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School of the Hereafter
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invisible world will be drawn aside, and wonderful things will be
revealed.
Ministry of Angels
Not until the providences of God are seen in the light of eternity
shall we understand what we owe to the care and interposition of
holy angels. Celestial beings have taken an active part in human
life and business. They have appeared in garments that shone like
lightning. They have come in human form, dressed like travelers.
They have accepted the hospitality of human homes. They have
acted as guides to lost travelers. They have defeated the robber’s
purpose and turned aside the stroke of the enemy.
Though the rulers of this world know it not, often in their coun-
cils angels have spoken. Human eyes have looked at them. Human
ears have listened to their appeals. In the council hall and the court
of justice, heavenly messengers have pleaded the cause of the perse-
cuted and oppressed. They have defeated purposes and arrested evils
that would have brought wrong and suffering to God’s children. To
students in the heavenly school, all this will be unfolded.
Every redeemed one will understand the ministry of angels in his
or her own life. What will it be to hold converse with one’s guardian
angel and learn the history of divine interposition in the individual
life, of heavenly cooperation in every work for humanity!
All the perplexities of life’s experience will then be made plain.
Where to us have appeared only confusion and disappointment,
broken purposes and thwarted plans, will be seen a grand, overruling,
victorious purpose, a divine harmony.
There all who have served with unselfish spirit will see the fruit
of their labors. They will see the outworking of every right principle
and noble act. Something of this we see here. But how little of the
result of the world’s most noble work is in this life manifest to the
doer!
Parents and teachers lie down in their last sleep, their lifework
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seeming to have been in vain. They do not know that their faithful-
ness has unsealed springs of blessing that can never cease to flow.
Only by faith they see the children they have trained become a bene-