Article June 2, 1945 Issue

His Angels Take Charge

JOHN D. HOLBROOK

One of the clearest and most glorious promises that our protection lies in God is found in the ninety-first Psalm. There is no circumstance in which we can find ourselves where its truths are not available to bring deliverance. Whether one is in aerial combat, under fire from enemy guns, exposed to so-called tropical diseases, or gripped by fear or worry for a loved one—indeed, whatever may be the contingency—the spiritual understanding of this Psalm, and the application of its truths, will speedily give protection and relief.

However, the Psalmist points out that God shall give His angels charge over him, to keep him in all his ways when one dwells "in the secret place of the most High" and makes God his habitation. Thus this promise is not a onesided pact, with God the giver and the individual the automatic receiver. He who has set his love upon God, who is daily striving to understand God better and to understand his harmonious, unbroken, spiritual relationship to God, is rewarded by a certain sense of His presence. The man or the woman who is sincerely trying to live closer to God can call upon Him, all-powerful Spirit, with the full expectancy that He will answer.

Mary Baker Eddy has written in "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" (p. 298), "Angels are pure thoughts from God, winged with Truth and Love, no matter what their individualism may be." And in the Glossary to Science and Health (p. 581) she defines "angels," in part, as "God's thoughts passing to man."

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