hurriedly urging his way down the street one day; his lip was set, and there was something strange in that gray eye. "How are you to-day, doctor?" he said, pleasantly. He waked as from a dream, and replied soberly, "I am mad!" It was a new word for a mild, true-hearted Christian; but he waited,