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
THY PRAYER IS HEARD.
July 14.
But the angel said unto him: Fear not, Zacharias; for thy prayer is heard.—Luke 1:13.
IT IS true, if we look for angels with our bodily eyes, or even
with the eyes of a poet, we shall not see the gleam of white
pinions speeding along the confines of the glowing sky; we shall
not hear their songs as the shepherds of Bethlehem heard them.
Yet they have not all retired forever behind the vale of the visible.
They may still be seen by the eye and heard by the ear of faith,
though "There gleams no wing along the Empyrean now."
—Rev. A. Harbaugh.
Can the angels be described, or can they be seen by human
eyes? We in this world can have no idea of substances that are
without form and occupy no space. Such are the angels of God.
At times, however, they have assumed corporeal shape and have
appeared to men, and occasionally their outward shapes testify
to their innate grandeur and power. Milton, with his eagle
imagination, thus paints the Archangel Raphael, whom God is
sending to our first parents in Paradise to warn them against
the wiles of Satan:
So spake the Eternal Father and fulfilled
All justice, nor delayed the winged saint
After his charge received ; but from among
Thousand celestial ardors, where he stood,
Veiled with his gorgeous wings;
Straight knew him all the bands
Of angels under watch ; and to his state,
And toliis message high, in honor rise.
Him through the spicy forest onward come
Adam discerned, as in the door he sat.
—Rev. R. Kennedy.
To Zacharias, with his spouse grown old,
John, the forerunner's course an angel told.
—James Montgomery.
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