Article December 14, 1935 Issue

Angels Bring Release

JEANNE LA TOUR

Although they were in prison, bound in stocks, and conditions seemed very dark indeed, "at midnight Paul and Silas prayed, and sang praises unto God." The faith and spiritual understanding which the disciples expressed in their singing of praises to God were externalized in their remarkable deliverance when, as we read, "suddenly there was a great earthquake, so that the foundations of the prison were shaken: and immediately all the doors were opened, and every one's bands were loosed."

Is it any wonder that their bands were loosed and the doors opened? Referring to the angels of God's presence, Mrs. Eddy writes in "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" (p. 512), "Their individual forms we know not, but we do know that their natures are allied to God's nature; and spiritual blessings, thus typified, are the externalized, yet subjective, states of faith and spiritual understanding."

The Apostle Peter likewise experienced release from imprisonment, while under a special guard of two soldiers, when the angel of the Lord raised him up and the chains fell from his hands. There are other accounts in the Scriptures of those who entertained angels and were helped out of trying situations. The angel of the Lord appeared to Moses "in a flame of fire out of the midst of a bush, . . . and when the Lord saw that he turned aside to see," God called him to deliver the children of Israel out of the hands of the Egyptians.

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