1. Angels Holy, Angels of Light | 2. Rolling Away the Stone |. 3. Appearance of the Angel | 4. The Angel of Sleep and the Angel of Death | 5. To the Realms of Endless Day | 6. Soothing Troubled Hearts | 7. Serving the Savior | 8. The Legend of St Catherine | 9. Angels Sexless | 10. Gathering the Elect | 11. The Knowledge of Angels | 12. Perpetual Youth | 13. The Apparition of the Angel | 14. Thy Prayer is Heard | 15. The Joyous Message | 16. The Sign of Angelic Ministry | 17. Gabriel, the Messenger of God | 18. They Serve on Earth and Sing in Heaven | 19. Embassador Extraordinary | 20. Gabriel's Symbol, the Lily | 21. The Visit to Mary | 22. A Comforting Assurance | 23. Sweetest Name in Seraph Song | 24. Guardian of Celestial Treasury | 25. Angels Pictured by Artists | 26. Angels in Sculpture | 27. The Archangel Gabriel | 28. The Mystic Rose | 29. The Prince of Peace | 30. Good Tidings of Geat Joy | 31. Gloria in Excelsis
PERPETUAL YOUTH.
July 12.
And entering into the sepulchre they saw a young man sitting on the right side,
clothed in a long white garment. And he saith unto them: Be not affrighted.—Mark 16:5.
THOUGH the angels are old, they do not look old, nor are they
infirm. They are not young m years, nor in wisdom; but
they are young in freshness and vigor. When the pious women
went to anoint the body of their Lord they entered the sepulcher
and '' saw a young man on the right side, clothed in a long white
garment." In no sense are the angels of God subject to decay.
The Scriptures teach us that they never die. If they were subject
to decay, it might go so far as to produce death.
—Plumer.
Mark speaks of the angel as a "young man !"It strikes me
as very remarkable that this superhuman being should be described
as "a young man." Immortal youth, with all of buoyant
energy and fresh power which the attribute suggests, belongs to
these beings whom Scripture faintly shows as our elder brethren.
]So waste decays their strength ; no change robs them of their
forces which have ceased to increase. Age cannot wither them.
As one of our modern mystics has said : "In heaven the oldest
angels are the youngest, since all life tends towards immortal
youth." —Maclaren.
We do not know how old the young man was. Angels do not
pass through the various movements of infancy to old age as
we—they are created of full stature; they never grow old, and
they never die. Upon an angel's brow, time writes no wrinkle
and age smites with no paralysis of weakness.
—Anonymous.
While still the guarding sentry slept
Upon that glorious night,
Down from the heavens in countless throngs
Came angels clothed in white.
With them they bore a crown of gold
To grace that Kingly head.
The stone rolled back. The Lord of Life
Is risen from the dead. —H. Rowe Shelly. | 
