Angels

MATILDA R. KLEINHANS

The Christian Science Hymanl, including as it does hymns of comfort and inspiration, is a great storehouse of good. Many have gleaned from its pages just the needed lessons in the solving of their problems, thus realizing more fully the ever-presence of God, good.

The "glad tidings" of Christian Science are presented in a verse from one of these hymns:

"O ye, beneath life's crushing load,
Whose forms are bending low,
Who toil along the climbing way
With painful steps and slow!
Look now, for glad and golden hours
Come swiftly on the wing;
O rest beside the weary road,
And hear the angels sing."

To mortal sense, our journey from day to day oftentimes seems a "weary road," because we are permitting thoughts of fear, worry, lack, or limitation to hold sway. But at the very place on the road where we find ourselves we are told to "rest"; and this may be taken as meaning to pause. The Bible clearly states, "As he thinketh in his heart, so is he," thus placing the entire condition in the mental realm. Then, should we find ourselves treading what seems to be a "weary road," let us look within. If we are holding thoughts of bitterness, resentment, disease, and failure; if we are looking regretfully into the past or forward into the future with fear, so allowing the now of God's day to remain unrecognized, we may find such false thinking affecting our environment. It is helpful to consider, however, that pausing rightly to analyze our thinking will enable us to call a halt to error, and then to take the next step, namely, to "hear the angels sing." In the textbook of Christian Science, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures," our Leader, Mrs. Eddy, gives us a definition of "angels." It reads, in part (p. 581), "God's thoughts passing to man; spiritual intuitions, pure and perfect." Here, indeed, is a beacon light of Truth. In times past may we not have visioned angels as winged beings, appearing in human form? Here, then, we can banish a mere figment of the imagination, since angels are "God's thoughts."

What do God's thoughts mean to us and bring to us? Another hymn declares:

"He holds us perfect in His love,
And we His image bear."

Can we hope to add anything to perfection? No. Perfection includes all—all of good, including health, harmony, happiness, and success. Along with this we need to know that God never ordained that anyone should travel a "weary road"; for no such road exists, except to mortal belief. If is mortal sense testimony alone that would have us believe we can for a moment be separated from God, omnipresent good. Did not Jesus, our great Way-shower, instruct us along these very lines when he said, "I am come that they might have life, and that they might have it more abundantly"? And at another time he declared, "These things have I spoken unto you, that my joy might remain in you, and that your joy might be full."

Let us accept these Scriptural promises, making them ours by using them daily. Since God has only good to bestow upon His creation, inclusive of man, and cannot for that very reason be the author or perpetrator of evil of whatever name or nature, we have nothing to fear. Evil is a negation, a delusion; God's power is the only power. As we accept this spiritual fact, we are exchanging a false, unreal concept for the truth of being. At this point we may well ponder the Bible passage, "The effectual fervent prayer of a righteous man availeth much." Having opened our mental door to the light of Truth, the angel-thought of healing finds lodgment in our thoughts.

With our consciousness filled to overflowing with the angels of God's presence, the result must surely be the fuller realization of heaven—harmony—expressed in health, abundance, peace, and joy. These angel-thoughts are indeed "winged with Truth and Love" (Science and Health, p. 298), causing us to be glad, to rejoice, and even to sing with gratitude. How important it is, then, to

". . . rest beside the weary road,
And hear the angels sing"!

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