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TESTIMONY OF REV. H. B. BROWNING, 8 1

THE ELEMENTS OF ANGELIC LIFE.

" Love, wisdom, and use are the elements of angelic life. In heaven, where the laws of Divine order are perfectly obeyed, love and wisdom received continually from the Lord, are ultimated or find their embodiment in use. We may know but little of what are the employments of angels; but of this we may be sure — that for those of his creatures whom God fills with love. He provides others that may be loved; and for those whom He endows with superior wisdom, He provides others that may be taught. Wisdom is infinite only in God. In all created intelligences wisdom can exist only in a relative degree, as more or less. That the Lord should make the wiser angels mediums of instruction to the less wise, does not lower our conception of the felicity and perfectness of heaven. Surely it may be thought that new-coming spirits fresh from earth, must need and may profit from the loving instruction of their elder brethren of the skies. The felicity of heaven, it may well be believed, does not consist merely in the reception of *the manifold grace of God * by each angel for himself, but also in * ministering the same one to another, as good stewards' thereof — The delight of the natural man is to get; the delight of the spiritual man is

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