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."

STORY OF THE ARCHANGELS.

September 29.

For the Lord shall descend from heaven with a shout, with the voice of the archangel,
and with the trump of God.—I Thessalonians 4:16.

THE archangels alone have names ; and, being known to us by
them, as well as in connection with certain important events
in heaven and on earth, we involuntarily think of them with a
more intimate and at the same time a more reverent and sympathetic
feeling than we can possibly have for the numberless
nameless angels of the heavenly choir. But the story of the
archangels and their wonderful deeds, as told in Scripture and
in the sacred legends, impresses us with a vivid sense of their
marvelous power and wisdom, as well as of their tender sympathy
for the human beings whom they protected and served in their
office of guardians and defenders. —Clara Erskine Clement.

We read in sacred Scripture of the Archangel (as if he were
single and alone), who seems to be the High Sheriff in the grand
and last Assize, to have the Posse Comitatus, and to come with
the trump of God and to sound it before the Judge, in order to
startle and awake the dead in their graves, and summon them to
the universal tribunal. Michael also is expressly called the
Archangel ; and is said, as in the head of his angels, to fight with
the Dragon (the Prince of Hell) and his angels. In Daniel 10:13
indeed he is styled "one of the chief princes," but it may be
read (as in the margin) "the first of the chief princes." But
since it does not fully appear that any one is called an Archangel
but he, the query will be whether he be one (and that the first)
of the seven (supposed) princes, or the head and monarch of
them all.                                 -John Reynolds, 1723.

When fell upon him smote
Eyes of divine light, eyes of high rebuke—
For this was Michael, God's messenger.
                                   --Edwin Arnold.

Like the shields of light
Archangels bear, who, armed with love and might,
Watch upon heaven's battlements at nigh I.
                                  —Adelaide A. Proctor.

Holy, Holy, Holy, Lord God of Hosts,
Eternal King, by the heavens and earth adored !
Angels and archangels sing,
Chanting everlastingly
To the blessed Trinity.
                           —Werner's Choral.

When Thou, attended gloriously from heaven,
Shalt in the sky appear, and from Thee send
The summoning Archangels to proclaim
Thy dread tribunal ! forthwith from all winds
The living, and forthwith the cited dead
Of all past ages, to the general doom
Shall hasten.
                                         —Milton.

Th' archangel voice, the trump of God, the cry
Of startled nature, rending earth and sky,
Shall charge the living, raise the dead, and bring
All nations to the presence of their King,
Whose flaming ministers on either hand
Ten thousand times ten thousand angels stand,
To witness time's full roll forever sealed,
And that eternity to come revealed,
That era in the reign of Deity,
When sin, the curse, and death no more can be.
                                         —Montgomery.