Article December 24, 1960 Issue

Angels Are God's Pure Thoughts

[Of Special Interest to Children]

MARY LYNN LYLE DAVIS

Sally and her mother liked to do things together. One day they drove into a large city near their home and went to an art museum. They walked through many different rooms looking at the paintings and talking about them. Sally noticed that in a number of the pictures there were people with wings, who, her mother said, were called angels.

Sally had learned in the Christian Science Sunday School that angels are "God's thoughts passing to man" (Science and Health by Mrs. Eddy. p. 581). So on the way home Sally asked, "Why did the artists paint the angels in long robes, with wings, and looking like people?"

Her mother replied that people had often thought of angels as appearing in human form but having wings, and so this was the way the artists had painted them. She also said that many people in the world today still keep this symbol of angels in thought and do not realize that true angels are ever with us as God's thoughts.

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