... I looked up among the clouds, the other day, and noticed two layers of clouds moving in contrary directions, one underneath the other, owing to contrary currents of air aloft. It reminded me of what I had been thinking of, -- contrary influences, heavenly and infernal, which we have been realizing of late. A few hours after, and all the clouds were moving in one direction, -- one of the air-currents having ceased. Let us look up and expect the prevalence of divine influences, to the exclusion of the diabolical.
Angels are with us. The lightnings are not swifter than they, to do the will of our Jesus. They are also great in strength. "Forty centuries look down on you from the top of yonder pyramids," said Napoleon to his troops, on the eve of "the battle of the pyramids." How many centuries of souls are looking down from the heights of heaven upon us this moment! Napoleon hinted to his soldiers they were about to add another leaf to the four thousand years of history which belonged to those pyramids and surrounding plains. We are about to add another leaf to the spiritual history of Huddersfield. God grant it may be a bright one, such as may be read in heaven with joy by those there before us, and by ourselves in glory afterwards! Brethren, there is no vagrancy of fancy in all this! Hearken. Luke 15:7. -- "There is joy in heaven over one sinner that repenteth." Hearken again. Luke 15:10. -- "Likewise I say unto yan, there is joy in the presence of the angels of God over one sinner that repenteth." Why did our Lord make two such remarkable declarations almost in the same breath, but to assure and encourage us regarding heavenly sympathy, at least -- ay, and assistance by inference? ...
