1. My White Archangel | 2. War in Angel-Land | 3. Good Angels Conquer | 4. Sweet than a Mother's Song | 5. Lofty Minstrelsy | 6. Flying in Midair | 7. Far as Angel's Ken | 8. Music, the Speech of Angels | 9. Silver Bowers Leave | 10. Succor us, who Succor Want | 11. Angel Reaper's Choice | 12. Whose Faces See God | 13. Holy Placid Harp Tones | 14. Many an Angel Tent | 15. White and Serried Ranks | 16. Telling of their Father's Shelter | 17. Ideal in their Ministry | 18. Excel in Loving | 19. With their Lightning Swords | 20. Soother to every Joy | 21. Cynosure of all Eyes | 22. My Little Playmates Bright | 23. Happy Making Sight with God | 24. Angels All Adore Him | 25. Feast of Love | 26. Transcending our Wonted Themes | 27. The Holy Jerusalem | 28. Angels to Beckon Me | 29. Divine Creatures | 30. Angel-worship Forbidden | 31. Till Morning's Joy
IDEAL IN THEIR MINISTRY.
December 17.
And the second angel poured out his vial upon the sea; and it became as the blood of
a dead man; and every living soul died in the sea.—Revelation 16:3.
MANY who claim that they believe the Bible receive with a
smile of incredulity any allusion in public or private discourse
to these supernatural beings. "The Sadducees say that
there is no resurrection, neither angel, nor spirit ;'' and so say today
multitudes who would be shocked if told that they do not
receive the teachings of the inspired Book. For the existence of a
personal devil and of angels and demons, who are constantly concerned
in human affairs, we have precisely the same evidence that
convinces us of the birth, the life, the death and the resurrection
of Christ. The Word of God is not more explicit in its testimony
upon the one truth than upon the other ; nor in the nature of the
case is it one that is to be determined by the intellect, or, rather, by
the ignorance, of man. The existence of angels and demons, or
their immediate but invisible relation to man, is not a whit more
impossible or inconceivable, even according to reason, than the
incarnation of the eternal God in the form of a little babe and
the triumphant ascension of His mangled body from the tomb.
He who denies either is blinded by the "God of this world."
—Rev. James H. Brooks, D. D.
Sweet is all the bitter,
Blessed is the night,
When the angels glitter
In the morning light.
In the common duty
Bidding us away,
For Jesus in His beauty
Will meet us by the way.
—Walter Chalmers Smith. | 
