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
THE SIGN OF ANGELIC MINISTRY.
July 16.
And Zacharias said unto the angel: Whereby shall I know this! for I am an old man,
and my wife well stricken in years.—Luke 1:18.
THE time was ripe in the economy of God for Christ's advent,
for man in sin had sunk to deepest depths. But though there
was no human welcome to Christ, God granted to the men of that
day certain signs that were wholly supernatural and remarkable.
He gave the sign of the angelic ministry— the message to Zacharias
; the message to Mary ; the word to Joseph ; the first solo
of the advent over the plains of Bethlehem. An angel announced
the coming of the forerunner to Zacharias ; an angel announced
to Mary that she should bring forth a son; an angel warned
Joseph, and led him out of peril; an angel sang the song of the
advent to the shepherds, and was joined by a multitude of the
heavenly chorus ; so that the angels, who had so long been silent,
came again to announce the advent on earth of their King.
—Rev. G. Campbell Morgan.
True, she had just been visited by an angel, who had
apparently dissolved her cloud of fears.
— Frank W. Gunsaulus, D. D.
Once, only once, in the revolving years,
Celestial song has gladdened mortal ears ;
Once, only once, has heaven come down to earth
With angel tidings of a Savior's birth.
—Ella Gilbert Ives. | 
