1. The Ineffable Angels 2. Angel Like He Sings 3. Angel Guardians 4. Angels Long to See 5. An Angel Chanting 6. Joan of Arc Saw Visions 7. Celestial Voices 8. Looked Lovingly on Me 9. Socrates Had and Angel 10. God or Angel Guest 11. Angels Recognize 12. "Angel Names I do not Ken." 13. Peace Crowned Angels 14. White Wings in Snowy Flight 15. Bowers of Paradise 16. The Angel Vision 17. Something of an Angel Light 18. Eyes Within 19. His Deeds His Angels Are 20. Shutting of Angel's Hands 21. To Tent and Croft 22. Falling of Angel Tears 23. With Inexpressive Notes 24. All Angels Cry Aloud 25. Young Eyed Cherubim 26. Angelic Agency 27. An Angel Touched Me 28. Thy Warm Allies 29. Covetless 30.Beckon Me Away 31. Royal Deputation

AN ANGEL TOUCHED HIM.

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And as Elijah lay and slept under a juniper tree, behold: then an angel touched him,
and said unto him: Arise and eat.—I Kings, 19:6.

MODERN theologians find it under every sense more convenient
to hold that God created the angels from the very first
in a state of grace; that He then placed a lahor of trial before
them—that the wicked angels failed in the endurance of that trial,
and their sin was therefore doubly malicious ; that the good angels
were faithful, and stepped from grace to greater grace, and to the
enjoyment of the Beatific Vision. Each angel, perhaps, had thousands
of beautiful graces. To many of these we on earth could
give no name, if we beheld them. But they are all wonderful, all
instinct with supernatural holiness and spiritual magnificence. —Faber.
So that Elijah was watched and guarded even while he slept.
Observe how God uses the ministry of angels. "Are they not all
ministering spirits?" No wilderness is too solitary for the
attendance of those blessed spirits. "While he slept, his breakfast
was made ready for him by those spiritual hands. Not only was
the prophet protected, but he was provided for by the angel. And
does not God give us all food in like manner? God prepares a
table in the wilderness. It is not the first time he has given
angel's food in the desert.                                  —P. C.

All God's angels come to us disguised.
Sorrow and sickness, poverty and death,
One after another lift their frowning masks,
And we behold the seraph's face beneath,
All radiant with the glory and the calm
Of having looked upon the front of God.
                                         —Lowell.

Angel hands to other lands
Carry back the soul to God.
                —Matthias Barr.