The
blessed words of the Psalmist, "He shall give his angels charge over thee, to keep thee in all thy ways," have always brought to the spiritually-minded a sense of safety, guidance, and protection in times of danger.
Mortals
believe in good and evil, truth and error, life and death, as if they were all equally real, with the result that they are often in a dilemma as to the present and the future.
The
German proverb, "To understand a man rightly, one must read his whole story," gives a semblance of reason to the growing tendency to record the facts of human history in the form of biography.