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."
COMPASSION OVER US.
September 16.
And the angel said: Fear not, Paul; thou must be brought before Caesar;
and lo, God hath given thee all them that sail with thee.—Acts 27:24.
ANGELS watch by the cradle of the new-born babe and spread
their celestial wings round the tottering steps of infancy.
If the path of life be difficult and thorny, and evil spirits work
us shame and woe, they sustain us; they bear the voice of our
repentance up to the foot of God's throne, and bring us back in
return a pitying benediction to strengthen and to cheer. When
passion and temptation strive for the mastery, they encourage us
to resist ; when we conquer, they crown us ; when we falter and
fail, they compassionate and grieve over us; when we are
obstinate in polluting our own souls, and are perverted not only
in act but in will, they leave us: and woe to them that are so
left ! But the good angel does not quit his charge until his protection
is despised, rejected and utterly repudiated. Wonderful
the fervor of their love, wonderful their meekness and patience,
who endure from day to day the spectacle of the unveiled human
heart with all its miserable weaknesses and vanities, its inordinate
desires and selfish purposes ! Constant to us in death, they
contend against the powers of darkness for the emancipated
spirit. —Mrs. Jameson.
A poor man's life will become quite another thing when he
brings the angels into it. —Rev. H. Latham.
From dust a seraph's zeal Thou wilt not seek,
Nor wilt Thou ask an angel's purity. —Hannah More.
Hark, the hosts of heaven are singing
Praises to the new-born Lord,
Strains of sweetest music flinging,
Not a note or word unheard.
—E. H. Plumtree.
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