"Loving Father, we Thy children
Look to Thee in fear's dark night
While the angels of Thy presence
Guide us upward to the light."
In the ninety-first Psalm the Psalmist rejoices in God's protecting care over those who put their trust in Him: "He shall give his angels charge over thee, to keep thee in all thy ways. They shall bear thee up ... lest thou dash thy foot against a stone." If we are to enjoy the fulfillment of this promise, it would be well to understand the word "angels." Our Leader, Mary Baker Eddy, in her metaphysical interpretation of Bible terms, gives this inspired definition of the word in the Glossary in "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" (p. 581): "Angels. God's thoughts passing to man; spiritual intuitions, pure andperfect; the inspiration of goodness, purity, and immortality, counteracting all evil, sensuality, and mortality."
We thus see that God's "angels" are always at hand, since we know the divine influence of good to be ever present. How great is our need of realizing man's unity with divine Love! We can ever rejoice in and accept the watchful care of the Father. The promise reads that His angles will protect us from the stone in our path. What is the stone or obstacle in the path? Is it not the temptation to believe that there is another power called evil waiting to harm us? Divine Love never places a barrier in the way of our spiritual progress. Every individual may choose for himself whether to keep his gaze fixed upon the stumbling stone of mortal belief or turn thought upward, heavenward, and refuse to be deceived by unreality. Replacing the suggestions of evil with the assurance of spiritual good, he will find the solution to his problems. For angel messages are continually coming from God to meet our needs if we will receive them. Let us place our confidence in God, whose love, as St. Paul indicates, "never faileth," and trustingly leave the outcome to Him.
