This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1890 edition. Excerpt: ... having them more severely punished, perhaps put to death. But great was his chagrin and anger when the officers returned without the prisoners; and when closely examined, said, "The prison truly found we shut with all safety, and the keepers standing before the doors; but when we had opened we found no man within." And presently one came, and said, "The men whom ye put in prison are standing in the temple and teaching the people." Finely art thou baffled, cruel and crafty high priest, in thy foul design to stifle the healing power of him, whose blood, shed by thy wanton hands, is "upon" thee and thy "children." In thy plotting thou shouldest have remembered that the God of Abraham and of Isaac and of Jacob had said, "The angel of the Lord encampeth around them that fear him, and delivereth them." If some, by entertaining strangers have thereby entertained angels unawares; others, by assaulting God's servants have thereby encountered angels when least expecting it. And thus we meet again the palpable fact that the ministration of the angelic race is a marked and majestic feature in the economy of redemption. In personal experiences, in dispensational visitations, and in the marching and countermarching of mighty forces in'the history of nations, these holy beings act important and decisive parts. They foil wicked machinations by opening the guarded doors of gloomy prisons, and setting the chained sufferers free. They defeat plotting councils; overrule grave senates; drive back mighty armies; spread their invincible shields over the defenceless heads of Christ's ambassadors; escort the church in her struggling pilgrimage to the land of promise; protect the widows and the fatherless; attend...