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Michael and Gabriel
[Written Especially for Young People]
In the Christian Science textbook. "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures," Mary Baker Eddy describes two angels. These angels are Michael and Gabriel; and our Leader says of Michael (pp. 566, 567), "He leads the hosts of heaven against the power of sin, Satan, and fights the holy wars." And of Gabriel she says (p. 567): "The Gabriel of His presence has no contests. To infinite, ever-present Love, all is Love, and there is no error, no sin, sickness, nor death."
The whole of the passage which deals with these two angels should be studied closely if one would get the full benefit of its meaning, but the above quotations are remarkable in showing us the essential difference between Michael and Gabriel.
As Christian Scientists, we have ceased to look upon angels as persons. Our Leader has given us a most beautiful and helpful definition of "angels" in the Glossary of the textbook as follows (p. 581): "God's thoughts passing to man; spiritual intuitions, pure and perfect; the inspiration of goodness, purity, and immortality, counteracting all evil, sensuality, and mortality."
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April 11, 1942 issue
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Serving Tables
JOHN SIDNEY BRAITHWAITE
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"Love is enthroned"
MARY C. REYNOLDS
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Healing the Nations
JAMES A. VINCENT
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Prayer
DOROTHY H. EUSTIS
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A Higher Sense of Friendship
MABEL WHITE RODOCKER
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Michael and Gabriel
THOMAS LOVATT WILLIAMS
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Personal Goodness
George Shaw Cook
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The Unmistakable Proofs of Christian Science
Alfred Pittman
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The Lectures
with contributions from Frances Hamill Seese, Charles J. Yost
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May I be permitted to repeat, for the information of your readers...
with contributions from Elizabeth S. Young, Ernst G. Breitholtz, Robert E. Key
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A Place of Refuge
ROSA M. TURNER
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True Praise
LAURA BROWN CROWELL
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Christian Science first interested...
Edward A. Pavlicek
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When a child, I had the privilege...
Eda D. Kennedy with contributions from James A. Kennedy
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It is a great joy to acknowledge...
Dorothy H. Stevens
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In gratitude to God and to our...
Ruth Mills Gilgen
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I wish to express my gratitude...
Eleanor K. Cone
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Christian Scientists know that...
Marion Traub
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For seventeen years it has been...
Louise Woehrl
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I wish to express my sincere...
Walter C. Herget
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I am grateful for the privilege...
Helen Jones Herget
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Triumph
JEAN M. SNYDER
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Signs of the Times
with contributions from A Correspondent, H. A. Bruce, Thomas Hastwell, James Reid, W. R. Miller