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law of Nature, and the divine and human laws are as three walls, or rather a trench, a moat, and battlement, thrown round the soul to guard her from her enemies. The innumerable benefits bestowed on her are as so many chains of steel, binding the soul to God, while the law of Christian charity, " Love thy neighbor as thyself," makes all the world her champion. But men are weak and oftentimes corrupt and traitorous, and so, lest man should fail in duty to his fellow man, and robbers steal the treasure, God posts a guard of angels of sure fidelity and matchless strength. How precious must that treasure be that God doth guard so jealously! What lofty dignity is man's! Christ said: " Despise ye not even the lowliest of My little ones, for I say to you their angels are ever gazing on the face of My Father who is in heaven." The humblest child is as a princeling to his heavenly Father, and always has his guard and tutor by his side. Not only to one but to many of His angels has God intrusted us, for besides the individual guardian of each soul, there is another for each parish, city, state, and nation — an angelic hierarchy. Thus the prophet Daniel speaks of the angels of the Jews„ the Greeks and Persians. Besides, St. John in the Apocalypse, writing to the Asiatic Bishops, styles them the seven angels of the Church in Asia, and Christ, concerning John the Baptist, quotes the words of Malachias: " Behold I send My angel before thy face who shall prepare thy way before thee." Bishops, pastors, therefore, and preachers of the word of God, as well as parents and