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558 so shall the spiritual idea guide all right desires in their passage from sense to Soul, — from a material sense of existence to the spiritual, — up to the glory prepared for them who love God. Stately Science pauses not, but moves before them, a pillar of cloud by day and of fire by night, leading up to divine heights.

If we remember the beautiful description which Sir Walter Scott puts into the mouth of Rebecca the Jewess, in the story of Ivanhoe, —

we may also offer the prayer which concludes the same hymn, —

The Old Testament assigns to the angels, God's divine messages, different offices. Michael's characteristic is

spiritual strength. He leads the hosts of Heaven against the power of Satan, and fights the holy wars. Gabriel has the more quiet task of imparting a sense of the ever-presence of ministering Love. These angels deliver us from the depths. Truth and Love come nearer in the hour of woe, when strong faith, or spiritual strength, wrestles and prevails,