1. The Book of Gold | 2. His Heavenly Monitor |  3. Ministers of Special Providence | 4. Elastic As the Light | 5. An Angel in the House | 6. Christ the Lord of Angels | 7. An Angel Leads | 8. With Watchful Care | 9. Angels Sympathize with Men | 10. "The Lord Hath Sent His Angels." | 11. Protect, Defend and Foster | 12. Peopling the Aerial Spaces | 13. "Ere I Lay me down to Sleep." | 14. Outward Help and Relief | 15. Personal Beings in Scripture | 16. Compassion over Us | 17. Invisible Friends | 18. Their Durance Immortal | 19. Allotments of Happiness | 20. Synonym of Perfection | 21. His Best Angel, Love | 22. Clad in Angelic Light | 23. Children of the Sun | 24. Word Spoken by Angels | 25. Ever-Blooming Youth | 26. Formed into Armies | 27. Celestial Hierarchy | 28. Angel-Worship | 29. Story of the Archangels | 30. "To You who are Troubled."

ANGELS SYMPATHIZE WITH MEN.

September 9.

And they went out and passed on through one street, and forthwith an angel departed
from him.—Acts 13:10.

THERE is a similarity between men and angels, and this
similarity enables angels to sympathize with men, and they
do sympathize with men in all their struggles. They look upon
each soul as the germ of souls to come, and they desire that each
soul shall reach a state of elevated happiness. For thousands
of years they have observed the actions of men ; they know how
much they can suffer and how much they can enjoy; and they
look, therefore, with great solicitude to see whether men are living
so as to attain happiness or sorrow in the world to come. They
also are acquainted with the great plan of salvation. They know
that Christ died for men. From heavenly heights the angels look
down upon a world struggling with sin, and they rejoice greatly
whenever they are able to help men in their conflict with wickedness,
and to assist in saving souls. The pure angels are deeply
concerned for us!               —Bishop Cyrus Foss, D. D.

                                  So on they passed,
Free and unquestioned, 'till the seraph's wing
Outspread in parting flight. With snowy trace
Awhile it hovered, then like radiant star
From its bright orbit loosed, went soaring up,
High o'er the are of night. Then Peter knew
The Angel of the Lord, for he had deemed
Some blessed vision held his tranced sight
In strange illusion.
                            —Lydia H. Sigourney.

Or curious trace the long laborious maze
Of Heaven's decrees, where wondering angels gaze?
                                       —Thomas Tickell.