Article July 26, 1952 Issue

GOD'S MESSENGERS

GERTRUDE E. VELGUTH

In Luke's beautiful narrative known as the nativity, reference is repeatedly made to angels. The first message of the angel to the shepherds who were "abiding in the field, keeping watch over their flock," was, "Fear not" (Luke 2:10). And the words, "Glory to God in the highest, and on earth peace, good will toward men," bring to a climax the exalting angel song.

Mary Baker Eddy interprets spiritually many Scriptural words in the Glossary of her textbook, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures." On page 581 we read the following: "Angels. God's thoughts passing to man; spiritual intuitions, pure and perfect; the inspiration of goodness, purity, and immortality, counteracting all evil, sensuality, and mortality."

At another point she refers to angels as God's messengers, to whom God assigns various offices and characteristics. Spiritual strength, with which to combat the hosts of sin, and the more quieting ministrations of Love and Truth deliver mankind from the bonds of sense as they soothe and quiet the disturbed thought. On pages 566 and 567 of the textbook the paragraph captioned "Angelic offices" details the mission of these spiritual messengers. In the Science of being, wherein Spirit and its ideas constitute creation in its entirety, there originate no other messengers than God's thoughts, or His angels, which comprise the heavenly host. Their impartations of truth, counteracting the hosts of sin, bring the consciousness of the Christ into individual human experience. We might, each one of us, be likened to a shepherd as we tend our flock of spiritual thoughts, never allowing fear, hatred, or similar errors to rob us of our sheep, which Mrs. Eddy defines as "innocence; inoffensiveness" (ibid., p. 594).

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