Article November 13, 1954 Issue

ENTERTAINING ANGELS

GWENDOLYN M. WARD

Can Christians nowadays entertain angels as did the patriarchs of old? For many years this question had puzzled the writer, and she longed to find a true explanation of angels that would fit in with everyday experience. Now, through the study and practice of Christian Science, she has learned how to entertain angels and thus bring protection, peace, and healing into her experience.

In the Christian Science textbook, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures," Mary Baker Eddy writes (p. 298), "Angels are pure thoughts from God, winged with Truth and Love, no matter what their individualism may be." And on the next page she says, "By giving earnest heed to these spiritual guides they tarry with us, and we entertain 'angels unawares.'"

Thus we learn in Christian Science that angels are spiritual ideas, or messages, from God, right at hand whenever we need them, ready to replace false concepts with true. This is also brought out in the definition of "angels" given in the Glossary of Science and Health (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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