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 THE WORK AND OFFICE 
 OF THE HOLY ANGELS 
 
 COMPILED BY 
 ONE WHO HAS SEEN AND HEARD 
 
THE WORK AND OFFICE 
 OF THE HOLY ANGELS 
 
 Here on Earth and in Paradise 
 
 COMPILED BY 
 
 ONE WHO HAS SEEN AND HEARD 
 
 The Angel of the Lord encampeth round about them 
 that fear him and delivereth them. 
 
 Psalms 34-7 
 
 BOSTON 
 
 RICHARD G. BADGER 
 
 THE GORHAM PRESS 
 
Copyright, 1922, by Richard G. Badger 
 
 All Rights Reserved 
 
 
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 Made in the United States of America 
 
 The Gorham Press, Boston, U. S. A. 
 
 M 27 1922 
 
I, Uriel, the Archangel have authorized and hereby now 
 authorize you, my son, to write what follows in this collec- 
 tion concerning Angels and Spirits. It is not yours ; it is 
 mine and mine because my orders have been received from 
 my Master, the Maker and Creator of Heaven and Earth. 
 
 By the Command of 
 
 Uriel The Archangel 
 
Uriel the ArchangeP is identified with "the Angel of the 
 Lord/' and his work on earth can easily be traced in this 
 following synopsis of his appearances: 
 
 (i) To Moses, in a flame of fire out of the midst of a 
 bush that burned with fire and was not consumed.^ 
 
 (2) To Balaam, when the anger of the Lord was kindled 
 against him.^ 
 
 (3) To Manoah and his wife when the birth of Samson 
 was predicted.* 
 
 (4) To Gideon who was sent to deliver Israel.^ 
 
 (5) To the prophet Zachariah who is shown many 
 visions.® 
 
 (6) To the shepherds when the Birth of Jesus Christ 
 the Son of God was announced."^ 
 
 (7) To the Roman soldiers at the Resurrection.* 
 
 1 2 Esdras 4-36. s Judges 6-11. 
 
 2 Exodus 3-2. 6 Zach. 1-9. 
 
 3 Numbers 22-23. 7 s. Luke 2-9, 10, 11. 
 
 4 Judges 13-3. 8 s. Matt. 28-2. 
 
FOREWORD 
 
 These brief chapters have been given to me by the Arch- 
 angel Uriel. They are not mine : they are his ! Since men 
 in old times have had Revelations, so they have come and 
 can come again in these times. With all my heart I believe 
 that in a wonderful manner they have been given to me. 
 I ask those who read these pages to read from this view- 
 point. They cast a great Light upon many questions that 
 have puzzled devout men and women. It is the Light of 
 Truth. No imagination however daring could of its own 
 power have conceived such truths. They really mean the 
 unfolding of the old Gospel. Humbly I thank my Guardian 
 Angel who has instructed me. I pray that all who read 
 may be comforted. 
 
 St. Michael and All Angels, 1921. 
 
CONTENTS 
 
 Page 
 
 I. Christ's Silence Concerning Paradise . . ii 
 
 II. Dreams and Visions 13 
 
 III. Angels Conveying the Spiritual Body to 
 
 THE Real Life 17 
 
 IV. Direct Messages 28 
 
 V. "He Being Dead Yet Speaketh" .... 32 
 
 VI. Angels as Warriors 36 
 
 VII. Angels and Temptation 40 
 
 VIII. Angels and Humanity 45 
 
 IX. Reliance Upon God 49 
 
 X. Moses the Law Giver . 52 
 
 XI. Angels Adoring the Throne of God ... 57 
 XII. Concerning the Coming of Angels and 
 
 Spirits to This World . . . . . 65 
 
 XIII. The Worship of Almighty God .... 71 
 
 XIV. Angels and Character 'j2 
 
 XV. Christ Preaching to the Spirits in Prison 76 
 
THE WORK AND OFFICE OF 
 THE HOLY ANGELS 
 
THE WORK AND OFFICE 
 OF THE HOLY ANGELS 
 
 I 
 CHRIST'S SILENCE CONCERNING PARADISE 
 
 This silence has often been observed by earthly writers. 
 I ask you to refer to Herbert Luckock's writings for perhaps 
 the best condensation of the different arguments, from an 
 earthly view-point. What follows here is from the dictation 
 of Uriel and is from the Heavenly. 
 
 The answer is very plain. 
 
 Christ primarily came to teach mankind that the God of 
 Abraham, Isaac and Jacob, the God of Moses, in whose 
 seat were Scribes and Pharisees, was not a God of the dead 
 but of the living; that this God was His Father, a Father 
 of Mercy and Love as well as of Justice; that He was the 
 Christ the Son of the Living God and the living fulfilment 
 of the Promised Messiah. That was the burden of His 
 message. He came to teach mankind their ability to enter 
 the Kingdom through His Life, Death and Resurrection; 
 to teach the ways and means of entering the Kingdom, and 
 that man must do his part by living the higher life which 
 He preached and lived. 
 
 In those three brief years of earth life there was no time 
 or indeed necessity to speak in detail of Paradise, and tell 
 man of the Heavenly Dominions of His Father. He had 
 another mission. To tell mankind of man; his opportunities 
 and his sins; to purify their thoughts. And He came as 
 man with the same body with all its ability to suffer pain 
 and to be tempted in all points like ourselves. If the 
 Messiah had come, as they indeed expected, not as man but 
 a glorified spirit, wearing the mantle of God, while the Jews 
 
 II 
 
12 The Work and Office of the Holy Angels 
 
 might have accepted Him, His teaching would not have 
 fallen upon fertile ground. No, His very acceptance of all 
 conditions that hampered man is His passport for His great 
 claim that as man and God He flung aside the barriers be- 
 tween man and God, for He showed that we should have 
 redemption, if only we had belief. If He had taught them 
 of Paradise as the mind of man imagines it He would have 
 obscured the principal object for which He was sent on 
 earth. 
 
 It was therefore all-sufficient that He taught them the 
 real meaning of a Just God showing mercy to those that 
 need Him and believe in Him, and punishing those who, 
 knowing Him, refuse to obey His commandments. God 
 being Love gives to all the potentiality of going within the 
 Veil and reaching one of the many mansions. We Arch- 
 angels have the work of filling those mansions according to 
 the will of the Christ. Did not He Himself tell us of the 
 different planes or parts of Paradise when He spoke of the 
 Rich man and Lazarus? 
 
 But in an age like this, when faulty conceptions of Para- 
 dise have filled even minds that are devout, it has been 
 determined to give the Truth concerning Paradise to all 
 who will read, and you, my son, have been chosen to reveal 
 through my Visitations to you this truth. 
 
 Christ had an enormous task to present the Principal 
 Truths of the Kingdom. And if He omitted a detailed de- 
 scription of Paradise it was because He would not give the 
 world that for which it was not then prepared. As man's 
 capacity to receive things spiritual increases, the possibility 
 of Revelation also increases ! 
 
 Laus Deo. 
 
II 
 DREAMS AND VISIONS 
 
 "Your old men shall dream dreams and your young men 
 shall see visions." To nearly all men, women and children 
 the dream is familiar. A dream is the sleep of the normal 
 state producing unconsciousness and the moment when the 
 subconscious mind takes command. Many dreams come 
 from the physical state of the body at the time of sleep. 
 Many dreams are fantastic and fade away completely the 
 moment the normal resumes command. Others are so sharp 
 and clear that their memory lingers many hours after 
 awakening. A vision is an entirely different matter. The 
 subject lies in his bed perhaps, and closes his eyes. He is 
 conscious of all noises or voices or movements about him 
 and yet a series of pictures pass before him utterly and 
 absolutely different from what is going on around and about 
 him. To students of Holy Scriptures it will be no news 
 when it is pointed out that Almighty God in both Old and 
 New Testaments and also in the Apocrypha uses and em- 
 ploys the dream and the Vision for His own ends. It is 
 only needful to call to mind the dreams of Joseph and 
 Solomon and the Visions of Daniel and Esdras to prove 
 the truth of this assertion. And in the first chapters of 
 2nd Esdras you will notice that Uriel the Archangel employs 
 through the command of God the same method upon Esdras 
 not once, but many times. 
 
 Now while the worldly-minded of today laugh to scorn in 
 public those who have had dreams and see visions, I have 
 reason to believe that in private they adopt an altogether 
 different course. They cease from their attitude of scorn 
 and in some cases go to those of acknowledged skill and 
 ask that their own dreams and visions which they have had 
 shall be revealed to them. It was the heathen wife of 
 Pontius Pilate who, as he was sitting in judgment upon the 
 
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14 The Work and Office of the Holy Angels 
 
 Christ, approached her husband and said, ''Have thou 
 nothing to do with that just man for I have suffered many 
 things this day in a dream concerning Him." What that 
 dream was we know not. It would have been instructive 
 for us to have learned its detail. At all events it was some- 
 thing that perplexed and alarmed her that Pilate should have 
 responsibility for the crucifixion of the Chist. 
 
 Down through the history of great Christian men and 
 women visions and dreams have played their part, and an 
 important part it is. St. Augustine began his life as one 
 of the earth-earthy. A vision brought him to a sense of 
 shame and awakening. Francis d'Assisi from the effect of 
 a vision changed from a life of worldliness to what he after- 
 wards became. And the great school of the mystics bore 
 witness by their lives of the effect and result of visions 
 without doubt sent to them directly at the command of God. 
 And only in the 14th Century Jeanne d' Arc paid the price 
 of believing in visions as sent from God by being burned 
 at the stake at Rouen. It is significant how the temper and 
 judgment of those high in ecclesiastical authority changed 
 its opinion, for now that humble peasant girl has been 
 canonized by the Church of Rome. I could go on citing 
 instances, but you can make up your own list as well as I. 
 
 Today the successful modern business man is the one who 
 has the ''vision"; who enlarges his business and its scope. 
 He would very likely scorn the merest hint that God took 
 an interest in his affairs and told him how to manage his 
 business ! Who shall say how true or how false, that if 
 we carry our affairs to God in prayer He will make answer. 
 
 But to those who believe today in visions, the world, in 
 spite of its lessons, points the finger of scorn and incredulity, 
 "Give me a sign," it cries, "then I will believe." Ah, that 
 is just what those who dream dreams and see visions 
 cannot do. The dream or vision is to them and for them. 
 No human power can force the unbelieving world to be a 
 partaker in the matters that they see and hear. And if 
 those who have visions sent to them by God could take the 
 world into their confidence and make them see and hear 
 
Dreams and Visions 15 
 
 what they have seen and heard, I believe that they would 
 do so, but it would be at the expense of the discipline that 
 God brings to them as the sole recipient of the vision. It 
 has been the fashion of the hard, common-sense man or 
 worldly woman to laugh to scorn and be ashamed of those 
 who have the courage to tell or write of their experiences. 
 That being true, it requires an almost superhuman courage 
 and patience to listen to their reproaches ; that of being told 
 that what you would write and say is "rotten nonsense," 
 and above all to rise superior to the words and smiles of 
 derision of those who plainly tell you to your face that you 
 are fit for a mad-house and nothing else. I confess that 
 those who take this line of speech — and they are many — 
 suffer from a serious inconsistency and lack of logic. Do 
 they believe unfeignedly the words of Holy Scripture? 
 Yes, they say they do, and yet when in vision a man has 
 seen and talked with an Angel and in consequence went 
 with his wife on a long journey (at the Angel's command) 
 and saw an M.D. (when he had no means of knowing there 
 was an M.D.), and in consequence of that Doctor's advice 
 saved his wife from a serious operation (and the wife's 
 health is greatly improved) ; when that is blazoned out in 
 the Public Prints, the world sneers and laughs! The fact 
 is that they refuse to apply the truths that God has caused 
 to be written down, to the affairs of everyday life. 
 
 But that is one of the ways God is pleased to work— by 
 dreams and visions. And it is by dreams and visions He is 
 working today. Of what use is The Book if it does not 
 teach applied Christianity? It is useless to take comfort 
 in the gospel story that pleases and deny another part that 
 displeases us. 
 
 And what Uriel the Archangel has done in the past, he 
 can do in the present. "Where is Uriel the Angel who 
 came unto me at the first," asks Esdras, "for he hath caused 
 me to fall into many trances." 
 
 As he has done to Esdras, so he has done to others ! 
 
 As a plain truth Uriel has come to me. I state the fact 
 with his permission. Why such as I am should be chosen, is 
 
i6 The Work and Office of the Holy Angels 
 
 beyond my power to tell. Each one on earth has his work 
 to do for God. This is my work to set down what he bids me. 
 
 I am conscious in making this statement that when these 
 words are read, perhaps the following pages will not meet 
 your eye. I see your view-point entirely, and I sympathize 
 with your incredulity. If I had been told a year ago that 
 my writings and preaching would be all along these lines, 
 I would not have believed it. 
 
 But now, the whole matter ha^ been taken out of my 
 hands. It is a Higher Power that is over-ruling and I 
 rejoice that I have the wonderful privilege of telling who 
 will read, what has been given to me by Uriel, my Guardian 
 Angel. 
 
 Laiis Deo. 
 
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 ANGELS CONVEYING THE SPIRITUAL BODY AT 
 
 THE MOMENT OF ITS DEPARTURE 
 
 TO THE REAL LIFE 
 
 As mankind leaves his natural body and takes on the 
 spiritual body he is brought by one of us into Paradise. 
 And man realises according to the amount of his faith in 
 God how to begin to do higher things. We watch and guard 
 and protect those who are willing to believe that this earth 
 life is not the real life. Once the soul has left the body 
 natural it is intensified tenfold upon discovering that those 
 upon earth are the really dead and not those whom the 
 world calls dead. God is love and justice personified. He 
 helps all those who earnestly strive to learn of the matters 
 pertaining to the Kingdom. He bids man to look upon that 
 Vision of Purity and Goodness, the teacher of mankind, 
 Whom once He sent upon earth. Man has made much of 
 the Crucifixion of the Christ. That is as it ought to be. 
 But let him pause in deep reflection at the words of His 
 teaching and follow them. Then man will glorify and pay 
 homage to Him Who came on earth for his benefit. Man 
 is dissatisfied and unhappy when first he comes to Paradise. 
 It is strange to him that the teaching of his Church had 
 led him so far astray as to beheve that at the trumpet call 
 every man shall rise from his shell and the judgment will 
 then begin. The truth is that he is frightened for he finds 
 that Paradise is alive with a vast number of souls whom 
 he does not know. He does not move for he thinks that he 
 is in a dream. Presently he finds that it is all very real 
 and in turn he prays God to be allowed to go back again to 
 earth and to be among his old associates and friends whom 
 he has loved so well. 
 
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1 8 The Work and Office of the Holy Angels 
 
 A VISION 
 
 I am standing among a group of men: I feel lost and 
 am cold. I am being taken up out of the Body. Now I 
 am coming to myself. I am in a room and see a form upon 
 a bed — a man whom I have known, a man whom I have 
 loved — my friend on earth, and he is looking upon the 
 woman who used to be his wife. His spirit is exceedingly 
 distressed, nay demented. He wants to come back to earth 
 and is unwilling to remain where he is. Let me go back, 
 even for a moment, he begs ! But as he complains I see 
 Angels all about him who are so kind and who try to comfort 
 him. But no ! Mere words are of little avail to him in his 
 misery ! Then he is led through a garden where he meets 
 a Saint, a simple kindly man whom he had known on earth. 
 He is so glad to see him and puts his arms about him and 
 embraces him. 
 
 Later on he is led to a place called Purgatory. There he 
 is met by no less a person than Francis d'Assisi, who is 
 helping him to understand that while Purgatory is indeed 
 its name, it bears no resemblance to what a certain Church 
 on earth taught were the attributes of that place. It is 
 first of all a Rest for all who will rest there. It is a comfort 
 for the weary and a solace and consolation. And the 
 demented man learns a truth that at first delights him; 
 it is, those who want to return to the earth can do so — ^under 
 certain limitations, they can go and come in their spiritual 
 body until they are gradually accustomed to their new home 
 and its freedom from worldly matters. Until they are 
 weaned away from the earth. The man begins here to find 
 many of his former friends whom he loved while on earth. 
 They reconcile him to his new position. Work? Yes, he 
 has work of the hardest kind. His earthly life is spread 
 out before him as a map, and he sees clearly the things 
 that he did which he ought not to have done and the things 
 undone which he ought to have done. 
 
 And he sees them with no sense of delusion. For one 
 
Angels Conveying the Spiritual Body 19 
 
 by one his faults are pointed out and he is shown how 
 differently he ought to have lived. 
 
 This is the first stage. 
 
 Purgatory (continues the Angel) is a comfort and joy 
 to the soul, for we teach enlightenment according to the 
 spiritual capacity each soul has developed during its life on 
 earth. One here can return to earth for his comfort if he 
 chooses for love draws love in return. Here no evil can 
 come to those who have no evil in their minds. You re- 
 member I said that those who wanted to return to earth 
 could do so under certain conditions. Those two words 
 cover a vast amount of truth. To begin with no person that 
 has lived on this earth with the grand exception of the Christ 
 has ever had power to bring back those who have gone. 
 If Samuel rose at the command of the Witch of Endor it 
 was because of God's Power — not hers. No medium that 
 has ever lived can of their own wish bring back to this world 
 any one. When David spoke of his son, he exclaimed, I 
 shall go to him but he will not return to me, he stated an 
 absolute truth. When Christ conquered death and preached 
 in Purgatory or the Cleansing Place to the spirits in prison 
 He released that great number of spiritual bodies and gave 
 them power of their own volition (sparingly used) to visit 
 again the scenes of this earth. While they have power to 
 see those whom they love, that same power is denied those 
 v/ho are in the natural body. Exceptions do but prove the 
 rule. It is tremendously difficult for human beings to break 
 through and with an entirely new training and education 
 of their senses gradually fit and so prepare themselves that 
 the spiritual body even of a son or father or mother can 
 be seen. It is quite another matter when Faith in the Com- 
 munion of Saints can grow stronger. At the words of the 
 Canon "we and all Thy whole Church," at which the cele- 
 brant should make a full pause, many humans have felt 
 more than once as if their loved one was by their side! 
 This in brief explanation, and we return to our study of 
 the Cleansing Place which my Angel has revealed to me. 
 
 Here we can help those who need help, protection and 
 
20 The Work and Office of the Holy Angels 
 
 advice, for they are at first desperately in need. They are 
 crying out to those whom they have left behind. But see 
 how wonderfully God deals with certain types. 
 
 The young soldier who has given his life for his country 
 is taken high — very high into Purgatory. Those who have 
 led a good clean life were taken and carried as if they had 
 wings straight to Heaven. As I have said they are given a 
 brief time to return, but when they perceive how those 
 whom they love cannot see them — ^much less sense them, 
 they prefer to stay here and do their work. 
 
 This consists in: 
 
 (a) Helping those who have just come over; 
 
 (b) Helping those who are weary and without hope; 
 
 (c) Some do intellectual work; 
 
 (d) Others do soldier's work as of soldiers in camp. 
 The following is a series of very short visions, some in 
 
 the Cleansing State; others depicting scenes on this earth. 
 Their special significance to our subject will, I trust, be 
 quickly understood. 
 
 A SERIES OF SHORT VISIONS 
 
 I am in a deep brown. All is blurred. Now it is a little 
 lighter. I go into a building. Here are a number of young 
 men being instructed by Angels, scribes I think they call 
 themselves. They are men of great learning and they are 
 teaching them. They are both working and reading. 
 
 ^ 4c ♦ ♦ 4c 4( 
 
 I am taken to an office down in the midst of some great 
 city in Europe. I see a man of middle-age sitting at his 
 desk. He is at first writing. Presently he pushes away 
 his paper and seems to be thinking deeply. Behind him a 
 young man who bears a strong resemblance to the older 
 man suddenly appears. The latter is in his spiritual body: 
 the young man clasps his arms around the older and kisses 
 him but the man makes no response at all — ^he does not see 
 
Angels Conveying the Spiritual Body 21 
 
 or feel him or hear his voice, and the young man after vain 
 efforts to make him understand, goes away in deep dejection, 
 His visit has but increased his sorrow ! 
 
 4c :(( 4: 4c 4c 4t 
 
 I am in a kitchen. A woman, rather stout, is cooking the 
 dinner. She glances at a mantel on which is a photo of a 
 young boy, and she sobs bitterly as she looks at her son 
 lately reported among the missing in battle. Suddenly a 
 boy appears at the door: "Mother dear, I am here, I am 
 alive," he shouts. But the woman can hear or see nothing. 
 The boy does all he can to make her understand — it is 
 useless, and sobbing very bitterly he is brought back by his 
 Guardian Angel into the Cleansing Place. 
 
 Then his friends gather round him and try to comfort 
 him, but they tell him plainly that what he has done only 
 increases his own sense of separation. Then they take him 
 to a garden where they find flowers more beautiful a thou- 
 sand-fold than any on this earth, for they know how fond 
 of flowers he used to be. But he shakes his head — the 
 disappointment had been too great! 
 
 4c 4c 4c 4c 4c * 
 
 Suddenly I am taken to a place where there are many 
 men. I see a soldier who must have been an Orderly. I 
 think that is his duty now. He is very cheerful and I hear 
 him whistling. Somebody asks him whether he is dead. 
 
 "Dead ! I rather think not ! I never felt so much alive 
 as I do at this very moment !" 
 
 Then one of the patients — this place must be a hospital — 
 says to the Orderly : "Let's go back to the earth." 
 
 But the Orderly only smiles and shakes his head ! 
 
 4c 4c 4c * 4c 4t 
 
 Confusion! Things are whirling about me! Now I can 
 see more plainly. I see a large number of the Heavenly 
 Beings and the very heavens themselves are opening into a 
 great and marvelous light. The air is very brilliant and I 
 see plainly a Divine Figure. He stands alone in a marvel- 
 lous glory. Three Angels, six in all, on either side of Him, 
 
22 The Work and Office of the Holy Angels 
 
 stand waiting for the slightest movement of His Hps. He 
 looks upon a group of young men and holds out His Hands, 
 telling them not to be afraid for now they are to be His 
 co-workers and they in turn are to help others as He once 
 helped them. 
 
 Silence ! And there is Perfect Peace over a brilliant sea. 
 The young men who have just realised who He is, look 
 eagerly about seeking that Divine Figure but He has 
 vanished ! 
 
 "Could that be the Judgment of which we have read such 
 terrible accounts?" they ask each other. "Can Peace indeed 
 be given to men such as we have been in our earthly lives ?" 
 
 They rush toward the spot where last they saw Him, but 
 are restrained, and Angels take them to their different posts 
 to do work which is most congenial to their several abilities. 
 
 Now I am rushing through the air and am coming back 
 gradually to my natural body. 
 
 A VISION 
 
 I am being carried to a plane in Paradise where first the 
 children are reared in our School. I see a huge lawn sur- 
 rounded with bushes. I see not one single flower but 
 everywhere huge trees are growing. One bears a fruit of 
 some kind — no, it is not fruit but a huge bush covered with 
 roses. In the centre there is a large tree and birds flying 
 in and out with much noise. There is nothing else — a well- 
 kept lawn — that is all. Now I am going down marble steps 
 into a garden that is fashioned like our Italian sunken 
 gardens. I see a fountain and I know that it is playing. 
 I see no human being of any sort, kind or description. All 
 is one vast silence. 
 
 * * ♦ * 5jc :► 
 
 Now I am being taken into a bedroom somewhere on this 
 earth. I see a form lying on the bed. It is that of a child 
 not more than two years old. It is cold, motionless, and 
 
Angels Conveying the Spiritual Body 23 
 
 one scarcely sees its little chest rise and fall. It is either 
 dying or already dead — I do not know. A door opens and 
 a man and woman enter — they must be the parents of this 
 little child. On the other side of the bed is a nurse clad 
 in her hospital uniform. The door opens again, and another 
 man comes in — it must be the doctor. He examines the 
 child carefully and then beckons to the nurse who in turn 
 calls to the mother and father. Sorrowfully they shake 
 their heads while the parents, distracted with grief, kneel 
 at the foot of the bed. The dear little child has breathed 
 her last breath. Now she is in other, higher hands. For 
 look! Although the door is fast closed two angels glide 
 into the room, followed by a third who evidently in authority 
 superintends what they are about to do. A slight vapour 
 rises from the natural body and gradually assumes the shape 
 of the spiritual body of the child. The two angels stoop 
 over the bed and clasp the child's new body in their arms 
 detaching it from that senseless mass of clay stretched out 
 on the bed. They give it to two other Angels who have 
 entered the room and stand ready to receive it. None of 
 the Angels have any wings. Needless to say, what has 
 happened has not been seen by any of the three people in 
 the room. The chief Angel goes to the woman and comforts 
 her as she bends over the little inanimate form already 
 growing cold. 
 
 Now all is dark. I feel I am going a great distance. 
 I am following the Angels as they bear the now released 
 body of the child in their arms. 
 
 I am coming back to the lawn with huge trees all about it. 
 Now I see a vast number of happy joyous children playing 
 in the beautiful garden. 
 
 They have games where other older children are appar- 
 ently telling them how best they can play them. Suddenly, 
 they see a newcomer that has just been placed by the Angels 
 in their midst. They rush forward to welcome the little 
 stranger. She stands there amazed, very shy, but with a 
 faint smile on her lips deepening and increasing until she 
 laughs out loud as some of the smaller ones, evidently about 
 
24 The Work and Office of the Holy Angels 
 
 her own age, press into her tiny hands roses and toys of 
 all sorts. 
 
 It seems as if they had wooden animals out of a huge 
 Noah's Ark for the supply seems to be exhaustless. She 
 had been bewildered. She almost wanted to cry at first 
 but there is no thought now of tears. Who could cry amid 
 so great joy and laughter? Now the children stand a little 
 to one side as the Angels who brought her there talk to her 
 and make her feel perfectly at home. She is too young to 
 miss Father and Mother. She is well and strong and 
 gorgeously happy. That is all that matters now ! 
 
 ^ 3iC 3|C :|C 3|C ^ 
 
 I pass to another part of this place. Here is a huge 
 marble snow-white palace with columns of deepest blue in 
 contrast. Here many older children are being taught by 
 Angels, and instructed how to take charge of that vast 
 number who are younger than they. Who are these and 
 whence came they? The Innocents — the Holy Innocents 
 that have gone back to their Creator. Being on earth but 
 a short time they have no defilement or trace of sin. They 
 have come back in all that purity that was theirs when they 
 were first here. For they have seen God's Face. Never 
 will they return again to the earth. Such as these, undefiled, 
 playing with those who have had a little longer earthly 
 sojourn. 
 
 * * * * * * 
 
 Now I am on quite another plane. Here is intense black- 
 ness. I feel I am carried here to have pointed out to me 
 an absolute contrast. And I am right. I am in a vast cave 
 among some six evil-minded men. They are Atheists who 
 believe in nothing. They sit about a table and are using vile 
 language. They have been murderers on the earth. But 
 even among such as these the Holy Angels are at work. 
 They speak to them and plead with them, saying that as 
 long as they persist in evil thoughts and blasphemy nothing 
 can ever change their condition. They listen ; but with evil 
 smiles. Then they answer, saying that what these Celestial 
 
Angels Conveying the Spiritual Body 25 
 
 Beings are saying is only a waste of time and strength. 
 They do not beheve — no — not they! They will shortly 
 show these people what they will do — plunge in an orgy of 
 thought more frightful than they ever dreamed of here on 
 earth ! 
 
 In this plane of evil, despite all, I know that nobody is 
 finally condemned. Yes, this is what we call Hell, but it 
 is a Hell of their own making. Wicked thoughts are their 
 own worst punishments for here it is only thought without 
 its fleshly reahsations ! 
 
 Another scene. I seem to be in a gambling den. I see 
 a gaming-table and men seated about it playing cards. Here 
 too I hear oaths and vile language. There is much talk and 
 laughter. Oh, how different from the laughter of those 
 innocent children. In the far end of the room there is a 
 thin wedge of blue light as if it were the end of a tunnel 
 taking one out of this miserable place. Even here Celestial 
 Beings are seated among these miserable creatures, always 
 talking and pointing to that blue as if it were a spiritual 
 method of escape. Two men, evidently impressed by the 
 pleading of these Angels walk slowly from this cave of 
 neutral light towards the blue. But after thinking it over 
 they shake their heads and return to the cave that gives a 
 sort of zigzag light — it is neither night nor day. These are 
 the obstinate whom no angelic pleadings can ever change. 
 These are the self-satisfied. 
 
 But stay ! A few others do listen and follow their guides. 
 But the way is rough — very rough. Bit by bit I follow them 
 through the tunnel and the blue light becomes all the while 
 more intense. 
 
 When I see who follow, I shudder, they are frightful 
 looking — men, yes and women too ! 
 
 Finally they are seated while two Angels show them their 
 bad beginnings. These are the indifferent. I cannot see 
 their faces but only the backs of their heads. Angelic 
 pleadings now begin to have some effect, for some are on 
 
26 The Work and Office of the Holy Angels 
 
 their knees. But others begin over again and are rioting. 
 The Master Angel stills them with one powerful word and 
 they desist. 
 
 ****** 
 
 Now I am on earth again. It is a big town, where I 
 know not, but it is a most fashionable place. I peer into 
 an office building where is a woman with two men. There 
 is a quarrel, a duel and one man is fatally shot. Here are 
 evil beings of another world existing. I learn that evil, 
 earth evil, can attract the evil that God in His mysterious 
 Providence allows for a time only to exist and do us harm. 
 It is the evil of the other side coming down to the evil here 
 and reproducing itself. Each man or woman attracts about 
 themselves by their lives both evil and good beings which- 
 ever power we choose we have them watching us. When 
 we choose the good, Angels see to it that no evil outside 
 ourselves can come into contact with us. It is dreadful to 
 think that the reverse is also true. 
 
 Let us pause and repent while we have the opportunity. 
 Remember O Lord not our sins nor the sins of our fore- 
 fathers. Spare us, Good Lord. 
 
 A VISION 
 
 I am on a plane of glorious Light which comes not from 
 the sun or any power that can be called natural. I see 
 Angels who have celestial wings. They are so many that 
 my eyes are dazzled — waves upon waves — there seems to be 
 no computation of them. The ear hears glorious music, it 
 is one gigantic melodious series of cadences. It is like 
 nothing ever heard on this earth. As I listen there is one 
 marvellous sweet high voice that rings out clear and true 
 and infinitely lovely above all others. It is singing in no 
 language which this earth knows, and yet I understand that 
 it is of the Adoration of the Lamb once slain. Now I see 
 more distinctly. Surrounded by six Archangels — three on 
 
Angels Conveying the Spiritual Body 27 
 
 either side — is a Divine Figure, and it is towards Him 
 and for Him that this Worship of Music is directed. One 
 Archangel whose name is not known upon earth — one taller 
 than those on either side of that Figure — seems to go behind 
 Him. The Divine Figure vanishes and the six Archangels 
 are left outside while the music sounds out more gloriously. 
 
 The Archangel who remains is conducting the Christ as 
 King back to Paradise and the Holy City, the new Jeru- 
 salem, while the six Archangels are guarding the great white 
 throne. 
 
 And while I ask myself the meaning of what I have seen 
 the explanation is given. 
 
 From this earth thousands are each throwing off the 
 natural and taking on the Spiritual Body. They are brought 
 before their Master at once to receive His direction and 
 Angels lead Ihem away to begin their purgation or cleansing 
 in one of the many mansions of God according to their 
 spiritual capacity to receive the teaching that is necessary 
 before they shall go higher or lower. This may be called 
 the preliminary judgement. After it and in no way re- 
 sembling it is the general Judgment at the end of the world. 
 
 The scene just described is the first Judgment and now, 
 Christ, who has returned from earth which He revisits even 
 now to do good among men, has just finished one of His 
 first Judgments and goes back to the Higher places of 
 Paradise whither no earthly eye can behold Him to "enter 
 into His Rest." 
 
 Laus Deo. 
 
IV 
 
 DIRECT MESSAGES 
 
 Angels and Archangels and a great company of the faithful 
 — full of faith while on this earth — those who have been 
 very near and dear can, and are permitted by Almighty God 
 to come to us and make us feel that they are helping us. 
 This is possible, if we for our part practice being in the 
 Presence of God; firmly persuaded that at the Holy 
 Eucharist God is making us a part of His Blessed Self so 
 that as St. Chrysostom says. He shall dwell in us and we 
 in Him. 
 
 Firmly persuaded that here on earth as in Heaven, the 
 Blessed Angels join in Worship of God. Firmly believing 
 that not only are the heavenly hosts present but that great 
 company of the Faithful Departed ! Prayers for the Dead ? 
 No ; prayers for the living who have passed on, and are 
 now living in a sense greater and more useful lives than 
 they ever lived while on earth for they are working for God. 
 
 Believing all this sacred truth with no hesitation or mental 
 reservation, and continually living in this belief of all things 
 Invisible, then this great body may to some of us become 
 visible. If not visible at least we shall be sensible of them 
 by their appeal to us, by means of what, for want of a better 
 phrase we call the inner voice. Sounds not heard by out- 
 ward ears but heard distinctly by the spiritual body. 
 Perhaps they will come when the conscious mind is asleep; 
 when although you may be perfectly aware of noises outside 
 your room, yet you are enthralled by the direct knowledge 
 that a message or a voice is saying things that you can 
 perfectly understand. Such messages not only comfort us, 
 but exalt us. This great gift can only come to those whose 
 Faith in the great invisible world is firm. Think of it! 
 At your entreaty your Guardian Angel will always come 
 to you. Ask silently one question at a time. His counsel 
 
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Direct Messages 29 
 
 is an invaluable aid and it comes when we seek not so much 
 our own advancement but when we plan work for the 
 welfare of others. Direct messages ! Laus Deo, it is 
 absolutely true. First think of Angelic Messages. They 
 have been recorded not once but many times in the Word 
 of God. But strangely and with an earthly blindness to 
 that plan of God to work among men by means of His 
 Servants, we fail to give Angels mental credits for what 
 they do and have done among men. It was the Angel 
 Gabriel who interpreted to Daniel the meaning of the many 
 visions that came to him and the two kings, father and son. 
 And to another, the Angel of the Lord gives first a wonderful 
 interpretation to Zachariah which culminates in his pointing 
 out to the amazed prophet how Jesus Christ the Branch 
 will dwell in the earth for the heaUng of the Nations. 
 And in those all too brief three-and-thirty years of the 
 earthly life of Jesus the Christ, always Angels were present 
 at the epochal moments. First Gabriel came to Mary the 
 always Virgin at what is called the Annunciation ; then the 
 great army of the Angelic Hosts at His Nativity praising 
 God and chanting the Song of the Angels — Glory be to God 
 on High. Again, after His Temptation in the wilderness. 
 Then the Angel of the Lord at His Resurrection, and here 
 St. Matthew's words should be recorded as the two Marys 
 came to see the sepulchre. "And behold there was a great 
 earthquake; for the Angel of the Lord descended from 
 Heaven, and came and rolled back the stone and sat upon it. 
 His countenance was like lightning, and his raiment white 
 as snow; and for fear of him the keepers did shake and 
 become as dead men." Yes, a terrible sight to those who 
 did not believe but a sight wonderfully calming and mar- 
 vellous to the women ready to believe all things when Christ 
 was the issue. 
 
 Angels at His Ascension who spoke to the sorrowing 
 disciples in those memorable words, "Ye men of Galilee, 
 why stand ye gazing up into heaven." All these angelic 
 appearances were direct messages from Angels to Humani- 
 
30 The Work and Office of the Holy Angels 
 
 ty. But not only Angels: another great company was and 
 is at work. 
 
 It will be remembered that at His Transfiguration Christ 
 chose to be with Him, Moses the law-giver, and EUas the 
 prophet. 
 
 Chosen at such a time they asserted and proved the truth 
 of those words, "Think not that I am come to destroy the 
 Law : I am come to fulfil." 
 
 This I believe is the only recorded instance of two men 
 v/ho had passed on from this earthly life returning to earth 
 and talking with Jesus. 
 
 **Elias shall first come and restore all things." Note the 
 future tense and also that before the event of the Trans- 
 figuration Elias already had made his re-entry upon earth 
 in the person of John the Baptist. 
 
 We need not discuss here how much or little the character 
 of John Baptist was affected. 
 
 It is sufficient to declare that although there were many 
 points of likeness between Elias and John there were also 
 differences : 
 
 John was an Elias softened by humiUty as shown by his 
 comparison of himself to Christ. **He shall increase but I 
 shall decrease." 
 
 John without doubt was infused with the boldness of the 
 older prophet. Both preached the Word of God careless 
 of the cost and comfort, aye, and personal safety. I believe 
 that Elias often appeared to John at the command of God. 
 Of this there is no proof that would be acceptable to the 
 disputatious. Nevertheless I know it to be true. 
 
 Note again the future tense : Elias shall come and restore 
 all things. He who was chosen to be the antitype of Jesus 
 Christ, and who, without suffering an earthly death was 
 taken up to Heaven, shall at the Judgment again appear 
 unto all men. 
 
 The Word of God through the prophet Malachi has 
 promised : ''Behold I will send you Elias the prophet before 
 the coming of the great and dreadful day of the Lord." 
 
Direct Messages 31 
 
 Not only at the Day of Judgment but "before." Rever- 
 ently we can ask "when?" 
 
 What Elias has done in the past he can do again. 
 
 Now and again he receives commands to come to certain 
 ones and warn and exhort them. Why should there not be 
 those living in our midst today for EHas to visit? 
 
 I believe that he who once thundered out to the people: 
 "How long halt ye between two opinions," can by his ex- 
 ample fill many hearts with courage to struggle on. 
 
 Thus "he shall first come and restore all things." 
 
 Remember that Moses and Elias were speaking to the 
 Christ of His decease which He should accomplish at 
 Jerusalem. Why should they be talking to Him of the 
 things which had been foreordained for Him to suffer in 
 the Counsels of Heaven before His Birth? 
 
 Reverently I would submit that the subject of this extra- 
 ordinary conversation had to do with giving to the company 
 of Spirits made perfect a larger scope and more responsi- 
 bility; now that Christ was to overcome the sharpness of 
 death, would He not by opening the Kingdom of Heaven 
 to all believers — would He not give to us here on earth 
 greater powers to journey (while still in this mortal body) 
 into Paradise? 
 
 I believe that at His Transfiguration Moses and Elias 
 received an enlarged power and their practical usefulness 
 to mankind was to be felt by the latter as never before. 
 
 Not only the Prophet and Law-giver! Others! A tre- 
 mendous demonstration was at hand when at the moment 
 of Christ's Death the Veil of the Temple was rent ! "The 
 graves were opened and many bodies of the Saints which 
 slept arose and came out of the graves after His Resurrec- 
 tion and appeared unto many." 
 
 This company released by the preaching of Jesus (as St. 
 Peter tells us) were thus added to the spirits who should 
 give direct messages to us on earth. 
 
 How many of us can realise and be thankful for what 
 the Angels and Spirits have done and will do? 
 
V 
 
 "HE BEING DEAD YET SPEAKETH" 
 
 "How can he speak though dead," asks the materially- 
 minded person? 
 
 Ah, you do not understand, replies the devout Christian 
 enthusiast. Have you not read that wonderful chapter in 
 the Epistle to the Hebrews when the writer gives that 
 glorious concept of those who died full of faith yet not 
 having received the promises of the Father which were 
 fulfilled to the utmost by the Birth and Death of Jesus 
 Christ? 
 
 Those men and women, strong in their belief, have left 
 in their lives a living testimony which shall speak down 
 through the ages to the end of the world. 
 
 They being dead yet speak. 
 
 "Oh, I understand your point," says the doubter. "That 
 is the reason why when any very good man or woman dies 
 this verse is used to show that their lives are to be an 
 example to them that follow after." 
 
 "Yes, you understand now," cries the enthusiast. 
 
 But the materialist shakes his head. 
 
 "I think that the Church and the average Christian have 
 not caught the full meaning of that verse. A man who is 
 dead does not speak and is not heard as we humans speak 
 and hear. Cannot you suggest another meaning?" 
 
 And the enthusiast sorrowfully shakes his head. 
 
 My friends, to a certain extent the materialist is right! 
 The words strictly interpreted do not refer to the past good 
 works or character of a man or woman. 
 
 They are in the present — not in the past tense. They 
 refer to the amazing fact that although dead to this mortal 
 life even now they speak ! 
 
 Without doubt their past has been full of Faith in God, 
 but that is beside the question. 
 
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''He Being Dead Yet Speaketh" 33 
 
 The average life is three score years and ten. 
 
 Must they come to the end of their pilgrimage as far 
 as their worth towards mankind is concerned? Are they to 
 be for ever silent of their continuation of life beyond the 
 grave ? Not so ! Though dead they speak ! 
 
 And to whom should they speak? 
 
 Why not to those who most greatly desire to hear them? 
 
 Consider : 
 
 Every zealous Christian be he lay or Priest does their bit 
 of mission work while on earth. 
 
 They have worked, we will say, over some soul that can- 
 not be convinced of God; His voice. His message. His 
 Goodness; how He sent His Son into the world to show 
 in that Life Himself. How His Holy Church is here on 
 earth to show through Sacraments and His Word the com- 
 fort that God wishes to be revealed to man. 
 
 The zealous Christian during his sojourn here has labored 
 to convince his friend of these truths but seemingly all in 
 vain. 
 
 What then? 
 
 Does he pass on to Paradise and is his earthly work all in 
 vain? 
 
 Not so ! 
 
 "He being dead yet speaketh.'* 
 
 For between those two men, while on earth, although of 
 widely differing opinions, there is the basis for a contact that 
 lasts forever. You all know that God has decreed that the 
 greatest attribute is love. 
 
 No one can deny that pure love is deathless that spends 
 itself and is spent for the other. 
 
 God is Love. He who numbers the hairs of our head 
 knows better than the two friends just how much one needs 
 the other. 
 
 Imagine the man who had faith being able to return to 
 his beloved friend and say : 
 
 "See here! I have been allowed to come to you to tell 
 you that what I said once by my Faith, I say again by actual 
 knowledge and experience. Everything that I taught you 
 
34 The Work and Office of the Holy Angels 
 
 once by Faith is true. I am seeing the truth day by day. 
 Now will you not believe?" 
 
 Brethren, such a conversation is not imaginative — it has 
 taken place. 
 
 He being dead yet speaketh. 
 
 Did not Samuel speak to Saul? 
 
 If it has been done once cannot it be done again? Cannot 
 earthly work be continued in the Life to come among those 
 still here for their good and the uplift of the spirit? 
 
 And I here appeal to that great number who have been 
 visited by those who have passed on, yet are too reserved 
 to allow even to themselves that such a supernatural thing 
 has ever happened! 
 
 It is time for the teachers in the Church to raise their 
 standards concerning this truth. 
 
 They have forgotten the gift that S. Paul has written of 
 and called "discerning of spirits." 
 
 It is quite enough to say that spirits have returned. It 
 will not do to allow bodies outside the Church to affirm a 
 truth that the Church has allowed to slip from its declara- 
 tion. She has passed by the gift of healing, and healing has 
 been forced upon her. 
 
 She has passed by the gift of the discerning of spirits 
 and thousands during this last war have asked and asked in 
 vain and then have fallen into hands that have robbed and 
 defrauded them! 
 
 For the true discerners of spirits — those who have the 
 gift (and it is a gift) are exceeding loath to pubUsh the 
 fact, and are hidden away from the knowledge of the great 
 majority of those about them. 
 
 For many years I have longed for 'contact,' using the love 
 that I have for one who in life was nearest and dearest 
 'passing the love of women.' 
 
 Now that contact has come ! Five minutes before I had 
 no idea that in my case it could come. Now it has arrived, 
 and I say and repeat not only by faith but actual knowledge : 
 
 He being dead yet speaketh. 
 
 I suppose your question would be "how did it happen?" 
 
''He Being Dead Yet Speaketh" 35 
 
 Let me answer in general terms for I am strictly forbidden 
 to answer in personal and particular description. 
 
 Go back a page or two and you will have my answer. All 
 I can tell you is this : I am never lonely. Again and again 
 I have had evidence (that a Court of Law would indignantly 
 throw out). Yet to me it is overwhelmingly true. Once 
 more my beloved companion is with me. Once and many, 
 many times my Faith in all things Visible and Invisible has 
 been confirmed. Yes ! He being dead yet speaketh ! And 
 I am oh so happy ! 
 
 You who have lost a very dear friend perhaps for ten 
 years and more and have grieved most of all for the loss of 
 that companionship, need grieve no more ! 
 
 If you believe all that is contained through the Voice of 
 God, then add this old interpretation of God's Voice to your 
 belief : 
 
 Love and Faith will win for ypu your fervent desire. 
 Your method of achieving what you want may be different 
 from mine. 
 
 But those factors are indispensible. Love and Faith ! 
 Those given and then only one thing else — Perseverance. 
 
 Remember your friend is as eager for the contact as you ! 
 Remember he is working on his side just as you are on 
 yours ! 
 
 Jesus Christ once preached to the spirits in prison. Why 
 should not those whom He shall allow and appoint preach 
 to those who are mortals in the prison of their thoughts 
 and lack of Faith? 
 
 He being dead yet speaketh. 
 
VI 
 
 ANGELS AS WARRIORS 
 
 A STRANGE subject ! Perhaps you would say contrary to 
 the office and works of the Angels of God. Not so ! There 
 is evidence that Angels have fought (under God's Will and 
 Command) both collectively — in armies — and individually. 
 
 Collectively in two instances — one from the Old Testa- 
 ment and one from the New Testament. The third instance 
 is only seven years old and is of a force upon men's minds 
 that is rapidly growing and upon the incredulous it is be- 
 coming (or hardening into) a concrete fact that is impossible 
 to disprove. 
 
 But first, read the Old Testament instance in II Kings 
 6:10-23 inclusive. The Kings of Israel and Syria were 
 waging war; Elisha had at God's command saved Israel not 
 once or twice. The prophet went to Dothan where he was 
 encompassed by a great host. Escape seemed impossible 
 until Elisha prayed God to open the eyes of the young men 
 and behold the mountain was full of horses and chariots 
 of fire round about Elisha! Who were these? Holy 
 Angels without a doubt and perhaps those whom the Angels 
 in turn employed to do their bidding! And how did they 
 fight? With a weapon forged by God's Power. First 
 blindness and then sight again when the prophet had led 
 them into Samaria to the King of Israel. Ringed about 
 was Elisha by Angel hosts. They seem to do nothing here, 
 but they were ready; prepared at their Master's command 
 to deal death to the armies of the King of Syria that sought 
 to bring death to Elisha. Angels as Warriors ! On guard 
 only, this time, but a guard that was effective to bring 
 supreme confidence to Elisha's companion who had cried: 
 "Alas my Master! what shall we do?" Those that were 
 against Elisha "were a great host," but as Elisha said, "they 
 
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Angels as Warriors 37 
 
 that be with us are more than they that be with them." 
 On God's side ! Numerically and spiritually in all combats, 
 Angels must win the fight for right. 
 
 The New Testament, St. John's Revelation beginning 
 "There was war in Heaven." When did this take place? 
 Some time after Christ's triumph over the Power of Evil 
 by His Death and Passion, by His glorious Resurrection 
 and Ascension. Three times Satan had tempted Him in the 
 Desert; in the Garden of Gethsemane; and on the Cross. 
 The Power of the Prince of Darkness was broken ! Hence- 
 forth men could pick and choose evil from good. Still 
 Satan, though defeated, remained until St. Michael and his 
 Angels drove Satan and his army and defeated them, and 
 Satan as though struck by lightning was hurled from heaven. 
 This 'war' is no mere poetic idea. God does not permit 
 poetry to take forms with intent to deceive! The Book 
 would cease to be the Inspiration of the Spirit of God if 
 poetic effusion could intrude, upon Angel's part in God's 
 Work for man's salvation. God chose St. Michael one of 
 His Archangels to lead His Armies. How did they fight? 
 Ah, that is not for us to ask. The purpose of that war 
 was to drive out of Heaven the Prince of the power of 
 darkness. The result of that war was his defeat by St. 
 Michael and his Angels. The participants of that war were 
 Angels of the right and angels of evil. And while the right 
 and the Truth prevailed yet Satan was allowed to go upon 
 the earth having great wrath because he knew his time was 
 short. Before we go to the third instance, let us remind 
 ourselves of the reference Our Lord Christ made to the 
 servants of His Father: they were spoken in the Garden of 
 Gethsemane when Judas Iscariot having betrayed Him, He 
 was made a prisoner of the Roman soldiers. "Think thou 
 that I cannot pray to My Father and He shall presently 
 send Me more than twelve legions of Angels?" A saying 
 like this proves that the power of Angels as warriors and 
 martial leaders was well known to the Jews of these and 
 times before, and that Christ's appeal was to Angels as a 
 Force in which all Jews believed. The truth was th^t 
 
38 The Work and Office of the Holy Angels 
 
 warrior Angels were massed together awaiting God's Word 
 to act should He judge it to be necessary. 
 
 The third instance has to do with what happened only 
 lately during the great retreat of the English at Mons. It 
 is one thing to accept what is written in Old and New 
 Testaments concerning Angels, but many whose Faith in 
 The Book has been strong have failed to believe that what 
 once was regarded as Truth can still be true in the twentieth 
 century. Slowly the testimony from the eight out of 
 ninety-four thousand that came out of that terrible fight is 
 coming to light. And as Harold Begbie pointed out in his 
 monograph "On the side of the Angels," men have generally 
 a profound hesitancy to talk of their experiences, but if 
 they are questioned they quietly assert: *T saw them." And 
 it is a fact on record that that part of the German Forces 
 who were at Mons received a severe reprimand from Berlin. 
 What happened in few words was this: 
 
 The Germans came on with a great charge of horses and 
 men at the red thin line whose men (so depleted they were) 
 stood fifteen yards apart the one from the other. All at 
 once the German horses swerved a sudden slip — their riders 
 plied them but they would go no further. They turned 
 apparently in great terror and galloped off in an opposite 
 direction. Then the English rallied and took a number of 
 German prisoners. On being asked why they had turned, 
 they exclaimed, "What else could we do when we saw a 
 great army following us?" 
 
 All this is official. In far-away America I found a man 
 who was of that English Army. He told me that nothing 
 ought to have prevented the Germans breaking through; 
 that they would have done so had it not been that Angels 
 intervened. His story was that the Englishmen were almost 
 dead with fatigue, but suddenly they felt as if new strength 
 and courage had been pumped into them. They looked in 
 the air and saw a host of Angels. They looked to one side 
 and saw a tremendous body of troops about six hundred 
 yards away, clothed in the uniform of Agincourt and Cregy, 
 moving swiftly to the Germans to attack them. 
 
Angels as Warriors 39 
 
 This is all testimony from not one but many. 
 
 So far it may be familiar to you. Now I shall give you 
 testimony of another kind. 
 
 It is testimony from the Angels themselves: 
 
 There were six Angels in different parts of the English 
 Une led by St. Michael himself. 
 
 And who were the vast body of men, you ask. 
 
 I reply from the very words that first were given me. 
 
 During that retreat over eighty thousand Englishmen gave 
 up their lives for the sake of the Cause. 
 
 Now remember that God's powers are without limit of 
 any kind. He can undo our laws as He first made them. 
 
 Under His command, His angels were permitted to clothe 
 those eighty thousand with the spiritual body and it was 
 this great spirit Army recalled once more to this earth, 
 whom English and French saw marching, yes, and fighting 
 at their side! Yes, and Germans saw them too, and de- 
 scribed them as a vast army. 
 
 Yes, Angels were in the fight, and they and this great 
 army were for those exhausted soldiers. 
 
 One of the greatest miracles that has ever taken place! 
 
 Laus Deo. 
 
VII 
 
 ANGELS AND TEMPTATION 
 
 What have Angels to do with mankind being tried, 
 tempted? Anything? We are famihar with three central 
 figures in the matter of Temptation. The Evil one, Satan ; 
 the man, woman or child who are tried , the temptor and the 
 tempted. We are less familiar but accept the fact that God 
 The Father rejoices or is sad according to our victory or 
 our defeat. In the Parables of the fifteenth chapter of 
 Luke, the central figure is the Father: when the wayward 
 Son is seen by that Father He exclaims : "For this my son 
 that was lost is found again ;" not a hair of our head can 
 fall to the ground without the Father being aware of it. 
 Nothing escapes Him and His delight in our triumph over 
 sin or sadness over defeat is very keen and very real. God : 
 Satan : ourselves : these are the Principals in that Drama, 
 but we must omit a fourth and very important factor after 
 temptations have conquered us or we them when we omit 
 to take account of God's servants and the part they play. 
 We might well ask since temptation is always at work, why 
 do not our Guardian Angels so fit and prepare us that we 
 can pass by all forms of trial as easily as if there was no 
 such power as evil and sin? If God the Father permitted 
 Angels to have such power over us, then indeed no sin 
 could exist ; but then also we should have lost our initiative 
 and Christ the Son of God need not have suffered death 
 upon the Cross. It would be totally contrary to God's plan 
 for us men and for our salvation. He ordained that since 
 sin and evil were in the world mankind must face temptation, 
 be tried, and either conquer or be conquered. We are told 
 He the Christ sanctified Himself by enduring the greatest 
 series of temptations that can be conceived — in the wilder- 
 ness, in the Garden of Gethsemane, and on the Cross. 
 What part was Angel's in this Christ temptation? After 
 
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Angels and Temptation 41 
 
 the temptations in all cases they were with Him and minis- 
 tered unto Him. And so with mankind in so far as men 
 by their belief allow them to minister. It can be stated 
 with confidence that not once but many times, Angels have 
 ministered, inspired and consoled. Look at the Hfe of Jacob. 
 Beginning his manhood by receiving Isaac's Blessing by 
 means of a lie, he suffered much. But have you ever no- 
 ticed how often the Angels were with him? And chiefly 
 at the times of temptation. Jacob was sorely depressed 
 after Laban's displeasure — what happened? Angels — the 
 Angel of God meets him and talks with him. (Genesis, 31.) 
 When Jacob left Laban the Angels of God met and talked 
 with him. (Genesis, 32.) Then, while alone in his despon- 
 dency and fear of Esau, God summoned His Angels and 
 Jacob saw them ascending and descending a ladder that 
 reached to Heaven. In each instance Jacob was comforted 
 and sustained in his trials by Angels. Remembrance of sin 
 and contrition brings depression which is very hard to bear 
 if we are by ourselves. Depression is in fact one of the 
 advance guards of sin, and is often used by Satan, to foster 
 renewed sin. It weakens our moral fibre and makes us easy 
 prey for a new yielding, and thus "the last state of that man 
 is worse than the first." Depression whispers : "What's the 
 use? You may as well yield at this time." The strongest 
 are thus made weak. Now the Blessed Angels (if they are 
 permitted) begin their work. If evil has had his insidious say, 
 they also! Angels were with Jacob many more times -than 
 Holy Scripture bears record. The Book does not ^ive in 
 detail the daily experiences of even the greatest. There is 
 an hiatus in the life of Christ from twelve to thirty years ! 
 And in Jacob's life Angels must have consoled him when he 
 thought Joseph was dead. And I know that in our own 
 trials, if we do but believe in God's messengers, they will 
 come swifter than thought itself — make us feel their pre- 
 sence even if we cannot see them! Jacob, however, is not 
 the only instance. Remember Elias. Believing himself and 
 His work for God all at an end, he asked God to take away 
 his life, when an Angel came and touched him (I Kings, 19) 
 
42 The Work and Office of the Holy Angels 
 
 not once but twice. Then Elias saw food in the desert that 
 he ate and received strength therefrom to continue his 
 journey. Again, when the prophet was commanded to give 
 judgment upon Ahaziah and was clearly in fear as to what 
 the result of such a declaration might mean for him, the 
 Angel of the Lord appeared and gave directions to the 
 fearful and desponding one: "Go down with him, be not 
 afraid of him." So God by His Messengers constantly was 
 with Elias after and during his temptation. Also mark this : 
 Angels cannot prevent our failing in duty or choosing evil, 
 any more than they can raise the son of the Shunamite from 
 the dead! Only God can do this marvel. And God per- 
 mitted that marvel to come at the fervent prayer of Elisha 
 (II Kings, 4). So all the power of Angels is derived from 
 God. What He commands, they do. They have no initia- 
 tive save at His Direction. This truth does not make Uttle 
 of the work for Jacob, for Elias, or for us ! What happened 
 in Old Testament days and to Christ Himself can be 
 accomplished in us and for us. Angels are today minis- 
 tering to and consoling thousands. If you will only turn a 
 willing ear and not become deaf to your conscience that 
 speaks and tries to lead you away from the temptation; 
 not judging all the old Scriptures as being useless and too 
 old for the enlightened person of the twentieth century! 
 Angels in their sphere are living what you would call inten- 
 sified lives, trying to impress upon the minds of human 
 beings the knowledge that God has sent them to help to 
 lead men into the true path. Miracles can be performed 
 today by the will of God as in the past. The world has to 
 be cleansed from its corruption and the mind of man is 
 searching for new light and is not always finding it. 
 
 The great difficulty of even earnest and faithful men's 
 experience in this new aspect of the Old Gospel — that of 
 properly appreciating Angel's work at its true value, is this : 
 
 We are afraid of confusing in our own minds the truth 
 that God can do all things Himself with the power that 
 God has evidently given or delegated to them. Banish such 
 a thought! I know that since such a vice as earthly 
 
Angels and Temptation 43 
 
 jealousy is wholly absent in the wonderful relationship of 
 Master and Servant — I know that the Creator is pleased 
 when mankind can properly honor Beings higher than we 
 of this earth whom the Creator has also created! 
 
 A great spiritual revival ought to be made by those who 
 accept this truth, to teach the world to appreciate God's 
 servants and to give them honor that we have failed to give 
 and which is their due. For by our increased knowledge 
 and love for this great Angelic Company, will also come a 
 greater power on our part to penetrate the mysteries of the 
 Kingdom of Heaven. 
 
 A Campaign for Angels ! How shall we begin? It ought 
 not to be as difficult as it might seem. Let us summon first 
 the aid of that divine Art which we call music. At the 
 Nativity Angels used Music, and oh that mortal ears today 
 could have listened to that Angelic Chorus of Gloria m 
 Excelsis as they sang in their joy greeting the earthly 
 Presence of God Incarnate born of the Blessed Virgin 
 Mary ! Hymns and songs in which Angels' work among us 
 is mentioned, are far too rarely read or sung. Yet what 
 is more beautiful than Handel's "Angels ever bright and 
 fair." Or the Hymns unfortunately sung only at Christ- 
 mastyde, "Shout the glad Tidings Exultantly Sing," "Angels 
 from the Realms of Glory." More often should we sing, 
 "Angel voices ever singing round the throne of Light." 
 
 And if we examine the old Christian hymns written in 
 Latin and Greek we shall see that the work of Angels for 
 their Creator and for us was once a subject most famiHar 
 and acceptable in the early Christian Church. 
 
 And it is when we are wrestling in the throes of some 
 terrible Temptation that we should invoke their aid. I pray 
 that very speedily the day will come when we shall confess 
 with gladness of heart that the distance and degree between 
 us and Angels is not remote or far away. Does not St. Paul 
 tell us, "Thou madest Jesus a little lower than the Angels?'* 
 And Christ was tempted in all points like as we are. 
 
 And speaking of man he says the same thing: he is a 
 "little lower than the Angels." Mark the emphasis. The 
 
44 The Work and Office of the Holy Angels 
 
 distance between men and angels God did not make great 
 but small — little. This ought to be a sublime comfort. 
 With the temptation that must come to us all, there is a 
 Power to resist stronger than the Temptation. As Angels 
 of God once overcame the Angels of Satan, so our Guardian 
 Angels if we but listen to their warnings, can with the will 
 of man overcome the Evil and steer our ship clear from 
 the rocks. 
 
 Laus Deo. 
 
VIII 
 
 ANGELS AND HUMANITY 
 
 To the question of the disciples, "Who shall be greatest in 
 the Kingdom of Heaven," Christ answered by calling a little 
 child and, setting him in their midst, saying, "Except ye can 
 be converted and become as this little child ye shall in no 
 wise enter the Kingdom of Heaven." And again: "Despise 
 not one of these little ones, for I say unto you that in heaven 
 their Angels shall always behold the face of my Father 
 which is in Heaven." Evidently, from the Master's teach- 
 ing children are to have the highest places. And a cogent 
 reason is given. Their angels are the only ones whom we 
 are told shall be able to see the face of the Father. Absence 
 from all sin because of God's reflected glory shining on 
 their faces makes these innocents the greatest. When 
 Moses besought God to show him His Glory, God granted 
 that request but He commanded Moses to take such a posi- 
 tion that he would be unable to see the Face of God as He 
 passed by him. Indeed, God said, "No man can see my 
 Face and live." Even those newly born into the Kingdom 
 of this world cannot see the Face of God! But because 
 these babes have "no guile," angels whose guardians they 
 are can see God's Face. So it comes to pass that these 
 children, whom Christ calls greatest, have the glorious honor 
 of enjoying the reflected glory which angels are allowed to 
 pass on to them. This is the Great Gift from God, conveyed 
 by His Ministers to that vast number born into the world. 
 They in turn are of course totally unaware of this sublime 
 honor. 
 
 Of what quality is this greatness? We hardly dare to 
 enter upon ground so sacred, so far removed from the gross 
 material sin of this world, but we venture to afiirm that the 
 reflexion from that Sublime Face, gazed upon by Angels 
 and in some manner transmitted by them to their children 
 
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46 The Work and Office of the Holy Angels 
 
 whom they guard, is Perfect Purity. And when do angels 
 cease to behold that Sublime Face? Alas, we ought to 
 know the answer too well! At the precise moment when 
 the child comes to the time when, knowing the difference 
 between the good and the evil, deliberately chooses the evil! 
 But can we ever be thankful enough for the tender mercies 
 of our God? Now and again we have instances of children 
 perhaps ten and twelve years of age who with no doubt at 
 all still show God's reflected Beauty shining in their faces ! 
 And all this good and purity while its fountain-head comes 
 always from God, has been accomplished by the Office and 
 loving service of God's ministers, the holy Angels. A priest 
 of God's Church well remembers a Father and Mother 
 whom, with their little child, a girl of ten years, he was 
 preparing for Confirmation. When the Bishop saw her 
 before the laying on of hands he was amazed at her tender 
 age and asked the Priest if she were not too young to receive 
 the seven-fold gift of the Holy Spirit? 
 
 "She is nearer the Kingdom of Heaven than I dare to 
 think I am," was the answer. 
 
 The loveliness, sweetness, yes and reflected purity seen 
 upon that face, one could never forget. She was so calm, 
 serene, and trusting absolutely to receive that which would 
 bring her body and soul nearer to the Father of Light. 
 The Guardian Angel of that dear child must still have been 
 in uninterrupted communication with the Face of the Father 
 in Heaven for no sin at all had entered that little soul. 
 With her pure Faith she must often have seen that which is 
 invisible to sinful man. Often she must have seen her 
 Guardian Angel and talked with him perhaps, not knowing 
 who he was ! That Faith with its twice reflected Purity 
 was certainly very close to her Father in Heaven. Indeed, 
 the Son of Man once declared, "Blessed are the pure in 
 heart for they shall see God." In the book of the Revela- 
 tion of St. John, the Disciple is made to see the vision of 
 those children who have passed from this earth before sin 
 could in anywise touch them. (Chapter XIV.) 
 
 "These are they that follow the lamb wheresoever He 
 
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 goeth." They are the first fruits unto God and unto the 
 Lamb. "And in their mouth was found no guile for they 
 are without fauk before the throne of God." Is it not 
 wonderful ? No ! Even our human disputing doubting 
 reason and brain can understand it ! Greatest in the King- 
 dom of Heaven are the children because of their reflected 
 glory from the Face of God which Angels at God's Com- 
 mand are allowed to give them. 
 
 Who shall be greatest? Is it not a plain answer given 
 to a question that I fear was asked in the expectation that 
 some foolish man might have his vanity gratified! How 
 true it is that what we often think last will really be first. 
 We see matters not with the eye of God but our own eyes, 
 which too often cannot see at all ! Let us beware of 
 putting sin into the pathway of these little ones. For the 
 Angels are closer to them than to us and the punishment of 
 hurting them is too dreadful to contemplate with any degree 
 of calmness — a warning given indeed by Christ Himself! 
 Angels can do so very much for these dear children. Let 
 us teach them to hold to purity, *'to keep innocency," for 
 that shall bring a man peace at the last. 
 
 As we read the Book praying that the Spirit of God shall 
 teach the wonderful unsuspecting meaning of passages that 
 we cannot understand with our intellect, we are amazed at 
 the calm declarations, over and over again, of what Angels 
 have done for men and women. In the ninety-first Psalm 
 is that promise that God will give His Angels charge over 
 them to keep them in all His Ways, and in the thirty-fourth 
 Psalm where the Angel of the Lord encampeth round about 
 them that fear him, and delivereth them. Again we read 
 of Jacob meeting the Angels of God. 
 
 All this is stated to us as a Fact of the Truth of what 
 God is pleased to do for those who love Him and have Faith. 
 And it is still being done today. It may be many years 
 shall elapse in our earthly lives during which we are per- 
 fectly unaware that any power but the power of our own 
 will has any supervision over us. Many might be indignant 
 at the mere suggestion of Angelic interference. But if in 
 
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 our busy life we have opportunity to ponder and go over 
 our lives and their failure or success, then a change ! Then 
 some happening contrived through the Will of God by 
 Angelic Agency shall come to pass and we may slowly, very 
 slowly or else as the lightning flashes, become aware that 
 they are around us and about us. One way of knowing and 
 feeling that they are close to us is that we are wonderfully 
 happy without any apparent earthly reason for that happi- 
 ness. Implicit Faith in not only what they have done but 
 what they can do for us, is the necessary passport through 
 which they can work. Believe ! Have implicit Faith. Go 
 off and sit alone in Sanctuary — a Church or else in your 
 own room. Suddenly, we become aware that we are not 
 alone. They come in many ways : through the eye. Flashes 
 of light pass for the briefest second before our eyes in 
 places and during conditions of light laws or refractions, 
 when ordinarily no possible flashes could be seen. Through 
 the ear. Inside, not outside the drum of the ear one distinct 
 sound may be heard which could be likened to the repeater 
 of a watch striking one o'clock. 
 
 Or again by the eye ! Looking at the ceiling or walls of 
 the room, you may be able to see many views of faces, 
 six or eight, no two alike, looking down at you. Sometimes 
 the eyes flash with understanding. All this in broad day- 
 light. Does it sound fanciful? Once you might have 
 thought so. Now you thank God for this help and you 
 have at your call and ready to help you a mighty force. 
 Open our eyes, O Lord, that we may see! Elisha once 
 prayed such a prayer for the young man at Dothan, and the 
 Lord opened his eyes ! Shall not we pray that our eyes 
 too may be opened? 
 
 Amen. 
 
IX 
 
 RELIANCE UPON GOD 
 
 "O, CAST thy burden upon the Lord and He shall sustain 
 thee." So wrote the Psalmist. And it is and always will 
 be profoundly true. And one of the means taken by God 
 to impress this truth upon our minds is the Revelation of 
 God's Care as expressed in His treatment of us in Paradise. 
 Sure knowledge of what goes on in Paradise is given as a 
 surcease to aching hearts. Turn to the Parable of the Rich 
 Man and Lazarus. Earthly life has often been described 
 as the great Doctrine of Compensation. What one lacks, 
 he also possesses in great abundance. His poverty in one 
 direction may mean great abundance in another. He prob- 
 ably possesses, unknown to himself, a gift in great abund- 
 ance of which his brother possesses nothing. 
 
 To the outward eye, no creature ever born was more 
 thoroughly deserving of pity than the beggar who lay at the 
 rich man's gate. He eagerly craved those crumbs which 
 fell from the rich man's table — those morsels that the very 
 dogs refused. 
 
 But to the inward eye, he who was introduced by Divinity 
 Lazarus had in great abundance a gift from God, a thousand 
 times more valuable than all of the rich man's possessions. 
 Lazarus has bestowed upon him the gift of Reliance upon 
 God. 
 
 Why he was so poor we are not told. Whether poverty 
 came from his own foolishness or lack of worldliness, or 
 because God was aware that by means of poverty His Own 
 great gift might best be developed, we do not know. But 
 presumably Lazarus was a Jew and a pious one at that. 
 Just as the widow woman who tended Elias had always 
 enough to keep body and soul together, so Lazarus had 
 enough day by day to live — ^but nothing more. Live he did, 
 and his poverty, instead of making him a cynic and an 
 
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50 The Work and Office of the Holy Angels 
 
 unbeliever, only increased his reliance and devotion to the 
 God he worshipped — the God who absolutely knows the 
 every need of all His creatures. Lazarus had been schooled 
 in youth by pious parents. He must have been taught those 
 verses of the psalmist whose burden is not simply repentance 
 for sin committed, but the solemn assurance that "the Lord 
 is my Shepherd, I shall not want." How want ? In matters 
 material? Not so! 
 
 God did not refer to material necessities or the creature 
 comforts of life, but to the spiritual necessitiess of the soul. 
 
 Wherever and whenever the soul (as the hart) panted 
 for the spiritual water brooks, then that soul was bidden to 
 stoop down and drink of that life-giving stream. And so 
 it was with Lazarus. 
 
 While his body was being daily deprived of the fleshpots 
 of Egypt, his soul was being fashioned and developed to 
 pierce the Veil between God and man, that Veil which to so 
 many is so thick and impenetrable. And then a quickening ! 
 Lazarus without doubt saw that Reliance upon God, looking 
 upon His Angels as dear friends, ready to encourage him 
 in his pilgrimage toward perfect trust in God, was no mere 
 theory, but a Living Truth which grew stronger each day he 
 lived. So the bodily cold and want and hunger slipped away 
 from his mind as easily as a cloak slips off our shoulders. 
 
 And when that poor tired body ceased to function, 
 Lazarus passed on in the sure conviction that his unswerving 
 reliance upon God would find its justification. And it was 
 so ! For holy Angels tenderly conveyed his spiritual body 
 to Abraham's Bosom, another name for one of the Father's 
 mansions — a plane very very high in spiritual knowledge 
 and ability to use that knowledge. 
 
 Gone was the span of poverty, discomfort and misery. 
 Happiness untold was his, because he had heeded the 
 commands of God to put his whole trust in Him! Mean- 
 while a very different scene was taking place here on earth. 
 
 "The rich man also died and in Hades he lifted up his 
 eyes being in torment." 
 
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 Torments? Yes, of the worst degree, but torments far 
 from the physical. For no physical torments can have any 
 weight or stress upon the body spiritual! It was torment 
 for the memory of a life misspent in this world. The rich 
 man is not represented by Jesus Christ as doing things he 
 ought not to have done. On the contrary, he left undone 
 the things he ought to have done ! He had given no 
 thoughts of any reliance upon God. He was content to 
 rely simply upon himself, his brain, his exertions, to be 
 rich, and his firm faith upon wealth as the cure-all for all 
 possible ills. God was simply left out of the picture! 
 There was no trace of any influence spiritual. That is also 
 the sin of the twentieth century. It is not that the world 
 disbelieves in God, but that God is no necessity — nothing 
 but a very beautiful myth that has no practical power 
 whatever ! 
 
 And thus the result. What happened to the rich man 
 will happen to countless thousands who fling themselves in 
 adoration at material wealth and despite ought else. O I 
 beseech you, learn to frame your lives happy or awful 
 thoiigh they be upon this all-prevailing truth : 
 
 God cares for you ! He commands you to lean all your 
 hopes and cares and troubles upon His tender Mercy, Pity 
 and Love! 
 
 Laus Deo. 
 
X 
 
 MOSES THE LAW GIVER 
 
 Not only was Elias on the Mount of Transfiguration but 
 Moses the Giver of the Law through the Power of the Lord 
 God Almighty. No one can read those first five Books of 
 The Book without having a great respect for the position 
 that Moses had in his relations with the Creator and in the 
 hearts of the people whom he led. The law of the ritual 
 for Israel's Offerings ; the minute directions for the cut and 
 materials of the garments which the Priests must wear who 
 offered the burnt sacrifices ; the making of the Tabernacle ; 
 the precious instruments which were to adorn that Taber- 
 nacle ; the ritual for those Services so particularly described ; 
 the Moral Law laid down in the two tables of stone given 
 in the Mount. All these rules so manifestly given by God 
 to his servant made Moses at the time of Christ the acknow- 
 ledged head and front of the Jewish nation. And he was 
 so named by the Lord Christ who said (St. Matthew, 23-2), 
 "The Scribes and Pharisees sit in Moses seat; all things 
 therefore whatsoever they bid you observe and do, that do ; 
 but do ye not after their works for" — and here follows the 
 denunciation with which so many are familiar. 
 
 Many who read this twenty-third chapter are so occupied 
 with that famous denunciation that they overlook the more 
 important fact that Christ straightly commanded the multi- 
 tude and his disciples to do whatsoever the Pharisees 
 through Moses, through the Law bade them observe and do. 
 The bitter religious wars over the ritual of the Eucharist 
 and the precise meaning of that One Oblation offered by 
 Christ for the sins of the world would never have taken 
 place had the real meaning of these two or three verses been 
 understood and obeyed. Except that which Christ Himself 
 changed — such as turning the Jewish Passover into the 
 Christian Eucharist, and the interpretation He Himself 
 
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Moses the Law Giver 53 
 
 gave to the Law of Moses, all else was to remain undis- 
 turbed. The favor of God to the Jews is transferred with 
 much of the old Jewish Liturgy to the broader, wider prin- 
 ciples of Mercy and Truth to that Church of which Christ 
 proclaimed Himself the Rock. 
 
 More important yet: 
 
 When Christ gave the resultant — the two great command- 
 ments — the Love of God and the love for our neighbor — 
 He expressly said, *'On these two commandments hang all 
 the law and the prophets. If ye love me keep my command- 
 ments." The Law and Faith are thus linked up together 
 with Love! Do you not understand? Unless we can have 
 Faith in what His prophets said of Him; unless we heed 
 the Law and obey and observe it, it is clearly impossible 
 for us to really love Him as He would have us love Him! 
 At the moment of His transfigured Glory both Moses and 
 Elias were present to show to mankind the two foundation 
 stones upon which Christ insisted should be the foundation 
 of His Love for us and ours for Him. They are Faith 
 and Obedience! 
 
 This is only the forerunner of our m_ain point. Since 
 Moses on earth was the exponent of God's Law, Moses in 
 Paradise does not cease from continuing the work he did 
 in that fleshly tabernacle his body. 
 
 Even today Moses is now working among the nations of 
 the world, among individual souls, as the exponent and fore- 
 runner in man's heart of the Law of God. He cannot 
 remain idle. It is impious so to believe. It is with confi- 
 dence that we state none can remain idle in the Kingdom 
 of Heaven. After their own individual purgation then they 
 must work to win for others who are seeking for the truth, 
 a method which shall give light to those that sit in darkness 
 and in the shadow of death and to be helpers in that Divine 
 Work of Jesus which shall guide their feet into the Way of 
 Peace. To continue: if it is conceded that even "the last 
 and least shall be first," then those who have had on earth 
 such Faith as Moses, must also work, and Moses perhaps 
 is favored as very few because of His Faith. 
 
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 Is it right for us to ask the question which all are anxious 
 to have answered ? Let us ask, for the answer which surely 
 is reasonable will give us renewed confidence and assurance. 
 What has Moses been doing for humanity since the Advent, 
 Life, Death and Resurrection of the Christ? What did he 
 do on earth? Reveal to man how God wished to rule His 
 people. 
 
 Must not Moses be similarly employed today? Does he 
 not only teach men how to enact Law, but to write that Law 
 in men's hearts? Did you ever pause to think how Black- 
 stone was able to give to the Law of England what he did 
 give unless he had been inspired not only from the founda- 
 tion of his own learning but from a learning higher than 
 his own ! 
 
 When the secrets of all hearts shall be disclosed, it will 
 be found that the hand of Moses guided the pen and the 
 mind of Blackstone to write that commentary which is the 
 foundation of all English-speaking and reading and law- 
 abiding peoples ! Not for an instant do these servants of 
 the Living God wish to take one millionth part of the credit 
 for work such as this. Moses and Elias glory in the fact 
 that they are but servants to do the bidding of God. 
 
 In all important matters that have been since the world 
 began these servants of God approach those men and women 
 whose Faith and Obedience to things heavenly make them 
 conscious of higher powers than themselves. Whether they 
 themselves know of this interference from the land of spirits 
 I would not dare to affirm. Some do ; others when inspired 
 may ascribe that inspiration to themselves : God alone knows. 
 All I wish to affirm, that every great and perfect gift comes 
 from the Father with whom is no shadow of turning and is 
 wrought among men through God's express directions by 
 His servants whom He has charged to do His bidding. 
 
 Take another instance. The whole world is today looking 
 with anxious eyes over the Conference going on between 
 England and Ireland to make an end of the intolerable 
 situation that exists between these two countries. You need 
 
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 not be reminded of the crowds gathered about Downing 
 Street, London, during the Conferences. You may yourself 
 have seen the people from Ireland on their knees in the 
 streets praying that the result of these Conferences would 
 end in peace for unhappy Ireland. Dare anyone who be- 
 lieves in prayer say that such supplications will be unheeded 
 or unanswered? Angels have been at work among the 
 leaders ! And if angels, then too Moses, to put into their 
 minds such an equitable arrangement as shall not only 
 satisfy both sides, but most important of all, shall satisfy the 
 Divine Jurisprudence of Him who first formulated Laws 
 to govern His people. But remember! God Himself has 
 given free will to all. It is possible that men in the hardness 
 of their hearts will listen to no possible arrangements. 
 
 We are not puppets with strings that God pulls as He 
 may will ! Still on the side of God is the great power that 
 He wills through His Angels and His Servants — especially 
 Moses. As these words are written (August 14, 1921), 
 the result is in doubt — as far as we of this earth know. Of 
 what is written of the work of heavenly powers there is no 
 doubt. Thanks be to God! 
 
 But Moses not only works among Nations. He works 
 in the individual soul. Remember O soul, as those ten 
 commandments are rehearsed to you that they are not simply 
 as some scholars would have us believe, relics of an almost 
 forgotten time and period, to be obeyed or not just as we 
 please! Hear the Voice of God as He thundered them 
 from Mt. Sinai and now thunders them to us who are of 
 a trembling heart. We have broken them all and the know- 
 ledge of that disloyalty and disobedience makes us tremble 
 and despair. 
 
 But God's Servant can whisper to us a way to make us 
 take on a courage that to some seems only like a mirage, it 
 seems so steep a hill of Faith to climb ! Listen ! He is 
 saying to us this: 
 
 If I have made you realize the reality of this Law — the 
 awfulness of breaking God's Law, then you are beginning 
 
56 The Work and Office of the Holy Angels 
 
 to tread the road of repentance; then your soul has been 
 awakened; then I have really begun my work in leading 
 you to realize that the Law of God is only the foundation 
 upon which God has built a temple for His Love to dwell 
 in your hearts richly and bountifully. Thanks be to God 
 for the labors of His Servant in our hearts ! Amen. 
 
XI 
 
 ANGELS ADORING THE THRONE OF GOD 
 
 Your Faith should not stand in the wisdom of men, but 
 in the Power of God. It is the hidden wisdom which God 
 ordained before the world into our glory. This God hath 
 revealed unto us by His Spirit. Let this Spirit be 
 invoked as we begin our subject. It is indeed awful, august, 
 but exceeding glorious ! Have we ever thought of the part 
 taken by His Angels concerning God's Throne? And what 
 was that throne on earth? Where was it? Where but in 
 the Ark which God commanded to be made. And what 
 figures did He order to be graven upon His Throne? 
 Cherubim and Seraphim who continually cry to Him saying, 
 "Holy, Holy, Holy, Lord God of Hosts Heaven and Earth 
 are full of Thy Glory !" And when the Ark after years of 
 wandering, was finally brought by King Solomon into the 
 Oracle of the House, into the Most Holy Place, who were 
 there to renew their Adoration ? The Blessed Angels ! For 
 we read that the Ark was under the wings of the Cherubim. 
 For they spread forth their wings over the place of the Ark. 
 No longer images but reaHty, for living Angels began that 
 worship on earth to the throne of God which was in the 
 beginning, is now, and ever shall be, world without end. 
 Amen. 
 
 Read the History of Israel and you will know that 
 whenever the Glory of the Lord filled the Temple Angels 
 were there adoring the Throne of God, the Place of His 
 especial Presence! Years rolled on and the Great Event 
 foretold by many of the Prophets came to pass — Jesus the 
 King was born, "conceived by the Holy Ghost; born of the 
 Virgin Mary." And now the outward appearance of that 
 Throne was totally changed to earthly eyes that see not. 
 For the Wonderful, the Mighty, the Everlasting, was born 
 in a lowly manger. But oh that mankind could have seen 
 
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58 The Work and Office of the Holy Angels 
 
 the glory of that Throne ! They would have gazed upon a 
 Glory that mortal man could not endure. Shepherds indeed 
 heard the exceeding majesty of the Angelic Chorus in the 
 sky, but no mortal saw that exceeding great company of 
 those Angels adoring the Son seated upon that Manger 
 Throne — that Son "in slumber reclining, Maker and Mon- 
 arch and Savior of all !" 
 
 And that Throne has a marvellous power of reproducing 
 itself in the heart of man when not only Angels can still 
 adore before Christ seated and enthroned, but millions of 
 the Faithful also worship and adore! 
 
 God's Throne ! Once more it comes to us in the Angelic 
 Revelation of their adoration of the Throne of God as it is 
 allowed by the Father for the Christian Church here on 
 earth. Where is that Throne? In as many Christian 
 Altars as are erected to the Godhead. This truth accepted 
 and written in many of the ancient liturgies has been also a 
 truth set forth in the Prayer Book of Edward VI in 1549. 
 Here is given a prayer of Angelic Adoration for the Throne 
 of God. For where His Most Blessed Sacrament is there 
 is God Present to the Faithful. They indeed can see Him 
 only under the form and substance which His Blessed Son 
 ordained, but Angels see God and adore Him. Does not 
 Te Deum Laudamus exclaim, "Thine Adorable True and 
 Only Son?'* And is not the Adoration of Angels at these 
 earthly thrones a direction in which Our Worship is 
 directed? Too little emphasis is placed upon that admirable 
 hymn translated from the Greek, and beginning: 
 
 "Thee we adore 
 O Hidden Saviour Thee, 
 Who in Thy Eucharist does deign to be." 
 
 Worship is nothing unless it be adoration of a Person. 
 And the highest worship can concentrate itself only upon 
 the Altar Throne of God where God is seated upon His 
 Throne. 
 
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 One of the irreparable losses which so many thousands 
 sustain is failing to go into the House of the Presence of 
 God. 
 
 The locked-up Church used only on the Lord's Day is 
 an unhappy sign that millions cannot reach or do not care 
 to avail themselves of that old command: "The Lord is in 
 His Holy Temple." Until God's Throne is set up in every 
 Christian Church that is built; until Eucharistic Adoration 
 of God's Throne becomes of vital moment to the great 
 multitudes, God as a very present help in time of trouble 
 will be a loss instead of a gain, and the precept and example 
 set by the Blessed Angels will also be lost. It is true that 
 in the Preface to the Sanctus, we recognise that "with 
 Angels and Archangels and with all the Company of Heaven 
 we laud and magnify thy Holy Name." 
 
 It is also true that in our 95th Psalm we hear the Com- 
 mand, "O come let us worship and fall down and kneel 
 before the Lord our Maker." 
 
 But let me ask if this command is heeded during the week? 
 
 Thank God there are some Thrones of God here on earth 
 where the doors of the Temple are kept open each and every 
 day, and where a countless number of us who are earth- 
 bound while in this Tabernacle can come in. There is the 
 red light over the Throne proclaiming God's Presence and 
 there also though we cannot see them are Angels Adoring. 
 An example in Prayer? Truly they are that for us and 
 certainly they are also interceding and praying for those 
 under their especial care, that their feelings toward the 
 Creator shall not be selfish demands for their own happiness, 
 but they shall be led to worship and adore God in the Spirit ! 
 Once they can lead their charges into a vital relation to the 
 Adoration of that Throne which they adore, then they feel 
 confident that the man or woman has made great progress ! 
 So Angels I believe not only adore God for His great Glory 
 but because their own prayers for the living may become 
 an example ! ! 
 
 Let us pause and remember that we have followed Angel? 
 in their Adoration of: (i) the Ark of the Tabernacle and 
 
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 Temple; (2) the Manger of Bethlehem which became the 
 throne of God Incarnate; (3) All the Altars here on earth 
 where the Holy Eucharist is celebrated. 
 
 Last and most wonderful of all let us dare to look at 
 Angelic Adoration of *'the Great White Throne." 
 
 No pen unless guided can write ! 
 
 What follows is so wonderful that it ought to be read 
 only by those who can believe. 
 
 Believing not, a harm may come! 
 
 A VISION 
 
 While writing upon the theme "Angels Adoring the 
 Throne of God," I humbly prayed that more light be given 
 to me — the theme was so high, so beautiful and glorious, 
 more than my untaught pen could portray ! So there came 
 a Being whose Name you would recognize in a moment 
 would I reveal it. Thus he spoke: Sometimes he spoke — 
 sometimes I answered in prayer to God Almighty. Here 
 it is: 
 
 "The hour is not yet come when we can carry you to the 
 height, and we are using this instrument to tell you what 
 we wish to be brought out in the pages of your MS. Take 
 
 heed of what is said as has sent me to carry this 
 
 message to you. This is a Vision for you. What this 
 instrument experiences will be your experience. Yet it is 
 not as a whole but by scraps. It is difficult to make you 
 understand and realize why and for what purpose you, a 
 middleaged man, have been chosen to do this work. You 
 ask yourself why should this wonder come to me at this 
 time of my life, when for years I have been preaching or 
 trying to preach God's Word. 
 
 The world today is demanding a new Gk)spel or rather 
 enlightenment of the old Gospel. Much of what has in 
 time past been preached was not altogether accurate — now 
 follow me to the land of Light." 
 
 I hear myself breathing this prayer! 
 
Angels Adoring the Throne of God 6i 
 
 **0 Lord, send forth Thy Light into my inner darkness. 
 Take me through the land of brightness from untold pain. 
 You have called me to be your servant. Carry me, making 
 the hard path and byroads smooth for my tired feet. Show 
 forth Thy Blessed Truth." 
 
 And the Voice answers : 
 *T will, O obedient servant! I will show thee and others 
 not so fortunate the truth of God's Glory." 
 
 Now I am travelling with great rapidity. I am frozen 
 with the intense cold. I am oh so tired, and it is very dark. 
 I am going along a very steep road. Now the coldness and 
 darkness are abating and I see plainly all around a very 
 very beautiful country. I am met by some I know very well 
 and who know me — my dear father and mother and others. 
 They are all smiling and looking at me, deeply interested in 
 what I am doing and where I am going. I leave them for 
 rapidly again the scene shifts. I see before me a beautiful 
 huge marble temple set with precious stones that sparkle 
 with a light that comes not from the sun. In a broad wide 
 space within there are an immense number of columns — 
 great pillars — and in the midst is an Archangel whose name 
 I know well. He is standing there, tall and stately. Beside 
 him are four other Angels. I come within the precincts 
 led by my guide who holds me by my hand. 
 
 In the other hand I hold a book. Kneeling in homage 
 to him, I hold up a manuscript written in gold. It is called, 
 "Homage and Adoration of the Angels at the Throne of 
 God." These men not only pay God their Adoration, but 
 today they are workers for mankind. They are not simply 
 ornaments but they are there to teach us. Laus Deo! 
 
 My five guides — angel guides — lead me — I was going to 
 say to another building— but I see no building here or any 
 temple. St. John's words in his Revelation flash through 
 my mind: 
 
 "For I saw a great white throne and Him that sat on 
 it from Whose Face the earth and the heaven fled away." 
 
 Sudh a throne I saw and at once with my guides fall 
 down in Adoration, for, standing before that throne was a 
 
62 The Work and Office of the Holy Angels 
 
 Figure, benignant-glorious. It seemed that this Figure 
 generated one great Light for from Him darted a milUon 
 rays that penetrated everywhere, even to the utmost parts 
 of heaven and earth! Those eyes so exquisitely beautiful 
 and tender, but oh so searching! Go to the Cathedral of 
 Antwerp, and demand to see the face of the Christ painted 
 on marble. It is the best that humanity has ever produced, 
 but it only conveys a millionth part of the Glory of that 
 Face standing before the great white throne ! Angelic songs 
 were all about that sublime Figure of the Lamb once slain 
 for the sins of the whole world. Such harmony there was 
 beyond mere earthly music. And as I gazed with adoration 
 I knew that perfect happiness reigned supreme, for it was 
 kindled by One who said once to St. John : 
 
 "And I heard a great voice out of Heaven saying, Behold 
 the Tabernacle of God is with men." 
 
 Then my vision changed abruptly for my guides took me 
 to a temple built on the earth where Faith in God and His 
 Promises is indeed very strong and powerful. The Priest 
 is at the Altar celebrating the Holy Eucharist. He reaches 
 the climax of that service as he consecrates the Host. 
 "This is My Body," and again as in my former Vision, the 
 great mass of the people adore Him as He is lifted up for 
 worship. A slight pause. 
 
 Then distinctly: 
 
 "This is my Blood of the New Testament which is shed 
 for you and for many for the Remission of their sins." 
 
 In some wonderful way I cease being a member of the 
 congregation and am the Priest, the Celebrant. And as I 
 pronounce those sublime Words once uttered by Christ 
 Himself, I see in the Chalice a dazzling ray of Light! 
 Instantly I remember what twice has happened to me when 
 in natural body I consecrated the Sacred Elements ! 
 
 Long years ago at the recital of the Consecration Canon 
 I saw just such a Ray for a fleeting moment in the Chalice. 
 I was humbly startled and perplexed, but explained it to 
 
Coming of Angels and Spirits to This World 63 
 
 myself as a sudden complying with the laws of reflexion 
 and thought of it no more — no more until today when to a 
 nearby Church I journeyed this time as a member of the 
 congregation. I had been warned by my guide that I was 
 to be prepared for a marvel and it was well that I was 
 warned! For as I touched my lips to the Chalice I was 
 dazzled by a Ray of Light within the Sacred Element! 
 
 What happened in my Vision and also in the flesh were 
 one and the selfsame wonder. In the vision Christ the Light 
 was sending his million Rays (and by million I mean untold 
 numbers) broadcast so that Heaven and earth were ablaze 
 with light. At the Altar — His Throne on earth, He also 
 stands luminous and majestic and His Rays, which are a 
 part of Himself are conveyed to the Faithful through that 
 Sacrament which He himself ordained. Invisible? Yes, 
 to our eyes which while fettered as if swathed in bandages 
 cannot see Him. Yet truly present even though invisible. 
 But His Rays are sometimes visible. Why it was allowed 
 me to see — I, a sinner who prays for forgiveness, is past my 
 knowledge to explain. I feel that if I had dared to tell an 
 untruth such as this I would be smitten as I write these 
 words! I simply affirm that my two experiences are the 
 Truth. One I did not understand at all. The other I have 
 understood! And I am humbly thankful! 
 
 And of the Fact that Angels have always and will always 
 adore the Throne of God I have no doubt whatever. No 
 matter whether it be on earth or in the Heavenly City, the 
 new Jerusalem, for the Throne and God Himself are One 
 and the Same. There is no difference. Therefore the 
 Angels adore, for it is not only Adoration, but homage they 
 bring to God for themselves and for us ! 
 
 And what the Revelation sets forth in the last chapter 
 takes on for me a most especial meaning. 
 
 "The Lord God of the Holy Prophets sent His Angel to 
 show unto His servants those things which must shortly 
 be done." 
 
 Do you notice the plural of that word which is written 
 in italics? 
 
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 It is therefore not St. John alone to whom the Angel of 
 God Almighty has been sent. Down through the ages of 
 this world there has been and is ever a Company of God's 
 Servants chosen by Him, by what process of selection it is 
 impious for us even to think, but the clear fact stands out. 
 Little by little and by methods the world and worldliness 
 cannot possibly understand, the mysteries of the Kingdom 
 are being revealed and given forth ! 
 
 Of one fact we can be certain. 
 
 Self-satisfied and domplacent satisfaction in the merely 
 intellectual studies of God's Word, unless accompanied by 
 a fervent humble Faith will always bring failure to under- 
 stand the deep mysteries of God! 
 
 The greatest intellect must, like St. Peter, cry! 
 
 ''Lord I believe! Help thou mine unbelief." 
 
 Then your feet will be led into a large room and you 
 w^ill marvel at the truth which will penetrate the inmost 
 part of your being. 
 
 Thanks be to God — Amen. 
 
XII 
 
 CONCERNING THE COMING OF ANGELS AND 
 SPIRITS TO THIS WORLD 
 
 We all recognize that there is a fundamental difference 
 between a Being coming voluntarily and of their own free 
 will to a person here on this earth, and that same Being 
 forced to come here because they are compelled or dragged 
 hither from one state to another. 
 
 Think of the boundless audacity on our part! Often 
 from idle curiosity we would command- — that is the only 
 word — a Being or Spirit to give up their own work — how 
 important we neither know nor care to know — and drag 
 them hither to gratify our vanity! Or perhaps the reason 
 is really serious. We wish to bring ourselves in contact 
 with a spirit who loved us intensely while in this world. 
 
 This is the attitude of so-called mediums, who, for the 
 sake of money, will try to call someone from the other world 
 down to the circle of eager people, who sit in a darkness 
 that is both physical and utterly devoid of real spiritual 
 attributes. The truth is that unless God wills it, nothing 
 of this sort can be done. 
 
 And if a spirit should come to such a meeting, it would 
 be in obedience to laws quite outside of and beyond any 
 mediumistic power. 
 
 If, on the other hand. Angels do come (and that is their 
 fervent wish) and make the man, woman or child aware in 
 some fashion that they are beside them, their coming is only 
 by the express will and command of their Master for whom 
 they work. 
 
 In either case, we of this earth have no control of the 
 movements of either Angels or Spirits. This is an import- 
 ant lesson to be learned by an immense number of people 
 who think that they can summon either Angel or Spirit at 
 their pleasure. My Guardian Angel has given me a power- 
 
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66 The Work and Office of the Holy Angels 
 
 ful and cogent reason for this apparently severe law. We 
 of this earth are living in a material state while Angels are 
 Beings only a little higher than we in one sense of the word, 
 but millions of miles away from us in another sense. They 
 are not of this earth. 
 
 In their sight Faith in God the Father, and all that He 
 has taught in The Book through His Son Jesus Christ, is 
 the greatest single attribute a Christian character can 
 possess. 
 
 Denial of such Faith is one of the very worst sins that 
 can be committed. 
 
 And yet the attitude of many Christian people, especially 
 in the business world, is quite the contrary. For example, 
 business men of the Orient are rapidly coming to the con- 
 viction that any religion — no matter what — "if it is lived up 
 to" — is the very best for anyone or everyone. 
 
 If a Christian modestly but firmly points out the great 
 fundamental differences between the Christian Religion and 
 others, and reminds his hearers that one of Christ's last 
 commands was to go "preach the Gospel to all Nations," 
 the business man shrugs his shoulders and declares : "So 
 you say, but in my opinion it is a sheer impertinence to 
 force the Christian Faith (which is mine) among so-called 
 Heathen nations. You know very well that Christians as 
 a whole do not live their Faith, while the majority of the 
 Heathen I have come in contact with are living examples 
 of their own Faith. Surely they are more consistent than 
 we! Let us listen to the Angel and ponder his reply. 
 
 "Faith in God and His Son Jesus Christ is a stupendous 
 Truth far beyond the point of whether such a Truth is 
 accepted or denied. 
 
 The fundamental and vital factor in the coming back to 
 earth of Angels and Spirits, so that they can be first sensed 
 and in rare cases seen, must absolutely rest and depend upon 
 this Faith in God and His Blessed Son. The recipient must 
 have in great measure such Faith. 
 
 If there have been cases of appearances to those without 
 
Coming of Angels and Spirits to This World 67 
 
 a belief in God and His Only Begotten Son Jesus Christ, 
 then those cases have been very rare. 
 
 "It is difficult for those who believe that there is no here- 
 after and it takes years of sorrow even for those who do 
 believe." 
 
 For Faith never stands still. It either increases by leaps 
 and bounds, or retrogrades. I feel that my own Faith of a 
 year ago was a very small affair compared with the intensity 
 of Faith that I have now. But even between intensified 
 Faith and Realization of the presence of Angels and Spirits 
 there is a great gulf. But that gulf can be spanned. Some 
 are born into this world possessed of a different fibre. 
 Filled with an ardent Faith and clothed with this fibre (the 
 word is not mine) and sensitive to atmospheres which the 
 ordinary person does not feel, they are born partly de- 
 veloped. These attributes with Prayer in the goodness and 
 mercy of God and intense Faith in the Communion of Saints 
 — all rolled up into one — will make a person ready to re- 
 ceive, sense and see those of another world provided God 
 wills it. Then only do Angels obey His Orders and those 
 who come may be seen. This is the Law which governs 
 communications and spirits with us of this earth. Excep- 
 tions there may be, but the law holds. We by prayer and 
 supplication can make ourselves fit to receive such Revela- 
 tions if it be the will of God. But the end attained is worth 
 years of not simply intellectual but spiritual striving to 
 receive and know the wonders that God has prepared for 
 them that love Him. 
 
 Laus Deo. 
 
 A VISION 
 
 Is this a battlefield? Yes, it is one in the last war. I see 
 a huge plain. Very powerful lights are being sent \jp in all 
 directions. They must be rockets. The moon shines with 
 a halo about it and reveals a number of men digging 
 trenches. Ah, there is an awful noise ! A huge bomb has 
 
68 The Work and Office of the Holy Angels 
 
 fallen and hundreds of men run for shelter, I hear the 
 shrieks of the wounded and dying — it is a scene full of pain 
 and sorrow. Many bodies are left in the open and I am 
 standing among the groaning men with no power to help 
 them! But stay. These bodies are being helped up. 
 Young men who bear the uniform of soldiers. No, they are 
 not soldiers but Angels who come to help; some are com- 
 forting those who moan. And they are taking them away. 
 *♦♦*♦♦ 
 
 A great number of small white beds. Women nurses, no, 
 they too are Angels, bending over them, and seem to detach 
 their earthly bodies from them just as you would throw off 
 your overcoat. They now bend over the spiritual bodies, 
 and I seem to hear them talking to that newly- formed life. 
 These bodies all lie dormant, but it has flashed through their 
 intelligence it is possible that they are still aHve. What are 
 the Angels doing? They are healing the spiritual body that 
 has received an awful shock from the bomb. They require 
 sleep for the healing process must go on. And it will take 
 some time. 
 
 I see upon one of the beds a young soldier whose face 
 terribly distorted is yet familiar to me. And now I go 
 back to the battlefield. I see this man lying there. One is 
 breathing heavily, but the other has his face to the ground. 
 Both are lifted up by Angels. I recognise a dear relation ; 
 the other man is older and more heavily built. The latter 
 whispers to himself as he is carried along, "Where am I? 
 We have sworn that we take no prisoners and yet I seem 
 to be a prisoner!" He touches himself as if to make sure 
 that he is awake. He sees an Archangel and speaks to him 
 but even as he speaks he passes into another world. And 
 he knows that he had passed. He mutters to himself: *T 
 was not prepared — I'm afraid,*' and he does not dare to 
 raise his eyes. 
 
 But a man older than this soldier steps up to him and 
 they greet one another heartily and affectionately. It is 
 his stepfather whom on earth he loved very dearly. But 
 the soldier is greatly bewildered and perplexed. The change 
 
Coming of Angels and Spirits to This World 69 
 
 has been so terribly sudden. One moment full of earth- 
 life — and now no oblivion, no rest or sleep, but a life intensi- 
 fied with soul and spirit rejoicing as if they had been freed 
 from a load almost intolerable. But still it is very strange ! 
 As he is being carried along he meets old school- fellows — 
 boys older than he, who had volunteered at the first call to 
 arms and had given up their earth-lives almost at the very 
 first. He is also met by strangers but they smile as they 
 greet him. 
 
 Stop! Is this a prayer that is trembling on his lips? 
 Yes, he is praying for some woman that once loved him well. 
 Is his conscience clear? If so, why does he tremble? He 
 knows that he is going to be judged and his mind is not all 
 easy. 
 
 Now I am led to a most beautiful lake. Here is a com- 
 plete silence. Wait! I hear four men walking and crush- 
 ing the small stones about the path as they walk. They 
 bring with them this man lately arrived from earth who 
 calls himself a prisoner. Suddenly a wonderful crystal light 
 bursts upon us all. I see six Archangels standing three on 
 either side before One that I know is My Master, My 
 Saviour! They fall back as the four Angels bring the 
 prisoner near, very near to the Master. 
 
 The man lately released falls down begging for mercy 
 for the remembrance of his past life, reproaches him with 
 an agony whose burden is almost intolerable. 
 
 "I ought not to be here ; I am not worthy." 
 
 But He smiles as one who looks upon a child whom He 
 has loved! 
 
 And the prisoner is speechless for as he prayed for help 
 he sees with joy his mother come to him. It is all so won- 
 derful; so entirely unexpected. The prisoner mutters to 
 himself, *T am in a dream! Now I have seen the Face of 
 the Master!" 
 
 Back again to the Hospital. There are many who are 
 suffering there, not from shock to their natural but to their 
 spiritual bodies, for the former have been so terribly torn 
 there is hardly anything left! And now we see the young 
 
70 The Work and Office of the Holy Angels 
 
 soldier whom we know and he whom we call prisoner 
 talking together: 
 
 "I dare not go on. I have had no faith! When others 
 declared they had faith, I mocked them. But I cannot 
 believe. I am not dreaming. Am I indeed dead ?" 
 
 The younger is helping the older and telling him he 
 mu^t sleep! 
 
 I look about in other wards. Here are convalescents. 
 They are waking out of their sleep. Perhaps a month (if 
 time is a factor here) is needed to rest this new body 
 shocked by the old. 
 
 And I see Angels detaching the new from the old just as 
 one cracks the outer covering of a nut, and the kernel re- 
 mains while the shell is tossed to one side. 
 
 Now I am in a school. It is deeply intellectual, but in- 
 tellectual in the same sense that wisdom is used in the Book. 
 Here are men very far advanced, and it is what we called 
 one of the schools of the prophets. And Elias is teaching 
 them. I see them choosing their own work. Their Priests 
 are, for example, being instructed how best to deal with 
 those that do not believe. 
 
 Here are also many young men whom the great war on 
 earth has purified rather than debased. They prefer to help 
 their comrades in battlefields. Some are writing books. 
 
 All are very busy, trying to show their comrades the right 
 thing to do. 
 
XIII 
 
 THE WORSHIP OF ALMIGHTY GOD 
 
 By worship we refer to the Supreme Act which Christ 
 Himself ordained while on Earth. 
 
 It is the Spiritual ladder from earth to Heaven. It spans, 
 by means of the Sacrifice upon the Cross the gulf between 
 man and God. Properly conceived mortal man by means 
 of Angels and Archangels and all the Company of Heaven 
 is lifted far away from earth and permitted for a brief 
 instant to sense what Heaven is. When I was this last 
 summer at York Cathedral, I was lifted far away from 
 those surrounding and my soul felt the glorious ecstacy of 
 a celestial worship. It was at the close of the Canon of 
 Consecration that the choir was singing what we call the 
 7- fold Amen that I knew I was far away from this earth. 
 My ears heard voices that were not of this earth and a joy 
 that was almost pain was mine. That I humbly believe was 
 worship, the glory of Worship and a great Peace was upon 
 me. 
 
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XIV 
 
 ANGELS AND CHARACTER 
 
 Almighty God knows the spirit of the age in which we 
 Uve. Especially for Americans everyone and every pro- 
 posed object is examined, accepted or rejected in one busi- 
 ness formula only — Does it pay? Will the man make his 
 mark or will he fall by the wayside ? Well and good. The 
 whole world is invited to test the Office and Work of Angels 
 on the simple basis of their usefulness. What is better than 
 to have as our companions and guides Beings higher than 
 ourselves and yet not far removed, who, as soon as we 
 believe in them not simply as poetic effusions but as reality, 
 will come to us and improve our characters? Go to the 
 Book of all books. Read and study the lives of two whom 
 God has in time past chosen to be leaders of men. Think 
 of Moses and Isaiah, two of the foremost lights in the 
 history of the Jewish nation. We in our haste and having 
 read their lives would perhaps demur at God's choice. We 
 would consider no person fit for even human leadership 
 unless they had given all-sufficient evidence that they had 
 always been able to toe the mark. But God's Ways and 
 Methods are not man's. In the Old Testament read care- 
 fully the beginnings of the life of Moses. Reared to be in 
 the court of Pharoah and in the lap of luxury was certainly 
 no preparation for forty years marching up and down a 
 fiery wilderness with a rebellious and untamed people! 
 
 All this required a marvellous trait of leadership. Was 
 this trait in the man when he was young? Let us see. In 
 anger and because he saw an Israelite ill-treated by an 
 Egyptian, he slew the Egyptian. Moses therefore broke 
 one of the commandments which he afterwards wrote on 
 the tables of stone according to the will of God. Of course 
 that law was not formally a law, but nevertheless the law 
 was unwritten and well known as a breach in the breaking 
 thereof. 
 
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Angels and Character 73 
 
 Again, when God after singular emphasis concerning the 
 distinguished office to which he had been called commanded 
 Moses to speak to the children of Israel, Mosess held back, 
 saying : 
 
 "Oh my Lord, I am not eloquent ; I am slow of speech 
 and of a slow tongue." 
 
 But God insisted: 
 
 "Now therefore go and I will be with thy mouth and 
 teach thee what thou shalt say." 
 
 But still Moses held back! We marvel at his unwilling- 
 ness. Would not that marvellous promise have filled many 
 of us with a courage that knew no obstacle, knowing for a 
 certainty that it would be God, not himself, that was 
 speaking ? 
 
 No! Moses still refused. Small wonder that God's anger 
 was kindled against him ! There is no need to mince words 
 over this recital. We must call such a refusal by its right 
 name. The timidity of Moses amounted to an awful and 
 astounding cowardice. So Moses was first a murderer and 
 then a coward! 
 
 Reformation was necessary. How was it brought about? 
 By God's servants the Holy Angels! 
 
 The Angel of the Lord appeared unto Moses in a flame 
 of fire out of the midst of a bush that was not consumed. 
 Then Moses began to realize that he had at his side a 
 mighty Power to be his consoler and guide. The coming 
 of this great Angel was in effect a summons and warning 
 for this man who had been a coward : a summons into that 
 Awful Presence of God. He had been shrived. Now he 
 was to take off his shoes for the place whereon he stood 
 was holy ground! Timidity even then was in the act of 
 disappearing and courage came forward to take its place. 
 For when the Israelites were led out of Egypt and the armies 
 of Pharoah seemed to be all about them to cut off their 
 escape, the erstwhile coward exclaims "The Lord shall fight 
 for you." And later on in the wilderness God promised 
 Moses saying: 
 
 "Mine Angel shall go before thee." 
 
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 But I hear a remonstrance. Why would not the direct 
 leadership and command of God suffice? Why was it 
 thought wise that God should send **Mine Angel?" We 
 must not press such an enquiry. There it is in plain letters. 
 That is the story. It was God's plan that the Angel should 
 be with him for an aid both to his leadership and the 
 strengthening of a character that had been weak. What 
 the Angel did for Moses can be and is being done today. 
 
 The vital question for this world to answer is why do 
 not thousands who sorely need just such help avail them- 
 selves of all that God offers us? Take another instance in 
 the beginnings of the work that Isaiah the prophet did for 
 God while in the body. When he saw that marvellous 
 vision depicted in the 6th chapter of Isaiah, he exclaimed: 
 
 "Woe is me for I am undone because I am a man of 
 unclean lips and I dwell in the midst of a people of unclean 
 lips." 
 
 A plain confession and a terrible self-denunciation. A 
 man who is of unclean lips generally means a character 
 unclean in his daily life. What right, says the world, had 
 this man to such a vision? What right had he to accept 
 such an exalted mission as that of leading others into 
 holiness and denouncing with the great boldness the self- 
 same vices that in all probability he himself had once prac- 
 ticed? The only right because an Angel intervened. The 
 Seraphim touched his lips with a live coal taken from the 
 Altar of God. 
 
 "Lo, thine iniquity is taken away and thy sin is purged !" 
 
 Then and only then Isaiah offered himself for God's work 
 and was accepted. The fact of Isaiah's unworthiness must 
 be stressed, for he was only made worthy by God's Angel 
 sterilizing that uncleanliness. Impurity. It is one of the 
 seven deadly sins, and yet, wonder of wonders, God forgave 
 him and chose him to do his great work ! 
 
 In both cases that have been instanced you will observe 
 it was through an Angel that the great blemishes of char- 
 acter were taken away, and the men now made fit for God 
 to do His Work which He had purposed for them. And 
 
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 since this is true of Bible days it is also true today! Time 
 is an unknown fact in the chronology of Heaven for: "A 
 thousand years in thy sight are but as yesterday." What 
 angels once did they can do again. That is an important 
 thing to remember. But perhaps as you read of the stress 
 that is put upon the work of Angels, you ask yourself as I 
 was recently asked: "Am I not dishonoring God, failing to 
 give Him credit for improvement in character by unduly 
 magnifying what Angels have done." 
 
 Directly the answer comes : 
 
 "Are you creator or is God? You did not create Angels. 
 God created them to do His Bidding. When you speak 
 thankfully of Angels' work, you do but call to mind the 
 method through which your Creator works. Thank God 
 with all your heart that He has promised . that your own 
 Guardian Angel, visible or invisible to you, is by your side 
 ready and anxious to help you, if you but give him the 
 chance! But perhaps you are fearful by reason of uncon- 
 fessed secret sin. 
 
 The vision of Isaiah and the Angelic touch upon those 
 unclean lips must be your answer until you, like David, cry 
 aloud : 
 
 "Create in me a new heart O God, and renew a right 
 spirit within me." 
 
 Remember! The vision that Isaiah saw may also come 
 to you if it be God's Will! 
 
 Only believe in God's Ministers the Angels and mayhap 
 the way to come into conscious touch with your Angel God 
 will offer. 
 
 Laus Deo. 
 
XV 
 
 CHRIST PREACHING TO THE SPIRITS IN PRISON 
 
 Much has been written from the hint (S. Peter 1-3- 19-20) 
 given in this Epistle. By more than a few this hint has been 
 sent down to the very Umbo which is here described. The 
 passage has been called *'obscure" "unreal," not deserving 
 any place in the Word of God. In spite of it this truth has 
 its place in the Apostles and Nicene Creeds and that chiefly 
 because of the discovery that the Anti-Nicene Fathers held 
 and taught it. Not only those but men of the last two 
 generations like Plumtree, Paterson- Smyth and many others. 
 But they teach by an historico-intellectual method. 
 
 Never has the truth been proclaimed from Beings not of 
 this world — the Holy Angels one of whom was present when 
 Christ's Spiritual Body actually did preach to the Spirits in 
 Prison. So you who now read will have the exact words 
 taken down at the dictation of Uriel the Archangel. 
 
 "It is not too much to say that Christ's Passion, Death, 
 aye even His Resurrection would, in great measure have 
 remained useless, had He not been commanded by God the 
 Father in the first moment of His freedom from the flesh, 
 to travel with all speed to that marvellous cloud of witnesses 
 who, not having received during their mortal lives the 
 fulness of God's promise, yet passed on to Hades full of the 
 Faith as far as it had come to them. But since our Saviour 
 had not lived in the Flesh before they lived, they were lit- 
 erally prisoners, fettered, unable to enjoy the full benefits 
 of Paradise until Christ came to them, leaping from the poor 
 mutilated Body on the Cross into His own glorious Spritual 
 Body. 
 
 He proclaimed that His Supreme Sacrifice had been 
 accomplished and that it was in great part for them as well 
 as for those on this earth and those yet to come. 
 
 This joyful news was not a surprise. Had not the 
 
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Christ Preaching to the Spirits in Prison yy 
 
 physical bodies of some of them at Jerusalem been clothed 
 once more when the veil of the Temple was rent asunder? 
 Had they not come to the Holy City and appeared unto 
 many? Had they not appeared at the "rending" as well as 
 "after His Resurrection?" So it was no surprise but a 
 great joy — this preaching. What they had looked forward 
 to with yearning eyes was now an actuality ! 
 I see the Lord and Saviour walking down a long slope be- 
 tween two massive mountains on either side. As He walks, 
 it gradually becomes darker and nothing but the Light from 
 His Own glorious Body make other objects apparent. I 
 look into the darkness and dimly see a great multitude whom 
 no man can number, the Saints and the disobedient. Now 
 they see Him coming and with shouts run up the slope to 
 meet Him, kissing the very robe which clings to His Divine 
 figure. And what of His preaching? I hear only a few 
 words, but they are enough. 
 
 "I am come to set you free. It is all the fulfilment of 
 God's plan for His creatures. I am happy for you. Receive 
 my Father's blessing and freedom to do your work for the 
 salvation of all men." 
 
 Now only are they released to work and to preach to 
 others. That is one of the reasons why the request of the 
 rich man to Abraham was refused. He had not the power 
 to send anyone to the five brethren. Now the power to work 
 among those still in the natural body had come through 
 Christ's sacrifice, and now by his release the whole of God's 
 plan for them flashes through their minds. 
 
 Joy? 
 
 Joy that is beyond all computation was theirs. Now they 
 begin that work and commanded by God commence that 
 silent but potent effort which only will be revealed at the 
 Judgment Day when the secrets of all hearts shall be dis- 
 closed. For they are released! Prisoners no longer! 
 Unfettered they shall take their share in Redemption of 
 mankind through the blood of Jesus Christ." 
 
 AMEN.