1. The Ineffable Angels 2. Angel Like He Sings 3. Angel Guardians 4. Angels Long to See 5. An Angel Chanting 6. Joan of Arc Saw Visions 7. Celestial Voices 8. Looked Lovingly on Me 9. Socrates Had and Angel 10. God or Angel Guest 11. Angels Recognize 12. "Angel Names I do not Ken." 13. Peace Crowned Angels 14. White Wings in Snowy Flight 15. Bowers of Paradise 16. The Angel Vision 17. Something of an Angel Light 18. Eyes Within 19. His Deeds His Angels Are 20. Shutting of Angel's Hands 21. To Tent and Croft 22. Falling of Angel Tears 23. With Inexpressive Notes 24. All Angels Cry Aloud 25. Young Eyed Cherubim 26. Angelic Agency 27. An Angel Touched Me 28. Thy Warm Allies 29. Covetless 30.Beckon Me Away 31. Royal Deputation

THY WARM ALLIES.

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And the Angel of the Lord came again the second time and touched him, and said :
Arise and eat.—I Kings 19:7.

THE angel came to Elijah, and made ready for him, and bade
him rise and eat. Elijah had his food before he entered the
wilderness. Christ had it after he had been forty days. An angel
brought food to Elijah before his trial ; to Christ, after his trial.
Thus our experiences are realized in different ways.
                                                                  —Dr. Parker.

The grand law of continuity, the last outcome of modern
science, which seems absolute throughout the realm of matter,
force and mind, so far as we can explore them, cannot surely fail
to be true beyond the narrow sphere of our vision, and leave an
infinite chasm between man and the Great Wind of the universe !
Such a supposition seems to me in the highest degree improbable.
Our pyramid, then, may not, does not end in man. The edifice of
life goes on through those mysterious ranks of being known to
us as the angels, until it ends at the very pillars of the divine
throne in the highest grade of angelic being— the cherubim themselves.
Nor is it contrary to the truth to express this continuity
of life from the earthside upward by a symbolism drawn, first
from inanimate nature, as the clpuds and rainbow, and next from
the orders of animals, and from man. Moreover, the physical
qualities which such creatures as the eagle, ox, and lion personify
are certainly possessed by those angels whose life-history we read
in the Holy Bible. Their swiftness of motion, lofty courage,
strength, supreme powers of destruction, as the executors of judgment
in the Divine government—these and such like traits appear
in the angels of sacred history. —Distinguished Naturalist.

Angels are men of a superior kind;
Angels are men in lighter habit clad,
High o'er celestial mountains winged in flight;
And men are angels, loaded for an hour,
Who made this miry vale, and climb with pain,
And slippery step, the bottom of the steep.
Angels their failings, mortals have their praise;
While here, of corpse ethereal, such enrolled
And summoned to the glorious standard room,
Which flames eternal crimson through the skies;
Nor are our brothers thoughtless of their kin,
Yet absent; but not absent from their love.
Michael has fought our battles; Raphael, sung
Our triumphs; Gabriel, on our errands flown,
Sent by the Sov 'reign: and are these, man,
Thy friends, thy warm allies? and thou (shame burn
Thy cheek to cinder!) rival to the brute?
                                         —Edward Young.