Editorial December 9, 1933 Issue

Angelic Messengers

Duncan Sinclair

"He shall give his angels charge over thee, to keep thee in all thy ways," are the comforting words of the ninety-first Psalm. His angels; God's angels! What are they? Mrs. Eddy informs us on page 581 of "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" when she says that angels are "God's thoughts passing to man; spiritual intuitions, pure and perfect; the inspiration of goodness, purity, and immortality, counteracting all evil, sensuality, and mortality." A wonderfully enlightening definition!

Angels then are not mythological beings, but real messengers, even "God's thoughts passing to man." Every spiritual intuition men experience; every pure and perfect thought they entertain; every idea that brings to them the inspiration of goodness, of purity, of life; every thought that destroys sin and overcomes the false belief of death, is an angelic messenger of the Most High. God's angels, therefore, are as real as God Himself. They are continually passing from Him to all who are desirous of spiritual truth and are receptive to spiritual truth; and they are the means by which the healing, saving, protecting power of God is made manifest to men. Christian Science makes this clear to every earnest student.

It will be remembered that after Jesus had been tempted in the wilderness to believe in the reality and power of evil, then "the devil leaveth him," as Matthew says in the fourth chapter of his gospel, "and, behold, angels came and ministered unto him." Indeed, God's angels must have supported him throughout his titanic struggle with the so-called forces of darkness, enabling him to secure the ultimate victory. Angels were with him during all the time of his three years' ministry; for during that ministry it was the Christ that he understood and demonstrated.

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