Office of the Angels by Bishop Mant

Pacific Press Publishing Association · Mountain View, California · Dec 1, 1909

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 36, No. 47.

Office of the Angels

By Bishop Mant

THEY are God's minist'ring spirits, and are sent, His messengers of mercy, to fulfil Good for salvation's heirs. For us they still Grieve when we sin, rejoice when we repent; And on the last dread day they shall present The sever'd righteous at His holy hill, With them God's face to see, to do His will, And bear with them His likeness. Was it meant That we this knowledge should in secret seal, Unthought of, unimproving? Rather say, God deign'd to man His angel hosts reveal, That man might learn like angels to obey; And those, who long their bliss in heaven to feel, Might strive on earth to serve Him even as they. — Bishop Mant.